start with musical instruments - synthesizers

get an old moog and spend a lot of time tweaking the knobs and getting the sound variations in your head - envelope filters etc.

learn to do that with your vocal chords - to isolate aspects of the sound and then smoothly vary them.

make mechanical instruments that optimize or exploit the variability of each type of sound manipulation

maybe start with a trumpet with a squeezy baloon valve or section that changes the sound in the experimentally determined way that changing the shape of the vocal chords produces overtones in Overtone singing.
-- JesusHChrist, Jan 15 2013

Can you explain this for the benefit of sober readers? Thanks.
-- pocmloc, Jan 15 2013


I made the fartesizer
-- Brian the Painter, Jan 16 2013


wind chimes that drag nails on chalkboard for you
-- Brian the Painter, Jan 16 2013


It reads like a [beanangel] idea, only shorter.
-- UnaBubba, Jan 16 2013


My suggestion--pick a few and develop them further so this doesn't read so much like a list off the top of your head.
-- RayfordSteele, Jan 16 2013


I stuck a screwdriver into a broken electrical socket and made myself into a Van De Graaff Generator. Oh, not really the same idea.
-- xandram, Jan 16 2013


Sp: vocal cords.
-- csea, Jan 16 2013


[+] but just barely: I don't see much in the way of *how* to emulate an electronic analogue synth acoustically.
-- FlyingToaster, Jan 16 2013



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