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Hamster-controlled MIDI
haeger writes "I found this wonderful page on the net. The project was initially fueled by the desire to explore the MIDI protocol. It was decided that this would be accomplished by building a MIDI device, and an intelligent hamster controlled MIDI sequencer was designed. Each voice was controlled by two hamsters: one that was responsible for adjusting the rhythmic qualities of the melody and another that modified the note sequence. With all of these elements in combination, an output was produced with very musical qualities. This is like Fritz & His Performing Hamsters with a geek twist. Video and music is provided on the webpage."
to the song Hamster Dance
:)
Remember this when ICQ was in its infancy?
Candle burns its brightest in the dark
Richard Gere jokes in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
They can make people dance as well. Just ask Richard Gere
How could we sink so low...
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
It's out at 5 comments. Wow.
Can we get a dancing chicken with that?
I want those hamsters. My GarageBand music could use a professional touch...
Using Hamster input for music. We are now a step closer to monkeys writing Shakespeare. Its finally going to be true!
Free XBox, PS2
HAMSTERS!? AHHHH!!!
If I see one more hamster themed product, I'm going to kill someone.
Seriously, that fuzzy little rodent species is getting way too much attention. The website and dancing musical hamsters are quite possibly the most obnoxious thing ever invented.
until i can see them in concert?
an intelligent hamster controlled MIDI sequencer ;)
as opposed to a nonintelligent hamster?
It's a multimedia item, and it looks to be pretty low bandwidth. Now the server is actually on fire somewhere and only about ten Slashdotters got to hear the hamsters play.
Is the RIAA looking into this stuff?
Is it fascism yet?
the 'cool as hell qualities.'
Does this question strike anybody; how much, alchohol/time/delirium must a person have to mix hamsters, small rodent aminamals, and MIDI.......
Something just seems......weird here.
Error 407 - No creative sig found
Badger Badger Mushroom Snake!
Sorry. I'll stand over hear and be quiet.
Well, we had the Monkeys, the Beatles, and the Byrds, why not the Hamsters?
Anti-gravity? That was *my* little secret! But I never patented it! Boy, was *that* dumb!
Those poor hamsters seem to be unable to generate the power needed to keep that website running. Then again, it's usually the gerbil that makes the little metal wheel spin fast, in my experience. ~UP
Eat the Path.
why are there no .mid files for download ?
It sure seems like the servers being run by hampsters. Its out at 10 posts.
http://www.beyourowneviloverlord.tk
http://www.frozenchickenthrowing.tk
http://www.killercamel.tk
I was actually wanting to do something pretty much just like this with ferrets. My idea being you somehow attach something to some ferrets that will let you track their location and then set them loose in a room, and record their locations over a couple of minutes, and have the current location of each ferret correspond to one tone (maybe with the x position controlling frequency, and the y position controlling a VCF). The idea came when I was at the house of a friend who has six ferrets and he wound up dropping all six into a plastic bag and then just dropping the bag in someone's lap... ferrets just spewed out everywhere...
;)
Unfortunately unlike me the hamster people appear to have actually (1) initiative and (2) the technical will to get it done. Of course, I have the definite advantage that unlike them, my web page still works, because they have just been linked in a slashdot story and I, due to my clever strategy of not putting up cool hamster music, haven't...
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Never thought I'd have to mirror Cornell but here she is!
http://slushdot.org/mirror/hamster/
It's a work in progress...give it some time.
It's gotta be better than half the crap on the airwaves today !
Click here for the Google Cache
Ironic that a hamster site shows what a bunch of lemmings slashdotters are. Everbody races to the links at once until a server crashes to a grisly death...
Is this the moment where Slashdot 'jumps the shark'? :)
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Looks like a hamster-controlled web server as well.
The coolest voice ever.
Fun stuff!
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Looks like the little hamster in the little hamster wheel in the computer died.
He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
and now for something completely different,a man and his musical mice honestly though... this seems like a more humane way of letting those poor mice express themselves!
Theory of flight?! I'll teach you the theory of fist!!
1) Get Hampsters to make music
2) ?
3) Profit!
