Gizmodo
While this won't fool your school principal a la Ferris Beuller's Day Off, it's still a cool project. This synth has a set of strings attached to DSP chips which "play" a certain sound when struck, or in this case, touched. The resulting music/cacaphony sounds pretty eerie.
It works like this:
When you lay your hand onto the controller, the tips of your fingers correspond to your mouth and your forearm corresponds to the back of your throat. The more you press down, the more you open that part of the throat.
Wicked.
Project Page [MattGilbert via MusicThing]
Comments
Homemade syth, sure. But "speech"? WTF? I didn't hear anything "speechlike" in there. Just a bunch of weird sounds made with his fingers/hand/arm.
Sounds like someone's punishing a didgeridoo.
Turn those ey's and oh's into moans and you got yourself a product.
Who speaks without using consonant sounds? I agree with rizzamus.
On a side note... watching that hand writhe in the "controller" was one of the most unpleasant things I've seen all week. Thanks Giz.
Ain't no DSP chips around; I think you're imagining something. All the sound generation is done by the laptop. So saying it's a homemade synth really isn't accurate; it's actually a homemade controller. That's cool, though, because you could use these rubber bands to control whatever you want, if you happen not to like the vocal processing sound. If you want to make these kinds of sounds, check out vocoder technique. It's now over a half century old in concept. (But hey, the best ideas aren't always new.)
its stupid and annoying!
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