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whitney music box - var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines
in three minutes, the largest dot will travel around the circle once, the next largest dot will travel around the circle twice, the next largest dot three times, and so on. the dots are arranged to trigger notes on a chromatic scale when they pass the line the music was generated using my own syd synthesis software, the animation was programmed in flash actionscript 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:
4/09: An installation piece containing several Whitney Music Boxes will be presented at Cranks, Cams & Computers, in the Los Angeles area on June 26th. I'll also be debuting a musical chess game. Click here for concert info..
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