Hey everybody, JR Fisher here. Good to see you on this Friday morning that is quite chilly as a matter of fact and I bet a lot of you guys are experiencing it. I know a lot of my audience is actually in Asia, but I have a lot of people here in the US too and if you're in the US You may be experiencing a little bit of cold here today. This is what we are experiencing right now They say it is 25 degrees But it feels like it's 12. I think is that right? Yeah, it feels like 12 So it's kind of chilly here But i'm really grateful to be here and that's what today's session's about if you've been having any issues with Feeling grateful and I get it, you know, it's our personalities. I guess it's kind of ingrained in us to look at negative things But by the end of today's session, I think you're going to find that you're going to feel a lot better You're going to be more grateful. You're going to appreciate life a whole lot more Just for going through this session. Hey, if you haven't subscribed, please do so Hit that subscribe button there turn it from red to gray. Don't forget to ring the bell Turn on all bell notifications So you're notified each and every time I go live or if I upload a video And I really want you to make good use of that chat box over there And when I say good use that just means use it you could say anything in there Wayne just told me what his weather is you can tell me where you're at You can tell me what you're working on you can ask me a question But please please please use that chat box. That's what that's for So being grateful. Wow, that's a weird thing, right? A life that is lived without being grateful is really not live I mean, it really isn't if you can't go through life and appreciate some of the things you have Then you're not really enjoying life. You know, you're not getting through life, right? So that's why I thought today's session was so special and so important Because a lot of people don't understand how to be grateful They think it's just a feeling that's going to come over you and all of a sudden one day You're just going to be real grateful and that's not the case. It is something you actually have to work on It's actually something you have to do So I want to share with you today a few hacks The mic I don't have an external mic there Paul So there is no there is no microphone to pull close to me. It's just the computer But today I want to show you a few things you can do and and you know Happiness really comes out of gratefulness and it comes out of accomplishment. Those are the two things So if you feel accomplished and you feel grateful, you're going to be happy There's no way to say well, I'm just going to be happy today. It doesn't work that way There's there's two other emotions that are hooked to that And I wanted I want to go through this today because you know, we've been locked up For a couple of years in our houses and we have masks on and we can't I mean It's so funny like I'll try to smile or something if I have to wear a mask on which I never wear them hardly anymore But uh, and I try to smile at a kid or a person or something and they don't know I'm smiling And that emotionally can be tough for you, you know not seeing that Feedback that you get so I think today's session is really going to help a lot of people out That was the point today. I know it's not business But it is kind of business because We we work behind the screen if you're working online and you're all alone And sometimes you forget to be grateful. You don't know how to be grateful So I'm going to give you a list of things today. I think you're going to Appreciate it. Um, you know, I am not an overly religious person But I I do believe what I believe in and you can believe in what you want to believe in And I think that kind of helps us too So the first thing I'm going to tell you guys is that you need to keep a gratitude journal So you want to establish A daily practice. I have a gratitude app as a matter of fact And I look at it every day and it pops up and it reminds me of things But setting aside time on a daily basis to recall moments of gratitude associated with just ordinary events Your personal attributes or value people in your life It really gives you the potential to interweave a sustainable life theme of gratefulness and we want to be grateful. It's super important to do it guys. I mean it just You're not going to be living a good life. Otherwise, you're just not You know, you can say what you want, but somebody who's never grateful for anything does not live a good life Number two and I think this is a big one and we've all had it is remember how bad things were You know, stop for a second and go wait a second. I remember when x okay, and I do remember I remember In college I had no money I lived in this person's attic literally above their garage They had built a room in there and it had a bed in there and this beat up sofa In the bed, you know, you know a roof that goes like this the bed was tucked into that Roof area like that and when you got out of bed the morning you couldn't just get up Because you'd hit your head you had to slide down the bed and then get up And I'm grateful now. I don't live in a home like that anymore I have a nice home that we built that we custom built And it's all because of you guys because you know people bought products from the online And every day I wake up. I'm very grateful. I look around me and I go. Wow, you know, this this is something that is important When you remember how difficult life used to be or how far you've come You set up this explicit contrast in your mind when you see that difference And you don't want to start comparing yourself to other people because you're not in a race with other people You never have been and you never will you're always in competition with yourself. How much better can you be? How much more can you do? How much healthier can you be? How much, you know more business can you conduct? But it's always with yourself.  That's just that's a given That's not what you want to concentrate on But you do want to remember how bad things used to be that was number two Number three You need to ask yourself some questions. Okay You need to utilize meditation techniques Which involve reflecting on these questions. Okay, what have I received from x? Okay, what have I received from x now that could be, you know, what have I received from doing videos on youtube? Uh, and I've received a lot of friendship. I've received a lot of nice comments. Uh, we we generated money I've received a lot. Okay, and I'm very grateful for that. Um, what have I given to x? Okay, so what have I given back to my audience? What have I given in charity? What have I given to my family? What have I given given to my kids? Um, all those things are important And then what troubles and difficulties have I caused? What are the things that I've done that I probably should not have done? Uh, let's see here. I want to put some of paul's stuff up here. Uh, just you moving closer Help. Okay, cool. So I did do that. Uh, let me go to the other ones. I have a home and I'm not homeless Good paul. You know what paul just did? He wrote down His gratefulness and guys, you should all be doing that you should all be putting in that chat section right now What are you grateful for put that in there and that's going to help you just tremendously it really will Uh, he says I I escaped chicago. Yeah, chicago is a tough place But it's beautiful too. If you live there, you got to be grateful for that, right? Um, I think that that being grateful is not only makes you a better person But puts you in a better paul's position to help others Living with attitude of gratitude and too blessed to be stressed And you know, I'm pretty grateful today I got a message yesterday from my daughter-in-law My son had been in the hospital in september and was quite ill And the same symptoms came back yesterday And he was rushed to the emergency room With a bowel obstruction Terrible pain they gave him eight units of morphine They weren't sure if they had to operate or what they were going to have to do And they gave him some kind of medication I think and as the day went on he slowly got better and better And I was able to text with him this morning and he's feeling good now. He hasn't eaten And he's still on a lot of stuff. They're working on him and they don't know what's causing his problems But I'm grateful. I mean something, you know, really bad could have happened to him Yesterday and we were all really stressed out. He's got a great wife who takes care of him But I'm super grateful about that, you know that that that means a lot to me Let's see richard. What's going on my friend my friend here in texas I'm grateful for the ability to pay cash for my home and working up free of