How-To: Make a willow whistle
Nothing says springtime like a green twig willow whistle. Put some garlands in your hair and dance around the maypole.
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.
Sweet sounds of the Drone Lab
Peter Edwards of Casper Electronics brings us this thick, rich, 15-knobbed synth box known as the Drone Lab – This is the new Casperelectronics Drone Lab. The Drone Lab is an analog sound module specially designed for making dense, rich drones. This is a video of three going at once. For more info including ordering […]
World premiere of brain orchestra
The Multimodal Brain Orchestra performs by way of brainwave controlled sound synthesis – Two of the performers were given a task to watch a screen in front of them, with flashing rows and columns of letters, and told to look for a particular letter. When expectation is fulfilled, 300 thousandths of a second later, a […]
Gakken synth guitar mod
YouTuber Startwave’s SX-150 guitar is rather excellent – a quick and terrible demonstration of my modded sx-150. i replaced the original slide thingy with a softpot from trossen robotics and i added an fsr (force sensitive resistor) to control volume or crazy resonance distortion (if the res is switched on). sounds nice, very expressive and […]
Peacock sampler instrument
From the MAKE Flickr pool Arduino co-founder David Cuartielles shares pics of his new interface for sound exploration, the Peacock – It is an instrument for live performace or personal exploration of both live and digitized sounds. You can get sound from an SD card or record it through its mic-in. The sound will be […]
The elliptical Stella sequencer
From the MAKE Flickr pool JoeLMutantE’s DIY step sequencer looks about as high-end as it gets. Dubbed the Project Stella, the rack-mountable monster was created as an antidote to standard linear interfaces – Stella is an analog step sequencer based on an old P3 sequencer kit. It has been made trying to make some different […]
Beautiful OLED synth/controller interface
urrently in beta, the OP-1 from Teenage Engineering is an ultra-portable synthesizer and USB controller with an acute attention to detail.