Music In Nature: Birds on Wire

I've posted about the moonbell (using the landscape of the moon as the basis for composition), and PI as music (using the number Pi as a basis for composition).

This is something in the same vein, using a picture of birds on a wire and transposing their positions into musical notations. It sounds surprisingly good!

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Using an Old Nintendo as an Instrument

Anamanaguchi is a band from New York which consists of 2 guitarists, a bassist, a drummer... and an old NES. You know, that fun little gray machine that you play games on. Or at least games from the 80's.

Instead of using regular keyboards however, they hacked an NES to enable the designing/programing of sounds. Now that's a fun concept! The music is obviously very "video-game" like, but because of the "real" instruments that play with the NES, it has an added depth that's interesting. Check it out!



The Anamanaguchi Website

Using the Landscape of the Moon to Compose Songs

I once posted about composing a song based on Pi. Here's a website that's based on similar principles, but instead of using an irrational number, it uses data from topography maps. In other words, the notes are based on the height of the landscape.

The landscape in this case though, is the moon! Moonbell is an interactive website where you can dictate the topographical line you want the program to follow, and the musical scales to base its composition. A neat little idea.
Moonbell Website