mortgage payments, especially On super cold day shelf. We we do have some super cold days out. Don't we richard? It's pretty darn chilly in texas But you know what? I'm grateful that I have heat I'm grateful that I have a fireplace I'm grateful that I have a great wife. I'm grateful that I have a great dog, you know I'm grateful that I can work from home and that this cold didn't affect my business one bit Outside of maybe give us more business because people realize they need survival food And I have a company that sells that There's so many things to be grateful for And you know, I've told this story before Um, I was going to my warehouse in kentucky. I used to have a warehouse in kentucky I was leaving san diego and I think this was in 2015 16 maybe Um, and my car was parked in the street My wife's was parked in the driveway and she was going to give me a ride to the airport And when we walked outside to get in her car in her driveway, it was gone And I just looked at her and I said your car stole We need to take my car and she says, how do you know that? I said, well, uh, it's not there that that's an indication right there. That's a big indication. Um, so Uh, I told her I said something really good is going to come of this And she says, how could something good come of my car being stolen and not being there? I said, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what it is. It's going to come of it But I know one thing something good is going to come of it And they did eventually find her car and it was stolen and it was crashed into some other cars and It was totaled and they gave her a bunch of money for it It only had 15 000 miles on it. Uh, they gave her so much money She got a much nicer car than what she had before and she never really liked that car There was a moment of gratefulness that I had when I saw her car was stolen Which most people would say, well, that's insane. You can't be grateful for that I can be because I can choose to be grateful for what I want And I realized that something good would probably come of that Uh, Roy says I am grateful for much But I have no relationship with my brother or sons that really bothers me and there is not much I can do about it You can lead a horse to water. I understand. I understand what you're saying, buddy And you know, you can try and you know, you're going to try a lot of things in life And they're not going to work out And it's going to be hurtful to you, but you got to stop and look at what you do have Okay, you got to stop and look at what you what relationships you have Maybe it's maybe it's a wife or girlfriend or boyfriend or husband or friends or a neighbor or something You know, I got a really good neighbor next door. Um, he's a retired FBI agent surveillance guy So you're not going to get anything past him, but um, really great neighbor I have another neighbor that's moving into the new house next to me over here. He works for apple Uday is his name and he's a super nice guy and I'm very grateful to have these nice people around me. Um, cool people, right Uh, let's see what else we got here. I am grateful living in Ohio and not in michigan There you go. There's always a worse place, right? There's always worse situations we could be in So, yeah, so we've asked ourselves those three questions Just to remind you what have I received from x? What have I given to x and what troubles and difficulty have I caused? Okay, because we want to stop doing that and it's going to make us more grateful if we stop doing those things Sometimes you've got to stop something um And number four is learn some type of prayers of gravity a gratitude now you don't have to have my religion I don't have to have your religion that doesn't matter But in a lot of spiritual tradition Prayers of gratitude are considered to be the most important form of prayer because Through these prayers people recognize the ultimate source of all they are And all they'll ever be okay and being grateful for whatever it is that's around you whatever it is that controls All this stuff is going to make your life a whole lot more enjoyable But you've got to come to the realization that you have to be thankful for these things Uh, number five is uh, I guess come to your senses through your senses The ability of touch the ability of seeing smelling tasting hearing We gain an appreciation of what it means to be human of what it means to actually be alive and what incredible miracle it is to be alive If you look at all these things through, um, I guess glasses of gratitude the human body not only Is a miraculous construction, but it's also a gift you've been given a life You know, and you know, I think about how lucky I am to be the age I am You know a lot of babies die at birth or kids die at five years older people die at 19 of cancer or whatever I've come this far. You know, I'm pretty darn grateful for that. Um, Sean Stevenson Who passed away a few years ago? I got to meet and some of you may know him and if you don't know him You should google Sean Stevenson and listen to what he has to say, but he was confined to a wheelchair He had brittle bone disease And he set up until the age of about 17 He really felt sorry for himself that you know, he looked bad his body was all crippled up You know, he had breathing difficulties. He had organ problems And one day his mother says, you know, this this situation you're in this disease that you have is a gift And he was like, well, how in the world could this be a gift? And she says, you need to go out in the world and be successful and show other people what you're doing And they can look at you and they can say, wow, if he can do it, then maybe I can do something with my life So that's how he lived his life. And I think he died at 35 34 Uh, I could have that wrong So he went around and spoke to groups and said, look at me Look at the body I've been given. Look at you. Look at what you've been given I'm here to show you that you could do something. Okay, so A lot of times gratitude comes from looking at other people in their situations. I promise you I don't know what your situation is, but I know there's people that are worse off than you right now I know that for a fact, okay, and when you start realizing that Then of course, you're going to start feeling better Prayers for your family. I'm grateful that I seriously found you and this group for all the positive ideas and sharing here Hey, paul We're grateful for you. Okay. I don't know if you get told that on a daily basis. We're grateful that you show up We're grateful that you participate. We're grateful that you have good ideas You know, you're appreciated in the world, you know, a lot of people don't realize they're appreciated because people don't tell them I'm here to tell you I appreciate all everybody here. I appreciate all you guys putting Comments in there. I appreciate that you watch my videos Favorite prayer is the serenity prayer. Yes, that's a great one. Um, and I think that's is that the a a one I think it is Let's see here. Richard says when eating a meal once Once probably in a while I pray for and appreciate all of those hundreds of people who have had something to do with the Meal I'm eating. Yes the growers the delivery the cooks etc Man, isn't that true? Isn't that true guys? Isn't that true that there's been so many people that have touched your life and helped you? And it may be a person that doesn't even know you, you know The next thing I'm going to tell you number six, um, is you can use visual images The two primary obstacles to gratefulness are forgetfulness Okay, so that is and also a lack of mindful awareness visual reminders can help you Trigger thoughts of gratitude oftentimes the best visual reminders are other people, you know or My dog, you know, I see my dog in the morning and I'm so grateful. She's so sweet. She's so nice She's so kind. She doesn't have a bad bone in her body. I'm thinking kind of which all humans could be like this But she's awesome. And you know, I'm very very grateful for her. I'm grateful for my life I'm grateful that I had really good relationships with my kids. I talked to them almost every single day They live in different states, but we're friends And I raised it was a single dad.  Have a go at the street? And I was very lucky that I had that opportunity that I had that opportunity to have some effect on their life And both of them are great, you know adults now My daughter has three children now on her own and I watch her parenting and I'm thinking wow It's so cool that she's doing a lot of the things that I taught her So, you know, I'm grateful for that Next thing and I guess this would probably number seven if you're telling Make a vow to always Appreciate and exhibit your gratitude. Okay, so There's research really that has proven That behavior increases the likelihood that an action will be executed So therefore you may want to write down your gratitude vow whatever it is put it in an app Whatever it is Which could be as simple as I vow to count my blessings every day and post it somewhere Well, you'll be reminded to do it. Okay, wake up every day and be thankful. You woke up I I literally will take a breath in the morning.   