Tesla coil

Arc Attack has released on online virtual Tesla Coil instrument – the Arc Attack Tesla Coil Emulator.

According to Arc Attack, a VST version is coming soon.

ArcAttack explains some of the secrets of making music with Tesla coils.

via OpenLabsInc:

Austin, Texas’ own ArcAttack invited Open Labs to their studio to show how they control lightening and tune it to pitch using a Tesla coil and a complex MIDI system.

ArcAttack will be performing in Austin on March 18-20 at the Texas RockFest outdoor stage, and will be using an Open Labs MiKo to power their performance.

Bach Little Fugue: Tesla Coil vs Yamaha Synth

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This video captures a quick and dirty demonstration of the XenoSonic Audio Interface, plus – to make it interesting – a Tesla Coil shooting a 4 foot arc of electricity.

Is this the ultimate Switched-On Bach?

A Yamaha S03 Synthesizer is hooked up directly to the miniBrute DRSSTC, via the XenoSonic Audio Interface.

Since the XenoSonic only produces monophonic output, the Bach Fugue in Gminor was pre-recorded on an Allen C-6 Classical organ and then various voices were added using the Yamaha S03 in real time to the Tesla coil.

Says eastvoltresearch: “Its quite a bit sloppy, but that’s mostly because i didn’t really practice how i was going to play individual voices from the piece and I had a hard time hearing the actual prerecorded music, so its a bit out of sync. Anyways, enjoy.”

More information and details can be found at Eastern Voltage Research.

via eastvoltresearch

Merce Death plays a guitar with the tesla coil. Pretty cool – but it doesn’t beat Mark Smart’s outrageous tesla coil prog synth work.

via hackaday

Excerpt from Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in Dm

I’ve been getting some criticism lately for calling things stupidtacular.

Some things, like programming Chuck E Cheese robots to sing Miss New Booty, or a $1,000 iPod dock, are just awesomely stupid.

Tesla coil music may fall into the same category.

Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves of ArcAttack use “a unique DJ set up of their own creation (an HVDJ set up) to generate an ‘electrifying’ audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA System while two specially designed DRSSTC’s (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments.”

These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt which puts out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Singing Tesla Coil – Bach’s Invention No. 6

Spectacular? Stupid? Or stupidtacular?

Let me know what you think!