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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
:)
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They can make people dance as well. Just ask Richard Gere
How could we sink so low...
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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!
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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.
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...
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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.
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Is this the moment where Slashdot 'jumps the shark'? :)
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Looks like a hamster-controlled web server as well.
The coolest voice ever.
1) Get Hampsters to make music
2) ?
3) Profit!
--<Mike>--
To abort the program, you have to shout ARMAGEDDON!
:P)
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"Derp de derp."
There currently ARE a million monkeys working at a million typewriters, but Livejournal and Xanga are nothing remotely like Shakespeare.
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...But those hamsters do have all of the harmony of the Backstreet Boys.
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How did you guys find out about my hamsters?
Here.
FATMOUSE MUST FEED.
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RIAA hamsters cost $17 each and you're not allowed to let them out of their cages.
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