Area 2: Pitch and Parametrics
Curling frequencies
At high speed, pulses become pitches, and participants alter these pitches using a "the more the merrier and the sooner the better" style pattern.
Weight Powered Monochord
Made of stainless steel, with bravado and amplification.
Pitch is determined by the string's own weight.
Sirens
Lots of regularities (per second) create a pitch. Blow on the punched disc with a straw, use a crank to turn up the tempo, hear a pitch.
The marvelous voice transformer
Hear the pitch of your voice multiplied by two or divided in half! Make your voice sound as monotone as a robot's!
Parameter Bells
Following the trail: How do wall thickness, length and diameter affect things?
Walking Bass
The shorter, the higher; the longer, the lower - investigate this string length-pitch principle on the world's first ever "walking bass"!
Stainless Steel Slam Organ
Five tubes of differing lengths yield five different pitches.
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