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.

Vegetable Instrument Workshop

Vegetable Instrument Workshop

Yes I hereby proclaim this to be International Vegetable Music Week! Tyler of Oddinstrument shared pics from his Vegetable Instrument Workshop at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Attendees produced a number of auditory organics including a cucumber saxophone, coconut/carrot slide trumpet, and the butternut squash drum machine. More: Vegetable Orchestra performs & Carved […]

Pete Drake’s talking guitar

Musician/producer Pete Drake performs his song “Forever” with his steel guitar through a classic talkbox. A surreal and beautiful performance – the talkbox in use here is cool in and of itself! The freestanding design with handle is inspiring and simple talkboxes are pretty easy to make. [via Boing Boing] More: HOW TO – build […]

Anthony’s busted ipod

Anthony’s busted ipod

After school today, Matt and Anthony came in with Anthony’s busted Ipod Video. They asked me how good I was at fixing iPods. Never having been inside an iPod before, I replied, “well let’s see what you’ve got.” It appears that the back came off the ipod, and now it was bricked. Anthony was pretty […]