ANS Optical Synthesizer

Just ran across this crazy beast. Uses optical sound like on early movies to record and synthesize sounds. Like an early optigan, but way cooler. F*in crazy Soviet tech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptRmDeoQQlw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer

Oh cool, that’s what was used to create the score to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris”. That thing is huge! Thanks for the links.