{"id":153386,"date":"2026-05-11T22:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=153386"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:42:59","slug":"quray-performative-spatial-instrument-is-part-theremin-part-glowing-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/11\/quray-performative-spatial-instrument-is-part-theremin-part-glowing-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Quray Performative Spatial Instrument Is Part Theremin, Part Glowing Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quray: Hands-Free Controller - Superbooth 2026\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hURZdg4ui8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this video, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@sonicstate\">Sonic State<\/a>, designer <strong>Eduard Berens<\/strong> introduces the <strong>Quray<\/strong> performative spatial instrument, one of the more unique new instruments introduced at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/tag\/superbooth-2026\/\">Superbooth 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Quray looks like a glowing sci-fi space rock and is played gesturally. You can map your gestures to MIDI and CV to control synthesizers and other gear. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\/O:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 MIDI IN<\/li>\n<li>16 MIDI OUT<\/li>\n<li>4 CV outputs<\/li>\n<li>1 Audio Out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Quray<\/strong> is expected to be <a href=\"https:\/\/quray.music\/\">available<\/a> in Summer of 2026, priced at approximately \u20ac600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quray looks like a glowing sci-fi space rock and is played gesturally.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/11\/quray-performative-spatial-instrument-is-part-theremin-part-glowing-rock\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quray Performative Spatial Instrument Is Part Theremin, Part Glowing Rock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[4397,30604,36303,35841],"class_list":["post-153386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-instruments","category-midi-controllers","tag-gestural-control","tag-midi-controllers","tag-quray","tag-superbooth-2026"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/quray.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153389,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153386\/revisions\/153389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}