MIDI Birds - Playing games with the browser

Can you use a MIDI controller to host TV game show games with the help of an event audience? Does bird song offer the perfect dataset for these games? Will a rainbow clown wig really offer protection against minor head injuries when the audience throws things at the host?

In this session, Tony hopes to answer these questions that no one has ever asked.

Using a 500 item data set of bird sightings and recordings curated in recent years, he'll guide the audience through the creation of a few games as part of a vanilla JS website. As well as exploring how to integrate MIDI into a website at a high level, the session will touch on the mental health benefits of stepping away from a screen and spending time in nature, using our non-tech hobbies to support technical upskilling, and offer a jump off point for anyone looking to explore the worlds of MIDI, and ornithology. 

No knowledge of any of the topics is required to take something away from this talk.