Dream lab · 1694 · reed column

Reed Column

Blow into your mic and it becomes a real clarinet: a self-oscillating single-reed woodwind whose exciter is your actual breath. A cylindrical digital-waveguide bore with an STK reed nonlinearity — silent until you blow past threshold, hollow with odd harmonics, and it overblows to the twelfth when you push harder. Slide the pointer across the bore to pick the note.

The dream lab — Karel Barnoski