Tocante Bass Thyris Solar-Powered Touch Synthesizer

Ciat-Lonbarde Tocante Bass Thyris

Specializing in low drones, tones, and undulations, the Tocante Bass Thyris from Ciat-Lonbarde is a solar-powered, triangle-wave touch synthesizer. Pre-defined notes, as chosen by the resistor values inside, don't correspond to Western musical intervals but instead, offer a palette of neutral intervals and just-tuned relationships. The entire Tocante line features different scales between the Redd and Green instruments, meaning that collectors and ensembles could achieve a wider range of musical colors.

Tocantes also differ in their tone generators, and their touch-plate design corresponds with what's inside. Thyris, with its triangle touch plates thus produces triangle waves, which may then be inter-modulated by touching other portions of the surface. The Bass version extends below the threshold of hearing, where tones fall apart into rhythmic clicks and undulations when layered with audible notes. Try a different type of bass instrument with Tocante Bass Thyris.

Tocante Bass Thyris Features

• Travel touch synthesizer
• Triangle wave oscillators
• 24 notes across four octaves
• Non-western tuning
• Lower tuning for bass notes and sub-audio tones
• Solar-charged battery or PSU
• Internal speaker or mono line output