One man band
Why Hacker News recommends it
Shown by its creator on HN as a demonstration of his live multi-instrument setup built from stacked keyboards.
What it is
A one-minute clip of Rochus Keller performing as a one-man band: slap bass with the left hand, Rhodes and lead guitar with the right, and drums with the feet.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends lioeters · 2024-12 · on “Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales”
Great list of books on music and mathematics. It's an endlessly fascinating subject that appeals to the intellect and the heart. I remember years ago, reading Godfried Toussaint's paper, "The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms". [LINK] (PDF) Following the trail, I was glad to find he wrote a whole book, The Geometry of Musical Rhythm, where the article forms the basis of a chapter. It's one of my favorite books I keep returning to re-read different parts. I hadn't seen "Exploring Musical Spaces", looking forward to reading it. Dmitri Tymoczko's book is wonderful too, A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. Rich with ideas and insi
Cites Rochus · 2022-08 · on “Ask HN: What MIDI micro/nano keyboard(s) do you like? (Electronic music)”
Korg microkey is great; I have stacked two of them on my other keyboard and use it even for live setups without any issue so far; see e.g. [this video] or [LINK] .
Cites apt-apt-apt-apt · 2025-05 · on “When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations”
The generated [Latin Jazz with small band with acc. guitar]( [LINK] ) sounds awesome, like an upscaled version of the original. [Now I see what you mean by playing them all live at once.]( [this video] ) Being able to scrub to the middle of songs would be nice, it's too much effort for 99% of visitors to figure out that we need to open links in a new tab to get to the raw, scrubbable mp3.