Africa by Toto on Musical Tesla Coils

Franzoli Electronics

"For those who did not understand what is going on this video, here's a brief explanation: The main loud music really comes from the tesla coil sparks. They are literally playing the music due to the programmed phase, pulse width and firing frequency! So, there are no speakers, no audio / video special effects. It looks even better in person and sounds almost the same, just without the beat / percussion backing track.

I hope you all enjoy this version where I worked for musical tesla coils!"

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MIDIfied Tesla Coils

Published on Sep 19, 2018 Jason Hotchkiss

"Just about ready with 'Tesla Organ' for Fort Process sound art festival this weekend in Newhaven, UK https://fortprocess.co.uk/

This is a quick test with a MIDI file of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in Dm

Two solid state coils based on Steve Wards design with connected secondaries, floating ground and independant feedback antennae. Running at c.100VAC.

MIDI file played from a PC into a PIC microcontroller which generates 2 voices of square wave audio, optically linked to the SSTC drivers"

Tesla coils controlled by Stylophone!

Published on Sep 19, 2018 Jason Hotchkiss

"My MIDI controlled Tesla coils controlled by my Stylophone MIDI controller... it had to happen!

All sound is from the coil and it does sound more musical IRL (excluding my playing) but the crackling of the arcing does drown out the notes when recorded on my camera"

4 JACOBS LADDERS PLUGGED UP TO AN #ARTURIA BEATSTEP PRO

Published on Apr 9, 2017 LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

"Arturia beatstep pro controlling 4 Jacobs Ladders sequenced to Synths. kinda like LETHAL drums......... ish

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DRUM PAD PLUGGED UP TO A 2000 VOLT JACOBS LADDER

Published on Feb 19, 2017 LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

"It had to be done! wiring up a 2000 Volt Jacobs Ladder to a drum pad to make it musical!

kind of sounds like a special effects crash or something. but With ADDED SPARKS.

Built from a microwave. and some tinfoil. its definately a bit of a hack. and tends to overheat and smoke! wait for the end to see the fireworks.

completely live. on a home built Modular synth... the drum pads on the top trigger kick and snare. and 2 completely seperate synth voices for each of the 2 synth notes. these go into an arduino powered beat recorder. so only had to play the riff once and it automatically records it and re plays it, planning on doing a how to of that soon for people who want to build one. ran out of drum pads so used 2 toy drums with piezo mics glues onto them. there is a footswitch too which turns on an extra channel which the bass goes through an electro harmonix POG and some distortion for extra dynamic bits.

middle part is just a delay that one of the toy drum pads was going through. the great thing with the pt2399 delay is it stops working if the voltage goes too low. so the extreme end of the knob twist just shuts down the delay, making it great to turn on and off quickly and easily.

The Jacobs ladder was just mic'd up. tried keeping it as far away from the modular as possible to isolate the awesome sound it makes. but inevitably theres some bleed from the noise drum pads."

3 Tesla Coils, Robotic Drums and Bass

3 Tesla Coils, Robotic Drums and Bass from K X on Vimeo.

"This is an experimental drum 'n bass piece written for 3 Tesla coils, a robotic drum kit and robotic bass guitar.

The leads are performed by a Plasmasonic Dual Resonance Solid State Tesla Coil (DRSSTC), and the accompanying parts by 2 microBrute DRSSTCs. The Tesla coils are controlled by the Chime Red musical Tesla coil control system created by Josh Bailey and James McVay.

The bass part is played by the Mechbass robotic bass guitar which was created by James McVay and Jim Murphy.

All sounds were recorded directly from the instruments with microphones in the space shown, with no added tracks.

Big thanks to the above-mentioned people for all of their hard work, and to Victoria University of Wellington for facilitating the creation of this work."

Also see Robotic Drum Set and Analog Bass

Flux Pavilion's "The Scientist" On Musical Tesla Coils

Published on Sep 28, 2013 Eric Goodchild·131 videos

"Flux Pavilion's "The Scientist" Played on solid state musical Tesla coils and robotic drum kit.

System built and operated jointly with Jeff Thomas http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCME12..."

"Miami Vice Theme" & "Pirates of the Caribbean" on Musical Tesla Coils

Published on Jun 13, 2013

"Miami Vice Theme played on two museum musical Tesla coils."


