Alex Allmont is on his way to a Ph.D. in polyrhythmic music, but he is also a full-time coder with a passion for Legos.
Allmont’s creation is essentially a complex Lego machine that whips up electronic music through sampled drums and digital notes from a Roland TB303 synthesizer.
Originally, Allmont’s project, which he calls Play House, was built for the AudioGraft music festival in England, but it has turned into a bigger creation since then.
Working to make Play House more complex, Allmont hopes to one day add real-life drums to the mix…
Patience is a virtue so, for now, enjoy the soothing tunes of Play House:
Play House from Alex Allmont on Vimeo.
Play House is an automata that generates slow hypnotic acid house through mechanisms built from LEGO Technic. This piece was made for AudioGraft 2014 with a commission from Oxford Contemporary Music.
