Commodore 64 Keytar!
Jordan Bartee is a musician, circuit bender and and electronic tinkerer. In a moment of insanity genius, he decided to grab a Commodore 64 and a MIDI keyboard, and then combine them with the MIDIbox SID platform to create the greatest keytar ever… which he’s dubbed the “Giana 64″.
Jordan says:
When I was a young boy I had the misfortune of being utterly obsessed with a topic that my peers found variously boring, perplexing, or simply vaporous: boxes. Specifically, boxes inside of other boxes, arranged in an infinite string of self-similar, recursive splendor. I remember spending long hours after school organizing my substantial collection of boxes by size from largest to smallest, placing each box inside its predecessor. I wasn’t sure exactly what was so fascinating about the activity except that it seemed to get at the heart of some profundity that I couldn’t quite access verbally, but seemed persistent and true none-the-less.
Here’s a video of the contraption in action:
Imagine: a DIY-Commodore-64-Keytar-8Bit-Circuit Bent-SID Frankenstein. Tell me how this isn’t the most awesome thing in the world?
Awesome
Wow, for a minute there I thought he was actually going to play some music.
amazing!! 5/5!
I’ve always wanted a keytar… if yours was available to buy, it would definitely be the 1st on my list!!
Interesting and creative, BUT I don’t see anything that even looks like it was once a part of a C-64. Might have been nice if there was some detailed explanation since it’s in the title at least what part belonged to the Commodore 64.
>>MOD: The SID chip.
You are shit, my friend.
Mein gott! He even looks like young Einstein. Not Yahoo Serious. Really, Einstein as a young cyberpunk. This is unreal. Also very good sounding. If young Albert had had musical cred while he was tinkering with junk tossed out behind the Patent Office, this might have been the result, and the world would have been different. No atomic bomb, but atomic music. Imagine wars fought by bands competing for applause. Instead of land mines and brass cartridges, countries would be littered with Pignoses, Monotrons, and guitar picks. Is it wrong to dream?