I’ve been having a lot of fun constructing our music system these past few weeks. Paying the price of entry was easy enough: 1. Create a trigger region. 2. Asign music to it. 3. Profit!

Of course I want to go further than that, so I’ve been creating this neat little network of music nodes that kind of functions like a communication network, with different music regions chattering back and forth asking each other, “Is the player over there? No, he’s here, and he’s been standing here for a while. Should I keep playing? Actually, you finish up and then I’ll go. Hang on…” It’s especially fun since I have everything commenting to a log in plain English so I can watch the musical conversation in literal terms. Then I examine their conversation. Is one region talking to much? Is everyone participating equally in the conversation? Anyone speaking out of turn? It makes the debugging process easier, but more importantly it give me more artistic insight into how things are working and balancing by funnelling technical data into a more readable format.

I don’t know what I’d do without Kismet to build all this on. Make some poor engineer miserable, probably, with my requests. And it wouldn’t work right then. But it’s great just moving the wires around, spitting out messages and designing these custom nodes and effectively building electronic pieces and plugging them all together to make it all dance. It’s great.

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