Irresistibly awesome!

Posted at 5:51 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by PodeCoet

Its like he’s lighting the farts of God!

Posted at 5:54 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by Hirudinea

This is cool but not as amazing as musical tesla coils.

Posted at 6:00 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by durp

It’s Ok….. I couldn’t tell if there was a midi lag or the dude had know Idea how to play the drums…

Posted at 6:36 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by Bill ate a Cat

hmmmm, i like the idea of midi controlled fireworks!
gives me an idea for the next 4th of July.

Posted at 6:42 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by TheFish

do a search for “large hot pipe organ”

Posted at 7:14 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by bitSmasher

That’s the camp of SMGU (Spank My Glitch Up) at Firefly 2009. Give credit where credit is due :-p

Posted at 7:23 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by Phnepsilon

“midi-controlled fireworks, anyone?”

As I understand it, MIDI does not contain a method of error detection/correction. This makes it unsuitable for life-safety applications.

Don’t try this at home, etc.

Posted at 8:22 pm on Jul 9th, 2009 by Max

“midi-controlled fireworks, anyone?”

I think that a french guy did this already in the 80s, J-M Jarre. There was a pretty good description on how the (simultaneous channels etc) limitations of midi were over-come by using multiple midi-sequencers on individual buses using a common master clock source to drive both the music and the fireworks sequencers.

Posted at 12:23 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by aimo

rad. from the video it is hard to tell if the response time is good or if the tempo is synced to the lag, i.e. if you knew the lag was 1 sec you could play at 60bpm and it would look perfectly synced.

Posted at 6:43 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by RDB

It looks well synced to me. The fire was coming right between the beats (second 1/8 note of each measure)

Posted at 6:54 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by hogiewan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdiQU6MbNnA

BAM

Posted at 7:15 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by Benny M

“DMX512 is unidirectional and does not include automatic error checking and correction, so it is not safe to use for applications involving life safety, such as controlling pyrotechnics or laser lighting display where audience or performer safety is involved. MIDI is sometimes used for this task.”
from wiki, “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512-A”

but i agree there is no error correction so this may be dangerous but for homebrew stuff MIDI is a wonderfully versatile protocol

Posted at 7:44 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by Hopo28

Check out Arcadia, they have done loads of stuff like this in recent years at festivals in the UK Beautiful Daze and Glastonbury. At Beautiful Daze they had an array of 12! Chasing them it was amazing!

Posted at 8:33 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by grovenstien

I thought MIDI was used for fireworks all the time. Gotta agree with durp, singing Tesla coils are cooler.

Posted at 11:58 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by bish

I was actually there, these things were loud as hell :) They also had it hooked up to a DDR mat at one point.

Much cooler in person

Posted at 7:00 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by Gavin

Needs more cowbell….

Posted at 5:27 am on Jul 11th, 2009 by Scott

The trick with fireworks is timing; you can’t press a button and have a starburst appear overhead. You have to think several seconds ahead of time. Even fireworks displays that are synchronized to live music are constantly re-synced during performance. Stage pyro, on the other hand, is pretty quick; you could probably get it to work with a responsive system.

Posted at 12:52 pm on Jul 12th, 2009 by PocketBrain