The Theremin Temple

This isnt the first temple I've been booted from...   :>

My hero has been Tesla like hopefully many of ours has. I was raised by an astrologer and she informed me of many things that I have come to re-cognize on my own. One of the most fascinating things she pointed out was the precession of the ages. In that precession we are "coming into the age of aquarius". 

That in itself is not that awe inspiring. What is though are the dots. Aquarius is the water bearer and an air sign commonly depicted as pouring two lightning bolts from a jar. Those bolts are commonly misconstrued as water. 

Tesla was a man of resonance. Much like the theremin is an instrument of. His idea was one to harness the water of Niagara falls and push it into the ionosphere so that it could be collected through resonant antennas. 

It seems that if Leon had an idol it was Nikola. 

We know Tesla died a cook in the new yorker. But the reasoning behind him abruptly going mad is one that is maybe worthy of the temple since we are speaking of the numinous.

I am inclined to believe that the fields Tesla was surrounding himself with were interacting with his normal neural synapses. He was wirelessly transferring energy to his dendritic tree. His brain began to rely on that field for normal processing. When JP cut his funding and he went brok theat was no longer there so one synapse that was usually helped by the field had to travel without help and things became very confusing since information and memories that were once a thought away became very distant and hard to grasp.

This is how I sometimes feel with the theremin. I like to keep it on and be as close to it as I can. If I am away from it too long I feel a longing for it. I can't think straight. I begin to forget what it is I am supposed to do.

Maybe its just me. But I think I'm addicted.

Neal I really enjoy getting to know more about people of theremin interest especially where on planet earth the are located. Is 1929 your birth year?

You mentioned something profound above: "Aquarius is the water bearer and an air sign commonly depicted as pouring two lightning bolts from a jar. Those bolts are commonly misconstrued as water."

In the past week I mentioned to the community that the voice inside my head over the years has said I will find the theremin voice from scintillation, that is what you validated!! As usual the active ones missed the possibilities.  IMHO

I have a sound byte from back around 2004 that I used a 4013 chip to divide the theremin into real time octave shifting. It was all Radio Shack parts so my name RS Theremin. That chip cost about 20 cents today mixed with a little ingenuity.

"All my time" currently is to add the final touches to my own original theremin design "the enigma" which has been a journey of ten years in the making. It does not use the above octave jump effect. It really does not need it as I do have perfect pitch field linearity and it is a theremin that needs no warm up. It is still tuned to where it was when you turned it off if you haven't moved it and the air temp is still within 5 degrees difference.

One day I may go back to the 4013 as a popular band here in So.Cal has interest in what you will hear below as an original analog sound method.

I must remain in the temple for this demo as my research has never been well received outside of my students. Most outsiders focus on the flaw and not the possibilities, I am guilty of that at times. Stone him, stone him!#$%

Octave Jumping  .mp3  260k

Christopher

Nothing metaphysical here or is there?

Nothing metaphysical here or is there?

No just a flip flop, they square up the signal to 50% duty cycle (as well as halving the frequency)so you would have had to add more filtering somewhere?Or maybe not because the sound in the above mp3 sounds a bit like a square wave with rounded corners meaning a bit more filtering needed to get it smoother...but it still sounds interesting...very clever (Brother)RS Theremin...of the Theremin Temple....

On the big fat questions of life, everyone, even the most clever, only has skinny anorexic answers.Where have all the fat answers gone...?

No 1929 is not my birth year. It is however a good year for theremins in general. I currently posses one of those few and I am awaiting a 106 to arrive. It should be around in a couple of weeks. I am very excited. 

Im glad to have validated scintillation in any shape including a rounded square.

It may just be a sine of the times.

Ok enough of that.   I'm excited to hear/see your Opus Magnus. Perfect linearity. sounds like the holy grail of theremins. Is it solid state or tube. 

I guess people aren't eating up all the B.S. thrown around today. Verbosity is of no way a sign of obesity. 

In the words of the utterly obese Lao Tzu:

The tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tao

Neal1929 said: "Ok enough of that.   I'm excited to hear/see your Opus Magnus. Perfect linearity. sounds like the holy grail of theremins. Is it solid state or tube."

I do have a great tube design, as most know, with sound bytes available online but I think we can do it simpler.

Neal I can't play the theremin but I can teach the art of theremin with help from all the special people on the internet willing to show how. I do have students, but it is too early to introduce any to you. In time you will meet musician Cpl Juan and be inspired by someone who does not give up.  Holy grail? I use that word, have you been peeking?

When I ask a newbie for location I always hope someone lives down the street from me. I could seriously use an assistants opinion. My theremin design is not my invention rather an extension of a great man that missed his window of recognition. Even Tesla was not fully realized in his time. To be great it seems one must depart from this world as greatness hides behind humility.

Neal, you are 740 miles north of me, same state, that's like driving across Europe! lol

Christopher