Cocktail Piano

The novel called “L’Écume des Jours” which was written by Boris Vian and published in 1947 is one of my favorite novel since I was a little girl.

I only remember about the flower, didn’t remember the author’s name, but few years ago I discovered this novel.

In the novel, a boy called Colin made “Cocktail Piano”. Each note (key) is related to alcohol, spirits, liqueur or aroma. Forte on the pedals is for egg, other pedals are for ice, soda is trill on high notes. Amount of each material is from the length of the note.

There are automatic adjustment feature which control the amount of the cocktail in case of  a slow number was played.

It even has bug, the bug is on the pedals, when the number is very strong ‘hot’ one, cocktail piano drops omelet in the cocktail.

I really love this piano, this is just a little part of the novel, but always in my mind.

Since I became the one taking care of #spacebar at #bangspace, I have been tihnking how I can make the bar works without human… For the fridge, maybe bending machine or some kind of system to manage stock… but how about cocktail? then I thought of cocktail piano.

It doesn’t really have to be piano, it can be keyboard, or maybe DJ booth, or can be connected to media player etc, but the concept is that play a number to generate a couple of glasses of cocktail.

I have no idea how to write code for it, how to connect devices etc, but i don’t think it’s impossible….

Cocktail robot, but it’s related to music, lovely…..