[Lab] another hair brained project! clave!

Tue Oct 5 14:14:02 EDT 2010

I echo Tom's comments, having worked with various software and
hardware approaches for "musical" analysis.  Looking forward to seeing
this project develop.  I'll have some relevant blog posts to share in
the next few months.

Nice shield, Alexandre!

ao.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Alexandre Castonguay
<acastonguay at artengine.ca> wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> You may be interested in testing one of these :
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMmZKG_ytg
>
> Alexandre
>
> Le 10-10-05 12:17, Darcy Whyte a écrit :
>
> I was thinking that the striker would look cooler sweeping over about 100
> degrees. I'll try both configurations as the piece isn't due for about a
> year. :)
>
> I figured the response time would not be an issue since software can
> compensate for the swing time. Just like a real clave player.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <
> jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> ---
>
> "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
> ---
>
> "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:
>
>
> I'm very excited too! Guy I expect to see ALL of your awesome robot
> creations there!!
>
> Emily
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com>wrote:
>
>
> Wohoo!
>
> Can't wait!
>
> I had an application to present the Squirrel in within an hour of the
> original event announcement.
>
>
> Darcy
>
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