Installing the keyboard Hacks.

The task of installing the keyboard hacks was extremely frustrating. We knew there would be A LOT of wires, but not this many. We literally went through 4 full rolls of wire and had to make regular trips to surplus electronics to top up. Because the power was downstairs with the speaker, it meant we had wires travelling from the top of the stairs to the very bottom. Because there were so many wires, when they were all gathered at the bottom it was very confusing, we had to label all the wires individually to their specific pairs. However when we labelled them, we didnt write down which wire belonged to which keyboard hack. This changed how our overall audio would wound, but for the better we decided. We originally had one pipe for samples and the other for effects to the water sound. But once again, we didn't want the sound to be linear. By randomly connecting the keyboard hacks to specific keys it increased the randomness of the sound.

While Lucy and Matt were connecting the wires it was my job to create the program to link the keyboard hack with ableton live. Using previously recorded combinations of wires (which made the keys) i linked each key when pressed to either a sample or an effect. The CPU on the program was being overloaded because we were playing so many sounds at once. To fix the problem I took out some samples and replaced them with effects. Overall, it sounded beautiful.. (to my ears anyway)