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Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival

benholmen.com

67 points by tjwds · 9 comments

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As someone without musical ear but a healthy respect for makers of instruments of all kinds, this was a great article!

I tend to think that the bar for building e.g. a small synth is like those by mitxela [1], with a tiny microcontroller running C on the metal.

Then the author here uses multi-threaded Python to schedule notes and do millisecond-length powering of 30+ solenoids and make thousands of people feel it's a proper instrument?! Wow!

[1]: https://mitxela.com/projects/silly_synth

danubis

Great execution and beautiful results. The barcode looks also amazingly crazy

adamgordonbell

Amazing! I'd love to see more videos of people playing it

poulpy123

I'm wondering how eaux claires is pronounced here

andai

Wow, well done.

This sound would fit perfectly in the Minecraft OST.

vestedlol

very cool!

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