Mario Brothers Theme on Tesla Coils Penguicon 6.0

[theoopla]

I was there. Thank you so much for posting this. It was great to see again. I almost swear I can hear my cheer at the point the Zelda theme takes over.

[awesomelightning]

You started Mario in the middle of the song . Fail. You also did Zelda! Win. You cut out Axel F? FAIL.

[awesomelightning]

ou started it in the middle of the song . Fail. You also did Zelda! Win.

[TheAxeman696]

David Bowe as Tesla was awesome!

[android17ak47]

I would love to see these things in person. lucky you. Zelda ftmfw.

[luminusprime]

The difference analog and digital, with regards to audio, has very little to do with computers. Things which are analog are recorded/played back in real time, whereas digital approximates the analog equivalent by repeatedly sampling time slices.

Video differs from audio in that the method by which it is recorded is inherently digital, however analog/digital video is differentiated by the way each frame is recorded.  Digital video approximates the analog frames by parsing them into pixels.

[Malachayas]

I'm wondering how Nikola Tesla would react if he saw this.

I think either he would feel insulted - or he would laugh his arse off.

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

i think he would be amazed that we still use his ac electrical system and be ecstatic that we have evolved it to play music, work in the military, and the huge impact that he has had on the world as we know it.

[jettan]

I believe he would be proud to see that his experiements had created a musical instrument,

[561inurface]

@Malachayas hed prob be insulted becuz he dosent know what song this is or who the hell mario is lol but he would be impressed at the fact that his invention is also a musical instrument...

[wariokid244]

do those things give you 1 ups?

[MizzMizea]

1Ups of awesome? <_<

[wariokid244]

more like 1 ups of ownage...

[MizzMizea]

Wewt~

[demomax45]

Can you imagine if they could create musical thunder storms

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

pretty much what it is lol. lightning. just on a smaller scale

[awesomelightning]

@demomax45 :O That would b so awesome! I have a lightning obsession. But it is not possible, as the length of the spark and its voltage would be too high. And also, to make a musical thunderstorms, either you invent something to spark in the clouds, then makes it audible as of pitch, or you invent something to make CG strikes, and probably kill a bunch of people. I have seen a severe CG lightning storm, and posted it on youtube. But to do the music, you'd need a helluva tesla coil floating there

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

these are so cool. just to think of how now we can make sound out of mini lightning bolts. this is true digital music.

[Wardenclyffeforever]

Yeah they should play some dafft punk or something to make it even electrickier

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

tha would be pretty cool haha.

[bbodine61]

technically thats not digital. >_>

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

how isnt it digital? its either a spark or not a spark. the volume is how long the spark is, and the note is how many sparks there are in a second. and a spark is a spark. either on or off. thats digital.

[bbodine61]

Youre confused on the meaning of the word digital. Its okay, a lot of people are too. Anything digital has to do with computers and electronics. But digital SOUND is a computer created sound or sound effect. The noise you here obviously is the sound of the electrical static spark. Even though the timing and velocity of the static is being controled by a computer operated machine, the sound is from the static itself. Thats considered a natural sound

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

so by a computer generated sound you dont mean how the computer controls what the tesla coil does? and then i can argue again, any sound is natural. im saying its digital because the tesla coil is switching on and off not going between off and on, either on or off. thats what makes it digital. and that sound is not natural, thunder is natural, not thunder, thousands of times a second.

[wingshad0w00982]

computer generated means that things like midi files, not static files

This sound is more mechanical than digital

also music is not natural, it's definition is the manipulation of sound to begin with, so this fits into analog

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

yea but the definition of digital is, hi and low. on and off, maximum or none. and because lightning is making the sound... and the only thing lightning can me is there or not there, i consider it digital. because the sound that it is making is a square wave, not a sine wave like speakers can create. square wave because the lightning is pulsating... so on then off thousands of times a second. digital.

[rubbieus]

still, if you would strum a guitar thousand times in a second, it would still be analog, thats why your assumtion fails.

We are not able to make lightning do exactly as we say, thats why the sound would be analog. With speakers we force air to vibrate, and now we use a natural phenomena to let air vibrate.

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

im not talking about guitars. this is lightning. guitars dont make sound by doing a simple action 1000 times a second, if you strummed a guitar 1000 times a second, you would have two notes. the 1000 Hz sound of you strumming, and the sound that the string is supposed to create by vibrating

this is digital because although we use a natural phenomenon to create a frequency, the frequency is still created by the lightning striking several hundred times a second... not by a string vibrating

[A3roboy]

Think of it as a drum. If you hit a drum 440 times a second, theoretically, you would get an A note. Same thing happens here. I'd say it's more analog than digital that way. It's actually very similar to the way a guitar works, the strings resonate at a frequency that corresponds to notes we recognize, for an A note that's the same 440Hz, just like here. It's the same idea at work, except here the resonance is on and off, and not up and down.

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

and for the part where its on and off... thats what makes it pure digital. in computers, thats what makes them digital. on and off signals at many megahertz or GHz. thats why i think this is more of a digital sound, because of the on and off. also its created by a computer. and a drum itself creates a note. know those drums that they tune? in orcricstras and bands? thats because the skin of the drum vibrates for a split second creating a note. thats what makes it a high pitch or low pitch drum

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

here, if we were to just have one shock, all you would hear would be a pop. like a static shock. thats not a note. just one sound wave. one change in air pressure. when you put one after another after another, thats when you create the notes, by having more or less lightning strikes in a second.

[Jordan92rocks]

Computer Generated = Digital

[CastChaos]

What a wonderful "music instrument" usage, playing such wonderful songs...

[kezmondo]

how the...

[bchutimmins]

the electricity in the air making the sound possible

[kezmondo]

wow, that is so cool