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.
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The “Sound of Light ” by Matthew Fernandez is a case made for a flourescent tube light that was made by recording and graphic 1 second of the “hum” sound produced by the light. The pattern was made by laser cutting clear acrylic and 50 layers of the substance were uses where each layer corresponds […]
A free album of music created with KORG’s Nintendo DS synth software is now available courtesy of MP3death.us – KORG DS 10 Synthensizer compiliation
