Welcome to Telmatronics

Telmatronics began with trying to use plasma for an audio component, that could be controlled with a magnet. Experiments with ordinary fluorescent tubes made wild and funny sounds, and controlling glowing gas with a magnet was a lot of fun... so we ran a Kickstarter project, and set out to make a synthesiser.

We've ended up with an oddly acoustic-sounding electronic instrument - it seems to be a bit like a wind instrument, but where the wind is ions travelling through a sealed low-pressure tube. We are now finally building up the first few models - you can read more about this and see recent demos on our Groovetube page.

We wanted to make a machine you could put a random fluorescent tube in, and see what sounds it made. The machine is made, but fluorescents are being discontinued and won't be available for much longer! We have now started to test some first prototype tubes of our own, we'll be looking at the effects of different electrodes and fill on the sound.

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

Thanks for visiting!