Theremins
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Below is a brief description of a project I dreamed up last year and never realized. Anyone wanna make this happen with me?
Idea: Build a bunch of one-stick theremins. This means that each one has only one control stick which affects pitch. When nothing is close enough to trigger them, they will make no noise. I figure this would be fairly inexpensive (but I'm looking into it) because we can split the base signal and share it among all of them and then let each beat against this same signal based on the proximity of a grounding to the pitch control stick. If you don't know what I'm talking about stop reading and go here first: http://www.thereminworld.com/
Arrange these control sticks hanging from some structure or sticking up from the ground in a grid. Create a bunch of poles all grounded which can serve to activate the theremin. Hang these or make them flexible enough to bend in the wind and place one in the center of each theremin grid box.
If the theremins are tuned and the grid is constructed such that the ground poles are far enough, when idle, not to create any noise (or to create only the very lowest rumble), then we'll have some setup that, when blown in the wind or otherwise disturbed would create a chorus of space noise.
Thoughts? Anyone who knows more about electronics know if this is feasible? I may be missing something fundamental about the function of a theremin, but I don't *think* I am.
-Randall
