LEMUR Slink-o-Tron: Ever Wonder What A Slinky Sounds Like?
LEMUR's Slink-o-tron provides makes playing with a slinky fun again - revitalizing a toy that lost its excitement after the first couple of times it slunk down the stairs. At Lemurplex, the slinky is used as a controller by tracking the motion of a hanging slinky as it stretches and retracts.
The most interesting thing is that it sounds like it looks like a slinky should sound. Or maybe it's the fact that Eric's obviously using a plastic slinky, and those things never worked right like the metal ones.
[ERIC SINGER DEMONSTRATING THE SLINK-O-TRON]
ERIC SINGER: And last on our new controller tour, the Slink-O-Tron. It's actually one of what will be ultimately ten of these and they're slinky controllers, and what the controller does is it senses the movement of the slinky up near the top, but actually that's all you really need because as you spring the slinky, the movement of the top gives you all the information you need. And because it's very, you know, a very physical motion and something that you're very familiar with visually, there's some property about it that makes any kind of patch that you plug into it, any sound that you make and you modulate with this, it looks and sounds the same.
So, you know, if you walk into a room and you see this slinky bobbing up and down and you hear the sound, you go, "Oh, it's the slinky is making that noise." So, let's listen to it and I'll hopefully prove my point.
[ERIC SINGER DEMONSTRATING THE SLINK-O-TRON]
Now, if I push it all the way up, it's actually controlling the playback speed of a popular song.
[ERIC SINGER DEMONSTRATING THE SLINK-O-TRON]
I'm going to have to climb up and push it up to the top.
[ERIC SINGER DEMONSTRATING THE SLINK-O-TRON]
GRETCHEN HASSE: [LAUGHING]
ERIC SINGER: There. Now you're going to have to do sample clearance on a Hawaii Five-O.
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