Mike Cook prototyped  a diy physical music sequencer  with an Arduino Uno and we agree with him it has a ”unique take on the concept an RFID sequencer”.

He wrote us describing it with these words:

This takes RFID tags each one mapped to a note and instrument and placed on one of 32 pegs will generate a music sequence. I designed and built a special RFID reader that has 32 read positions, it took 3 months to wire up. The case was hand built and it was designed to fit exactly into a flight box. It contains an Arduino and outputs MIDI.

It uses 32 red / blue LEDs to illuminate acrylic pegs which light up red when a token is hung on them. The sequence sweep progress is shown in blue on the pegs when the sweep position meets a peg with a token it light up purple and a note is produced. The sequence length can be adjusted from 8 steps to over a million steps before repeating.

You can browse his well-documented page with software and schematic at this link.

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013 and is filed under arduino, MIDI, music.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Gilda Negrini and Riccardo Vendramin, two young product designers from Italy, wrote us to share their last work, designed during a course called Autoproduzioni at Politecnico of  Milano. It’s called MusicInk, it runs on an Arduino Duemilanove board, and  gives an alternative method to teach music to children. That’s how they describe it:

MusicInk makes drawings turning into real music, this magical process is due to a mashup of various eterogenous technologies: Conductive Ink  by Bare Conductive, MPR121 controller, Arduino (Duemilanove board), LiPo shield (removed on a second time), Bluetooth shield by Seedstudio, Android platform, Pure Data for Android (libido), Pure Data patch.
Our project was developed with the help of our friend Manh Luong Bui and has been a very hard work.
We started our project studying the possibilities to create new and cheap musical instruments, then we discovered studies about conductive ink and we decided to create something different with these two technologies.

Here you can see their experience in testing MusicInk in a kindergarten in Milano with children between 4 and 5 years old:

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 and is filed under arduino, Education, music.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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(Italian version below)

Are you a musician, music amateur, electronic bricoleur or maker who makes music by creating your own instruments and tools using Arduino?

We are looking for your music tracks to be presented in a radio program entirely dedicated to (DIY) music made with Arduino based synths and instruments.The program is scheduled within the GwenFestival program, an international music and radio festival organized in Chiasso (TI, Switzerland) during April 2013.

Gwenfestival is promoted by Radio Gwendalyn, an on-line independent radio located at Chiasso railway station (during the festival, from April 1st to April 30th, Radio Gwendalyn will use a FM frequency to transmit its music program).

The program will be on air on saturday 13 and sunday 14 April, from 17.30 – 18.00.

How to participate:
Tracks  should include at least an instrument or synth made with Arduino and they will be selected according to few parameters:

- quality of the sound design and music;

- originality of the implemented solution;

- originality of the process or production story.

All genres are accepted.

The program lasts only 1:20 (two episodes of 40 min each), so a limited number of tracks will be selected. However, the list of the excluded tracks will be published  on a public on-line page.

Deadline 10 April 2013

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Call for Arduino Synth Music

Sei un musicista, un’amante della musica, un bricoleur elettronico o maker che crea musica con strumenti basati su Arduino?

Allora, inviaci una traccia del tuo progetto musicale per un programma radiofonico dedicato alla musica realizzata con strumenti DIY.

Il programma è inserito nel palinsesto radiofonico del GwenFestival, festival internazionale di musica e radiofonia che avrà luogo a Chiasso (Ticino, Svizzera) durante il mese di aprile 2013. Il festival è promosso da Radio Gwendalyn, radio online indipendente di Chiasso che per solo un mese avrà la possibilità di trasmettere su frequenze radio FM.

Il programma andrà on-air sabato 13 e domenica 14 aprile, dalle 17.30 alle 18.00 su www.radiogwen.ch (on line streaming e podcast) e su FM 107.2 (Lugano) and FM 97.3 (Chiasso).

Ecco i requisiti per partecipare:

Le tracce dovranno includere almeno uno strumento o sintetizzatore DIY basato sulla scheda Arduino. I criteri di valutazione sono:

- qualità del sound design e della musica;

- originalità della soluzione diy implementata;

- originalità del processo di costruzione o altre aspetti connessi alla produzione.

Sono accettati tutti i generi musical (dall’elettronica alla musica country).

Il programma dura circa un’ora e venti minuti ed è diviso in due puntate, quindi, sarà accettato solo un numero limitato di tracce.

Le tracce non selezionate saranno inserite in una lista pubblicata on-line.

Per inviare la propria traccia, basta completare il modulo pubblicato su questa pagina.

Scadenza 10 Aprile 2013

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 and is filed under events, music.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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