This year's Halloween extravaganza included most of the usual decorations, but also live Theremin accompaniment by me (and infowidget)! I even managed to dig out enough stuff give it some slight delay/reverb before anyone came (trick-or-treat in our neighborhood is 6:00-8:00pm, but no one tends to show up until about 6:30 and then stragglers come by until 8: ( Read more... )

Trick-or-treating is over for the year. Last Year(at the post-halloween sales), we got the most amazing bit of halloween decoration EVAR - a five foot tall talking pirate skeleton. This year we put it to use. I decided that its built in voice was lame (it dances to "Super Freak" and some other songs along those lines), and using my own was probably ( Read more... )

...is of course, the day after Halloween, when everything is 50% off.

Got a bunch of black and orange pillar candles for $1 apiece. Probably enough to re-enact this ;-)

Got a few "double-feature" DVDs, mostly containing material available here for 50 cents a pop, as well as a couple of "halloween sound effects" CDs.

A four-pack of Jones Candy- ( Read more... )

It is capable of producing sound, and in fact did produce some tones reminiscent of an actual theremin. However, I'm pretty sure the following things are all kinda bad ( Read more... )

( ...and it actually (mostly) works! )