September 2017

Music cards

by Luke Iannini, David Kanaga

Generates an arpeggio based on the closest sound card, scale card, tempo card, and pitch shift card.

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Deal out cards to change the music, or lay out a “landscape” of cards and move the music player through it.

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An early example of “simple objects with rich interactions”. Generates interesting behavior by combining an almost trivial program with combinatorial spatial arrangements in an inherently social setting.

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Made at the Game jam (2017).

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Popular long after the game jam.

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The cards were later reused in other music activities, as always happens.

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See also Music card on an RC car (2017).

Later: MIDI (2023)