Music in Code - for iPad/Mac/PC: Recent Episodes
The Open University
Today, listening to music is easy - we have CDs, MP3s, radio, television and the internet. But around a hundred years ago life was very different - either you had to play music yourself or have someone else play it for you. The 15 video tracks in this album demonstrate various ways to play music by mechanical means, with the ingenious use of levers, pegs, cylinders or paper rolls, and explain the principles used to create and control these music-making machines. This material forms part of TA212 Technology of Music.
The mechanical music manufacturer’s craft - how a robot organ plays music through code.
Transcript -- The mechanical music manufacturer’s craft - how a robot organ plays music through code.
What is a pin barrel and how does it create music? The mechanisms of pin barrrels in the Nickelodeon Collection at Ashorne Hall.
Transcript -- What is a pin barrel and how does it create music? The mechanisms of pin barrrels in the Nickelodeon Collection at Ashorne Hall.
Transcript -- The story of a traditional barrel piano from Warwick, its mechanism and repertoire.
How the mechanism works, producing specific musical effects such as vibrato and trills.
Transcript -- How the mechanism works, producing specific musical effects such as vibrato and trills.
The piano melodica. How book music is made, how the mechanism works and how to add expression to the music.
Transcript -- The piano melodica. How book music is made, how the mechanism works and how to add expression to the music.
Transcript -- How the reed organ is constructed and how a paper roll controls the mechanism.
The advent of electrically run instruments allowed composers to record musical interpretation directly onto the paper roll.
Transcript -- The advent of electrically run instruments allowed composers to record musical interpretation directly onto the paper roll.
Transcript -- How this American invention works, and an example of the sound it creates.
A recently built paper roll instrument uses a computerised cutter working to Midi instructions.
Transcript -- A recently built paper roll instrument uses a computerised cutter working to Midi instructions.
Instruments, lighting effects and scenery, all operated by instructions contained on a single paper roll.
Transcript -- Instruments, lighting effects and scenery, all operated by instructions contained on a single paper roll.