Guitar Hero Gets Kicks From Kasabian
By Paul Dakeyne
| Posted in Music Technology
In our seemingly never ending search for the next weird and wacky ‘controller’, here’s another we get a kick out of… (sorry). Here comes my shortest DV Blog post, and probably the longest sentence, therein: Ladies and, well probably just gentlemen actually, we combine your favourite Saturday afternoon recreation of ‘Footy’ with (mosh pit, ‘geezer’ fave, stadium rockers) Kasabian and round it off with a touch of geeky technology to get a right tasty lads brew if ever there was one! Phew…
So, check this video out as creatives, sporting talent and techies get together to ‘play’ a Guitar Hero type game with the process of footballs striking pressure sensitive pads to trigger guitar chords ‘n riffs. The communication protocol between struck pads and the music computer actually generating the tones is the experimental Arduino system, which seemingly does a splendid job.
Granted, after some extensive practice, these talented lads kick those balls with alarmingly accuracy of timing and aim. I’m trying to figure this out though – to get the timing right, they must be striking the balls a fair few milliseconds before the note to be played. Now that is talent! Imagine getting a musician to have that level of anticipation and accuracy in performance, but kicking a ball too? Strewth!
.. and the ‘making of’ video..
Tags: arduino, Controller, kasabian, music computer