Sewing Machine Sequencer
When you want automatically to play notes on a synthesizer, you use something called a sequencer. Composer Dill Yujinoue shows how they turned an antique sewing machine into an analog sequencer. By placing a MIDI controller pad under its tip, it produces a note each time it strikes a button. Sometimes they let a typewriter

When you want automatically to play notes on a synthesizer, you use something called a sequencer. Composer Dill Yujinoue shows how they turned an antique sewing machine into an analog sequencer. By placing a MIDI controller pad under its tip, it produces a note each time it strikes a button. Sometimes they let a typewriter get in on the action.