I have found some interesting things.
What do you guys think about this?

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(https://store.djtechtools.com/products/midi-fighter-64)
(https://www.midifighter.com/)

 

Even more flashing LED toys...! The circles aren't even labeled. A lot of money: €463.38 for 64 buttons.

 

(2)

(https://shop.playtronica.com/)
(https://www.soundbrenner.com/pages/playtron)

 

I've always liked things like Theremin and other kinds of expressive ones, though of course all instruments can be expressive in the right hands, but I digress.

So I want to get my hands on an Otamatone at some point:

(this one shows better how it's supposed to be played)

 

29 Weirdest Musical Instruments You Won't Believe Actually Exist

 

Pyrophone:

 

Oh, and I'd love to play this chromatic ehm, honking horn set like Bill Bailey does:

 

I love my otamatone. It's overpriced and has a couple dumb design issues (like plugging in the direct out doesn't disable the internal speaker) but it's just so fun.

 

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary keyboard...

 

Personally, i wouldnt call the midi fighter eccentric, its a midi controller.

How about the swarmatron , or anything from these guys:

 

An electroencephalophone or encephalophone is an experimental musical instrument and diagnostic tool which uses brain waves (measured in the same way as an EEG) to generate or modulate sounds.

Dr. R. Furth, a mathematical physicist, and Dr. E.A. Bevers, a physiologist, invented the encephalophone in the early 1940s at the University of Edinburgh. The cross between an electroencephalograph (EEG) and sonar technology, it was meant to be a way for ordinary physicians to diagnose neuropathologies.

In 1973, one was designed by Erkki Kurenniemi, a Finnish electronic musician and artificial intelligence researcher. In the summer of 1968 Kurenniemi visited an electroacoustic music conference organized by Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy. During the conference Kurenniemi was introduced to Manford L. Eaton’s ideas of biofeedback as a source of musical or composition material. Two of Kurenniemi’s instruments - Dimi-S and Dimi-T - are loosely based on these ideas.

Meet The Doctor Turning Brainwaves Into Music (HBO)

 

cool!

 

Have you guys heard of ERD modular? They create esoteric, artistic eurorack modules:

ERD modular's early project was The Dark Interpreter
sampler/granulator, distortion, and unique sound generator.

Their newer modules are even more strange though.
Earth Return Distortion ERD (Earth Return Distortion) incorporates real earth into the signal path for unpredictable distortions. the newest version uses ergot?
"For this strictly limited edition the ergot (claviceps purpurea) sclerotium has been collected from rye fields in Brandenburg, cultured on a preparation of agar, nutrients and blood, and mixed with earth from the same site, collected after the harvest."
https://1010.co.uk/org/ERD.html


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ERD/FUSE:
the first eurorack module designed to trigger and initiate pyrotechnic or explosive events from within the modular domain. ERD/FUSE acts as a bridge between gate or control signals, and multiple controlled ignition events. Under various operational modes, trigger signals are used to ignite either electric matches (ematches) or clip-on (talon or safety) igniters in complex sequences.



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ERD/TOAD
ERD/TOAD is an hermaphroditic analogue computer driven by the times of pulses and slopes, designed to model both physical and imaginary processes underlying the vocal emissions of various twinned lunar and solar creatures (such as ravens and toads). Ruddy, bursting and overcharged, running by turns hot and cold, breaking and stretching tracts and redefining pulses and control as the venomous spots on the belly of a bulky blackened TOAD, they bring forth all the rarest colours.

By default TOAD re-implements physicist Gabriel B. Mindlin’s ouroboric differential equation which models the mechanisms of birdsong production, computing oscillations within the bird’s syrinx, or sound producing organ. TOAD’s analogue computing elements are normed to follow this model and generate oscillations; only a clock signal (normed to multipliers and all clocks) needs to be supplied to generate audio. This signal can be any changing signal or pulse (it is converted to a clock internally).

With a few connections, TOAD can also be used to model chaotic equations from J. C Sprott’s “A New Class of Chaotic Circuit,” producing oscillations and filtering incoming signals in the audio domain.

TOAD can compute any number of audible physical and less-than-physical models using three switched capacitance integrators, a square function, three inverters, one signum function and seven multipliers (some of these are embedded within other functions).


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ERD/WORM

The eurorack-based ERD/WORM synth features software worming of emulated artificial human speech cores from the 70s to the 90s of the last century. Six key speech cores are simulated with a vocabulary of over 4000 words and phrases, including basic allophones or phonemes which can be used to build new phrases as well as a Text to Speech engine for advanced textual constructions. A further set of COMPOST modes allows for sample-based re-working of constructed and wormed words and phrases.

Emulated speech cores include Texas Instruments' famous Speak and Worm family of devices (and subsequent circuit-wormed modifications), Atari and TI99/4 arcade games such as wormsec, Federal Screw Worms VERMIS worm-n-talk and General Instruments Intelliworm. ERD/WORM further bends and worms these key speech synthesis algorithms across 64 modes with full trigger, CV and knob control over nearly all aspects of these speech cores.



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ERD/BREATH is designed for the precise voltage control (CV) of heat and thus smoke production within a modular, eurorack setting.

ERD/BREATH allows for controlled summoning and nourishment of (artificial and benevolent) demons, for the offering of sacrificial vapours, and for any modular use of multiple incenses or other smoke-producing resins, herbs and natural substances. A small sample of sage is included for preliminary cleansing of the modular environ. This should be placed on the middle wire heating element which will become very hot and should not be touche





I'll stop there, but they have some other strange util modules too.

 

There are subjective and objective human opinions.
So how about this?

The Pikasso Guitar


It was designed by luthier Linda Manzer.
This guitar features 42 strings and 4 necks.

 

The Cimbalom



The Cimbalom is an instrument that originated in Hungary.
There are few players of this instrument in the world, but there are professional Cimbalom players.
It has metal strings stretched over a wooden frame and is played by striking the strings with mallets.

 

Is this eccentric? Or is it mundane?

The Sea Organ



This is a Croatian architecture and instrument.
It is a mechanism that produces sound by waves.
It is called an “Architectural Instrument".

 

Harry Partch was famous for his unusual instruments since the 50s https://www.harrypartch.com/instruments

 

Allegro Vegetale - Performance by the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

Original glass harmonica, played by Bruno Kliegl

 

Massive Organ: