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.
Brokenjoe writes – Here`s a wacky little contraption that I put together that allows me to play a beat while playing the stand up bass using a snare brush through my fingers. Lightning Chance used to use something similar back in the fifties on the Grand Old Opry shows when they wouldn`t allow drummers there. […]
Will O’Brien posted this short how-to on Hack A Day because he says the site gets quite a few hits on posts about the Bose SoundDock portable speaker system. On my site, Street Tech, the review of the SoundDock also gets lots of traffic, so there appears to be a lot of SoundDock enthusiasts out […]
Jonah writes – This “Drive Tray Guitar” was built by a workshop participant during our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop held at Eyebeam in NYC last weekend. Basically it was built by integrating an old computer’s CD drive into the body of an acoustic guitar and using the “Ejection” mechanism to create a “strumming” function that […]
Amin Rahimi’s recorder project… Being the huge band geek that I am, I decided that my project should involve some kind of musical instrument. Given the limited time that I had to complete the project, I decided to have my computer play a simple Yamaha recorder that was sitting in one of my drawers. Because […]
Kittclark writes in – Music randomly generated by dipping ducks (AKA happy birds, drinking birds, dippy birds, happy ducks… etc). Using the basic parts of a keyboard, each duck is hooked up to a note of the octave. As their beak touches the water in the glass the circuit is completed and the sound is […]
Here’s a great gallery of mouse-turned-turnables! Alex writes – While scratching with the mouse usually sounds the way terminatorX users want it to (at least if the feedback I get is representative) it doesn’t really feel like scratching. The only way to get that traditional haptic feedback is to turn your turntable into a mouse […]
Here’s a wonderful junkyard organ from Popular Science 1939 – Discarded bottles, an old vacuum-cleaner motor, sections of inner tubing, and other objects salvaged from the scrap heap comprise the parts of a unique junk-yard organ recently exhibited at Atlantic City, N.J. Individual notes are sounded by air from the cleaner motor blowing across small […]
