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Richard Birkin & Tom Armitage
Twinklr

A modern music box

Twinklr is a music box that you can write music with. Just like an old music box, when you turn Twinklr's handle, it plays a melody. What's different is that it's your melody, not something built-in that you cannot change.

Add and remove notes on the fly. Play slow or fast, forwards or backwards.
Twinklr also has MIDI Out, meaning it sends tones to any MIDI enabled instrument or interface.

Richard Birkin & Tom Armitage
Twinklr

Twinklr v1 was developed with D-Lab's support, and the latest version was then built as part of the 2016 MV Works cohort at Makerversity.

In this version melodies can be saved into one of eight slots in the device. It allows the user to have multiple 'playheads' running at once, playing multiple versions of the same melody, leading to new interpretations of an existing tune, and Twinklr can control any other MIDI-enabled device, opening up new ways to play existing instruments.

Richard Birkin & Tom Armitage

Twinklr


Richard Birkin is a Derybyshire-based composer and creative technologist, known for combining his own modern classical music with touch-sensitive installations and experimental digital manifestations.

Tom Armitage is a technologist, designer and writer based in London. He makes systems, tools, toys, and art out of hardware, software, and the network.


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