The Colliadora Series of Instruments: Introducing the Colliadora Series

Three visionaries with custom-made MIDI instruments sporting custom button mappings all with the intention of uniting the world by blowing minds.

Description

Three ambitious young men have joined forces. Coming from distinctly different musical backgrounds, they have created a new class of computer musical instrument: custom-built to their rigorous specifications with natural shells and re-programmable through an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-use graphical user interface running on the Java-based Processing language. With the ability to switch between custom button mappings on the fly and produce more than one musical source at a time, this trio can produce the sound of an orchestra or a thumping dance club. They will blow minds one at a time.

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Personal Statement

Mr. McMasters looked through the frosting to look for a triumphant family. He found the Ketsas living in the Jembrana region of Bali during ancient, unseen times. He chronicled four generations of their struggles and triumphs. During the third generation, a holy musical instrument appeared in the dreams of Yalim, the son of Paraseti and Grandson to Djatu. He followed the vision, built the instrument and gave it to his son, Sesho. Sesho went on to use the instrument to unite the people of the Jembrana region and bring peace to the land.

Mr. McMasters has informed us of the properties of this divine tool and we have followed his commands and reconstructed it as faithfully as we can with modern technology. They are gifts from the great ether of inspiration.

Background

Knowledge of Processing, MIDI, XBee radios, circuitry for analog and digital inputs, gourd carving, tonal theory, and Mr. McMasters have all richly contributed to the culmination of these instruments. All required much research.

Audience

Everyone and their babies and their grandparents and their great grandparents.

User Scenario

You come, you hear, your mind explodes, and then you bond with everyone around you who also has an exploded brain.

Implementation

They are made of wood or gourds, they are filled with wires and techy stuff, and they are played with the hands, the mind, and the spirit.

Conclusion

We are closer to understanding Mr. McMasters' story of Yalim from the Four Generations and the byproducts form a bounty of knowledge about microcontrollers, serial communication, the innards of gourds, and many, many other things.