Somebody That I Used to Know

source: youtube

HP Scanjet 3C as the vocals. It lags a bit due to the fast paced vocals. In order for the stepper motor to play a note it has to be moving and with that large carriage it takes a few milli seconds before it can play a note. It doesn’t sound like a lot of time but stretch that over a 4 minute song and voila…out of sync. Programming does help to compensate but it is not perfect.
Amiga 600 Bass on left audio output and Guitar on right audio output
Each audio channel was feed into an oscilloscope
2 Harddrives as the drums and cymbal
Xylophone as the Xylophone (duh) my apologies glockenspiel
Both the Harddrive and Xylophone are controlled by one PIC16F84A mircocontroller

thanks to A1- Electronics Parts (Toronto) for the great deals on all those old parts that are getting harder to find
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source: theverge

Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” has been remixed to death on YouTube, and yet none seem quite as charming as this rendition with an HP scanner and its digital band members. Composed with the help of an HP Scanjet 3C scanner, a pair of hard drives, and a few traditional instruments, YouTube user bd594 has created yet another masterpiece that intertwines popular music with what would otherwise be throwaway computer parts. Want to know what Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” would sound like if performed by a robot band? The video’s creator has done that too.
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source: worldofgeekfr

Que ce soit votre style de musique ou non, vous avez surement entendu pas mal de fois cette musique. On avait déja vu plusieurs remix et aujourd’hui, on a droit à la version entièrement faite d’instruments technologiques old school. Nous avons donc pour la basse une AMIGA 600, un oscilloscope, deux disques durs, un scanner ScanJet 3C d’HP et un xylophone.