These 6 Electronic Instruments Go from Retro to Bananas
There are all kinds of DIY instruments available for you to experiment with, but electronic instruments have to be some of the craziest.
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Singing Speech Synthesizer With Theremin-Like Controls
The embedded video is a collection of soundbytes that give a good general background of the Glove-TalkII system from Sidney S. Fels and Geoffrey E. Hinton.at The University of British Columbia. But the brief samples of the system in operation that it includes are, frankly, not a great advertisement for its capabilities or its potential. […]
Handmade “optical theremin”
Beep-it Deluxe is a handmade optical theremin, housed in a handsome laser-cut bamboo case and featuring a big chrome button and 2nd oscillator for enhanced modulation.Beep-it Deluxe emits a square-wave tone reminiscent of 8-bit video game music. A light sensor determines the overall pitch of the instrument, while a knob on the side can be adjusted to induce a warble into the tone for all of your sci-fi and rhythmic needs.
Detergent-bottle theremin?
Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects is a rather cryptic project by design students Georg Reil and Kathy Scheuring, who transform ordinary household objects into acoustical and musical experiments. The magical character of each object is accompanied with a little story, almost completely concealing the existence of technical components such as speakers or sensors. Only […]
