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whitney music box - var. 17 - hand cranked
in this interactive variation the notes are arranged in a pentatonic scale and only move when you turn the crank the notes are stored as individual samples which were generated using my own jsyd synthesis software because of sound limitations in flash, you will not hear all the notes when lots of them are triggered at the same time the crank illustration was provided by ophelia chong Here's a fun 20 minute video that ends with me demonstrating an audience-participation version of the hand-cranked Whitney Box at the GEL conference in NYC.View this variation on a page by itself...
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Animation and music by Jim Bumgardner of krazydad.com and coverpop.com
Music box variations:
var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines
var. 1 - harmonics of 55hz
var. 2 - harmonics of 20hz
var. 3 - harmonics of 48hz, reversed
var. 4 - harmonics of 48hz, palindrome
var. 5 - chromatic - 88 tines
var. 6 - microtones
var. 7 - harmonics - 120 tines, reversed
var. 8 - chromatic - 88 organ pipes, rev.
var. 9 - chromatic - 88 bars, rev.
var. 10 - chromatic - 64 pipe cyrpto calliope
var. 11 - minute waltz - 60 keys, 60 seconds
var. 12 - chromatic - prime numbers only
var. 13 - chromatic - non-primes only
var. 14 - stereo
var. 15 - stereo - 120
var. 16 - stereo - 210
var. 17 - hand cranked
var. 18 - stereo drone (new)
var. 19 - stereo sonar (new)
var. 20 - bell carol (new)
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More detailed information can be found in this post
Sample source code: Actionscript, Syd, ChucK, Perl, Nyquist, Processing (p5), MIDI
WHITNEY MUSIC BOX NEWS:
10/09: Fans of the Whitney Music Box will enjoy the Wheel of Stars - a music box made from astronomical data.
4/09: An installation piece containing several Whitney Music Boxes was presented at Cranks, Cams & Computers, in the Los Angeles area on June 26th, 2009. I also debuted a musical chess game.
I'm currently working on producing an actual Music Box that plays this music. More info here.
Do you want a genuine Whitney Music Box disc for your music box? Jack Perron, the same expert who cut the discs for Björk's beautiful album Vespertine will make one for you. Just head over to Hens Tooth Music, and ask. He can make ones that will fit many antique music boxes. They're beautiful!
Here's a fun 20 minute presentation in which I demonstrated an audience-participation version of the hand-cranked Whitney Music Box at the GEL conference in NYC. The first 10 minutes I'm blathering on about screensavers and information theory.
more toys by jbum: colrpickr, coverpop, wheel music, mindpower, ascii cam, mandala of the day