As a kid, someone gave me a toy keyboard. Checking Google, it looks nearly identical to a Casio PT-1, but was probably a clone or slightly different model.
9 year-old me was delighted to discover that it would start playing on its own when it was near the plasma globe I had bought at a science museum gift shop. I couldn't explain it, but eventually came to a vague understanding.
It was semi-random, mashing together short, distorted sequences from the song bank stored in memory. Being almost recognizable made it more haunting.
I remember bringing this out one night during a sleepover and we all got kind of spooked. Fun times!
I am pretty sure I had the same keyboard and plasma globe!!!! IIRC, you could also get the keyboard to play when you set it on top of the SCSI external CDROM drive that came with my mac 2400c.
I had that keyboard and we sat listening to the spooky random music once, i did not know you could reproduce it with a lava lamp! I loved it it was even playing notes out of the register so low that the speaker could not reproduce. Pure magic
9 year-old me was delighted to discover that it would start playing on its own when it was near the plasma globe I had bought at a science museum gift shop. I couldn't explain it, but eventually came to a vague understanding.
It was semi-random, mashing together short, distorted sequences from the song bank stored in memory. Being almost recognizable made it more haunting.
I remember bringing this out one night during a sleepover and we all got kind of spooked. Fun times!