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.
Gijs wrote in to tell us about his Acid Machine, a synthesizer instrument with an interesting method for visual display – The circle with the lines that you see on the top of the machine, rotates and displays the note you are playing. When you play a C the lines in the middle circle will […]
Highly Liquid is selling a kit to add MIDI input to one of Casio’s classic keyboards, the VL-1 aka “VL-Toneâ€. Could be a lot fun for owners/benders of the little white instrument. – VL-1-MIDI
This busker from Bath, England built his own bandmate, a mechanical guitar player, strummed and fretted by foot-control. An elegant solution for sure … but who’s gonna take turns driving the van?
Musician Mark Growden plays many instruments, but here he demonstrates a particularly unusual one – bicycle handlebars. Note there are no holes or other modification added to the tube – the voice is controlled simply by hand and mouth. With some dedication to practice, the handlebars could be a choice instrument for the bicycling busker […]
Jeff made a fun Flash app that lets you listen to the price of a stock, he writes… So, my boy Mike Nathanson and I wore our brains on our sleeves at Flashcamp this weekend. We dreamed up a sweet idea of listening to stock prices, which we dubbed MoneyTalks. It uses the new SampleDataEvent […]
Here’s a sweet example of a circuit-bent TR707 drum machine. Perhaps ‘modified’ is a more appropriate term as the added pitch controls seem more practical than exploratory. [via Matrixsynth]
Alex built this optical square wave synth inspired by the work have Bleep labs. Nice removable LED tentacles! – opto_synth
