Re: "Dragging Instruments Around" meets "laptop live"...

["Will Wright" <armyofpie@hotmail.com>]

I'm playing with Soundplant (http://www.soundplant.org/) right now, a 
freeware program that maps your keyboard to wav files, it's fairly spartan 
but it does have a pitch shift that is kind of cool (I have a few stock 
samples that make really interesting ambient noisescape thingies when 
tweaked), it also gives you the choice of having the sound loop or not and 
you can change key behaviors while sound is playing without changing the 
sounds currently playing

random toy or useful tool? Dunno, but twas free :)

Will Wright

>From: "Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: Re: "Dragging Instruments Around" meets "laptop live"...
>Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:29:14 -0800
>
>Interesting idea.
>
>I have been waiting for a QWERTY virtuoso to pop up, but haven't found
>him/her yet.  Write a program to map your computer keyboard keys to MIDI
>notes.  A good typist, with a little practice, could seriously shred.  
>Strap
>on your computer keyboard like a guitar and go at it.
>
>Can anybody recommend a computer keyboard manufacturer that supports
>velocity sensitivity???
>
>That is a joke.  Although, who knows...  I can't imagine that I am the 
>first
>one to think of this idea.  It seems pretty obvious.
>
>-J
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Will Wright" <armyofpie@hotmail.com>
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 9:27 AM
>Subject: Re: "Dragging Instruments Around" meets "laptop live"...
>
>
> > Seeing as how if I ever perform live (not sure yet if I even want that 
>to
> > happen) A laptop or two will probably feature heavily this does bear
> > thinking about.
> >
> > My spur of the moment Idea is to split the laptop into two parts and 
>wear
> > it.
> >
> > Recently a friend of mine gave me a whole lot of broken laptops (and a 
>few
> > that live) which I have been dismantling as art supplies, and I have 
>found
> > that it shouldn't be too hard to extend the cables so that the keyboard
>hung
> > down off a belt and the monitor was mounted on some sort of harness off
>the
> > torso, I could then move fairly freely (cables could be an issue).
> >
> > And as a bonus it would look cyberpunk as all get out...
> >
> > A thought.
> >
> > Will Wright
>
>


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