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Still alive and kicking 
Also: I really loved working on the ARP 2500. Every sound was an interesting puzzle.
By the way: don’t forget to check out Daphne Oram.
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Fun tutorial for the live coding web app “Strudel” (https://strudel.cc/), previously mentioned on the forum here: strudel.cc - live coding in the web browser
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Less live-coding-focused than Strudel but still very interesting (it’s kind of the successor language to SuperCollider, with heavy inspiration from APL [!] ):
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I think the video shows enough details to replicate this from wood.
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…with English subtitles alludes to the OST and the synchronization with the image of perhaps the best scene in the film.
Nice idea but surely the wheel is pressing more on the middle two strings and not at all on the outer two.
It seems that the outer 2 strings can not be used for playing because they hold the device in place.
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Ohhh …
The video description says “By the way, it may appear that the wheel is applied directly to the strings, but it is not. There are two loops clinging to the wheel, and they play the four strings.”
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That’s interesting! Unlike on a Hurdy Gurdy, the wheel itself does not touch the strings. Important to know that 
Dr. Mix (Claudio Passavanti) had a very nice and interesting interview with legendary electronic/digital audio/synthesis/waveguide researcher/pioneer Julius O. Smith III on the history of Physical Modeling.
Very accessible, unlike the tons of technical info found in his research, his lectures and his JOS Home Page at Stanford University.
Just check out the mindboggling list of subjects Julius O Smith III has been involved with in the Global JOS Index
(Short Bio from Wikipedia)
Julius Orion Smith III (born 1953) is an American educator and engineer who is Professor Emeritus of Music and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).[1] He is known for pioneering digital waveguide synthesis, a physical modeling technique adopted in commercial instruments such as the Yamaha VL-1 synthesizer.[2] Smith is also co-inventor of the core audio-fingerprinting algorithm behind the music-identification service Shazam.[3] [4]
Inside Physical Modeling | Interview with Julius Smith - Ep.2/4 (mid juli 2025)
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Sigh…. I’m not a fan of this brave new future.
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That is so deflating. And another reason to dislike the normalisation of autotune - it’s like the industry has spent the last few years training us to accept AI voices as normal.
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