Published on Jun 13, 2013 Eric Goodchild·129 videos

"Pirates of the Caribbean played on two museum musical Tesla coils."

iPad Musical Tesla Coil Control

Published on Mar 26, 2013

"This is a demo of a setup using the iPad to generate the MIDI and audio data for a musical Tesla coil setup."

New song for musical Tesla coils

Published on Feb 9, 2013

"Can you guess what song it is? Cover debut at WWT 2013 played on 7 foot tall coils with robotic band. Stay tuned for the youtube cover debut March 3rd."

Keyboard mode Musical Tesla Coils Controller

Published on Feb 3, 2013

"This is just a test setup to show the functionality of my DRSSTC midi controller when connected to a keyboard. This box directly controls the musical coils via a fiber optic link.

I have it connected to a pair of speakers for this demo so I didn't have to setup all the coil stuff.

Forgive my crappy playing, I'm an engineer after all!"

via discchord

Gangnam style. A bit chiptune sounding.

Musical Tesla Coil - Midi Interrupter Kit

Published on Mar 4, 2013 thegeekgroup·477 videos

"http://www.thegeekgroup.org - Chris and Paul solder the components onto the circuit board for our Mini Musical Tesla Coil Kit. Watch step-by-step as the interrupter board comes together. The board is then demonstrated on TGG's mini Tesla Coil.

They are $50 a piece in our store: http://thegeekgroup.org/store/kits/te...

Our Solid State Tesla Coil Interrupter has been designed to be fully arduino compatible. We worked very hard to make it fully polytonal, which means it can play chords of up to 12 notes simultaneously (assuming a 75MHz processor is used). The board is linked via a fibre optic cable to the SSTC. Music is interpreted via a MIDI input that can be generated via any instrument or even directly from a PC. Or any number of midi files can be played directly from an SD card using the onboard micro SD reader. A button on the board is used to skip to the next file on the card. Two LEDs indicate the various states the board is in.

This whole project is fully Open Source. Several software examples are provided via a CC+BY+NC license.

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This one in via Aud1073cH.

How To Build a Musical Tesla Coil

Captain's Blog 12-28-2012 Tesla Coil Interrupter Kit and Chem Lab Construction
Published on Dec 28, 2012 Chris Boden·654 videos

"Shhhhhh, you didn't see those yet. ;)"

via Aud1073cH

Biophilia Educational Program in Iceland 2011

""Here you can explore spatial and structural similarities in crystals and music, hear how viruses behave like generative music, see how the full moon governs the tide which then rations water into a music sequencer, there is a simon says method in learning differences in scales, DNA multiplying shows us how time signature and speed changes songs, an algorithm of gravity pulls a pendulum into natural counterpoint and the tectonic plates rub against each other and behave like chords." (Björk)

Documented by Christian Elgaard
Edited by Curver"

Bjork's Biophilia is throughout this one, and you'll also see Synthetic Bits Little MIDI Machine sequencer at 2:08. Tesla coils at 2:36.

On iTunes:
Björk: Biophilia - Björk
Little MIDI Machine - Synthetic Bits, LLC

Tesla's Synthesizer 1.0

YouTube Uploaded by boinx on Nov 19, 2011

"Now on the app store! The first in a series of SteamPunk Musical Instruments.

http://noojo.com/tesla"



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Tesla Coil Music - "Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla"

YouTube Uploaded by marksmartus2 on Sep 27, 2011

"'Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla' for electroacoustic music, Tesla coils, and live Continuum performance. Performed as the last piece of the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble (http://www.glennweb.net/somsite/ensembles.php#newmusic) Concert at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (http://www.krannertcenter.com/) on September 26, 2009. Continuum and tesla coil parts composed by Mark Smart (http://www.marksmart.net/). Electroacoustic music parts composed by Scott Wyatt (http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/people/wyatt/), director of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/). Tesla coils built by Steve Ward, Jeff Larson, and Terry "Dr. Zeus" Blake (http://www.mastersoflightning.com/). Tesla coil synthesizer control system designed by Steve Ward and Mark Smart. Mark Smart performs on the Continuum Fingerboard designed by Lippold Haken (http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/). The piece was the recipient of a University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied Arts 2008 Creative Research Award."

