Maker Faire Austin 2008 – Music
There was plenty of great music of all types at Maker Faire Austin this year. Check out some highlights and plan on attending Maker Faire next year!
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.
Build your own tube amplifier
Here’s another tube amplifier kit that is pretty easy to build with some basic electronics skills. These amps make nice living room ornaments although the transformers on the top should probably be avoided if you have young children. via UnPlggd
Polygonal robots for music (not just gaming)
CDM highlights this interesting approach to music sequencing. More than just incredibly-fun-looking music software, Al Jazari is an art performance and installation (which also appears to be high in fun) – Al-Jazari is livecoded entirely by gamepad, and employs a simple graphical language to allow robots to interact with each other and move over a […]
HOWTO – make an MP3 decoder
It’s funny how you can use a technology countless times and the knowledge of how it works can still rank somewhere between very little and zero. In the spirit of taking things apart and in the interest of getting to know everybody’s favorite media format in more intimate detail, Björn Edström dissected the MP3 format […]
How-to: Clay sweet potato ocarina
We posted about the digital ocarina that’s available for your iPhone. But what if you don’t have an iPhone? Make a traditional clay ocarina! Then again, if you don’t have a kiln it may be cheaper to just buy an iPhone. I wonder how well this would work with polymer clays like Fimo? The techniques […]
Arduino-controlled DAC creates the beats
This video shows a homebrew MIDI-CV box playing algorithmic acid from Max on a connected x0xb0x synched up to a Jomox drum machine with Live and Rewire connecting everything. The result is a pretty cool Arduino-controlled DAC, allowing one to send smooth (non-PWM) voltages into a 303, x0xb0x, or other voltage controlled synth. Check out […]
Rotary sequencer threatens to consume your soul …
… well it certainly looks capable of inducing ‘force choke’ at the very least. Either way – Thomas built this masterful ring of sequential synthesizer control around the 16-step sequencer project from MFOS. The prominent layout was created using Front Panel Express and design files are available on his site. But as with most complex […]