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, weโll 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.
Dug North sent word of this interesting weight-driven music box – “Andante Grazioso” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / KV331) played by a “Mechanical Music Box in a Drawer” made from recycling materials found in electronic-waste, bulky trash and at home. That can must be somewhat thick in order achieve such a bell-like tone – an impressive […]
Jose Angel Olivares & Matthew Young’s Picture Me Rollinรขโฌโข – using your suitcase to play music Picture Me Rollin’ is a manufactured surface designed to produce beats as roller luggage is pulled across. Tones are produced as the wheels of the roller luggage encounter different textures, and these tones will be arranged in a way […]
Circuit bending is alive and doing well. This is a really cool hack of an Atari 2600, which happens to be a favorite system for a lot of people. I need to go into the attic and find my old 2600, then get a Synthcart. Synthcart is a cartridge for the Atari 2600 written by […]
I found my new favorite musical interface and it’s called the “Toriton Plus”. It’s a fairly simple concept that produces great results. A slightly more complex version of using a water surface as a music controller featuring five lasers instead of just the one. Please note that this is a prototype version, and as such […]
Anonymous pointed out this darn fine lookin’ MIDIBox64 PIC based controller. 12″x12″ Faux Walnut Case 16 Knobs 5 Faders 16 Arcade Buttons 32 MIDI controlled LED buttons A straight-up pro job – looks to support 4 players, even! – MIDIBox on Flickr Check the MIDIBox site for more info and a list of project code […]
In addition to being a novel oscillator source, speaker feedback can be a means of analog/digital signal exploration – Speaker Synth is a five-speaker array with no external audio input, created by Lesley Flanigan. The only components in the system are the instrument’s speakers, piezoelectric microphones, amplifying circuits, and the hands of the performer. Speaker […]
Bugbrand is running a workshop on building the above seen touch-contact instrument – a good-to-go self contained kit built on CMOS logic – 3 oscillators – two of which can be sync’d to Osc1 resulting in very rich harmonic drone sounds. Each osc has a switch for hi or lo pitch. The Oscs are all […]
