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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
until i can see them in concert?
an intelligent hamster controlled MIDI sequencer ;)
as opposed to a nonintelligent hamster?
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
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.
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)
(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.
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?
I'm getting tired of the endless comments about the endless stream of crap the "Big Corps" are shoving down our throats. While I agree there is a lot of redundant, senseless tripe being peddled these days, you have to give some credit for bands like Radiohead, Sigur Ros, DJ Shadow, and countless other deserving artists that are served up alongside the Spears and [insert mindless pop band]. I have the sneaking suspicion that much of the crud out there is not necessarily "foisted" upon the masses; a lot of idiots actually like the blah and request it. Companies respond to market forces.
That being said, let me note I hate corporate control of culture. I would love to see the day when the general public catches on to how useful the internet can be for finding and promoting good music. I work with music and every day I see more people realizing you can sculpt soundscapes, make beats and bust grooves with a computer, cheap software and (also cheap) instruments. It's a two way street. Consumers can be producers. With sites like Magnatune and countless others it's just a matter of time before all true artists realize their best bet is to share and sell direct to fans. Two more years and that will be the prevailing model.
Video is next . . .
harmonious design