Are you or do you wake up? Oh, it's another day. I'm gonna do this. I've gotta do this. You don't have to do anything Uh, and I want to talk about that the very end what what you have to do and what you don't have to do um Next thing number eight is watch your language. Watch your language Grateful people have a particular linguistic style that uses language of gifts givers blessings blessed Fortune fortunate abundance. They use all these words. Are you using those in your vocabulary? In gratitude, you should not focus on how inherently good you are But rather on the inherently good things that others have done on your behalf I mean when somebody lets me in in traffic Um, I'm very grateful for that. I really am very grateful for that Um, and I I read something the other day and it it was funny But it was also a terrible thing that somebody did they were in a drive-through at a mcdonald's and um the person behind them as soon as the other cars would move up if they didn't move fast enough The person behind them would start blowing their horn And they were blowing their horn and they were flipping them off and you know just being really cruel to them So when the person got up to the window to pay um She asked the cashier. She says well What is the person behind me getting because I want to pay for it? So she told her and she did pay for it And when she got up to the window where she picked up her food She held up both receipts and she says I paid for both of these but I want both of those meals So she took both of those meals And her post was that now that person behind her would have to get in line again And wait all the way through because she took the food and I thought that's so horrible I mean yeah, it's a funny little story, but what what a horrible thing to do That person behind you that was onry that was angry that was already uptight You're just going to throw more problems on them. And does that really make you feel good? It probably won't it probably won't In fact, I know it won't uh, that's a very negative thing to do It would have been a whole lot nicer if she had paid for the food And left it for the person. Okay, that would have been a really nice thing to do But to take it I was like, oh wow, that's terrible. That's just that's a horrible thing you've done All right, let me get back to some of these comments here. I've got a couple comments. I want to stick up there Let's see here. Sean definitely defined what gratitude looks like. Oh, he was he was so amazing Paul He lived more in his short life the most People twice his age and it's so true and I met him at a mastermind I went to and I went up to him. I said Sean I said, I'm so impressed with you I've listened to so many things you said and you just you're such a really cool person Just like to shake your hand and I reached out to shake his hand and he says no no brother Bring it in bring it in give me a hug and he hugged me And I thought wow You know, he he really lives what he talks about. Are you really living what you talk about?  Number nine You got to go through the right motions if you go through grateful motions Okay, grateful motions the emotion of gratitude could be triggered. Okay, grateful motions include Smiling smile at people try smiling Say thank you, you know Say hello to people, you know, I was at the gym the other day and there's a guy And he cleans our gym and he's the maintenance guy and nobody ever talks to him and I started talking to him His name's Sean. Nice this guy really really liked him. He was raised by his grandmother I don't know what his family dynamics was, but you know, he probably had some hard times very thoughtful guy Very intelligent guy And I think a lot of people will look at people in different positions and say well, you know, I'm about that position You're not you're not and you never will be okay There is the positions are just things that people choose to do for whatever reason, you know What is my position? I talk on camera and I record stuff and talk to people, you know, that's not a high level position It's it's something that I want to do to give back And you know what it doesn't matter how high your position is anyhow, okay Show gratitude and others talk to people that wouldn't normally be talked to okay Asked how somebody's days going. I I was out to lunch the other day And the waitress came up and she was taking our order and I said you look concerned. I said, um How's your day going? She goes. Oh my god. She goes it's going so bad She goes, um, we're gonna be evicted tomorrow out of our apartment if we don't get all of her furnishings out And my car broke down and it got towed and I don't have any transportation and she just went on and on and on So I gave her a very large tip, but you don't know what's going on in somebody else's life So if you've got that waiter or waitress that may not be on their game that day, you don't know what's going on in their life Um, so the next thing I want to tell you number 10 Number 10 number 10 It's always like 10 of these things, right You got to kind of think differently than other people if you want to make the most of opportunities You got to flex that gratitude muscle. You've got to creative You got to creatively look for new situations and circumstances in which to feel grateful when my car When my wife's car was stolen and I said, you know, this is going to be a good thing and she thought I was insane Um, you know, it was a good thing, but you've got to you've got to do that You've got to think a little bit differently than the way you would normally think Okay, because if you don't your your feelings of gratitude aren't going to change Richard says I recently gave A waitress a super huge tip bigger than my bill because I really appreciated her service. That was exceptional That's very true guys.   Man, I wish I'd had that five dollars I think that's not going to happen, right? It's not going to happen A little extra that you give other people is so important And I like to give the charity one thing we we did do we didn't do it this past year I need to get back to it, but we would go to a wall art And we would go to the lairway section and about two weeks before christmas We would pay off a bunch of different lairways that had toys on them. Okay that had toys on them So I wouldn't pay it off big screen TVs or computers or you know, stuff like that But anything that had toys on it I would pay off those Um Lairways with the exception of one dollar I would always leave one dollar and that way when the parent or a relative or husband or wife or whatever came to pay off Those toys their bill was one dollar and they were told that somebody else paid it They didn't know who it was. They didn't know it was me. They didn't know what I did But I tell you what guys had made me feel amazing The other thing we would do is we would buy let's say gift cards for walmart Right around christmas time and when we would see people shopping in the aisles We would just go up and hand them a gift card and say here you go Here's gift card Uh, and they the look when their face was amazing and some people would say well, I don't need it I'm say that's not the point. The point is I just want to give you something Um, so you could do some really cool stuff if you give it some thought Paul says has a have a blessed weekend going have to bounce cheers. Thanks Uh for being a positive light in a cloudy world The world Oh, yes, the world had the world is exactly how you look at it guys and I do want to hit real quick before I end this today. Um, I want you to think about what you have to do and what you don't have to do.  I'm going to tell you you don't have to do it You don't have to drive to work and you say well jr. If I don't drive to work. I'll lose my job I say well, then lose your job and you say well if I lose my job. I won't have any money I can't pay my rent. I'll lose my house.  I say then you must want to go to work You must want to go to your job. See we tell ourselves every single day We we're doing things that we don't want to do, you know, oh my god.  That's your choice So you don't have to do anything that you don't want to do you say well jr. I got one for you I have to pay taxes and I don't want to pay taxes. There's no way to get out of that I say there is a way to get out of that. It's real simple. Just tell the irs You're not going to pay taxes anymore. And you say well jr. I'll go to jail if I Vade my taxes. I said well then go to jail Uh, and you say well, I don't want a boyfriend named bubba.  