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
