Erik Satie's "Vexations"

[Mifga]

Hey folks,

I have been working with the awesome midi-to-gcode scripts you folks
have been hacking on -- and accomplished my original goal: to create a
gcode script to play all of Erik Satie's "Vexation" (all 840
repetitions). In fact, I found a midi file of a 28 hour performance
and used that with Henning's xyz script. It is something of a happy
accident that this piece is largely a left-hand piano piece (well,
there is nothing to say it has to be a piano piece) and I had access
to Bot2000 (which was, ahem, so hastily constructed that all of the
belts and z-axis stays are loose and rattly), because the 3-axis
version of this script is running incredibly well on this bot. In
fact, the bot sounds almost cello-like in its pulls, and the loose
belts give the notes a little more attack than a really tight ship
like "Goldie" (an early prototype) that I also tested the script on.
I'll probably run "Vexations" on this bot at MakerFaire a bit...unless
Widget or I get time to take it apart and tune it up for printing.

Here's a video of Bot2000 performing this piece:
http://blip.tv/file/4161454

Here are details on the midi sources I worked with:
http://musicweb.hmt-hannover.de/satie/

There is more to do to tune this and experiment with bringing out the
nuance of the live-sampled midi, but for now this script is running
really well.
Only it is too long to post as a single page on the wiki! So I guess
I'll include it on Thingiverse when I put up some of other little
gcode stingers and encodes I've been doing: "Also Sprach Zarathustra,"
"Daisy, Daisy," 1812 Overture, I Was Born (A Unicorn), etc..

And there is this bizarre Yellow Submarine transcode that my roommate
walked in to and said "Is this Buckminster Fuller by Add N to X?"
Really not very yellow submarine, but very big and bold hard rock
psychedelic sound. This is largely because I processed it at the
incorrect rate and used a messy midi file, but hey!, very fun to hear.

In any case, I've been really inspired by you folks and am messing
around with your tools. And I'm looking into work I can do to pre-
process midi-files to deliver to the scripts so that I get a range of
new results. Also, I've been looking into a range of the audio-to-midi
tools that can actually handle polyphony. (That is how I encoded
"Daisy, Daisy": from that early computer voice IBM recording.)

One last note: Michael finished and posted MakerBot Sound Library 002
at Thingiverse: thingiverse.com/thing:4196 -- the sounds are AWESOME.
much better recordings than when I made Sound Library 001:
thingiverse.com/thing:3231 .

--Matt