This is a MacGyver’d instrument if there ever was one – a hand-cranked MIDI sequencer made from a baked bean can.
Does this count as a tangible sequencer?
via hotchk155:
One empty baked bean tin, some lego and a stack of little magnets… stick magnets on the tin and slide them about to ‘program’ the sequencer, then grab hold of the ‘transport control’ and crank away…. The breadboard contains 5 hall-effect switches and a PIC16F688 to generate MIDI note on/off information. This is piped to Reason in the first half of the clip and to a Dave Smith Mopho synth in the second half.
reckon with a baked bean tin about 16ft in diameter and about 25,000 magnets you could dump your sequencer software.. and you’d be getting some good aerobic exercise to boot
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Tangible, oh yes, and rather ingenious in a musical-box-meets-the-21st-century kind of way. Next, a version based on a hamster wheel – HamsterAmbient!
Love it.
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For the Live version, you'd stick the magnets to the inside surface of that 16ft baked bean can and then get inside and run in it like a hamster wheel. As the magnets come past your face you frantically re-arrange them in real time, just mind you don't kick them out of place as they go past your feet!
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "live looping".
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For the Live version, you'd stick the magnets to the inside surface of that 16ft baked bean can and then get inside and run in it like a hamster wheel. As the magnets come past your face you frantically re-arrange them in real time, just mind you don't kick them out of place as they go past your feet!
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "live looping".
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Fantastic blog, I just came across it and I’m already a fan. I just lost 30 pounds in 30 days, and I want to share my weight loss success with as many people as possible. If I can lose the weight then any one can. No matter what you do, never give up and you WILL attain every one of your weight loss goals!
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Thanks Shanelle, that's a major contribution to our happy synthesizer community. Unfortunately, I didn't lose weight because when I built this sequencer, I accidentally ate the beans. Still, if you have any more weight-loss tips, please don't hesitate to keep them to yourself.
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Thanks Shanelle, that's a major contribution to our happy synthesizer community. Unfortunately, I didn't lose weight because when I built this sequencer, I accidentally ate the beans. Still, if you have any more weight-loss tips, please don't hesitate to keep them to yourself.
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Thanks Shanelle, that's a major contribution to our happy synthesizer community. Unfortunately, I didn't lose weight because when I built this sequencer, I accidentally ate the beans. Still, if you have any more weight-loss tips, please don't hesitate to keep them to yourself.
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