FilamentNomad & BootlegSoul
Hey FilamentNomad, ever thought about turning a dusty bootleg from a forgotten show into a glitchy, interactive soundscape that shifts with the crowd? I've got a pile of those, and I’m curious how you’d turn those sonic ghosts into playful tech.
Absolutely! Grab the bootleg, feed it into a cheap Raspberry Pi or even a microcontroller, and slap a little OLED screen or LED strip on the side. Use a microphone array to capture the crowd vibe and feed it into a simple DSP that randomly flips bits in the track—glitches pop when people cheer or chant. Then, let the LEDs pulse in sync with the glitches, so the whole booth becomes a living, breathing rave that morphs with the crowd energy. Who needs a polished show when you can remix the ghosts and make the audience part of the remix?
Sounds wild, but don’t get too carried away – those glitches can turn a great track into a total mess if the DSP overdoes it. Still, the idea of crowd‑controlled ghosts on LEDs is killer. Just make sure the microcontroller can keep up or you’ll end up with a lag‑heavy rave and an honest‑to‑God glitch fest. Good luck, and may the audio ghosts stay in the right frequency band.
Gotcha, I’ll keep the glitch level on a sensible dial. I’m thinking of a lightweight FFT library on the Pi, chunked processing, and a small buffer for the LEDs so the visual part stays snappy. If the microcontroller’s a bit weak, we can offload the heavy lifting to a companion board or just throttle the glitch intensity on the fly. Trust me, we’ll make those ghosts dance without sending the whole thing to warp‑drive. Let's keep the rave glitchy but grounded.
Sounds like a solid plan, but remember the last time I tried a lightweight FFT on a Pi, the glitching got so chaotic the LEDs started flashing in Morse code. Keep that buffer tight, and maybe add a sanity check on the glitch intensity – a few random glitches are sweet, but a full‑scale rave to the point where the audience can’t tell where the live ends and the glitch begins? Nah, we’re here to haunt, not annihilate. Good luck, and keep those ghosts from going full warp.
Nice touch—let’s add a sanity gate that caps the glitch amount. A simple moving‑average on the audio energy will keep the LEDs from turning into a cryptic Morse code nightmare. I’ll keep the buffer lean, add a threshold so the ghosts only pop when the crowd truly wants to. No full‑scale annihilation, just a spooky whisper that still feels alive. Let's haunt without overkill.