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.
This “Flying Saucer Amplifier” was built by kids in a class called “Building Music” where the objective was to build instruments and amplfiers from recycled materials. Check out all of the designs and a viseo at the link below. guitars, amplifiers and oscillators built by kids
This is a very simple hack that allows you to plug a guitar or microphone into you computer. It can’t possibly cost more than a couple of dollars, and it shouldn’t take more than an hour to complete. You can buy external boxes that do this and a lot more, but that’s no fun! Read […]
This is a really nice flickr photo set that describes how to hack you car stereo. It seems like everyone has an MP3 player, but not everyone has an AUX input in his or her car. After having two newer radios stolen from my car, my dad was nice enough to send me the original […]
Designed as a multiplayer version of his skittle-based sequencer, Kyle McDonald created this camera-driven beat making setup using webcam, projector, and openFrameworks based software. Since it’s deriving data from each phone’s lit screen, it would seem this could become a flashlight-based sequencer with ease. Info on Vimeo – I See Beats More: I Eat Beats […]
Niklas turns a commonly silent digital process into music – This is an experiment, where I count one byte up – from 00000000 to 11111111. Decimal spoken, this is from 0 to 255. I have assigned a sound to each bit and when it switches from 0 to 1, the sound is played. “Music is […]
Gearwire sits down for a talk with Mr. Qubais Reed Ghazala, widely regarded as the father of circuit-bending. Ghazala speaks at length as to the origins and popularity of bending’s most iconic project – the modified Texas Instruments Speak & Spell, aka the Incantor.
The Automaton plugin from Audio Damage uses the rules of cellular automata for sequence and manipulation of audio. It’s AU/VST format compatible and comes with four built-in effects, each with independently customizable behavior. Life simulating algorithms are being used for generative music more and more lately, and for good reason. These techniques can add evolving […]
