Bicycle Theremin

[patchell]

There was an early 19th century composer, P.D.Q. Bach who wrote the
"PERVERTIMENTO FOR BAGPIPES, BICYCLE AND BALLOONS" (S.66), so using a bicycle is
not without precident.  For those who want to listsen, this was performed in the
1960's and is availiable on Vangard Records on the "An Hysteric Return, P.D.Q.
Bach at Carnegie Hall with Professor Peter Schickele".  :^))

    -Jim

CHoaglin at aol.com wrote:

> Today I had an interesting idea...
>
> Take two stationary bicycles and hook a bicycle generator (the roller that
> fits against the wheel and powers the headlight) to each bike. Use the
> voltage output to control the pitch and modulation of the theremin. The
> theremin gets controlled by how fast the people on the bikes pedal..
>
> It might be possible to expand on the idea and have multiple bikes
> controlling VCO, VCA, VCF, arpeggiator tempo, etc.
>
> On an unrelated note...are there any downloadable patches for the Roland
> JP-8000 available online? I just got one a couple days ago, and I'd like to
> find some some really creepy sounding patches for it, as many of the built in
> ones aren't very well suited for goth/industrial.
>
> Chris

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