According to a possibly apocryphal story from the premiere performance, a woman was heard shouting that Ravel was mad. When told about this, Ravel is said to have remarked that she had understood the piece.
“[Koji Kondo] had planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the title theme as it perfectly matched its speed, seeing as under Japanese copyright law, music is released into the public domain 50 years after the composer's death. However, Kondo was forced to change it in November 1985, late in the game's development, after learning that it had only been 47 years and 11 months after Ravel's death.”[1]
Funny how things rhyme.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_gam...
Ah it's called The Commodordion https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php
A direct youtube link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6z5__6rP58
Qweremin: C64 Theremin: https://linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/index.php
Qwertar: C64 Keytar: https://linusakesson.net/music/glyptodont-live/index.php
Very neat!
I guess there's a C64 "executable" that he's made available but no source so I don't know what the exact keymapping is. I did find a few different resources that show the layout in action [2] [3].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsZ41pA_Vo&t=58s
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_button_accordion
[2] https://okathira-dev.github.io/client-web-api-sandbox/button...
I am part of the LOAD "*", 8, 1 generation, and this is really freaking cool.
One of the funniest things in the video is the variety of neck tie configurations, one for each part.
That's the most important number in stores like this one.
<= 0 regrets
The photo of "the automaton" appears to be a melamine white particleboard panel.
That's such a good idea with this old equipment. And you can see that the guy tried hard not to laugh. And surprisingly, the arrangement sounds great. Hilarious.
(Yes, I've heard the Ravel before, I mean the presentation style, e.g. Oldfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtqKZ6GrY )
