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Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival benholmen.com

unwind14 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

danubis14 days ago

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

adamgordonbell14 days ago

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

poulpy12314 days ago

I'm wondering how eaux claires is pronounced here

cocoflunchy14 days ago

Kind of like "oh-clare". It means clear waters.

poulpy12312 days ago

So close to the french pronunciation? I would have expected to be heavily americanized like Detroit

andai14 days ago

Wow, well done.

This sound would fit perfectly in the Minecraft OST.

vestedlol19 days ago

very cool!

DenisHogberg14 days ago

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