You're just totally lying yourself You don't do anything that you don't want to do and the sooner you realize that the better off you're going to be And the more grateful you'll be I hope this helped you guys out a little bit today. I thought it was time to do it You know, we we got this really cold weather out there And I tell you as I look at the really cold weather. I couldn't see out my windows here yesterday.  I'm grateful. I'm grateful. I have heat What are you grateful for put it in the chat section now The the best thing you can do is write it down if you put in that chat section right now Some of the things that you're grateful for I think you're gonna find that you're gonna have a better day You want to have a better day you want to start your day better put it in that chat section Now some of you are not watching this live and I understand that You're watching a recording of this and everything still applies that I said Put it in the comment section the chat section will be available to you You can read some of those cool comments that people put in some of you guys already put a couple grateful things But put three or four grateful things I'm sure you had three or four grateful things that you could put in that comment section Why miss out on that why miss out on that opportunity? I'm looking over here because I have this iPad here. There's you guys. See okay, and I can kind of see what you're putting Wayne Charles my man way you've been around for a while buddy, and I appreciate you very much I really do and I don't get a chance to tell people one on one that often You know, I'll tell my audience. I appreciate you but Wayne Charles. I appreciate you you've been very Kind you've participated. You've had nice comments.  There we go high five for Wayne Charles Okay, all right guys put in that chat section What you're grateful for super important that you do that If you can't think of something now come back and put it in the comment section later And please practice some of these things that I'm putting in there Uh, um, let's see here. Richard says I'm grateful He put it differently for all of the opportunities to learn and earn as much as I want and to share and help others You know and guys I'll share with the audience here. I met Richard Richard. I think it was 2015 Uh, I was doing a meetup group in San Diego And he came in with his dog Zeus I think the dog's name is Zeus and he stood out because he had this big dog with him And I thought that's really cool. He's got this dog with him and I got to know Richard and you know, we've been out and we've had lunch and I think the last time was at dimsum. We went to Richard we got to get together again. We keep saying we're gonna do it. We have it done I know you were in town one time and I missed you But um, he's become a friend You know, I tried to help him out song and you know, he's tried to help me out and You know, it's it's really cool that I got to meet Wayne Charles. Well, I appreciate you very much Thank you so much Wayne. I do appreciate that buddy Um, hey, hey, and if you guys are saying, oh, this is just a feel-good session today You didn't teach me how to make any money. I didn't I didn't and sometimes you need to feel good Sometimes you got stuff going on in your life that is difficult Sometimes things are hard. Sometimes you're going through a lot And if you're listening to this right now understand that you are appreciated Even if I didn't mention your name, even if I don't know you well I do get that you have issues. I do get that you have problems But you got to stop and look look at that list I gave you and realize you've been given a gift because you're still here Okay, uh, and some of you may say well, it's just so difficult for me jr. You don't understand my situation I don't understand your situation. I never will you don't understand my situation You don't know what goes on in my life. Uh, but I know one thing I'm very very grateful and I hope you guys are too and I'm very thankful that we had this time today Guys, thank you so much. I appreciate you listening if you haven't subscribed yet I would really be grateful if you did please subscribe at that button there And I'd be grateful if you ring the bell turn on all bell notifications So you're notified each and every time I go live. I would appreciate that guys have a wonderful day Great weekend. I'll try to be live tomorrow. I can't promise it, but I'm gonna try uh, check your emails for that Uh, let's see here richard center appreciation comes from acceptance without judgment and being in the moment Yes being in the moment, uh, mindfulness mindfulness. I did a video on that the other day being mindful Just stop and look around you Thanks guys. I appreciate you being here. I'll talk to you real soon


So, this talk has a new subtitle, more interesting than what I meant to be doing, sort of a recurring theme. So, my name's Jess, Jess5199 is the part that's easy to Google, but it's hard to remember, so maybe write that down. Last year when I was here I told a story about turning images into sound. This talk story starts the other way, I was turning sound into images. The image on the left is a sample of my own voice, the one on the right is supposed to be an ascending scale of pure tones, but you can see it's kind of glitchy. And those glitches actually look kind of cool, they have this complicated filigree pattern to them and I had no idea what that was. It was code I wrote, I made that mess and I was like, wow, that's really pretty, I wish I had some control over that, but I don't, and so I gave up and just like, that was it. And that was six years ago, and so I spent five years having no idea what that was, and other things happened, that's Isaac. And then about a year ago I was just browsing the internet and someone was like, hey, have you ever seen cool pictures that were made by math and this random guy was like, yeah, I was playing a graphing calculator and I came up with all these patterns, I don't know what they are, and this one, I was like, that looks a lot like the glitch on my sound file, what's going on here? And someone else was like, oh, this one with circles, I've seen that one before, that was on the cover of a magazine in the USSR in the 80s. Okay, so what's going on, someone else was like, oh, there's this paper you should read, this CS professor had this happen and sort of explain what happened to him. So what Craig was doing was he was trying to do a Voronoi diagram, which was like a classic CS visualization thing, and he passed his program some bad data and instead of making something like this, it produced this image, and he goes, what just happened? Because he's a good academic, he made a paper with a lot of citations and a lot of prior art, and so I'm going to delve into one of those rather than delve into his explanation because this older one is simpler.  A plotter is a kind of printer, it's like a big robot arm with a pin, sorry, Brian didn't have a robot arm with a pin, he just had a dot matrix printer. So he said, I want to make a topographic map, too. How can I make an algorithm that will work on my dot matrix printer? So he's like visualizing what is a topographic map actually like, and he's imagining it filling with, space filling with water, it calls it the bathtub algorithm. And it's basically even odd, even odd, black, white, black, white. And he also doesn't have any of NASA's topographic data either. So he just picks a pure math function, maybe this is supposed to be modeling this bathtub they've just been imagining. And so he's picturing he's going to get a result like this, you know, just a curved bowl and this is a topography of it.  And so he had to print any weights. And pretty immediately it's obvious that something has gone wrong. What's going on? And he finds he can tweak the formula a little bit and get all these different patterns out of it that are all interesting and all wrong. And he writes a magazine article about it, October of 86, could not compete in visual interest of what I was trying to do. So I'm going to try to reproduce his explanation. It's all about the Nyquist limit. The Nyquist limit is about digitization of signals. If your sample rate is fast enough compared to the signal you're trying to do, you'll get a good digital replication of it. But if your wave is too fast relative to your sampling, you start getting these weird resonances rather than your original thing. And so it gets sort of weirder and weirder and less and less like what you were trying to do. It gets really great in one second. This is hypnotic. I could watch this for the whole 10 minutes. So I'm going to have to stop myself. Okay.  