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I'm writing software for a 2.5 ton fire breathing musical instrument

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This guy is jealous:

http://lagaffemegate.free.fr/marottes/images/monde04.jpg

What an amazing thing you are building, it's a pity burning man is a continent away or I would come just to see it play!

I had completely forgotten about the "Gaffophone"!

For those of you who don't know "Gaston Lagaffe" is an office dreamer who is part artist, part scientist and came up with this instrument which sounds good only to his ears and cause a lot of damages through the deep vibrations it creates.

Got an email about donating to this project at work. Apparently if you donate enough money, you can get a flamethrower.

I'm so looking forward to playing with that.

and if you donate even more, you can get your own private run of Dance Dance Immolation or 2pir

What are the liabilities should this thing catch a bunch of Burning Man hippies on fire?

Note the disclaimer on the back of Burning Man tickets: http://www.erowid.org/culture/burningman/1998_burningman/ima...

Has this ever been tested, and if so why can't this work in other situations?

I have been told (though not by any reliable source) that these kinds of disclaimers are not legal even if they are signed by the user.

Man Burned at Burning Man Assumed Risk of Being Burned by Burning Man, Says Court

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/07/court-man-burned-at-bu...

You assume all risk for your actions at Burning Man. As it should be in the rest of the society, if it wasn't for our American lawsuit-loving natures, heh.

I was sold at flamethrower. Looks pretty slick.

This is quite possibly the most awesome piece of art I've seen all year.

If this comes together, I will be seeing it in person out there.

The software is actually available to play with now. At present it's intended primarily for musicians who will be writing sets using Ableton Live.

Info on the software is here: http://music.syzygryd.com/help/Install_And_Setup_The_MDK

The software is open source so source code is available.

See you there

Where's the "musical" part? Is this a pyrophone?

It features three grid sequencers that participants interact with to create music based on Ableton Live sets submitted by artists.

Don't you have anything better to do?

Don't _you_ have anything better to do? ;)

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