Cows Sing to the Orchestra

[quantum]

What is it, you ask?  Creative flow can be fascinating at times, and take you places you never thought to go.  What ever this may be, this is what music made by it could sound like.

[pencilart3]

"Someday computers will be better composers than humans."

Computer music:

[oneday]

I would like to hear the solo melody in a different timber

[quantum]

Thanks for listening.

It is an experimental instrument I've been working on.  Based on the notion of taking a sounding object not intended for music, and making music out of it.  In this case it is a number of squeaky toys. 

There are number of videos out there of people using using pitch shifting in post production to get melodies out of toys.  However, I wanted to go in a different direction.  What if you wished to play polyphonic music, or chords, etc.  One of my primary objectives was to create something that one could play as an actual instrument, without any need to assemble the music in post production.  The idea was to use a keyboard as controller, and samples of the toys. 

One of the challenges was that these toys are pitch limited, sometimes only one or two stable usable pitches.  But why limit yourself to "usable" pitches?  On the flip side, they have a very expressive ASDR envelope, and that is where I found a lot of interesting sounds. 

[quantum]

Here is some Bach, to see what this instrument can do with it. 

[ranjit]

What is it, you ask?  Creative flow can be fascinating at times, and take you places you never thought to go.  What ever this may be, this is what music made by it could sound like.

Damn, for some reason I find this horrifying. Maybe an alien spaceship?

[ronde_des_sylphes]

The Bach was very amoosing.