Zen Flute

The Zen Flute mouth Theremin combines "one-button" ease of play with a protean flute synthesizer to minimize the distance between you and your music. Provides USB and analog outputs of the on-board procedural flute synthesizer and USB MIDI for general instrument control.


Music featuring the Zen Flute:

using the on-board synthesizer:
using the SWAM procedural violin (from 1:18)

Zen Flute Features:

Winner of the 2023 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

Housing: Solid color PVC with cast acrylic end panels (white or black)

Processor: Teensy 4.0 ARM Cortex-M7 at 600 MHz 

Open Source software featuring the Faust procedural synthesizer from Grame Research Lab, France.

Outputs: analog stereo audio (right stereo jack), USB audio (digital stereo); USB MIDI, analog monophonic pitch monitor (left jack)

Cherry® “red” fast action keyboard switches

Includes USB cable and mini-CD with schematic, source code, instructions and hints

 
2023 Guthman trophy
artist rendering of 2023 Guthman trophy