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[[Image:singingteslacoil.jpg|thumb|right|ArcAttack's singing Tesla coil at SXSW, March 14, 2007]]The term "singing Tesla coil" was coined by David Nunez, the coordinator of the [[Austin, Texas]] chapter of [[Dorkbot]], while describing a musical Tesla coil presentation by Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves during DorkBot's 2007 [[SXSW]] event. The term was then made popular by a CNET article describing the event.<ref>{{cite web|last=Terdiman |first=Daniel |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9696332-1.html |title=The singing tesla coils |publisher=Crave - CNET |date=2007-03-10 |accessdate=2013-10-28}}</ref> They had been doing public performances with the technology since March 2006.<ref>[http://austinist.com/2006/03/27/art_outside_the_pulse_of_austins_creative_community.php] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309132842/http://austinist.com/2006/03/27/art_outside_the_pulse_of_austins_creative_community.php|date=March 9, 2012}}</ref> Shortly after that, DiPrima named their performance group "[[ArcAttack]]" and became the first musical group to ever use this technology in live performance.<ref>{{cite web|last=Terdiman |first=Daniel |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9921650-52.html |title=ArcAttack brings singing Tesla coils to the masses |publisher=Geek Gestalt - CNET News |date=2008-04-17 |accessdate=2013-10-28}}</ref>
[[File:StarWarsMainThemeOnTeslaCoil.webm|thumb|[[Star Wars (Main Title)|Star Wars theme]] performed on a tesla coil, [Rankine Generating Station|Niagara Parks Power Station]], 2024]]
Early versions of musical Tesla coils generally used [[zero crossing threshold detector]]s as a method of producing music through their spark output, an example of this circuit was released by ctc-labs.de in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009|title=Musical SSTC/DRSSTC interrupter|url=https://kaizerpowerelectronics.dk/tesla-coils/musical-sstcdrsstc-interrupter/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105015424/http://www.ctc-labs.de:80/html/body_musical_drsstc.html|archive-date=5 November 2011|access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref> Scott Coppersmith was the first person to design a complete MIDI-based Tesla coil system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2006/Apr/msg00667.html |title=Fwd: MIDI (68HC11) controlled DRSSTC - TeslaPhonic Organ Project |publisher=Pupman.com |date=2006-04-27 |accessdate=2013-10-28}}</ref>
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