The Palette, our Brain Opera net instrument, is a Java-based musical instrument which you can perform on from your home. During the performances of the Brain Opera, July 23-August 3 1996, daily from 2pm to 9pm, these instruments will be activated and able to send data directly to the Green Room at Lincoln Center, where it will be converted to MIDI and performed for the live audience. At various parts in the piece, the physical performers will stop playing and invite the Internet performers to take over.
These instruments will be available for practice right up until the Lincoln Center premiere on July 23, and even in-between performances.
From July 23-August 4, please join us live at the Julliard
Theatre with
the live version of
The Palette!
There are three versions of The Palette; one which plays audio, one which
plays MIDI with an internal sound card, and one which plays MIDI with an
external MIDI device. All of these are single-user applets. Please read the
system requirements very carefully:
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audio files in the .au format, this is the one for you. (All Macintosh users must select this one; all PC users who don't have a Sound Card or MIDI studio should try this one.)
system which plays MIDI (i.e., you have a Sound Card with MIDI capabilities on a PC running Windows NT or 95), try this one.
system which sends MIDI to an external device (i.e., you have a MIDI interface and external synthesizer attached to a PC running Windows NT or 95), try this one. (This is mainly intended for experts with home studios!) |
The Palette
was written by John Yu as part of his masters' thesis from MIT. If you would like to read a longer and more complete description of the system, please click here to access John Yu's thesis, submitted May 1996.