--<Mike>--
Honda use them to power engines, these guys use them in synthesis, what else can hampsters do?
In Soviet Russia the insensitive clod is YOU!
I found this wonderful page on the net.
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This is the "needless to say" of
You found this wonderful page, so you posted the link, and now 90,000 of your closest friends (sorry about that) have found it, too. Or rather, its ISP's favorite mode of error coding a smoldering pile of rubble...
A hamster's hearing covers only a fraction of ours (http://www.utoledo.edu/psychology/animalhearing/h amster.html), I wonder if the researchers considered using other rodents like mice (SpiceMice) or groundhogs for that Barry White sound.
To abort the program, you have to shout ARMAGEDDON!
:P)
(Before modding me off-topic, look it up.
"Derp de derp."
There currently ARE a million monkeys working at a million typewriters, but Livejournal and Xanga are nothing remotely like Shakespeare.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
...But those hamsters do have all of the harmony of the Backstreet Boys.
The ______ Agenda
Shake what ya momma gave ya! -Blockbuster ad
Error: Id10t detected
sorry - BALM = BLAM, i.e. sound of gunfire.
Apparently spellchecker is no match for drunk unemployed programmer. So I got that going for me.
A yodeling marmot?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
I promote this song to Grammy Best Animal Music ever produced. The tune is catchy to say at the least.
-- Amazing how the Internet still humms along.... -- Dispite all the flaws of Micro$oft in their software!
After creating the HamsterMIDI an automated process could upload the files to the internet via the RFC 1149 protocol.
I for one would love to see this. Because the day hamsters and pigeons can create and distribute music, is [insert RIAA flamebait here]..
People have RC cars that are controlable from the web, why not attach a webcam and some electrodes to a small pet. Steer the creature around with a light current(irritating but not painful) on either side, buzz the left side and the ferret turns right and vice versa, maybe one on the nose and one on the tail too...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
How many emails have you deleted that started out just like that?
In this case it should be: Found this wonderful site on the net and thought, "Why not turn its server into a smoldering heap of slag!"
How did you guys find out about my hamsters?
Here.
I did manage to get the 18 meg video off the site early on. I must say, I'm rather confused. Basically there's these hampsters. They just move around as they please it seems, or scratch themselves. I "really" don't understand how the music seems to be about the same while the hampsters seem to be going about doing their own thing. If anything, it appears that they have very little impact on the music.
References for those not in the know... (1) (2)~down at the moment, try later...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
What? No music jokes abour gerbils + Richard Gere + lots of burritos? Slashdot is slipping.
Table-ized A.I.
This electrocutes the hamster about as much as typing electrocutes you.
I don't think our server was designed to handle much load. (I work for the Neurobiology and Behavior department at Cornell University.) I can't remember what kind of computer it is, but I don't remember it being anything fancy.
Levy worked on my audio project this summer, and he brought his hamsters into the lab for a couple of days. They smelled horrible! I can't imagine anyone keeping them as pets, but, to each his own, right?
FATMOUSE MUST FEED.
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I just can't be bothered.
Poor little hamsters got run over by 18-wheels of slashdot...anyone got a mirror?
-- Sig meltdown immine...
Professor Land uses that definition in a lot of his code. He says he finds it easier to read if he does that. I personally did a find-replace on all the example code when I took his class.
He better watch out or the Pysicians Committee for Responsible Medicine will be all over him...
ps if you didn't get it, go enjoy your pasta and cake.
We already have Alvin and the Chipmunks and the copycats known as Hampton and the Hampsters.
Scroll to the bottom of this page and click "download music loop".
Would a service for sharing those songs be called Nampster?
False.
Just connect their little wheel to the spindle of your drive. Sure it only goes about 45 RPM, but it sure impresses the chicks (baby chickens are easy to impress. Yes, that's an incubator, not a heatsink)
Someone stop me before I joke again!
No, but I found "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" by Cuban Boys on the old Napster. If you can find that on WinMX or any of the other still-running file-sharing networks, it should satisfy your craving for hamster music for a while.
Are those Hampsters screaming : 'let me out of this thing : This music is driving me nuts !'
