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This video documents Daito Manabe’s sound experiments with laser tracking of tangible images.

Note how the laser tracking and sound adapt to changes in the illustrations.

Daita Manabe previously documented his experiments with electrocuting his face to create a bizarre music video. Read more…

Synthesizers + Lasers + Guitars = The Prism Laser Guitar Synth

The Prism laser guitar synth is a DIY project that has everything it needs to achieve instrumental awesomeness, except for an awesome demo laser guitar synth jam.

The instructions for this DIY project are available at Instructables.

If you happen to build a version of the laser guitar synth and make an awesome laser guitar synth jam video, leave a link in the comments!

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Instructables has published a tutorial on building the Prism – a DIY laser guitar synth:

I suppose I should clarify what the Prism is: It’s a bit like a guitar with some synthesizer mashed in. It has aspects of a theremin and a laser harp thrown in to boot. In short, it’s not like anything else, and you can use it to make some really neat sounds. Anything from cold Sine and harsh square waves to heavily distorted noise.

At its heart the Prism features a VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator), based around the very shiny XR2206 monolithic function generator. The octave range is selected by blocking one of four laser “strings,” and the pitch is controlled by the position of the musician’s hand on the fretboard. The musician has the option of selecting a sine, triangle or square wave. The sine and triangle waves can be skewed using a separate Skew control.

It also has two other controllable oscillators, one acting as an LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) and the other acting as a Sync generator.

This video documents the Laser Synthitar, a DIY laser guitar synth built on a 555-based synthesizer, triggered by laser pointers.

The contruction of the Laser Synthitar is documented at Instructables.