Haken Continuum Meets Tesla - Risky Business, Moog, The Cars Let's Go

Tesla Coil Music - Island at the Center of the World - Part II: The Strangers

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 22, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"Recorded live in Urbana, Illinois on March 7, 2008. This outdoor concert was part of a student-run open house for the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. Tesla coils were used to create musical pitches via a control system designed by university student Steve Ward. Two coils were used. The right coil is playing a prerecorded Midi track, acting as the bass, and the left one is performed live as a lead sound via the Continuum fingerboard. In spite of the frigid temperatures (4 degrees Fahrenheit, 26 mph winds), the concert was well attended and was voted the most popular event of the open house.

This is the second part of a prog-rock piece by Mark Smart about the history of Easter Island."

Tesla Coil Music - "Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla"

marksmartus2 | August 10, 2009 |

"This piece was composed by Scott Wyatt and Mark Smart and was performed during the SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) conference at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 18, 2009."

Tesla Coil Music - "Let's Go" by The Cars

marksmartus2 | May 02, 2009 |

"This tune was was played as an encore to "Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla" (also on YouTube) at the 2009 SEAMUS conference at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 18, 2009. Credits: Tesla coil parts arranged by Mark Smart; coils built by Steve Ward, Jeff Larson, and Terry Blake; control system designed by Steve Ward and Mark Smart. The video was made by jenaber27; I just added some of the original Cars track to balance the sound."

ArcAttack Electrifies Texas Rockfest pt. 1

YouTube via OpenLabsInc | April 08, 2009
Tesla Popcorn
"Austin's own ArcAttack plays Texas Rockfest during SXSW. ArcAttack uses a MiKo to power two self-built Tesla coils, that produce "singing lightning bolts" which require no speakers. ArcAttack controls the coils through MIDI, as well as a full drum set controlled by robotic mechanisms. ArcAttack are taking their MiKo on a European tour this summer, 2009. For more information on ArcAttack, visit their website at www.arcattack.com."

ArcAttack Electrifies Texas Rockfest pt. 2

Tesla Dr. Who

ArcAttack Electrifies Texas Rockfest pt. 3


ArcAttack Electrifies Texas Rockfest pt. 4

ArcAttack and The Tesla MIDI Guitar

The action starts just after 1:44.
ArcAttack ~ America's Got Talent, Top 48 week-4
YouTube via AmericanBestTalent | August 03, 2010


via Gizmodo where you'll find more pics and info.

"The fret board is 72 optically isolated switches. The fret board, instead of frets has 6 brass contacts per fret. When the string is pushed down to the contact, it makes a connection.

From there the signal is optically isolated, to protect from EMF and sent to a micro controller thats only job is to priority encode the fretboard, and keep tabs on which string is pushed down to each fret.

So priority encoding means this basically: if you are playing the 6th string on the 12th fret, then the computer ignores if say the 11th and 10th frets are pressed on that string also, since the 12th fret needs to take priority - just like a real guitar..."

Dr. Who Theme Goes Tesla

Tesla Coils - Arc Attack - Doctor Who Theme Song - Makers Faire 2010 - San Mateo - No. 1

YouTube via wshsbro — May 23, 2010 — "ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation 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 and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers. i filmed this video @ makers faire san mateo expo center.... web site: http://www.arcattack.com"

Switch Riot on the Tesla Coil - Maker Fair 2010

"searcher938 — May 22, 2010 — Maker's fair 2010 tesla coil presentation. Arc attack (http://www.arcattack.com/) showed off some tunes with there tesla coils at this years makers fair event in San Mateo California."

This one in via thehollowhearts.com

Tesla-Powered Band Electrifies Maker Faire

"Wired.com checks out ArcAttack's musical Tesla-coil performance at Maker Faire 2010."
via onephatcat and Joel B

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Dr Zeus and The Masters of Lightning Set Balloons on Fire at Duckon 18

YouTube via bloggingchick
"Dr. Zeus (Terry Blake) & The Masters of Lightning (Steve Ward and Jeff Larson) use the Tesla Coils to set balloons on fire at Duckon 18 in Naperville, IL 06/2009"

Tiny Electric Arc Making The Worst Synthesizer Noises Ever Made TOO LOUD!

YouTube via Photonicinduction
"I need to learn to play that keyboard and get a life. A line output transformer is better to do that with as it can handle a wider frequency, For normal people - ( the dirty bit in the old style telly that makes the HT voltage on the tube )"
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