Welcome to Telmatronics

The Telmatronics project started with the idea to use plasma for an audio component that could be controlled with a magnet. Other devices like effects pedals use plasma noise, but we wanted to use a larger plasma that could be interacted with directly.
Experiments with fluorescent tubes and an RF oscillator made some pretty wild and funny sounds, and controlling them with a magnet was a lot of fun. So we ran a Kickstarter project with a prototype machine, and then set out to turn it into a synthesiser. 

We've ended up with a lively and acoustic-sounding electronic instrument. A first small batch is currently being built up and tested - you can read more about this and see recent demos on our Groovetube page.

This was designed as a machine to put random fluorescent tubes in, to see what sounds they made, but fluorescents are now being discontinued =(
This is a pretty existential challenge for the project - we have started to prototype plasma tubes, but this is not straightforward awith limited resources. Producing tubes with custom electrodes should let us to develop designs for different types of sound - please let us know if you can help with this!

You can contact us directly here, and check our progress on facebook or youtube.

Thanks for visiting!