Tim Thompson's Burning Man 2003 Preparations.

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Tim's Midi Lyre

Tim Thompson, a long time composer and electronic musician (and a member of the electro-music.com forum) has put up a page describing his preparations for Burning Man 2003, a project called "Dancing under the Stars of Lyra".

Tim is building a big MIDI-controlled lyre. The frame holding 24 strings will be 9 feet high. Each string of the lyre will be a rope light, independently controlled from a set of 24 MIDI-controlled relays. Surrounding the lyre will be 4 dance pads. As people step on the dance pads, music will be generated, and the strings of the lyre will flash correspondingly to the music and in a wild variety of patterns.

The project is described in significant detail at this link: http://nosuch.com/images/bm2003/. It's well worth checking out. If you have any questions or comments for Tim, post them as replies to this topic.