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whitney music box - var. 12 - chromatic - prime numbers only
in this variation the notes are arranged in a chromatic scale in which keys in the sequence which are not ordinal primes are removed the music was generated by writing a perl script which outputs a midi file, and then rendering the MIDI in Logic
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A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "digital harmony"
Animation and music by Jim Bumgardner of krazydad.com and the wheel of lunch. Jim makes free puzzles, including sudoku, killer sudoku, kakuro, mazes, and thousands of other
puzzles.
Music box variations:
var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines
var. 1 - harmonics of 55hz
var. 2 - harmonics of 20hz
var. 3 - harmonics of 48hz, reversed
var. 4 - harmonics of 48hz, palindrome
var. 5 - chromatic - 88 tines
var. 6 - microtones
var. 7 - harmonics - 120 tines, reversed
var. 8 - chromatic - 88 organ pipes, rev.
var. 9 - chromatic - 88 bars, rev.
var. 10 - chromatic - 64 pipe crypto calliope
var. 11 - minute waltz - 60 keys, 60 seconds
var. 12 - chromatic - prime numbers only
var. 13 - chromatic - non-primes only
var. 14 - stereo
var. 15 - stereo - 120
var. 16 - stereo - 210
var. 17 - hand cranked
var. 18 - stereo drone
var. 19 - stereo sonar
var. 20 - bell carol
Whitney Music Box by Jim Bumgardner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
More detailed information can be found in this post
Here is a git repository of sample source code / reference implementations in a variety of languages,
including Flash/Actionscript,
ChucK,
Pure Data (PD),
SuperCollider,
Nyquist,
pyo,
Processing,
Perl,
and Syd.
You'll also find MIDI files in there. Email me if you'd like to contribute.
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