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.
CDM points out this vid from m~fischer exploring sounds created from varying pieces of a sample – the strange agency made this great little granular synthesis iphone application called curtis. it’s named for composer, author, granular synth advocate curtis roads. this is just a quick little thing i recorded using a captured bit of sound […]
The Nao-Min is one of the more unique instruments that I have come across. The sound is very Theremin-like and the controls are really clever. Check out the video below for more about how the Nao-Min works. And some more detailed video of how it works: A little more about Musical gadget: Nao-Min In the […]
Either it’s feeding time on the wire farm, or Leon Dewan is testing another one of his exquisite designs. Actually pretty sure it’s the latter as I do recall the Hymnotron at one of Dewanatron’s performances a while back. The completed lever-controlled instrument looked like some kind of religious furniture – about the size of […]
Pandaman0529 shares his steps for a very interesting guitar mod – So what exactly are scalloped frets? Scalloping a fretboard is when you remove wood from the fretboard so that when the guitar is played, the fingers only contact the string, not the wood underneath, eliminating massive amounts of friction. It is much easier to […]
Jack spends some quality tinkering time controlling a small keyboard with a Drawdio kit – This is the synaesthesia-sizer I invented for my girlfriend Kelsey. We’ll be giving a class on DIY pencil synthesizers at The Hacktory in Philadelphia on June 27th, 2009. Please come! I’m guessing that’ll be a fun class @ the Hacktory […]
Pure Data, or Pd as it’s known, is an open source, visually oriented programming environment similar to the popular MAX/MSP software. One of the only issues with going with free Pd is the scant amount of formal documentation available to newcomers. Thankfully, Johannes Kreidler’s loadbang Programming Electronic Music in Pd provides a bookfull of tutorials […]
This vid’s been making the rounds, featuring an unusual method for controlling old school games – theremin. Yup, theremin. From the video’s desciption – The sound from the theremin is split into its frequency and amplitude components in real time, which are then mapped to values in a linear scale representing the X and Y […]
