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.
The Dutch music research organization STEIM is responsible for exploring and redefining the boundaries of music making and performance – expanding old notions of instrumentation and interaction into elements many sound-makers focus on today. Unfortunately, the governmental department that helps fund STEIM doesn’t know about this – Things are not well at STEIM. We are […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Fibra is manufacturing custom buttons for what’s sure to be an excellent MIDI controller interface – the visual documentation alone is thoroughly enjoyable (and nearly hypnotic) – keep us posted! – Live MIDI Controller (noname) set on Flickr Related: HOW TO – Make your own illuminated buttons
Sound candy is a simple sampler device with playback triggered by an accelerometer – this can lead to many-a-funtime, as demonstrated thoroughly above. Oh I do say this would be fun to remake, perhps I’ll give it a go myself – Sound Candy on Califaudio
In case papercraft’s not sturdy enough for ya – check out these little synth pieces – Micromundo Arts [via Matrixsynth]
Santi writes in with these surprisingly nice cinder block speakers – Okay, I know what you’re saying. Cinder blocks as furniture are for starving students and heavy beer-drinking guys that never grew up. Well, I’m not going to argue with that. But with a little extra preparation, I think that you can make some pretty […]
The electronic peasant has an interesting project, prime for audio investigators – There are a number of different ways to send vibrations travelling down a spring, but most spring reverbs use torsional (rotational) motion, which is less sensitive to interference from external vibrations. Here is an experiment that The Peasant did with a Slinky Jr […]
Here’s an interesting vid of an omnichord modification – this new take seems to allow easier access to the instrument’s individual touch controls. What’s an omnichord, you ask? In a nutshell – it’s sort of an electronic version of an autoharp. A chord button is pressed on one side of the instrument, allowing the user […]
