Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
The “Visible Sound” project attempts to create a physical version of the sound around it by sewing sound waves in realtime. Although this was just a concept, we like ways of making invisible objects like sound waves into tangible forms. visible Sound
Continue ReadingThe Image Scanning Sequencer uses photocells with Arduino to generate streams of MIDI notes – It uses LDRs to measure the gray-scale of specific point of a image, and triggers midi notes from a selected threshold. When the threshold is reached the velocity will be set by the darkness at that point. the darker point […]
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Michael Una brings us the Beep-It optically controlled squarewave generator in a petri dish enclosure – This minimalist electronic musical instrument eschews esoteric interface in favor of intuitive, expressive control. One button turns the device on or off, which can produce a continuous tone or a rhythmic sequence. One sensor varies pitch of the output […]
Continue Reading“C3 Loops” by Swedish researcher Rikard Lindell is a single-point touch screen that allows users to navigate around a virtual plane playing audio and video clips. Check out the video to watch the interface in action running on a Macbook. Rikard Lindell via Pete’s Sonic Art Research
Continue ReadingCurious Inventor has just released the Stribe touch LED controller project as a modular kit – Each Stribe1 has a touch strip and double column of LEDs that can display and control music and video programs. Multiple Stribe1’s can be daisy-chained together to form a low-res, multi-touch display. Use with Max/MSP or other software to […]
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Bogged down by that big old oscillating clunker? Feel the freedom of the SIG Theremin Watch! (Hmmm, I’d be interested in seeing how a wearable theremin antennae performs) Now all we need is the dual mounted helmet version to complete the set. From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Mini-Theremin
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This mod shows how to wire together a Fender Mustang guitar with new switches, pickups, pots, input jacks, and capacitor. Check out the modded switches on the front face in the picture above. Although we wish the aesthetic look of this guitarwas better, this maker has documented the entire process down to the last strum. […]
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