And that's great if your pixels are bigger than the squares you're producing. But as it gets smaller, they sort of get out of sync in this weird way and get less and less directly related to what your algorithm was doing. Boom. Okay. So you take it back to two dimensions. If you're zoomed in enough, you get good results. But as you zoom out, you start to get artifacts. They're called aliasing artifacts. They're sort of glitchy, right? And as you zoom out more, they get more intense and weirder. And eventually they start to overwhelm the original image entirely. And then it gets kind of trippy. Okay. Okay. So you can do it in grayscale. It doesn't have to be black and white. This is just a sine wave. Now you're in a floating point space. It looks a little more organic. I'm going to use that to show you this space. Instead of parabola, it's a hyperbola, which people usually describe as a saddle-shaped. It makes these sparks. And the sparks form this grid of squares and machini things. And it looks a lot like the original glitch that I had in my sound wave visualizer for some reason. And this code is really simple. Like that JavaScript there produces this black and white version there. That's the whole thing. I like to do things in WebGL. So here's a WebGL program. Does it in grayscale? 186 characters. I thought that was pretty good. There's a site, Twitter, where people write very short JavaScript programs. This guy has a version of 140 characters because it's like the old Twitter limit. And his is animated. This guy, Don, has an idea that this is related somehow to this paper about relativistic conics. And that I actually have no idea what this is. But he uses the colors to map to these theorems about something to do with triangles. So when I think about color, I just think about pure aesthetics. So someone else was like, also in 1986, was like, oh, you just do mod in and then you assign it to a color palette of in colors. You can get patterns like that. That got published in Scientific American. Wallpaper for the mind. So I was thinking, well, if you're in floating point space, you can just use any arbitrary gradient. This is one I picked because I thought it was pretty. Sort of blue on one side and red on the other. But as you get close to one, it gets to be white. And the weird thing about this one is that you see colors in here that aren't represented in the pixels. There's an optical illusion going on. So if you see green or purple or orange, which I always see when I look at that, there are no pixels of those colors. This is producing something that like fools your mind into thinking that there are other colors. So now you have an automated optical illusion generator. And I've been using these really simple patterns. But anything that sort of goes high frequency produces a-lancing artifacts. So I came up with a pattern that I thought might look cool. This was just something I was playing around in a visualizer for a while and I came up with it. So you get these donut shapes that get more and more packed in the further away you get from the center. And I thought maybe if you zoom out, they would look cool. They do. And at different zoom levels, you start getting more elaborate artifacts. And like if you're on a retina monitor, you can hold this like really close to your face and just go, it never stops. So this is something I could just stare at for hours and actually I have. So yeah, that's my talk.


because since it's all teared down moment and still we have a lot of people here, interesting. This is as well an interesting talk because it's Helen Lee who's going to present us actually give us an overview actually about what hackers you know in music meant actually in the history. So it's a given overview. I understood as well she gives certain examples and I think she's going to kick this a little bit further because she's going to talk a little bit about our current work and future objectives. So I would, well, fasten seatbelts I would say. Yes, yes, Helen Lee give her warm applause. This is a lecture about hackers and music technology. Hello, I'm Helen. If you want to follow me on the monitor, all my social contacts. Okay, right. I'm going to talk to you today about I'm going to give you a story about how the developers in the 1940s changed the place of music technology at the beginning of the 1940s by what they were doing. They still are really cool things by just some cool things. And I'm also going to give you an overview of some of the coolest projects being in London and Berlin at the moment. So I'm living in Berlin at the moment, but I'm actually living in the music hacking scene in London for a long time as well. So I'm just doing these projects. But before I start off on my story and I'm going to just introduce myself.  In a box, but I'm basically a massive nerd who really likes artists. I like to smush them together. My favorite things to smush together are electronics and hardware, and I also make a lot of strange musical instrument creations, a lot of experimental music and interesting musical instruments. This is one of my experimental instruments and I've taken them on residencies in London and Shenzhen. I presented them in London and high in Copenhagen. And I like to experiment with buttons. I'm not so much for sounds like people's noise art, but for me I like my instruments as well. I also really like at the moment, this is this is made out of brass and made with lots of metals, but at the moment I'm on a big soft circuit kick, so I'm experimenting with electronic embroidery and soft metal. So I'll show you some of the things that look like sculptures. Obviously, this doesn't pay my rent, so I also do some product design and I'm a writer as well. This is a product design that I have in the box, very exciting. It's a powerful instrument for children, and it's a DIY wearable instrument for children to learn how to do it, and I designed that with a small project later, but that's some of the things. And I also do little things. This is still from one of my books. I wrote recently, it came out, and one called the Crafty Kids Guide to DIY Electronics, which is based on the needs of electronic origami, paper, just kind of like DIY robotics as well. I also write for Hackaday, I've written for blah, blah, blah, it doesn't matter. I wrote a couple of things, a couple of books, a couple of things, and so on. My favorite story is the story of this rather pretentious quote from a rather pretentious man who I still kind of love. So a guy called John Cage, who most people know him for his experience, he wrote a lot of books on this topic. He was also a pretty early on a hardware hacker, he made experiments on the first thing he says was him like smashing a piano and changing that. So he was a composer, he was also a hardware artist. And he said this, there was no noise, and the reason for this quote is that it kind of reminds you that all music is made up. All the instruments are made up. The violin was until probably the 13th century when the instrument work had converged, and someone used the old instruments, and in the years, they can evolve through the ages, right? And of course, think of an instrument as a new instrument thing. And we've just been messing around with science since we've been moving, basically. And just as we're people, and I think of classical musicians, we exchange instruments, we experiment as, for example, Stravinsky, Debussy. Some people think they're boring, hit pieces about them in the mail, you know, the daily mail of the time. So basically, anything that sounds strange to you now, or something that's experimental to us, could well have an impact in a long time. So yeah, okay, I don't think there's a very long period. Even dying to the note A, 140 Hz, it was not the letter, sorry, it was not 440 Hz until the 90 Hz. When a group of dudes met up in one room, in one room, we signed this agreement saying, okay, I'll give you the notes. So all that, it would mean to Italy might be different to a flute in France. You'd have, like, certain general variations. So it wasn't until yet that the 1950s that I think there's a wonderful series of conspiracy theories around the kind of theories they chose for me. So that's because it's a method of mind control. And there are alternative websites out there now. You can actually go and consider, like, some of those conspiracies. There are websites that are campaigning, like groups that are campaigning for it to be changed. So the whole group of people, like, to be to be changed, there were 432, and there's one out of 438. And if you're in the 438 of them camp, because there are opposing camps as well. So you're on the 38 camp, more on luck, because someone's made a music adjuster, okay? So you can take what's like