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.
Martin documents his experimentation with Arduino and realtime audio signal processing and generation – The first set of examples alter an incoming audio signal and put it back to an audio output. We achieve effects like Reverb, Phasor, Flanger or Ringmodulator. The second set of examples are outputting computed waveforms like Sinewave, Bell and Xylophone […]
“Sounds of Room” by Michel Dudek consists of several speakers and sensors in a space that echo the normal sounds of the building into a cacophonous chorus of daily activity in the space. Really interesting construction on this piece which looks like it’s part of an alien space craft. Sounds of Room Medianovercontrol via Bartholl
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Flickr member Aud1073cH turned a sweet thrift store find into something even better – I found this little battery powered amp at a second-hand store, and converted it to a “talker” by replacing the regular speaker with a compression driver (horn driver) that I pulled from a car alarm speaker. […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Steinway? nope. Matt the Modulator built this classy nano-baby grand from a kit, and an incredibly cute one at that. – elekit_piano2
Looking to enhance MIDI -> control voltage conversion for his x0xb0x synth/sequencer, Robin designed and built his own converter using Arduino and a 16-bit DAC chip – Having looked around the Arduino forums I found a lot of people using the PWM outputs on the Arduino and just running them through a low pass RC […]
Here’s an interesting acoustic sculpture by Jim Lee – he says it produces a “kind of choral moan reminiscent of a beehive”. Make sure you listen to the audio (links on his site), it’s a really cool sound.
This month’s Handmade Music event is shaping up to be a truly awesome hands-on showcase of sound maker bliss. Check out what’ll be on hand – Bizarre sonic objects made from dismembered mannequin torsos and legs, transformed into a Theremin and maracas Mouse & the Billionaire’s Gestural controllers, made with wood and 3D printers, shaping […]
