Details
- Format:
- Interactive web instrument
- Topics:
- Theremin, gesture, synthesis
- Creator:
- Pavel Gurov
Air Theremin
Play With Motion or Hand Tracking · By Pavel Gurov
AIR THEREMIN revives the only instrument played without touch, using sensors you already own. Wave both hands at the camera: spread them apart for volume, raise them for pitch, lean back to soften the tone, put your palms together for silence. A laptop webcam does just as well as a phone.
On a phone, tilt it instead — left and right set the volume, forward and back set the pitch, and the whole range lives inside the frame. With neither sensor nor camera, the mouse drives it. The exhibit is based on theremin.site.