tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16448256.post-1152130622163531732006-07-05T16:07:00.000-04:002006-07-07T12:03:47.886-04:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5702/1561/1600/atheremin4.0.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5702/1561/200/atheremin4.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5702/1561/1600/atheremin3.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5702/1561/200/atheremin3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Here are some pictures of the Theremin that I made using PAIA's Theremax kit. It's a really cool instrument, it can sound violin-like but it's usually heard in old sci-fi movies. It's actually quite hard to play it well, it's activated by sensing the distance of your body to the antenae.<br /><br />It's ability to sense proximity makes it ideal for use in interactive art work. In the next month or so, I will attempt to modify this so that it's range is extended to 10 feet or more, so that it will be affected by how close people in the room are to it. Rather than using sound, I'm going to use the 1-5 volt output to feed into an interface and then into the mac to work with for my project. <br /><br />There's not much information on the web about this, but this <a href="http://www.makingthings.com/teleo/underdc/underdc.htm" target="_blank">article</a> was helpful.Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522460283463391904noreply@blogger.com