At Burning Man 2018 someone hooked up two massive Tesla coils to a keyboard and you could see and hear the notes as electricity as you played them on the keyboard. One of my favorite memories :)
Saw these guys play at DragonCon a few years back, and it was the bomb. They also played a bunch of chip-tunes through the coils, which seemed to work extra well.
I heard the band called "Arc Attack" do this about 10 years ago in Austin, TX.
The video is ok but listening to it in person, up close, is something else entirely. The sound-generating surface is physically huge, so the sound fills the space in a way that is hard to describe. If you're into the chiptune genre to begin with... It's great.
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Similar device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_speaker
Also reminds me of this old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OdubOdFS-Y
Also, Sharon Osbourne gets boo'd.
Saw these guys play at DragonCon a few years back, and it was the bomb. They also played a bunch of chip-tunes through the coils, which seemed to work extra well.
The video is ok but listening to it in person, up close, is something else entirely. The sound-generating surface is physically huge, so the sound fills the space in a way that is hard to describe. If you're into the chiptune genre to begin with... It's great.
Here is a video of Arc Attack: https://youtu.be/huuevMwp1wg
IIRC the drum was played by a robotic drum kit and they had a dude in chain mail dance in the middle.