I'm wondering if anyone ever used something like a guitar "whammy bar" to do a sort of a vibrato effect on laser consoles back in the day?
I'm wondering if anyone ever used something like a guitar "whammy bar" to do a sort of a vibrato effect on laser consoles back in the day?
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso
We had sliders for amplitude (size), rotary switches for frequency multiples, and standard pots for phase adjustment on the PLL’s, touch pad switches to select wave shapes, analog joystick with multiple modes to bias the four galvo sets to swap quadrants or to rotate quadrants, and a couple of 10 turn pots with VLF oscillators for amplitude modulation. Never thought of a whammy bar control. I could envision a control that could be hacked from an old scanner (fried coils even) and use the position feedback circuit to control what ever you wanted. Nice smooth motion and magnetically centered.... heck you could attach a 90 degree shaft and a sliding weight like an old metronome and have a decaying oscillation that could be triggered by a tap and pre-tuned with the sliding weight. Oh no.... just envisioned a whole string of them arranged like a keyboard. Now see what you started....
I plan to use the new radiator with a midi guitar and hope to map it along with floor pedals for expression, brightness, scale xy position maybe rotation, symmetry, numbers of copies.....lots of options.
being able to PLAY laser will be incredible. Imagine a band that doesn’t make sound but works cooperatively to produce not just individual abstracts but cooperative interactive individual ones subtlety controlled by multiple people. Human vco modulators....
new form of live art!
Some of these could be interestingly adapted...
https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/143
Gloves with flex sensors on each finger and wrist.
Tuned reeds with piezoelectric vibration sensors or optical sensors.
In vibration work I occasionally used a “reed tachometer”
https://youtu.be/s5wgwvT8boc
ever seen a “thermin”
https://youtu.be/K6KbEnGnymk
Or a different type of no touch control
https://www.bannerengineering.com/za...Laser+distance
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ever seen a “thermin”
https://youtu.be/K6KbEnGnymk
This is what I used to control the lumia in my piece "Lasing Nang Talung" in Madison last year:
http://mikegouldlaserartist.com/lntphotos.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-UtubOUPsE
Also used a Kinect to control lumia at my museum piece "L is for Laser" at the Dow Museum of Science and Art in 2013.
http://mikegouldlaserartist.com/Lisf...sforlaser.html
For direct control, we use controllers built into lunchboxen:
Cheers...Mike
Runs with Lasers
Actually I'm bringing a thermin to hook up to lsx with me to SELEM.
This one generates actual midi so it has increased possibilities PLUS the CV outputs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bakI0ITCqQ
He was one of my instructors. That’s who I learned synthesis from as well as electronics. Long story