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

[Sean Edwards]

I create biological sounds just fine without the aid
of a computer!

--- cdr <ix at replic.net> wrote:

> 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
> 


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