Musical instruments

Clicking Coil


the electro-acoustic percussion instrument


The Clicking Coil is based on the principle of working with a magnetic field in various ways. 5 coils with steel cores are unevenly spaced from each other. The electromagnetic principle of influence on individual steel elements of the structure assumes the formation of a large frequency spectrum. The flywheel with four permanent magnets is responsible for exciting two vertically directed steel rods. As a result, it is possible to work with microtonal structures in the mid-frequency range. The device is controlled by pulse width modulation. The overall sound palette is read by a piezoelectric sensor.

Created: 2018

Clicking coil exists in a single instance in the author's setup.

Participation in concerts and festivals (selected):
  • GEEK PICNIC festival – Moscow – St. Petersburg, 2018
  • "Machine sketch" – Oktava industrial cluster, Tula, 2018
  • "Shimmering" experimental music festival – Electromuseum, Moscow, 2019