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.
Voilą! Biological soundfont. Only downside: Latency is a bar or two.
Carlo
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:19:40 2006
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