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The idea being that you would have a clock where the "hands" were replaced by 3 sinewave oscillators - The pitches of the sinewave oscillators would rise and fall according to various cycles - one on a 60-second cycle, one on a 60-minute cycle, and one on a 24 hour cycle. At even hours or half hours
the sine waves would align to play consonant chords - at other times they would play dissonant chords. The enharmonic pulses created by the dissonance between tones could be used as a way to count how many minutes before or after the hour.
Maybe this would have some kind of practical application for the blind, besides just being a neat idea.
SineClock
http://shoko.calart...rboy/SineClock.html Baked (for BeOS) [karunai, Oct 04 2004]
Updated version of above-linked SineClock page
http://douglasrepet...ortfolio/sineclock/ The BeOS version (1997) is still available, but there's now also a Mac/Windows version (2003), an electronic hardware version as well (2004), and a physical product version (2018). Also, check out this guy's whole portfolio ("works" in the navigation bar)he's got lots of interesting stuff [notexactly, Dec 07 2019]
The site where you buy the product mentioned in the description of the previous link
http://sineclock.com/ [notexactly, Dec 07 2019]
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Excellent idea, funny nic - If I may, I'd suggest the Circle of Fifths be used to denote each hour, i.e. 12 = C, 1 = G, 2 = D, 3 = A, 4 = E, 5 = B, and so forth - this would make the day flow smoother. |
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Very good. However, its sound might interfere with watching TV, listening to radio, or playing music. Perhaps some kind of control to turn it up or down is in order? |
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You just put an dissonant sine wave cancellation clock in the room where the TV is. |
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An LFO on the amplitude of all 3 waves (with a quick peak and a long, shallow trough) could be set to make the clock "chime" at the hours or half hours if you didn't want it to sound constantly. |
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Brilliant! Keep up the good ideas and you will soon become a [lostdog] |
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Pure sine waves don't produce consonant and dissonant chords in the same way that normal tones do, because they don't have harmonic serieses. |
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