Just got back from a Tesla Coil music show in my neighborhood in Austin!

[dmora]

Thats someone in the Faraday cage in the middle.
The white poles holding up the orange fence are actually regular flourescent tube. They are lit from the charge in the air i believe.









So the way it works is that the charge in the air displaces air molecules like a speaker does. So you can vary the pitch and tone of the sound you hear. Its basically 7 foot high speakers.

Science is cool.

[dryicerx]

That's awesome!!

[janikphoto]

Too bad there's ugly orange safety net in your pic, because that tesla coil looks really cool.

[dmora]

Originally Posted by janikphoto

Too bad there's ugly orange safety net in your pic, because that tesla coil looks really cool.

I like the orange safety net. Otheriwse how would you know about the flourecent tubes?
Also, standing close to that would lead you to get shocked. So i'll take the SAFETY net thanks.

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or do you mean the last pic... thats the red light in front of the Faraday Cage.

[PhotoByMark]

That's cool. I want one. Who own's the equipment? A neighbor?

[Imagebuffet]

I would like to convert a regular grand piano to incorporate tesla coils into its design. I think that some shooting flames coming from it would be good, too, especially if they helped make music (perhaps by making pipes whistle).

[Gambit]

Originally Posted by dmora

So the way it works is that the charge in the air displaces air molecules like a speaker does. So you can vary the pitch and tone of the sound you hear. Its basically 7 foot high speakers.

When you said "Tesla Coil music show" I thought it was some odd band name.

[Wes]

That is so VERY cool!

[zebulus]

Nikola Tesla was such a great man!

[dmora]

Originally Posted by PhotoByMark

That's cool. I want one. Who own's the equipment? A neighbor?

www.arcattack.com

thats the site of the group who set it up.

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Here's a youtube vid of the group practicing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk

more from the group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zetCT...eature=related

[toverman]

So what was the music? It wasn't actually Tesla, was it?

[CaptainTom]

Aside from the idea of having a couple of Tesla coils in the neighborhood, I would like to say that these are some good images of something that I would think would be hard as hell to capture well.

[dmora]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

Aside from the idea of having a couple of Tesla coils in the neighborhood, I would like to say that these are some good images of something that I would think would be hard as hell to capture well.

Thanks!!
i took more! heres the flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmora/s...7622483725203/

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Originally Posted by toverman

So what was the music? It wasn't actually Tesla, was it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huuev...eature=related

I heard the theme from Airwolf, Zelda 1, Super Mario Brothers, Contra 1, Bringing Sexy Back, and some other current songs.

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I'm really impressed at the quality of the D700 in this capacity. The colors were amazing. Only post process i did was make sure the white balance was spot on.

[Hanky]

Way cool!
Here is a cool site for sound bending.
http://www.getlofi.com/

[High_Boost]

very cool..

I personally would be leary of camera damage, with the lightbulbs lighting up from electricity in the air, but I guess it was ok <shrug>