[Lab] another hair brained project! clave!

Tue Oct 5 11:48:01 EDT 2010

And a solenoid would be better since they have a fast response (strike and
release) and would allow the clave to resonate or vibrate better

Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <
jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:

> This could all be done with the arduino and a Microphone :P no need for a
> PC
>
> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
> their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I am making a piece of art work which will detect music beat and then play
>> the clave to the music.
>>
>> If you are unfamiliar with clave, here is a video to explain it:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LWxIqnbxWQ
>>
>> The particular rhythm I want is the reverse (or forward) rumba clave (both
>> common in Salsa and rumba music).
>>
>> I was thinking that processing.org and an arduino could be used to listen
>> in on music and determine the tempo by finding equidistant peaks of volume.
>> Attempt to group the beats into 8 and determine the strongest of 8. Assign
>> it as beat 1. Then strike the Clave on 1, 2.5, 4, 6 and 7. Clave strike
>> could be a solenoid, or perhaps a DC motor.
>>
>> Any comments or ideas of the technology?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Emily Daniels <emily.daniels at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
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>>>>
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>>>> Wohoo!
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>>>>
>>>> Darcy
>>>>
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