Ice records play glacier sounds
I like these ice records by artist Katie Paterson. She recorded sounds from a number of melting Icelandic glaciers, then pressed the recordings into ice to make single use records.
Music
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.
Bizarre polyphonic synth looks like it might have a pulse
Spotted over @ Matrixsynth, is this unusually fleshy-looking fingerboard synth known as the Imesco polifónico. Not much info aside from what the demo vids show us and some incidental descrips translated from YouTube- this is the same instrument that was introduced some time ago, now a little over, also lack enough practice since the video […]
More on the Scorelight line-following laser synth
A group effort from the minds and hands of Alvaro Cassinelli, Daito Manabe, Kuribara Yusaku & Ishikawa Masatoshi – scoreLight (we covered an earlier demo prior) can be seen above fascinating visitor’s to Tokyo’s Miraikan science museum – “scoreLight” is a prototype musical instrument capable of generating sound in real time from the lines of […]
Water drop sequencer
MÃ¥rten Bergkvist’s elegantly simple sequencer installation – The Water drop sequencer is an interactive sound installation. It creates sound by water drops falling on suspended iron bars with piezo elements attached. The viewer or performer can control which tones will be played by placing water bottles upside down in holes that are centred over the […]
Chumby in a book
Gary Watts built his Chumby Guts Kit into a hollowed-out book. Check out the other two photos at his Flickr. More: Build: Chumby Guts kit In the Maker Shed: Chumby Guts What’s a Chumby? Glad you asked! It’s an amazing little piece of technology that lets you get what’s best on the web and delivers […]
Hi-speed circuit bending
Klubmoozak posted this vid documenting a typical bending process, complete with scrap-paper schematics, enclosure dremeling, and a final product demo. [via Matrixsynth]
Curiously cool magnetic beat sequencer
[Warning – abruptly loud bits around the 1m50s mark] Dave Wright‘s Magneto-Conga percussion sequencer is just dripping with handmade DIY awesomeness – using three Hall Effect Sensors dc speaker is pulse width modulated for speed control mangets are placed on spinning mole can to make rhythms three channels – as many magnets are you can […]