Arc Attack is a performance art group that specialises in playing music through a combination of homemade, high-tech instruments, and more traditional instruments such as guitar and bass.The main attraction of their performance is the use of two custom built singing Tesla coils, which have been modified to play musical notes by modulating their spark output. The group also uses a robot drum kit, which is computer controlled via a custom microcontroller, that has been programmed to interpret MIDI data and mechanically actuate its drum sticks accordingly.
Aside from the automated musical machines and live performers, ArcAttack also incorporates a stuntman, who MCs the show, and engages the Tesla Coils by walking through the electricity wearing a relatively thin chain mail Faraday suit.
