Gothic gongs
Percussionist and Metal Sculptor Steve Hubback creates gong instruments in many varied shapes and sizes – often exploring medieval and gothic themes. Check out the gallery pages on his site – Very metal!
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.
Programmable effects pedal – ToneCore DSP dev kit
Guitar effects manufacturer Line 6 collaborated with Freescale semiconductor to develop a Windows-based programming interface for their modular digital effects pedals. They’ve just released the software along with a writable hardware module as the ToneCore DSP development kit. This could be a great and relatively affordable way to experiment with DSP for those interested. The […]
Cave crabs create cute cacophony
Jimmie P. Rodgers explains his Creepy Cave Crab light/noise synths – I made these for the Willoughby and Baltic Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. They use a single Hex Schmitt trigger inverter IC to generate the sound, and two RGB color change LED to generate the lights. I then encased them […]
Fire extinguisher speakers
Strannik converted 2 big ol’ fire extinguisher tanks into a pair of cylinder speakers. I bet they sound pretty hot! … ahem. A ton of build pics available in the original forum post
DS music apps
Remain Calm has a nice little roundup of homebrew music applications for use with Nintendo DS – ds music apps [via Matrixsynth]
Arduino synth dreams
Marc “Nostromo†Resibois wrote up a nice piece on Arduino for portable sound synthesis over @ CDM, referencing the Arduino Pocket Piano kit. My first hands-on with hardware was when I started fiddling with the Arduino piano. You might argue that once it’s built, it’s still software platform, but I really enjoy working on this […]
Spectrographic imagery in music
Recalling talk of visuals embedded in a track by electronic experimentalist Aphex Twin, Bastwood decided to take a closer look – First I needed to extract the track from the Windowlicker CD, which was easy with CDex. The extraction of the whole track was not really necessary because the “face” is situated at the very […]