Saturday Synth Porn: When it comes to strange and sexy electronic music instruments, few can top the theremin.
But when it comes to raw power, musical tesla coils are hard to beat. Above, a pair of musical tesla coils in action on the Engineering Quad, University of Illinois, as part of the Engineering Open House.
Here’s a show with a person in the image, for scale:
via tau zero
Man, this is exactly like porn… only pics and no video… such a turn off! =S
Yeah! They could be regular Tesla coils for what we know! Video or it didn’t happen.
A quick youtube search returns plenty of videos of these if you want to hear what they sound like.
Tesla Coil Music University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted on March 7th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSNQgoaEHNI&feature=share&list=PLDF4377FDD369AA55
The Geek Group is building tesla coil interrupter kits with 12 note polyphony!
http://thegeekgroup.org/store/kits/tesla-coil-interrupter-kit/