Machine converts light from microfiche reader to music on a Casio keyboard
Submitted by jrjacobs on Mon, 2008-05-26 10:02.
Don't go throwing out your microfiche machines just yet. At last month's Maker Faire, Andrew (aka Pillowsopher) showed off his microfiche-to-MIDI machine. The microfiche machine takes light (in this case, from the screen of the microfiche reader) and converts it into MIDI signals that can then be sent to devices that take MIDI input, like synthesizers or computers. Andrew made the machine for a San Francisco band called Microfiche. Anyone want to go to their next show on June 6?
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a neat little project - musically lame
a neat little project - musically lame.
even if the user can designate a key and guide the reader through black and white, it's still pretty random.
respect to andrew turly (sp?) for his creation. again, it's neat.
but it doesn't do anything for music.
music of ambient randomness
There are lots of musicians who've done good things for music out of ambient randomness (Philip Glass, Brian Eno come to mind, but I'm not a musicologist) and with objects not traditionally defined as "instruments." I'd say to go to Microfiche's show on June 6 before calling it musically lame.
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