Making sweet music with an NES controller
by Ross Miller 
{ Aug 4th 2005 at 8:00AM }
Remember when you discovered you could bend
notes on your ocarina in Legend of Zelda? When I found out I spent many hours trying to make Link play rock songs
(Crazy Train, for instance). Better yet, did you see the Elektroplankton presentation from E3? Ever played
Frequency? For anyone who can answer yes or is just a gamer in love with music, we've got a special surprise for
you. Recyclism, which appears to be someone very creative with a lot of time on his hands, has put together a
musical instrument comprised of 6 NES controllers hooked up to a midi sequencer. Essentially, it's a party
box/jam session. If you go to the projects page on on their main site, you can view the system and watch the Res
(it's name for the instrument) in action. Very cool, indeed.
[via PixelSumo - check it out for lots of cool finds]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris OShea @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM
Your link to Pixelsumo doesn't work.
http://www.pixelsumo.com
E.V @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM
Cool on the Res stuff, but give the machine to Nullsoft or any of the 8-bit groups out there. They will be much better at it.
metric152 @ Dec 18th 2005 10:08PM
Sounds like a bastard cross between aphex twin and autechre, or monkeys beating up a robot.