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, weโll 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.
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 […]
Strannik converted 2 big ol’ fire extinguisher tanks into a pair of cylinder speakers. I bet they sound pretty hot! รขโฌยฆ ahem. A ton of build pics available in the original forum post
Remain Calm has a nice little roundup of homebrew music applications for use with Nintendo DS – ds music apps [via Matrixsynth]
Marc รขโฌลNostromoรขโฌย 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 itรขโฌโขs built, itรขโฌโขs still software platform, but I really enjoy working on this […]
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 […]
Dror provides us with a video tour of his excellently thorough homemade electronic drumkit. It’s a full performance system including sound synthesis and even the amplifier! Some good ideas here if you’re considering a diy kit yourself – In order to get the same feel with foot pedals i decide to use regular pedals and […]
An interesting Austin electronic music event tonight: Ai180: Art Institute of Austin DJ/Laptop Battle Saturday, Nov 1, 5pm 100 Farmers Circle, Austin, TX The Art Institute of Austin is calling all DJs and laptop musicians to come flex their skills at the inaugural Ai180. Battling through five rounds of competition, you better come prepared to […]
