Hey guys,
Here's my latest project - a patch for approximating the Mbira music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. At the moment, I have it set up to play a pattern called Nhema Musasa as proof of concept (the only one I could find western sheet music for) but I plan on doing some transcriptions of others, and making the whole patch more interactive.
The Hosho is a percussion instrument similar to maracas - a gourd filled with seeds which I approximated with filtered white noise. The Kushaura and Kutsinhira parts are both mbira "thumb-pianos". To approximate the sound of those, I did some research on bell partials, and adjusted values until I got something reasonably close.