that you've done, and you can put it into a converse, and all of your music, so that's it. And there's even a wonderful fringe group calling for a French group in the 30th century. I love it. So if you ever want to go down to conspiracy theory YouTube, well, probably you'll do it on the camp, but you don't really know what's on the camp. So you can, like, look at that. But the basic point here is that music is all made up, right? And instruments are all made up. My main point here is that music is through, and one of the paths, one of the many paths of playing music, and I want to look at one piece of hacked technology, and we have different devices with it that they just have to do, change, modern history of production. This is the magnetic tape for that. It's a lovely device, and it was popularized in World War II by the Nazis, and after the World War II, and the BBC took over themselves to try and develop a version of this. So it's a relatively modern version of this radio, and it's just started becoming popular. And it used real-time broadcasts, and we used it to gramophones, and we used it musically, and they were relatively expensive, but as a bunch of hackers saw its potential to use it, and we also used hackers for musical hackers to create a bunch of these magnetic tape recorders, and as people wanted to do it, they just wanted to work with it, and I wanted to talk a little bit about it. What they did is they made it in Paris in 1940s, and I've taken one lonely guy in Egypt as well, but there was, like, he was a very good job this was doing. And what you do is you see that the actual tape that you use a razor blade to cut it, and then you can travel, flip it over, tape it back together, and in the middle you can cut it, and connect it together. This is how it looks. Okay, so not only can you chop things up and turn them around, you can speed them up. This seems so basically, if you do it faster, it will give you a higher turn, and if you do it slower, you slow it down a little bit, so we know that's fine. They think it's really never if you don't immediately get a low frequency, you could make sounds that were not existing. You can find, get a new sound in this area, if you want. If you do different movements, then you get different, for example, content, and in some of the instruments, you can use the sound to create new sounds, for example, one so you can create sounds that are not fast, which is short, and at the same time, there's the other important thing, which was to go outside, instead of having to record in a studio, you could have a physical recording, or you could carry around, and a microphone, so you could go and record sounds outside, find sounds, and then you could take it back to the studio, chop it up with a scalpel, sell a tape it back together, re-record it, and you could create, you know, it's just a huge part of new, and some of the more important aspects of making music. They basically were, as I say, these French artists in France, in Paris, and they were doing it, and they did, too, modern music, digital preservation techniques, and so on, they were, they were, they were, they were, they were so happy to have been listening to that. I won't lie, they sound pretty awful. Nobody wants to listen to them, but I'm sure of Parisia, they were not making the music they were making, as were the techniques that they were making. They were so efficient, and it was incredible, but actually was incredibly influential. We use something right now as just an ordinary thing, but this was the common thing that we came to a head in in the 19th century, and it was possible to use this technique on tour and other notes. Now, normally, while I would play, normally, when I'd be able to talk similar to this at the Hackaday, they'd make a 10-second snippet of the Beatles, so I've decided not to play the Beatles. But today, I'm not going to have to play the Beatles anymore, and you can hear them on the sidelines, and that's actually flipped. That's just flipped signs. So all of the Beatles brought in signs from their home. They flipped it around, speeded up, speeded up, speeded it down. So it sounds like a very high-pitched art. They really could hear a sign in that song, and it's just Paul McConaughey laughing, and he manipulated the scalpels and all these different tools, right? You can use these in modern music, you know, in your Ableton, or your Logic, or whatever, you know, those are just smart features, but this was the beginning of this. It's incredibly important. I think we're dying this off, but I'm actually going to take it to the end, and then to go on with the modern mainstream production, and I'm going to talk about this woman instead, who was my favorite thing about Hacker Culture is the way that we reaffirmed Hacker culture that we riff off of each other's work. So I'm going to go slightly sideways, and I'm going to cooperate with this artist and engineer. Her name is Daphne Orem, and her name is Daphne Orem. Who heard Daphne Orem here? Ten of you. Okay. Actually, more than usual. So Daphne Orem is an artist, I don't know her name, and that's why I never met her. And she was a musician, she was an electronics engineer, who was unfortunate enough to be a woman, and has a pretty tragic work history. But she wanted the iconic figures of early electric music. She should be as well known as a figure or whatever. But anyway, so she's a great musician, and she got a job at the BBC queuing up these reel-to-reel acts, which is actually a pretty big deal at the BBC. So she was, um, she showed us reel-to-reel acts and, um, just studio recording techniques, you know, standard, um, and while she was there, um, I believe she met some of the music, correct? And she was, uh, basically, um, they met a couple of people. It totally blew up.  She is cool, like, in the revolutionized everything. She took it back there and predicted Beale Neff. Everyone was like, no, go back to pressing buttons. So she did. And then she also would run around the BBC late at night after hours, um, and then she started printing at the time, and then they needed her own studio, and she would experiment with all these things. And then she, um, was an amazing person as well. She was one of the first people in the world, she was actually really liked my music, because she was one of the first instances of someone who recorded her oscilloscope. And she was doing this for maybe five, six, seven years, um, and she started to get to me, and she managed to finally convince somebody to give her a commission to create an incident. So, um, for a show, um, um, and, um, it was a success. Um, also, people hated it. Um, but enough people wanted her to repeat it, that eventually the BBC would have her own studio, which is, you know, out of the question for someone else. And, um, for a woman, um, so she just had to make this happen. She, yeah, unfortunately at this point, it's got the BBC radio and like workshop, which is one of the most iconic sound design, um, workshops, um, so she started this workshop, the BBC radio and like workshops, but a year later she leaves, um, to start her own artist practice because, um, they said she wanted my ideas and they wanted my work, but they didn't want me. Um, so she had to leave her life's work and she was largely erased, actually, um, from everything that she did, even though she found this absolutely useless work. Um, but she would have created, you know, she didn't have a son after that, but she would have often created, um, this wild synthesizer, which is in the London synthesizer, um, instead of, she was just looking at waveforms of music, so she thought she would use more than just the waveforms and then have the synthesizer very interpretive waveforms, and that's what the oramics, which she was looking at, was being wild, like that up on the internet as well, it's cool to look at. So, yeah, she's becoming a bit more popular now, now, because of the work of some of the, um, the guys at the radio phonic workshop who still exist, some of the old guys, and of course some of the people from her workshops, um, but also because she, um, she's, um, she's famous, and, uh, she's quite famous now, because of her, um, this lady here, this is Delia Darbysha, and who's heard of Delia Darbysha? A lot more than before, so, and it's Delia Darbysha, again the same, she's got a maths and music degree, she couldn't get a job, but she ended up basically pastoring into music, at the radio phonic workshop, um, and eventually got a job there, um, and then she got a job, she made the instrumentation for this, um, and then we can play this. Um, before I do, I want you to think about the fact that at the time every sound had to be physically cut and sticky taped together, every single, not, not every single, and there's