Pantala Labs 1985: Dual Sequencer generates sequences from selfies
The 1985 Dual Sequencer takes photos with a little inbuilt camera and extracts melodies and rhythms from the image. What sort of melodies will your face generate?
1985 Dual Sequencer
I feel like it needs a better name. Something that references the fact it generates melodies from photos, and that’s a camera built there right on the front. The idea is that melodies and rhythms will be generated based on the colour content of the photo. There’s no demonstration video as yet so we’ll just have to imagine how it works and what happens when it does.
Here’s my interpretation of the google translated description from the website (Pantala Labs are in Brazil). The module is looking to identify RGB colours in groupings of image lines. Each colour has 60 patterns associated with it giving a total of 180 possible patterns. 1985 has two separate pitch and gate sequencer outputs and so you actually get a mix of RG or RB patterns. Channel 1 is always red whereas channel 2 can switch between blue and green. You can set the sequence length from 4 to 64 steps and it also has a Sample & Hold circuit to pull out alternative values per step.
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At the top right is a knob that can switch between various image filters that will have an effect on the colours and so change the sequence. These include edge detection, embossing, inversion and more. There are additional controls over rhythm selection, scale selection, manual sampling and triggering, reset and external sync.
All in all 1985 is completely fascinating and totally mystifying. I’m dying to find out how it actually works and see it in action. I’ve reached out to Gibran Salmao of Pantala Labs in the hope that he might have a demo for us. In the meantime 1985 is officially released although the price isn’t yet on the website. I’m looking forward to more information.
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Surely 1984 surveillance something something…