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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
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.
Badger Badger Mushroom Snake!
Sorry. I'll stand over hear and be quiet.
Looks like he had a hamster-controlled webserver too!
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!
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
It's gotta be better than half the crap on the airwaves today !
Don't you mean hamster-powered? It'd be tough to make a hamster-controller webserver.. I don't think hamster are very well suited for parsing HTTP requests.
DJ kRYPT's Free MP3s!
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.
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...
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
Apache will be ported to the new architecture eventually, just give it time...
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]..
How did you guys find out about my hamsters?
Here.
the origin :-)
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
FATMOUSE MUST FEED.
+++ATH0
RIAA hamsters cost $17 each and you're not allowed to let them out of their cages.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
Anyone want to start a pool on when RIAA tries to shut down "Hamster", the Internet-based music swapping system?
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
RIAA hamsters cost $17 each and you're not allowed to let them out of their cages.
And SCO will claim ownership of any offspring (as derivative works) should your hamsters have any offspring. May Darl have mercy on your soul if those offspring should produce their own music (derivatives of derivatives)...
I prefer "Three Blinded White Mice" on the Mouse Organ.
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RIAA hamsters cost $17 each and you're not allowed to let them out of their cages.
The RIAA announced today that they had served lawsuits on over 1000 pet stores allegedly selling RIAA hamsters as regular hamsters. Shortly thereafter it was reported that of those initially sued, one was a mortuary, another a bank, and a third a hospital. When asked about this, the RIAA just shrugged and said "We can afford to sue them, they can't afford to fight it, so they'll pay anyway. And that's all the matters in the end."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
Sadly, not enough to make the conceptual leap from hamster-controlled-MIDI to MIDI-controlled-hamsters.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
...hamster house that looks like a mini McDonald's playground
jeez... and you wonder
-- Karma: beyond good and evil - mostly affected by posting political