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Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival (benholmen.com)
unwind 2 days ago [-]
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 2 days ago [-]
Great execution and beautiful results. The barcode looks also amazingly crazy
adamgordonbell 2 days ago [-]
Amazing! I'd love to see more videos of people playing it
poulpy123 2 days ago [-]
I'm wondering how eaux claires is pronounced here
cocoflunchy 2 days ago [-]
Kind of like "oh-clare". It means clear waters.
poulpy123 6 hours ago [-]
So close to the french pronunciation? I would have expected to be heavily americanized like Detroit
andai 2 days ago [-]
Wow, well done.

This sound would fit perfectly in the Minecraft OST.

vestedlol 7 days ago [-]
very cool!
DenisHogberg 2 days ago [-]
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