Comments on: Making music with telsa coils http://www.vadept.com/2009/03/29/making-music-with-telsa-coils Random thoughts from a rpg-playing gun-wielding geek Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:58:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: saintneko http://www.vadept.com/2009/03/29/making-music-with-telsa-coils/comment-page-1#comment-1374 saintneko Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:35:43 +0000 http://www.vadept.com/?p=189#comment-1374 hah. haha... hahaha. Midi controlled. Okay, now that's the best thing I've EVER seen midi used for. And yeah, this is a function of nature called thermoacoustic or something. Same thing that makes nanotube loudspeakers work - it's causing the thermal expansion and contraction of the air around the lightning that's creating pressure waves that we sense as sound. FUCKING AWESOME. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22184/ It only took 100 years or so since this effect was discovered, but now we have an orchestra playing through fucking tesla coils, with sound generated by fucking LIGHTNING. In a crowded dance dall. I want to play a fucking rave and have nothing but these as my speakers. They wouldn't let an act like this stop, they'd boo the next act until we came back. And they even play some Delia Derbyshire (well, she orchestrated the Dr. Who theme if she didn't actually write the music to it) on that motherfucker, which is wildly appropriate. And the Imperial March. HOLY FUCK WHEN CAN WE SEE THIS SHOW? I want to give them money. Lots of it so they can make BIGGER coils. hah. haha… hahaha. Midi controlled. Okay, now that’s the best thing I’ve EVER seen midi used for.

And yeah, this is a function of nature called thermoacoustic or something. Same thing that makes nanotube loudspeakers work – it’s causing the thermal expansion and contraction of the air around the lightning that’s creating pressure waves that we sense as sound. FUCKING AWESOME.

http://www.technologyreview.co.....ors/22184/

It only took 100 years or so since this effect was discovered, but now we have an orchestra playing through fucking tesla coils, with sound generated by fucking LIGHTNING. In a crowded dance dall. I want to play a fucking rave and have nothing but these as my speakers. They wouldn’t let an act like this stop, they’d boo the next act until we came back.

And they even play some Delia Derbyshire (well, she orchestrated the Dr. Who theme if she didn’t actually write the music to it) on that motherfucker, which is wildly appropriate.

And the Imperial March. HOLY FUCK WHEN CAN WE SEE THIS SHOW? I want to give them money. Lots of it so they can make BIGGER coils.

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