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   Devin Ulibarri (pikurasa@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 11:01:29 JST Devin Ulibarri

   Can you name that tune? (Early prototype)

   #Lego #Legos #CMK

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 11:01:29 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     very cool! it looks like frère jacques, but without the repetitions
     FWIW, I was trying to find some meaning for the choices of different colors, but I couldn't
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 11:13:38 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     hmm, but the blue blocks in the last bar, and just before it, seem to be one semitone too low for that
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     Devin Ulibarri (pikurasa@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 19:07:36 JST Devin Ulibarri

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo Yes, you figured it out! I have an image of a corrected version, but the image was not rotated properly upon upload, so I went with this earlier photo.

     At any rate, you figured out both the tune and the mistake. Bravo!

     I am using this as a possible avenue to transfer musical data from lego "notation" to the computer for the blind.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 19:07:36 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     it's granddaughter's (2.5yo) favorite song. it would be an embarrassment if I couldn't recognize it even upside down ;-)
     it got me thinking that it could enable children to read and even write music. a long-ago friend, from my days of amateur singer, once told me she had learned to read music long before she could read words, and this notation you came up with seemed quite intuitive and fun to me. I wonder if the intuitiveness is just because of some background we share...
     I am also curious as to how well it would work for the blind. I feel tempted to try to describe the image, but it also seems quite intimidating and challenging to come up with something that could convey enough of the notation to enable a blind person to imagine trying to read that with fingers, and share an opinion on whether that could work
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     Devin Ulibarri (pikurasa@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 21:42:56 JST Devin Ulibarri

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo I did have a conversation with Matthew Shifrin about this idea. Matthew is a musician, and he had a website called "legofortheblind.com" which seems to now be owned by LEGO. Here's an Internet Archive snapshot of the website from a time when he was managing it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210304001339/http://legofortheblind.com/

     I plan to reach out to him again after trying a few more things, but, for now, I have our email correspondences from years ago to work from.

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