audience participation controls

[Dave Halliday]

>     ......a performance/musician has asked if there are any cheap 
>     ways to enable say 5 or so members of the audience to jam with 
>     the band from the dancefloor, triggering samples, adjusting
>     synths etc.
>     All I can think of is TV remotes.....can these operate on diff 
>     frequencies? ....suppose I could nobble them to use different buttons 
>     on each........ 
The generic ones can be programmed for different makes of TV sets - 
you could probably find several which could operate simultaniously 
without jamming each other.  Use an IR Diode and make a program to
read off the signals...

YOu would probably want some visual feedback as well - maybe something 
with lights so that the people knew their button pushing had an 
effect.  Some sonic changes would take a while to evolve or be too 
subtle to be first noticed...


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