{"id":1688,"date":"2012-02-13T00:26:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2012-02-13T00:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:26:25","slug":"found-a-cool-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/found-a-cool-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"entmusic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like a joke, but it&#8217;s not. A while ago, when the Web was young, this guy built a hamster-controlled MIDI cage. Notes would be set off by the hamster movements, where they went, and what they did. He released a couple of particularly good sample results online; I still have one. It&#8217;s called HAMSTERS! and it&#8217;s by HAMSTERS!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/shows\/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00005&#038;segmentID=7\">This<\/a> is kind of the same thing, only with tree rings and an optical scanning turntable, controlling a MIDI piano. And it&#8217;s kind of awesome:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/shows\/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00005&#038;segmentID=7\">Turning Tree Rings Into Music<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the human is making lots of artistic judgements about what kinds of things <em>can<\/em> happen, when building the device. That was true for the hamster music as well. But even with those caveats, I still think of the result as Entmusic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2012-02\/noentmusicbecauseno.jpg\"><br \/><i>I&#8217;m pretty sure they wouldn&#8217;t agree<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still looking for house concert venues! Know any?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like a joke, but it&#8217;s not. A while ago, when the Web was young, this guy built a hamster-controlled MIDI cage. Notes would be set off by the hamster movements, where they went, and what they did. He released a couple of particularly good sample results online; I still have one. It&#8217;s called [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-peoples-art","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}