Play the air A theremin in the browser using hand tracking and a webcam

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Termenvox

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Play the air.

Right hand steers pitch across the field. Left hand rides the volume — lift to swell, drop to hush. No camera? The instrument follows your mouse, finger, or the music keyboard row instead.

Power on<br>Camera frames stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

Controls

SpaceHold the note at full swell<br>KMusic keyboard mode (A–; plays notes)<br>MMute / unmute<br>RRecord / stop<br>CEnable camera<br>LLatch — freeze the current volume<br>FFullscreen the field<br>[Octave down<br>]Octave up<br>1…6 load preset<br>EscPanic — silence everything<br>?This card

In music keyboard mode the letter shortcuts become notes; use the panel buttons instead.

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Termenvox · heterodyne scale

Audio<br>Camera<br>Hands<br>MIDI<br>Rec<br>Clip

Enable camera<br>Mute<br>Record<br>Latch<br>Keyboard<br>Fullscreen<br>Panic<br>What's this?<br>Download take

Presets

Clara's aria<br>Forbidden planet<br>Bowed cello<br>Glass bell<br>Sub drone<br>Wire lead

Saved setups…<br>Save<br>Delete

Export JSON<br>Import JSON

Factory reset<br>Controls · ?

Settings save to this browser automatically. ? lists every shortcut.

What is a theremin?

The theremin is the first instrument played without touching it. Two antennas<br>sense where your hands are: the vertical one sets pitch , the horizontal loop sets<br>volume . Two radio oscillators beat against each other and the difference between<br>them is the note you hear — heterodyning.

Leon Theremin<br>(Lev Termen) built it in Russia around 1920 and called it the termenvox — "Theremin's voice".<br>Clara Rockmore<br>turned it into a concert instrument. Here your webcam replaces the antennas: by default the<br>right hand takes pitch and the left rides volume, swappable under Gesture .

Theremin · Wikipedia<br>Heterodyne

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