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Tequila Mockingbird: Kinetic Origami and Birdsong

  • Program that can 'listen' to any short melody, recreate it.
  • Run on Raspberry Pi 3
  • Written in Python using Google Cloud Voice
  • Utilizing USB Microphone and MIDI input
  • Pi servo controls beak of an origami bird!
  • program initializes with command 'Tequila'
  • Inspired by the Neuropsychology of birdsong creation
  • Bird Whistling Tequila source: The Jon and Zach Show, 2/25/1999 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVJzcA1Kds)
  • Name inspired by the novel To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Melody translated into a white-throated sparrows song, by transposing the original soundbite across all keys
  • White Throated Sparrow original sample from the Cornell Macaulay Lab online repository