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| 679.1 | Standup drumming! | BARNUM::RHODES | | Fri Feb 06 1987 08:56 | 19 |
| Keyboard reviewed the airdrums a few issues back. They also reviewed a
guitar shaped MIDI drum controller (name?) that had pads in a few areas
along the top and bottom of the "neck", and down on the body as well. It
was about 6 or 7 hundred bucks if I recall correctly. Well, this product
got me thinkin'. Let's see, it's just an electric guitar shaped thingy with
pads on it (probably piezo pads feeding a voltage to MIDI converter). Why
can't I just build the guitar/pads part and feed each pad into either my
Simmons brain, or into a voltage(piezo pad)-to-MIDI converter (which I intend
to own someday if I ever have any spare cash lying around, har har). After
all, I did build my trusty electric guitar who makes an appearance on the
Commusic I tape, so this should be a piece of cake. So, what do I stumble
across in the old trusty Edmond Scientific catalog but a package of 6 small
piezo transducers that run for a mere $5.95 plus shipping.
Well, I ordered the transducers which will reach me sometime in the next
few months, and when I gett'em I'll enter a reply describing their "Simmons
compatibility"...
Todd.
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| 679.2 | Slight digression, pardon, pardon. | JAWS::COTE | Fenimehi, kikey bobo! (I'm lying..) | Fri Feb 06 1987 09:01 | 3 |
| Hey, could I mount those little pizza-pads on the keys of my sax?
Edd
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| 679.3 | ouch! | BARNUM::RHODES | | Fri Feb 06 1987 09:16 | 5 |
| Sure, mount'em on your head. Like I said earlier, I haven't tried 'em yet
so I'm not sure that you won't need a baseball bat to create enough voltage
to fire the Simmons brain 8v)
Todd.
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| 679.4 | Chops, As In Judo? | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Fri Feb 06 1987 10:10 | 7 |
| I recall reading someplace recently about some guy who made a sort
of drum suit that has all these transducers attached to it so you
can play by shaking and hitting yourself. It was MIDI compatible
of course.
len.
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| 679.5 | Air harp | BRAHMS::KLOSTERMAN | Stevie K | Fri Feb 06 1987 11:03 | 8 |
| I like the guy who uses light beams to control the synth. I saw it on
some PBS show a year ago. He uses a grid of beams (infrared or laser, I
guess) to control the synth. Breaking a beam (by waving his hand through the
air) causes an event to happen. I suppose you could use two beams close together
to measure velocity sensitivity.
Watching the guy play the thing was great, almost literally air harp.
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| 679.6 | Stick it in your air! :-) | COROT::CERTO | | Fri Feb 06 1987 13:55 | 19 |
|
I saw some Drum Sticks the other day, made by Casio, that work with
their synths. They each have a wire coming out the back that
terminates with a stereo mini plug. They say hit them or just
shake them. Price was reasonable too.
RE -1 You can play an instrument just like that, at the Polaroid
exhibit at Disney World. Different sounds and pitches are available
just by waving your hands. You can play along with the animated
musicians.
There's also a room, where hexagonal beams of light are projected
on the floor, step on it and hear a note, (and the light varies
on/off or in some way I forget).
Pretty neat stuff!
Fredric_just_a_kid_at_heart_Certo
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| 679.7 | | DECWET::MITCHELL | | Fri Feb 06 1987 16:50 | 6 |
| Who needs an air harp when you have a theremin?
:-)
John M.
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| 679.8 | wanna analog consultant cheep? | JON::ROSS | EbM9+13/Bb | Fri Feb 06 1987 20:04 | 21 |
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Whats a 'theramin'? Sounds like a multi-vitamin.
Good vibrations.
Now whatcha *really* want is a suit made outta
ferroelectric polymer (yes, in mixed company even)
which is, of course, nothing more than polyvinylidene
flouride, which "exhibits the largest piezoelectric
and pyroelectric coefficients when appropriately polarized."
Ok. So I dont know what "pyroelectric" means. (what? starts an
electical fire!?@#$??) But sounds great for Rock n Roll.
Availible commercially as Kynar(tm) film.
Contact moi for technical details, but aint cheep. too bad...
rr
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| 679.9 | MIDI shoes. | PILOU::MULELID | Madman across the water. | Sun Feb 08 1987 13:40 | 8 |
| The guy that plays with the light beams are probably Jean-Michel
Jarre who plays the "Laser harp", he used it on the Rendez Vous
concert in Houston. The guitar shaped drum controller is made by
Dynacord, but how about this one "MIDI shoes" made by Puma. I saw
a picture of them once with the midi cable comming out of both heels.
Svein
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| 679.10 | midi throat losenges | GNERIC::ROSS | wock 'n' woll, wabbit! | Mon Feb 09 1987 09:19 | 5 |
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Musta been in the April 1 issue of Keyboard?
rr
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| 679.11 | the drum suit | EXCELL::SHARP | Don Sharp, Digital Telecommunications | Mon Mar 09 1987 16:05 | 19 |
| RE: .4
> I recall reading someplace recently about some guy who made a sort
> of drum suit that has all these transducers attached to it so you
> can play by shaking and hitting yourself. It was MIDI compatible
> of course.
Laurie Anderson includes a percussion piece for transducerized body in her
movie Home of the Brave, and I also saw her do it live at the Orpheum the
last time she was in Boston. So the suit is reality. I'm not sure how
worthwhile it is, at the Orpheum she was apparently having trouble getting
some of the transducers to fire. I think she had a cymbal under her arm,
bass drum in one of her shoes, snare and high tome in her knees.
Of course, you realize this is not a new idea: dancers have been
accompanying themselves on hand percussions for centuries, (e.g. castanets &
finger cymbals)
don.
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