Garden instuments voting now!
There’s still time to vote for your favorite garden instrument over on Oddstrument.com. There are some really creative entries!
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.
Electric musical saw
Make pal Mad Maxine sent me this video of musician T.J. Hill playing his electric musical saw – a 26″ Stanley hand saw with a contact mic, run through his guitar effects and amped to 11, I believe.
Trumpet marine on Governor’s Island
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ranjit posted this excellent video of his wind-driven string insrument, Trumpet Marine, performing at Gevernor’s Island NYC as part of the Figment festival. Those sparse notes make for an interesting contrast to the corwded Manhattan skyline, no? – trumpet marine at figment 2008
MAKE Flickr pool MIDI party
A bunch of cool MIDI projects have shown up in our photo pool of late, time to catch up on the goings-on – Recotana posted this new controller design sporting an ATMEGA16 and transparent case. – USB MIDI controller trial make D.St-Amand is currently working on this sleek and compact controller design – the board’s […]
Making music with Arduino roundup @ CDM
Create Digital Music’s Michael Una posted a nice roundup of Arduino sound synth projects, including Octopusss circuit bend seen above and even one from myself :) There’s definitely a lot of interest interest in this area of Arduino dev, which makes sense considering the platform was developed with artists in mind. I’m sure we’ll be […]
Pipe organ chair brings new sound to seating
Musical chairs anyone? eh? … Verizon’s How 2.0 brings another interesting DIY music project to the table, fitting a set of organ pipes and bellows to a seat. Prolonged operation of the instrument would likely provide a bit of a workout. Skip ahead to ~2m50s to hear it sound-off. Build details available here – Pipe […]
Leather & snakeskin MIDI controller wearable
NYC electronic artist Rucyl Mills hacked an M-Audio USB MIDI controller into the fashionably wearable Elektro-07 music controller – I built the elektro-07 so I could control the sonic and visual parameters of my live performances without having to look deep into the eye of my laptop, hunched over in computer music stance. I’m still […]