![]() ![]() You can hear the restored recording after the break. They sampled and restored the recording, fixing the rather poor quality recording to reproduce the squawky tones that the computer played. These phat beats were captured by the BBC for broadcast on an acetate disk that the researchers found in an archive. Recorded in 1951, the rendition of “God Save The King”, “Baa-Baa Black Sheep” and “In The Mood” was produced by a computer built by none other Alan Turing and other researchers at the Computing Machine Research Laboratory in Manchester. Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have just restored what is probably the oldest piece of recorded, computer-generated music. You want old skool electronic music? How about 1951? Embedded below is a demo of the prototype that shows off how it works and what it can do, and it helps give context to the lessons shares.Ĭontinue reading “Learn What Did And Didn’t Work In This Prototyping Post-Mortem” → Posted in 3d Printer hacks, hardware, Musical Hacks Tagged analog, design, dfm, electronic music, learning experience, music, product design, prototyping, sequencer, synth So what’s the problem? What happened is that through prototyping, learned that his design will need many changes before it can be used to create a product, and he wrote up everything he learned during the process. The unit works, looks great, has a simple parts list, and the bill of materials is low in cost. This one will go on my shelf as a reminder of how far I’ve come.” Short version: he says that someday there will be some kind of sequencer product like it available from him, “ut it won’t be this one. had originally made a hand-soldered one-off whose performance belied its simple innards, and decided to try to turn it into a product. ![]() ![]() This post is about the outstanding prototyping post-mortem he wrote up about his attempt to turn his Four-Step Octaved Sequencer into a viable product. is a one-man-shop making electronic musical things, but that’s not what this post is about. But nothing quite like BookSound before, which at this point, is really saying something.Ĭontinue reading “Rock Out To The Written Word With BookSound” → Posted in Musical Hacks, Raspberry Pi Tagged 3D printed enclosure, electronic music, ocr, text processing We’ve seen practical applications of OCR on the Raspberry Pi in the past and even similar looking book scanning arrangements. In the future, he’s looking at adding “lyrics” by running commonly used words on the page through a text to speech engine and inserting them into the beat. Similarly, drum kicks are generated based on the number of syllables in each paragraph. For example, to generate the song’s BPM, the software will count how many words per paragraph are on the page: so a book with shorter paragraphs will consequently have a faster tempo to match the speed at which the author is moving through ideas. But he was able to give us a few high-level explanations of what’s going on inside BookSound. If you’re wondering what the secret sauce is to turn words into music, isn’t ready to share his source code just yet. Because the Raspberry Pi isn’t exactly a powerhouse, it takes about two minutes for it to scan the page, perform optical character recognition (OCR), and compose the track before you start to hear anything. To turn your favorite book into electronic beats, simply open it up, put it under the gaze of BookSound, and press the button on the front. At the end of the arm is a standard Raspberry Pi Camera module, which gives the BookSound a bird’s eye view of the book to be songified. Inside the classy looking 3D printed enclosure is a Raspberry Pi, an OLED display, and the button and switch which make up the extent of the device’s controls. But even in these early stages there’s no denying this is an exceptionally unique project, and we’re excited to see where it goes from here. says he’s still working on perfecting the word to music mapping, so the results shown in the video after the break are still a bit rough. ![]() You won’t be able to boast to your friends that as a matter of fact, you have read that popular new novel, but at least you might be able to dance to it. Traditional audiobooks are basically the adult equivalent of having somebody read you a bedtime story, but BookSound actually turns the written word into electronic music. With his latest project, has simultaneously given the world a new type of audiobook and music. ![]()
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