This past weekend I attended the maker faire - a 2-day extravaganza of overly excited nerds showing off the cool stuff they'd made. It was incredibly fun experience and one that I would highly recommend. All of the exhibits were inspiring, but there was one that really stood out - an exhibit that you simply could not miss. This exhibit is a beautiful blend of music and math - A giant stage where music is played through Tesla Coils.

The show starts with a man wearing a chain mail suit walks in with an electric guitar. The guitar has a Faraday cage over part of the strings, and there are two giant towers on either side of the stage. When he starts playing, one million volts of electricity flow through the Tesla coils and on to his guitar and suit as a shockingly loud note fills the room. Arcs of electricity resembling white lightning come out from the Tesla coils and hit his suit. The combination of loud music and visuals of the Tesla coils emitting electricity is almost overwhelming.

The people who made the show are a bunch of very techy musicians. They love music, but also love physics and engineering and, you know, building Tesla coils. They found a creative way to combine their love of both physics and music in to one job. It is very possible, and could possibly be a future path for me.