Machine Thinking » music http://machinethinking.org art. design. architecture. machines. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:20:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Musical Stairs http://machinethinking.org/2009/10/15/musical-stairs/ http://machinethinking.org/2009/10/15/musical-stairs/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:50:36 +0000 William http://machinethinking.org/?p=435



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]]> http://machinethinking.org/2009/10/15/musical-stairs/feed/ 1 Beethoven, Bach visualizations http://machinethinking.org/2009/09/13/beethoven-bach-visualizations/ http://machinethinking.org/2009/09/13/beethoven-bach-visualizations/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:15:19 +0000 William http://machinethinking.org/?p=416

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony first movement visualized


Möbius Strip Bach


In each of these canons a musical line is played twice (or four times in Canon 10). The second version is always transformed with respect to the first by shifting in time, but it may also be shifted in pitch, turned upside-down, stretched, or played backwards. Each of these transformations occurs in the mathematics of elementary functions; they are examples of how new functions can be made out of old and of how a function can be tailored to fit a new situation.

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thanks kylev!

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The youtube blurb reads:

Innovative short produced by Ernie Kovacs in which the various objects of an office workspace come to life. The music they dance to is a medley (“Jalousie/Sentimental Journey”) by space age pop maestro Juan Esquivel.




via Laughing Squid

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Gijs Gieskes has made many wonderful machines from gameboys or other machines which he’s circuitbent.

He writes about the Acid Machine:

The circle with the lines that you see on the top of the machine, rotates and displays the note you are playing.
When you play a C the lines in the middle circle will be standing still.. from the C it will go outward, displaying all notes on a keyboard in 12 steps.

It works by making a LED blink in the frequency of the sound, and rotating the image at a set speed.

more information here

(thanks, kevin!)

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In the second video you can see how he can use foot pedals to change the chord.

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