Playtron Picnic - Organelle & Playtron food jam
Channel: Missing Reels
Date: 2019-05-10

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I've been wanting to do something with my Playtronica Playtron for a while and finally got round to writing this piece for it. The Critter and Guitari Organelle is producing all the sound, which is basically a series of loops plus a synth voice. The Playtronica Playtron is a midi controller that works by  sending midi messages when a circuit is completed, but pretty much any mildly conductive material will work for that, like food, your body, cutlery. So in this setup dunking crudités into the houmous brings in different looped layers of drums, dropping sandwich ingredients on to the ham bring in the harmonic parts, and touching the cutlery produces a note on the synth voice.