no tape recorded on tape, on a cassette. Okay, so you have to, it's an absolutely enormous process of recording the science, recording the circuit, taking the science together, making our real recording of every sound, and then you've got this, and then you add more separate sounds like this, and then you have to, um, you've got a huge amount of multi-track technology, okay, they're literally different machines, shout out on different machines, um, and that's how they were charred, multi-track, um, but she's very blasé, but it was kind of, she's just ridiculous to me now, to be able to compose a piece of music like that, and she just shrugged and said, well, it seemed to work, um, which I'm kind of charming, um, but it's just, um, I'm gonna play a little bit. No! Well, I'm gonna play it for you anyway. It didn't exist, no synthesizers and devices that modify music, and she herself made the instruments that produced each element of this track, she used a lot of electronic engineering, electro-techniques, um, I did actually, um, want to, um, play one of her own songs, so that's why her commercial musicians were allowed, um, experimental musicians, according, she, I think you, you kind of forget, this is the kind of 60s, actually, kind of 50s and 60s, um, that music was, um, pretty cool, for example, this one, do you recognize this track? It was made for one show, Science Fiction, and it's, it's, it's, it's preserved as a very popular, um, example. If we go a little bit back to the studio, um, and so that's the, that's my story of the BBC Radio, um, one of the BBC Radio-Phonic Workshop engineers, um, unfortunately, a new country that I watched, and I just thought this was kind of a key sentiment, and because they're making things up, they weren't, they weren't the experts, you know, what they couldn't do, so they just didn't know what we were able to do, and it was really special and really cool, and something kind of was just iconic, you know, some of the biggest electorates in the mix, and it's still, still say that the work of the BBC Radio-Phonic Workshop was one of the, they didn't even know about it, um, so yeah, that's the BBC Radio-Phonic Workshop, um, and I think electronic music, um, we allow for, um, musicness and technology, and we allow for the noises and allow for, um, things that don't fully, um, you don't really, um, see what they're for, like the, the power of, um, allowing for, um, a good foundation that isn't very successful, but it's what isn't science, it's something that I hear is, um, is, um, it's, um, it's something that was at golden age, um, we got the invention of new technology, which is a new technology to a, um, a reasonable number of people, um, to this amazing sea change, and the way that people made music, made it, um, a way that we make music was changed by, by, um, in analogous mode, we created music, experimented, but it was, um, something that we're currently in a golden age, um, for, um, with experimental experiments, experimental science in general, and, and I think that's, um, we got, um, loads and loads of really exciting new technologies that are coming from us, just like controllers, we've, we can make our in modern, in modern era, for example, synthesizers, which is, which is a, uh, audio controllers, um, for example, um, think about Demphi, um, she didn't, um, find the VBDO radio phonic workshop until she had a spark of an idea from, from, from, from the initial moment that she was in the beginning, actually, she was learning techniques, and learning and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and in the room to learn that you don't have to touch somebody, right? There's the only way to do that, and for sharing your place, these communities are just way more accessible through online places and a lot of tribal community in about the same time. And this is what's in it, but it doesn't matter. And this is a little bit of a shift, too, now. And where the music technology, where one of the places where they did some music technology it was there and there were a lot of things, but we did a lot of things with a community called a Hack U-Stick community in London, and we did a lot of events there. And we did a lot of experiments, and we didn't like this idea, we just showed that hackers were making space in the house, kind of music technology partnerships. And those kind of things, actually, so that you can share things, and check out the needs of many of the events is really, really crucial. Actually, I do know why I put this slide in. So this slide, this is a great place for the three years, and then, I'm going to raise the rent for four months. And this amazing community all of us, so many of us, and the Hack Space moved from Central London to West London, and a bunch of other hack spaces in the labs closed as well. So this is a hack space in the center of London, in West London, and as a direct result of that, I moved to Berlin. So by aligning this kind of gentrification of our hack spaces, we actually do destroy community. So as much as we can create community, it's a lot of work. So this is an example of an online community. This is a unique community. So you are at the front of the London music tech hack scene, probably the most famous person on the speckled sound, but on the computer. And he's an electronic engineer and general purpose weirdo. And I'm sure I like him. And then, this is one of his creations. He made a musician, which is as terrific as you imagine, if not more so. So music sounds the same, but it's just an unique picture to not have a nice time. But he doesn't just show his instruments. He doesn't just perform what he creates. He does his own electronic teardowns as well. So I've done a bunch of stuff from watching his videos and looking at actually how he's done them. I've watched his video, as he's really excited. I mean, maybe five years ago, I would have had access to this kind of knowledge. I just wouldn't have even known my knowledge. And I probably wouldn't have even known my knowledge. I wouldn't have been exposed to him. I certainly wouldn't have been exposed to him. So I'm going down my look and I'm saying, hey, look at what he's doing on a weird Furby instrument with me. And they'd be like, cool instruments. So it's kind of nice to be able to share your weird passions with other people on the internet. And of course, have a world with these. This is me and my friends. We've done a fair bit of music tech hacking together. So this is actually the British version of Congress as a German man. I guess it's the version of Congress. So EMF camp, which is actually in 2020 this year. So the first people small and first of all, these kinds of spaces and these kind of events really allow, I mean, I've learned so much just by the year. The last thing that we should do is we should cherish the hacker spaces and the events. And we should also support people like Sam, who makes his living through Patreon. And you should also support these maker spaces and events and also by supporting individual people and creating share work, I think we can cherish this community. Okay, on to the final bits. I'm going to show you some of the projects that I've been working on with other people. But the reason I've chosen the ones that I'm showing you is because they're also using some of my favorite ways to show you how to make, you know, how you can have a go at it. And so recently I've lived in London and Berlin and one of my favorite things to do is what I'm going to say is to make and instrument the context of two people's work, two or more people's work, like I always find like my work is going to be way better if I'm collaborating with somebody else. And I know that they're always doing what they do and they're always smushed together to create something that's sort of a good example of them on our aim. This is a good example, I feel. This is one of my first sonic circuit salt to reach us. So now I'm going to have a, um, just overnight hack with my commuter friend, Andrew Mocky, and Trace Dini from Oshka, and my partner's name is Huck. And we work together overnight to create something that is, um, if you don't know what circuit sculpture is, it's basically, um, instead of putting it inside of a box, um, all the parts or the key parts of it are showed and are actually celebrated as art in their own right. And so that's what circuit sculpture is. And there's a couple of wonderful people and it's like the low-heels that are made through to the fame and a person who's living in San Francisco and there's a guy called G.R.I.P. and they make really, really awesome, um, to make neat things. But, um, I'm not skinny and neat, so I make big, awesome messes. This is the first thing. Um, it was really interesting to meet, and I do like to touch it right now. Um, it's, um, can be unreliable, but I find it kind of really fun to work with. And it's very intuitive, um, and then it led to me to do more of this stuff. Um, I'm really inspired by kind of, um, utopian science stuff and I want to make a series to come out to the same world or something like that. Um, so this was the second in the series. This is a more traditional instrument. It's more traditional than that. The past one, the second one, was sort of like semi-generative. Um, and this one is more like one note per limb with two modes of modulation in space. In a more general sense. And here, each note makes something specific. And they can work together. So that's my base creature. Um, which I'm actually developing for the first time and this woman, an amazing bassist called I say her's Hassan, who is the bassist of the band from the 12 Pixies. And I'm gonna, I'm making her, um, her stage presence one.  