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One of the great things to do with dominoes is to line hundreds of them up and knock over the first one so that a sequence of linear collapses follows in sequence.
Dominotes are used in the same way, except when they fall over they emit a single musical sound. They can do this because each one contains
a tiny movement sensor that transmits a signal to a nearby receiver, amplifier and speakers.
When you use Dominotes your collapsing lines of dominoes can now also play streams of notes or other sounds.
Dominos Piazza
Dominos_20Piazza
The idea would make great performance art here. [8th of 7, Feb 25 2015]
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Or they could play the scale degrees of the numbers on
both sides of the domino as an interval so that blind
players who were also musicians could match dominos up in
the regular game. There would be lots of variations, maybe
they keep adding up until all the notes of the scale are
used in the chord and then they change keys. |
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nifty but not too thrilled about it being digital and wifi and stuff. Just put a little bell in there... or make them bigger. |
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With the bell in the ball cat toy the sound continues, until the cat gets tried. |
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These sound like a one note musician. |
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If they could mimic the sound of a shoe dropping, the guy in the hotel room below yours might get a good night sleep. (unless he stays awake all night worrying about the single guy that wears four shoes.) |
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^
Done, in the goon show circa 1950-ish, they are in
a
tent in the desert and the person upstairs drops
three shoes, leading to debate on 1 three-legged
man or 3 one-legged men... |
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//If they could mimic the sound of a shoe
dropping, |
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NB, one bun preferably if it can be done with large
concrete dominoes that each have a church bell in
them. |
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I like this one, but I'm sure it could be achieved in a more
lo-fi fashion by embedding some kind of tubular bell within
the domino, rather than fiddling about with signalling over
wireless. |
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Bun to the person who tries this with Stonehenge. |
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I have created large dominoe idea on hb already. The non use of "analogue" physical noise making is due to size. I want the Dominotes to be small and able to be cheaply made so that acquiring hundreds of them becomes feasible. |
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A spiral bar, attached at the outer end to the inside of a hollow wooden domino, should dong nicely when it falls over. |
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// acquiring hundreds of them becomes feasible // |
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There is no economic barrier, providing that the acquisitive individual is sufficiently lackingin scruples to simply steal all they want. |
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I quite like the idea but would the distance between
dominotes limit the musical creativity? A dominote
length falling would be the extreme interval unless
more blanks are used. |
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Parallel divergent or convergent lines could create
some interesting scores.
Could a computer program be written to convert
music to physical dominotes? |
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You are quite right that the cadence would be narrow, but
blanks would facilitate some control. Sustain would be
impossible without several blanks being inserted, and the
previous note held by the software. I think it's doable, but
then I would say that! Ha. I'm going to apply for a grant to
develop it - double ha ha. |
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Chords are possible as 1 domino can knock over 2 which
knock over 4 at once. If they were all the same note that
would help with the sustain issue but it would get louder
before tapering off. Of course, throwing a few blanks into
the
buildup would help. |
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//sustain issue// There's a guitar (or some other stringed instrument) technique of constant strumming... |
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A slinky going down stairs...with wires tuned to give
certain notes, plucked by a central plectrum on a
weight that oscillates up and down as the
aforementioned slinky goes down the stairs. |
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Alternatively, a slinky with an internal bellows,
possibly connected to wind instrument of the
Hibernian persuasion... |
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