Tone Labs Code for instrument/soldered circuit 10–11–2023
Video of beat made in arduino When deciding what role my circuit would play in a musical composition, I decided on something simple and chose the role of a pulse beat, or just a regular beat that could play all throughout. When it came to creating the code, I knew I wanted there to be an implied pause in the beat. I am not that informed in musical theory but I might be thinking more of a beat that displays a change in notes by the fourth beat, or just a four-beat rhythmic piece. When testing out the tones in the arduino and uploading the code, I was surprised with how the speaker sounded-It reminded me of video game music with how 8-bit the notes sounded. For the code, I copied the example code and made changes from there. There are in total 16 notes played, all quarter notes. As for the pattern of notes, I had it so that the first three notes played were the same, with a different note played by the fourth beat. I thought this made for a more interesting pulse beat, rather than one with just the same note all 16 times. I think it would be interesting to see how other instruments sound with this mimic of a pulse beat-could it be applied to multiple or would it sound awkward/wrong?
Code for instrument-Simply edited from example code and changed to better fit intended role for circuit
Picture of soldered circuit board for Monday class