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 Axio music controller designed by Brad Cariou at the University of Calgary back in the early 90s. From the YouTube description – I designed the electronics and firmware for the chording keyboard in this alternative MIDI controller in the early 90’s. It was made using a set of Yamaha DX7 key contacts. These contacts […]
MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink has posted the details on the building of his recent cigar box guitar. Cigar Box Guitar Speaking of cigar boxes, check out this cool cigar box amp posted (sadly, with no additional info) on Cigar Box Nation (via Dinosaurs and Robots). More: See all of the cigar box projects on Make: […]
Gijs writes: This sequencer scans images, and plays the image as 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 the higher […]
Seems the Lizards Liquid Lounge in Chicago is the place to be this Saturday – The Midwest Experimental Electronics Showcase features a nice lineup including several sound makers we’ve mentioned here in the past – Tim Kaiser (as seen on Make: television) Talking Computron (of GetLoFi) Todd Michael Bailey (EE madman, creator of the WTPA […]
MAKE subscriber Luke BrownGold makes the bending experience a bit more accessible to the younger set – Currently I am attending Parsons school of Design. This is a prototype for a toy called the BachBot 9000. It is made children who may be too young to get into circuit bending. Made with an arduino the […]
Aaron ALAI’s interactive sound piece, titled Stochasticity, explores the contrasrt of imprecise human behavior against rigid techological systems – and it looks like fun too. When someone uses my art piece they are directly interacting with a very precise electronic tool. It produces musical tones based on the amount of resistance sensed in trails of […]
Eric Beug posted up this awesome footage from the last Handmade Music event here in Brooklyn. It includes some great detail shots of E-Squared & Pete Edwards instruments in use. [via Create Digital Music] … and just in case you missed it, here’s the video I grabbed from the event –
