Posted August 30, 200915 yr Oh, hello UrbanOhioans. Ordinarily I am not in the habit of promoting my stupid cartography work anywhere besides my own site or that of my business, but seeing as how this is about Ohio and is not real work anyway, I thought perhaps some of this crowd might be interested. So I've been thinking for a while that something needs to be made of the coincidence that Ohio has 88 counties and a piano has 88 keys. As a Map Guy, to me that means making some kind of crazy musical-geo-data visualization. A month or so ago, I finished such an attempt. It's kind of fun, if usually unpleasant to the ears, to mess around with Ohio county data as piano notes. I called it, rather definitively, Ohio is a piano. And yes, the pre-programmed songs (particularly the excerpt of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) might sound a little off, but that's the music I found, and when I'm coding every single note by hand, I've little motivation to look for something better!
August 30, 200915 yr Where's middle C? Looks like Franklin is the A just below middle C, so I've got that figured out.
August 30, 200915 yr What in SAM HELL!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 30, 200915 yr What in SAM HELL!!! That's pretty much what I thought to myself while making this. But I think I narrowly escaped with my sanity.
August 31, 200915 yr that was very cool, but wood county was not cool! you didn't slip that one by me! :whip: :laugh:
August 31, 200915 yr Cute, Interesting Well the Entertainer was good and sounded right but yeah- Beethoven's 5th was rather sour!
August 31, 200915 yr Haha, this is awesome! Is it me, or when one moves their mouse over the map, does it sound a lot like "Der Mondflek" from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire: All you need is a voiceover of a German lady singing the county names instead! :lol:
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