I just got two siberian hamsters and boy are they son's-a-bitches. I was told that they are "agressive," little did I know that agressive meant that they would try to literally KILL me through the cage. This little fuckers HISS at me and try to knaw through the cage and bite me. Once one bit my finger so hard that I had to pry it off. The people at petsmart also forgot to mention that very soon, the hamsters will try to KILL each other. I even got the little bastards yogurt treats and a fucking hamster house that looks like a mini McDonald's playground and this is the thanks I get! I don't care if someone trained them to play the bells of saint mary (Python joke) FUCK HAMSTERS! I am soon going to train them how to avoid the blades inside a blender and get myself a nice rat. :)
"Jeremy, you need to get to an internet cafe and cut and paste some appropriate sentiments about me from the world wide
Mod parent down: the second link goes to an infinite-popup site. (Yeah, I'm using IE... it's a public terminal, I have no choice.)
Anyone want to start a pool on when RIAA tries to shut down "Hamster", the Internet-based music swapping system?
After watching it, can any of you audiophiles pick out which hampster is which melody/rythm ?
That would be kinda cool if you could.
The unofficial
I had (still have) a Sequential Circuits Pro One Synth. There was no midi then but it did have control voltage inputs for Gate(note on/off) and Pitch.
Having a really sporting girlfriend at the time. A bit of wire, a nine volt battery and some Reynolds wrap and we were wired for sound. The synth was set for a pad/drone sound and she was one part of the circuit and I was the other.
The changing resistances between our bodies made some both pretty cool and pretty funny sounds. We both enjoyed but the wires did cramp our style a little.
can write Shakespeare, then 1000 hampsters, connected to a BIG MAC computing cluster, running GarageBand should be good for a few Grammys.
What happens when those deviants on usenet hear about this... alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.small.furry.animals. midi perhaps?
:) )
Disclaimer: IANAUD (I am not a usenet deviant
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
Looks like someone wishes he were writing Pascal.
TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.
I can't connect to the project site at all.
That link is down as the site is flooded it seems. Why can't Slashdot make a local mirror of low bandwidth sites that is linked to?
I prefer "Three Blinded White Mice" on the Mouse Organ.
So THIS is what they did when they produced the Ancient Times music for that game! I knew Sid Meier was a genius...
God does not play dice - Albert Einstein
I resent that.
-- KillerHamster
Great. This reminded me of a list I once posted to rec.humor.funny about getting electric power from hamsters.
Until now, the poor things were limited to purely acoustic music. This way, we can finally get an all-electric hamster band going!
I'm just waiting for hamster groupies.
Here's the list:
The following should be credited to the UC Berkeley CSUA. I left a world-writeable file in my account and waited to see what people would put in it...
42 ways to get electric power from hamsters
Stick copper and zinc electrode-needles in opposite ends of hamster. Use in series for higher voltage. -gwh
Shove them back and forth in Richard Gere's butt. Creates static electricity.
Go to Radio Chack and offer them the hamster in exchange for two AAA batteries.
Attach the hamster to a hand-crank generator and then drop it onto a trampoline.
Ignite in large numbers. Use heat released to drive steam turbine.
Kidnap and threaten to torture. Extort ransom from animal-rights activists and other anti-cruelty types: demand payment in the form of electric current.
Drop hamsters from great heights. Use water-mill like turbine to generate electricity.
Drop large numbers of hamsters into tar pit, wait a few million years, drill for crude oil at same location to run electric turbine.
Cold Fusion -> Steam Turbine. No explanation necessary. -seano
Any form of neutron capture / beta emission. -seano
Convince hamsters they're really lemmings. Show cliff to hamsters. Install turbine halfway down cliff.
Densely pack hamsters into flywheel shape. Spin rapidly. Attach generator.
Put hamster on electricity-generating treadmill. Feed back small portion of generated electricity into hamster brain pleasure center. Watch him generate his little heart out!
Seal large quantity of hamsters in air tight holding tanks. Add water. Allow suitable time to pass for decomposition. Collect methane gas resulting. Put gas in fuel cells.
