Comments on: Teething Ring Max/MSP Musical Instrument for Babies http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:38:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Create Digital Music » Babies Making Electronic Music on Video, and More on Traditional Japanese Instruments http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-45658 Create Digital Music » Babies Making Electronic Music on Video, and More on Traditional Japanese Instruments Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:24:41 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-45658 [...] Teething Ring Max/MSP Musical Instrument for Babies [...] [...] Teething Ring Max/MSP Musical Instrument for Babies [...]

]]> By: jo http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-45535 jo Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:10:32 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-45535 Hi, all. I'm jo. One of co-designer of TSI. Our project continues minutely.We're very glad with your interest. Here, I briefly try to answer your question. About tonality, as a practical reason, to use western tonality is easy to implement with Max and MIDI :). I suppose that in the one of the reason we Japanese use it. Babies got strong schema of tonality in early stage of growth (about 6 month to 1 year). So, as you mentioned, we need to have an experiment with other scales to try to catch the effect of musical instrument for early stage of growth. But, unfortunately, we couldn't test it yet because of the problem of assembling the subjects (babies). About Japanese musical instrument, "garagara" is a percussive instrument with a grip for baby (http://e-bussan.co.jp/news/2006_03/6nisenmingei.JPG, http://www4.kcn.ne.jp/~andyjudy/dorio.jpg) and "poppen"(other name is vidro) is a blowing instrument made by glass (http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/popen.htm). You can make two different sound with blowing motion (push and pull).and it's not related to Pokemon :). If you have more interest, please watch the movie of our experiment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJrRHVjZHq8) Thanks! Hi, all. I’m jo. One of co-designer of TSI. Our project continues minutely.We’re very glad with your interest. Here, I briefly try to answer your question.

About tonality, as a practical reason, to use western tonality is easy to implement with Max and MIDI :). I suppose that in the one of the reason we Japanese use it. Babies got strong schema of tonality in early stage of growth (about 6 month to 1 year). So, as you mentioned, we need to have an experiment with other scales to try to catch the effect of musical instrument for early stage of growth. But, unfortunately, we couldn’t test it yet because of the problem of assembling the subjects (babies).

About Japanese musical instrument, “garagara” is a percussive instrument with a grip for baby (http://e-bussan.co.jp/news/2006_03/6nisenmingei.JPG, http://www4.kcn.ne.jp/~andyjudy/dorio.jpg) and “poppen”(other name is vidro) is a blowing instrument made by glass (http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/maruyosi/popen.htm). You can make two different sound with blowing motion (push and pull).and it’s not related to Pokemon :).

If you have more interest, please watch the movie of our experiment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJrRHVjZHq8)

Thanks!

]]> By: David Cake http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-44676 David Cake Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:19:33 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-44676 A common reaction of people I have pointed this out to is "hey, a musical instrument ravers can use". *snigger* A common reaction of people I have pointed this out to is “hey, a musical instrument ravers can use”. *snigger*

]]> By: Damon http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-44586 Damon Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:56:34 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-44586 This is surely going to be highly entertaining when the baby grows up to hear the tunes he recorded as a "beginner." This is surely going to be highly entertaining when the baby grows up to hear the tunes he recorded as a “beginner.”

]]> By: TheNullSet http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-44535 TheNullSet Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:29:20 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/01/teething-ring-maxmsp-musical-instrument-for-babies/#comment-44535 Truly fascinating. A wonder what curious side effects might emerge when a 'suck-synth' trained baby reverts to normal breast feeding, because, last time I checked, boobs don't emminate pitchs when they are, you know, sucked. Truly fascinating. A wonder what curious side effects might emerge when a ’suck-synth’ trained baby reverts to normal breast feeding, because, last time I checked, boobs don’t emminate pitchs when they are, you know, sucked.

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