I was trying to imitate the noise that usually happens when someone delivers a comedic punchline, you know, the high hat sound. I used a cheap desktop drumset.
This is a tesla coil high voltage discharge. For the technical it was made with a coil that uses a rotary spark gap giving a different sound to the high-voltage-discharge-1 clip that has more of a 'sizzle' to it. Recorded at a display i did at nottingham in 2013.