Week 2 Homework
This is the file link of the player piano that I have built: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZNA64rFmdLahZaETsnNJzgDElhdmU5vm/view?usp=sharing
And here is a little demonstration of how I play with it. (I am completely new to arranging the music, so if you think it sucks, forgive me.) Due to the arrival of Halloween, I would like to make this melody somehow sounds a little bit creepy to foil the atmosphere.
Responding to the third question, I have several ideas interesting in my mind, and I can categorize them based on their scales, micro, meso-level, and macro.
On a micro level, I think it would be rare for us to see it happens in real life since these creatures are too tiny to play a musical instrument. But leaving the feasibility alone, I would like to hear the bacterias playing guitar. Let’s say that a sensor can figure out their categories, and based on that, the pitch will be determined. Moreover, their activeness will control the frequency. And the number of these little creatures will influence the volume part.
On a meso-level, I am willing to see a city “play” a drum. With thousands of monitors in the city, it is actually pretty easy for us to generate the overall emotion of residents. And I think it can work as the parameter to control the pitch because when we have different emotions, we are likely to listen to different kinds of music and it should also work in the reversed direction. And similarly, their movement, measured by how busy the transportation is, can influence the frequency. And by randomly select a resident, his or her distance with the piano could control the volume.
On a macro level, I am excited to see something like “the pulse of Earth”. I imagine it as a musical instrument placed in a satellite whose mission is to discover the galaxy. We could include Earth’s relative position to choose the pitch. Other parameters like the frequency can be determined by the overall human activity’s impact on the planet. And the distance between the spaceship and Earth would affect the volume.