Tag Archives: optical theremin

new devices

Built 2 new optical theremin devices this weekend, one with an LFO modulating the oscillator voltage. Here’s a quick video to demonstrate: One of these devices was built to order for a DJ who plays a lot of gigs in a lot of different environments, and from my own experience using these light-controlled instruments in [...]

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video: live experimentation

Clip from a solo gig earlier this year. Audio quality is doubleplus ungood BUT it includes Antonio the surprise percussionist who snuck up behind me unannounced and tore it up. Also includes weird old guy who was too curious not to walk right up on stage and check shit out. Instruments played: * Alesis HR16-B [...]

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…and a fancy new theremin

(Actually I built this a few months ago but I’ve just recently made some modifications which kinda make it new again.) As soon as I saw Moldover’s fancy CD case instrument I knew I had to make one. But not in a CD case – it had to be bigger, stronger, and more like a [...]

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white collar 2010 – live mix, new toys

Once a year (at least) I re-mix and re-invent white collar criminal, a track I started work on in 2004 and don’t intend to finish. The first one was a zero birthday present for my godson, Rhythm, and they’re all dedicated to him. This year’s version is a noisy, glitchy, live-in-the-studio jam on my drum [...]

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