Dance music with MindStorms sounds

It has been a while since I made music on the MindStorms bricks. But now I present the longest and most complicated piece of MindStorms music I have ever made.

The title of the melody is "the Future Child" and the idea is to make a cheerfull bleepy melody with the NXT's tones and use the other sounds as effects while an organ and a synthesizer supplies the orchestra.

Most of the pictures are robots made by myself. The rest is something I photographed at the First LEGO League competition in Herning back in 2007. The screenshots are from the NXT-G PC programming tools.

This piece of music is made completely without sampling or time editing. Everything is played in real-time in 8 tracks with the MindStorms bricks in front of two microphones. So the melody is actually played on the 4-key LEGO keyboard and the NXT buttons. The other instruments are Yamaha HE-8 organ Roland JX-8P synthesizer and CR-1000 drum machine. A Revox B77 can also be seen in the background.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• LEGO
• MindStorms
• micro
• scout
• microscout
• RCX
• NXT
• music
• disco
• dance
• Yamaha
• HE-8
• organ
• Roland
• JX-8P
• synthesizer
• CR-1000
• drum
• machine

[doktorfuture]

You live close to legoland right?

[organfairy]

@doktorfuture - Yes, but the idea for this was mine. I didn't get any help.

[organfairy]

You are referring to First LEGO League? There are contests 8 places in Denmark and then there is a Scandinavian final.

[bimjales]

"I don't want to grow up, I'm a toys are us kid".

[organfairy]

Actually more than half of the sold MindStorms sets are sold to grown-ups, computer geeks and universities.

[robot797]

you look like fire mario

but you has no mustache

[vieira56]

You GOOD

[tsuihark]

AAAA+++++ would listen again

[Penguindog55]

I always like your videos, very original.

[bimjales]

Like I said. "I don't want to grow up.........."

[walterclosette]

The Alchemy of sounds !

Good ! :-)