But it's kind of interesting to try and create something that um, in this functionality is very traditional, but in the band, its form is really weird and that was kind of fun to play with. Um, but um, my latest one is another thing. Um, but this is kind of like an abstract cephalopod. It's gonna be human-sized. Um, and each of the limbs will pay a different part of the choral ring. Um, and that is like some kind of raxan-like feature at the time when modulating my touch with my copper rods. But she made prototype, um, which you can listen to. So this is the latest version of one of the limbs that you can listen to. Um, and it just makes it more than everybody seems to really like cuddling it. Um, so I decided to make it. Um, and I'm gonna finish my touch. If you wanna listen to my pairing tentacle afterwards, you can. It does sometimes work. Um, but I should say, actually, hello. Um, so this is the machine embroidered conductor thread. So that, that is able then to connect the capacitive, that's a capacitive touch sensor. That's a touch sensor. Um, so you can see that. It mostly worked. I made it yesterday, so. Um, yeah, that's that. Um, so you can see, I've been able to create the intricate sounds with the help of my composer friend. And I would not be able to do this. And I would not be able to get the implementation I wanted onto the people working with Drew. Um, so it's, it's, um, it's really nice to kind of, like, sit together and mash up your, mash up your emotions. Um, now, these are all used for these. And some of them are more of the instruments.  Um, but it's not finished yet. But, um, the reason I'm showing you that is because that's the sensor, my friend. This is, uh, the glitch, my friend. Um, it's, it's essentially, like, if any of you have used capacitive touch before, you'd probably be able to use it. And then we have one to one sensor. This is, like, an end to one to one sensor. So, um, it's the most normal one. It's got, A has got, like, 20 something pins, which is way more. Um, and it's, um, way more sensitive as well. So I find it really, really great. So if anybody's doing stuff with cap touch and they're having some problems with it, A, make sure you're grounded and B, have a go on that trail. It's like 10, 10 euros, I think, that, that sense. So you can see one of their books. Um, now I'm going to do a whole slide about that. And I'm going to have to go through them because, uh, they're going to take a step, now I can move it to use for embedded, um, systems, uh, for embedded engines. Um, this is how the science is this big. It's based on the Pocketeer, which is the size of a small Altoids, so it's very, very small. And I put it in the, uh, it runs this guy's computer. Um, and, um, it's going to be awesome. It's a super low latency response. Um, it's super fast. Super. Also the cool thing is it runs this. It's pure data. It's a visual programming, um, visual design creation, and a lot of artists and designers and music creators. Um, you might, um, you might, um, this is something called Max, actually made by the same guy. Um, but this one's open source. Um, yeah. Um, so that's Bella. I'm pure data. I'm checking out if you're interested in, um, um, the reason why this is special is because, because of the low latency response and because no other, so you can't get a microcontroller that will run pure data. Um, it's actually the Raspberry Pi, but the latency on the Raspberry Pi is, like, me. Um, so I was just trying to use the Valera, and the Pure Data's a nice combo. Um, Bella, I think that's that one. I wanted to talk to you briefly about is, uh, this is Ariana Grande, who I don't know who she is, but anyway, she's 13, certainly will. Um, here she is demoing, um, um, demo.  So that's also the, um, this is what she's using here, and this is coming off, um, um, called Mimu, um, um, and it's written into my image and heap, if you know how. Um, and I just thought I would like to do quite a lot of teaching, as well. I just thought, I was like, oh my god, if I showed this to a 12-year-old girl and told them what I was doing, they wouldn't have used that mind. So, these people can't be around though, and they can't be using the classroom, so that's a huge advantage of her. Um, and that's true if I could make a children's version. Um, and um, um, she said yes, and um, she, um, wait, this is the most technology called the microgrid, um, and it's DIY, it's like my first microcontroller that was made by the BBC, it's like 10 pounds, but what it does is that it's quite cheap. Um, and, um, I was able to um, make an approximation of a $5,000 glare where the microcontroller was made. Um, which is nice, it has the core of the microcontroller, which is the end. Um, but, um, I haven't got time to talk to you about that. That's my led, I've got a robot Unicorn, my gesture control. I've got a lot of time for that. Going on to the next one. Um, I was able to um, with one bridge, one microgrid, um, and a little bit of code, and she worked on the software. This is the position of Bishy, who's really awesome. Um, this is the... I need to follow a hack to do a little bit of a little bit of doing almost the same things that they did on to um, it was a fun project for the last 5,000 5,000 euros of expensive tools. Um, I have, um, all this, by the way, um, how I did that. Um, that's all my help, all of the code, um, you can go to a microgrid, you can do, um, or you can get the kits like 30 bucks. And you can, of course, buy these um, which costs 10 euros. Um, and I'm pretty, um, reacting to more information about foreign music technologies and hacking. Music, music, music. Thank you. Thank you, Helen, for this fantastic presentation I'm wondering how are we going to play that thing there? I don't even know how we're going to play that thing that I left there. Yes, yes, only the war's there. No, you're fine with that. So, the question from the internet is have you ever considered um, if you've ever considered um, if you've ever considered um, if you've ever considered um, if you've ever considered um, if you've ever considered um, if you've ever considered um, if you've ever considered um, um, if you've ever considered um, if we were to um, uh, we'll probably ah, we'll probably taste ham. So, you know. Um, yeah, yeah, you know. Thank you. Good night. Uh, um, personally um, I'm a very tactile person. Um, so I'm like a, music without the influence of a person, for example, an automated marble run, it will trigger sounds, which is really really cool, there's lots of people doing it, but for me personally, I just, I know, I like touching the objects that I need, you know, and the kind of street When I can directly use, interact with my devices, it's all built as a conductor, for example, in shops where you can buy small elements, small capacitors and so on. I believe in you and I have already received strange views. The question is, have you also created instruments that actually have the ability to trigger sound processing? In fact, if the tentacle itself, the sound it produces would be amplified in some way, it's going to mean more of the processing of the actual sound that comes out. Actually, when the tentacle is done, it will have some kind of, when the tentacle is ready, then it will also react visually to the touch, not just music, but, for example, if there are sensors in there, not, not like, uniform, to get it to react nicely to the touch, to it's irons, it's movable and manipulative as well. And you can also code it to that as well, so basically it's all, you know, like the number of touches, how often they, and then how people have played with that, how much time they've spent, how much they've touched, and so on. Thank you. Unfortunately, we have a spoiler, but we have to finish this now, because we don't have time. Talk to her personally here and come to the stage. Thank you for this fantastic presentation.