Comments on: Musical Machines, Piano-Playing Typewriters, Plastic Cups, and Invisible’s Physical Music

By: short run plastics

short run plastics — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:11:00 +0000

it is me. right

By: short run plastics

short run plastics — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:09:58 +0000

By: Invisible’s Rhythm 1001 | Aww Hell Nah

Invisible’s Rhythm 1001 | Aww Hell Nah — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:26:07 +0000

[...] a recent installation by the group at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. via Create Digital Music Posted by Erik 19 June 2009 art, Greensboro, Invisible, music, North Carolina, Rhythm 1001 [...]

By: Mike S

Mike S — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:41:46 +0000

concept over content

By: rhowaldt

rhowaldt — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:11:45 +0000

@simon: thank you. i have and know bome’s mousekeyboard and also have midiyoke installed already, so that’s no problem. however, i think with the mousekeyboard not all computer-keyboard keys are mapped, so i would have keypresses that don’t make any sound. maybe that’s good, for intervals or something like that. anyway, i’m now looking into programming this with PureData.. never used it before so time to learn.

By: Michael Una

Michael Una — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:43:49 +0000

Love that big circular pegboard sequencer. Outta sight!

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:57:21 +0000

Yeah, Trimpin’s work is fantastic.

By: nonstatic

nonstatic — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:08:08 +0000

the artist Trimpin pioneered this concept 15 years ago. i saw him do a performance in 1994 which was 100% acoustic music controlled by robotics. he even had it setup in surround! no speakers or amps whatsoever, totally amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:10:25 +0000

@james: indeed, ha! Yeah, I suspect a few of us with (yipes) even higher degrees got a chuckle out of that line.

I’m not chucking my laptop yet, especially because I don’t live in North Carolina and don’t own a car. (although it would be fascinating to do a setup like theirs that can fit in a *backpack*, without the use of a computer…)

By: simon

simon — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:10:41 +0000

to rhowaldt:

There are heaps of free computer keyboard-to-midi software around the interwebs, for example

Virtual MIDI Keyboard, by Granucon.

http://www.granucon.com/products.html

or Bome’s Mouse Keyboard, which Peter talked about some months ago. (It doesn’t need the mouse, it works with the keyboard too)

http://www.bome.com/midi/keyboard/

You would then connect the keyboard to your sequencer with MIDI Yoke and use text software projected on a screen at the same time :

MIDI Yoke:
(http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://www.midiox.com/myoke.htm)