[linux-audio-user] PROJECT PROPOSAL: Biological Sound Generator

[cdr]

On Thu Feb 23, 2006 at 04:06:32AM +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote:
> I spent a good deal of my youth battling with my guitar teacher who was
> constantly trying to turn me into a biological sound generator...
> Limiting my creativity to the exacty fashion with which I execute his
> instructions on how to play a Concerto Andante Furioso Con Parmigiano
> some dead guy wrote 10'000 years ago. (I'm sure he didn't even announce
> his own death).
> 
> So I am now scheming a devious plan on how to
> 
> a) Get back at him, and
> b) Demonstrate the programmability of humans to anyone who has eyes
>    and mind to see it
> 
> So my proposition: Take any instrument that is convertible to MIDI, like
> a keyboard, or preferably, MIDI-plug an old, whacked up rock guitar that
> was used by Alice Cooper to scratch his hairy buttocks.
> 
> So then you get about 100 high-brow studied classical orchestra
> musicians (the more narrow-minded the better), hand out wireless
> terminals with an OSC-hacked version of Lilypond that display sheet
> music from MIDI signals. Have their musical teachers tell them this is
> one of the most avant-garde ways to peform and that it is their ticket
> to fame and fortune in the classical music community (believe me, these
> classical types will believe absolutely ANYTHING their musical
> authorities tell them).
> 
> Then plug your flea bag MIDI scratcher and start getting your groove on.
> Voil?! Biological soundfont. Only downside: Latency is a bar or two.

thats pretty unacceptable. maybe you could get it lower, with some combination of Thai RedBull and tweak??

> 
> Carlo