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A simple but rich-sounding PD patch for an installation proposal. Off-camera, I’m turning knobs on a MIDI keyboard to control the drones.
instrument-a-day 13: smoky drone
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instrument-a-day 12: qwerty rattle
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Part of an old PC keyboard. It makes a nice rattling sound.
instrument-a-day 9: hmmmm
A variation on yesterday’s bzzz. A bit better, but I still want more!
instrument-a-day 8: bzzzzzz
This is a not very successful experiment with translating live video into sound. I’m gonna keep messing with it, though, until it turns into something interesting.
instrument-a-day 7: speak and play!
Speak and Play! is a speech synthesizer for pianists. It has two parts: a score generator that turns written English text into musical scores, and a sample set (hurriedly constructed from my own voice) which, when used to play the scores, approximately recreates the original text.
Thanks to pianist Margaret Leng Tan for making Speak and Play! speak and play, and for coming up with the name!
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instrument-a-day 4: printed panpipes
I designed some panflute-like whistles and printed them on a Makerbot. They’re disappointing – hard to play, and pathetic sounds. But you can download the design files and improve them for me! www.thingiverse.com/thing:17020 and www.thingiverse.com/thing:17023
instrument-a-day 3: good old wooden whistle
Sometimes the old classics are the best.