Smush mucho hamsters in a trough, use the drippings/blood to run a waterwheel for hydroelectric power.
Give hamsters lots of shitty beer. Use piss and vomit to run hydroelectric generator.
Skin hamster. Melt animal fat into tallow and then form candles. Heat steam turbine.
Switch hamsters for P6 chips coming of Intel assembly lines. Saved electricity will be enormous. Cover performance loss by releasing new version of Windows NT at the same time. -gwh
Build glass room. Put hamsters inside. Put cocaine inside. Ground the floor and attach negative leads to the ceiling. -gwh
Have hamster steal one of kube's magic cards. Leech power from resulting nuclear strike.
Teach hamsters to play blackjack. Once they're at the competitive level, convince Las Vegas hotel owners to convert to serving hamsters. Saved electricity from smaller lights, hotels, etc. -gwh
Accumulate enough hamsters that the self-gravitational force causes the mass to shrink and heat up. Use thermocouples to generate energy. -gwh
Raid PG&E corporate headquarters. Threaten to drop hamster down CEO's pants unless he gives you a power plant. -gwh
Get several dozen hamsters. Shoot them up with crystal meth. Attach dog sled.
(This is, undoubtedly, the way to get the most power from them) Combine the hamster with an equal mass of antimatter -- a anti-hamster if you will. Then harness the massive energy release for power....
Have the Emperor warp and twist a hamster clone into an evil Anti-Hamster, Darth Hamster. This should be good for 4-6 sequels. Install tension to electricity converters into theatre. -gwh
a. Find a _good_ genetic engineer.
b. Splice appropriate genes from electric eels into hamsters, because they're smaller and cuter and, well, hamsters.
c. Feed the hamsters.
d. Surgically install appropriate electrodes.
e. Periodically drain off the volt
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
but this sounds very much like straight out of efnet #buzz
[i have an opinion and i am not afraid to use it]
I, for one, welcome our sroucking MIDI-controlled hamster Overlords!
Their first title "We like the moon", is already a hit :
We like the moon
Hey! Hey! We are the monkeys....
http://64.78.149.221/event1V1.asp
(must have Flash to watch this one..)
MIDI-controlled hamster
I won't tell ya where I connected the 5-pin DIN cable to the hamster... but it dances when I play the keyboard
Now is the winter of our disco tent
Is anybody else reminded of Explorers? That scene where Wolfgang's mouse or hamster or whatever it is steps on the switches to ask for cheese? Did anybody else see this one? Flight of the Navigator meets generic buddy flick? Bueller?
I'll go sit by myself now.
Dare to Hope. Prepare to be Disappointed.
to generate elevator music.
-- Put crudely, the world is an extremely large problem instance. (Russel/Norvig Artificial Intelligence)
"I have in this box twenty-three white mice. Mice which have been painstakingly trained over that past few years, to squeak at a selected pitch. This is E sharp... and this one is G. You get the general idea. Now these mice are so arranged upon this rack, that when played in the correct order thy will squeak 'the bells of St Mary's'. Ladies and GentleMen. I give you on the Mouse Organ "the bells of St Mary's".. Thankyou. "
Is HAM-ster like a P2P meat-sharing network?
Seriously, rats are social, give "warning nips" before seriously trying to hurt you, like humans, and can learn tricks and stuff. Cheap like hampsters too.
Mine used to have an open top cage, and could climb out, go across the dresser, to the shelf, to the windowsill to my bedstand, to my bed and come sleep with me. (It was an albino, which cant see to well so they dont make blind leaps off of stuff... never ended up on the floor unless I put her there.)
Though if you get two, get littermates or they may spend a while working out pecking order.
Your MIDI was a hamster's and your father smelt of Strangeberry!
we can leave your friends behind...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hampster
It needs a misspelling.
it's hamPsters.
Hamsters are probably less efficient than Carrier Pigeons, too.
I have a cat controlled piano!
Slashdot "jumps the hampster"?
thanks to everyone for your interest in my project...its rather off the wall, but you'll find that it all makes sense if you read a bit of the project report... anyone interested in hiring an embedded MIDI/audio programmer?