melinthropy » youtube http://melinthropy.org because sometimes you just need a little melinthropy Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Absolut-ly Cool! http://melinthropy.org/2008/04/02/absolut-ly-cool/ http://melinthropy.org/2008/04/02/absolut-ly-cool/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:29:44 +0000 Melinda Weathers http://melinda.theweatherses.org/?p=32 I ran across this video on youtube.  Check it out!  She types in a melody, and these machines that shoot balls into the air landing on a marimba, along with some wine glasses and percussion, improvise on it!

The really cool thing is you can actually go to the website here and interact with the machines playing the music!  You type in your melody (which I did horribly, because I thought I was in “practice” mode, but apparently I wasn’t — I guess you only get a second to “practice”), then you see the thing playing your melody (and its own variations) live, and then they send you a video of it.  How cool is that!

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Weird Al’s White and Nerdy video

(This is higher res than the youtube version. I got it off Weird Al’s official site.)

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