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.
Pete of Casper Electronics posted his picks for better bending on the classic Casio VL-Tone keyboard – Almost all of the bends in the VL-tone are achieved be creating amplifier feedback loops. There are no data glitches to be found. This means there are no random melody bends but lots of squealing distortion bends. Seems […]
One of my new faves is YouTube phenoms Pomplamoose, a musical duo composed of Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte. On their YouTube channel, they post what they call “VideoSongs,” quick and dirty (tho still quite professional) videos of them performing songs in their home studio. VideoSongs have two rules: 1. What you see is what […]
Attention NYC noise-lovers – Handmade Music Brooklyn returns at our new venue, Galapagos Art Space! Science fair, party, variety show – Handmade Music celebrates unusual DIY creations in music, with people who make their own tools to make their own music. This month, Galapagos Art Space means a stage, a bar, and a huge lineup […]
Sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar explains how to build a simple guitar, with amplifier, at a recent NY Resistor junk guitar workshop. [via Science Friday. Thanks, Sam Murphy!] How To Make A Junk Guitar More: All of our junk guitar coverage on MAKE
Make, mod, hack, and bend your own analog noise monster with the new Thingamagoop 2 kit from the Maker Shed! Great for beginners with it’s detailed instructions and photos of each step. Advanced users can taking advantage of the Arduino integration, control voltage in and out, or just bend it like crazy!
One interesting historical example of upcycled crafting is the bottleneck guitar- or as it is now widely known, slide guitar.
When fed a valid URL, CODEORGAN gets to work arranging an original, often quite danceable piece of music determined by several characteristics of the site’s HTML. So explaineth the CODEORGAN – THE CODEORGAN ANALYSES THE *BODY* CONTENT OF ANY WEB PAGE AND TRANSLATES THAT CONTENT INTO MUSIC. THE CODEORGAN USES A COMPLEX ALGORITHM TO DEFINE […]
