Haken Continuum

In a way I guess this is an interesting or crazy instrument installment but I am not going to call it such because unlike the last two entries this one is used more frequently and more functionally and it, in fact, makes no actual music of its own. The 'instrument' is called the Continuum Fingerboard or the Haken Continuum (named for the inventor). What makes it so special is that it is what can be classified as a "continuous music controller". The keyboard itself makes no noise (unless of course you bang it on something I suppose) but is instead used to mediate the sound coming from a synthesizer. Even cooler? This keyboard is continuous in three 'directions': pressure pushing down on the keyboard, the movement of left and right across the keyboard, and the movement up and down on the keyboard can all be programmed to handle different commands or parameters. The keyboard can handle digital and analog synthesizers and can 'produce' both monophonic and polyphonic sounds. Polyphonic meaning multiple sounds that in this case are produced at once and monophonic referring to singular individual notes.

Here is the Fingerboard in use:


Now for something really cool. If you weren't around to read my post on musical Tesla Coils you can read it here

But for those of you that have, someone has combined those coils and this keyboard to bring you this:

Very Punny

There's a repair shop for baroque musical instruments.