I'm building a mobile, open source, midi controlled pipe organ. I'm calling it the Anywhere Organ. This site is here to document my progress, acknowledge all the awesome people who are helping make it happen, and spread what I've learned in making this colossal instrument.
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The Anywhere Organ premieres at Figment, NYC!
Wow, this has been a long haul. After a year of trial and error, mucking about, and experimentation the Anywhere Organ has finally arrived. It premiered at Figment, NYC which spanned the entirety of Governer’s Island.
This version, which features seven laser cut wind chests each containing seven pipes, is driven by a MIDI controller pumping out i/o signals to my bank of 49 organ valves. For a portion of the event it was getting those signals from an Arduino using a program developed by myself and Matt Mets (of Makerbot fame). Once it started to drizzle I brought everything indoors and broke out the laptop to do some looping and more extensive MIDI stuff.
It’s been a wild ride. Now, it’s time to recoup, regroup, and start building the project out. It still needs some tweaking and fiddling to survive the kind of environments I’m hoping to put it in eventually. However, I’m ecstatic to have it out in the world and not hanging around my head any more.
Check out some more photos of the Anywhere Organ at Figment on Flickr.
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Awesome Foundation...this amazing project.
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