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Floppies playing music!

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:49 pm
by Jubatian
Just something wild. Legend of Zelda with quite unusual instrumentation (I think I see a few Arduinos there, so even somewhat on-topic :) )!


But there are also other similar insanities. Another iconic theme on a different orchestra:


And... It can be done with even less, a surprisingly nice rendition of The Phantom of the Opera:


Of course there is much more to these, I found it quite entertaining how all these could be turned into musical instruments, something possibly a few of us wandered about back then when these things click-clacked in our PCs.

Re: Floppies playing music!

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:13 pm
by Artcfox
Crazy! I like the Phantom of the Opera one the best. :-)

Re: Floppies playing music!

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:59 am
by uze6666
Awesome! I saw a couple of floppy "synths" before, but that top one with the flatbed things takes the cake! :ugeek:

Re: Floppies playing music!

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:04 pm
by Jubatian
uze6666 wrote:Awesome! I saw a couple of floppy "synths" before, but that top one with the flatbed things takes the cake! :ugeek:
Yes, that's quite epic! It took a while for me to realie those "flatbed things" were scanners before they were mercilessly disemboweled for the greater good :D

That Phantom of the Opera piece I liked since it does its job surprisingly well with only four floppy drives!

(By the way, a bit off, maybe you also got this suggested by Youtube: Wintergatan Marble Machine. That's also something quite epic, and those Swedish guys do lots of hacking with "unconventional" musical instruments)