{"id":5290,"date":"2010-12-09T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2010-12-10T02:53:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T07:53:55","slug":"candy-buttons-musical-palindrome-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5290","title":{"rendered":"Candy buttons musical palindrome machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by both the <i>MirrorFugue<\/i> research of <a href=http:\/\/www.xiaosquared.com\/portfolio\/ target=1>Xiao Xiao<\/a> and the various explorations by <a href=http:\/\/vihart.com\/ target=1>Vi Hart<\/a> into everything from mathemusical palindromic canons to candy button musical instrumentals,  today I decided to create a virtual machine to help you compose musical palindromes.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, I thought it would be an interesting constraint to incorporate elements of time reversal (eg: palindromes), instruments controlled by scores on paper tape, and candy buttons.   Putting this all together, I ended up with a virtual player piano controlled by two copies of a candy button strip.  The two strips get played together in reverse order to create a palindromic score.<\/p>\n<p>Since these are <i>virtual<\/i> candy buttons, I took the liberty of expanding on the three classic flavors of <font color=#ff0000>cherry<\/font>, <font color=#ffff00>lemon<\/font> and <font color=#80ff00>lime<\/font>, replacing them with a full palette consisting of, respectively, <font color=#ff0000>cherry<\/font>, <font color=#ffa0a0>peach<\/font>, <font color=#ff8000>orange<\/font>, <font color=#ffff00>lemon<\/font>, <font color=#80ff>lime<\/font>, <font color=#00a0ff>blueberry<\/font>, <font color=#8000ff>plum<\/font> and <font color=#c00080>raspberry<\/font>.  It turns out that when you bring these particular eight flavors into the virtual world, each one corresponds exactly to a note on the musical scale.  Which makes them very easy to work with in making musical scores.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being incredibly delicious.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/candybuttons target=1><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/candybuttons2.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by both the MirrorFugue research of Xiao Xiao and the various explorations by Vi Hart into everything from mathemusical palindromic canons to candy button musical instrumentals, today I decided to create a virtual machine to help you compose musical palindromes. In particular, I thought it would be an interesting constraint to incorporate elements of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Candy buttons musical palindrome machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5301,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}