Zinc based audio oscillators
Courtesy of the Make blog, check out Nyle Steiner’s Electronic Composition, using a variety of audio circuits which use bits of heated zinc instead of transistors. Nyle has done a bunch of experimentation with zinc negative resistance oscillators on his Spark, Bang, Buzz website, all of which are awesome.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Wow! Steiner is a master — he was the solo synthesizer player on the Apocalypse Now soundtrack, playing a trumpet-like synthesizer of his own design (the Electronic Valve Instrument.)