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.
Thunder Eagle guitars made a fun looking guitar from copper pipes and gears – The Villanizer started life as a Rhoads Jackson V. It’s not every day you take a band saw to a guitar that plays as well as this thing does. However, I had no distinct plan other then doing a mechanical look […]
Each digit of pi was assigned a note and then played to 1,000 places – it’s catchy! Link & more math songs here.
REMINDER: tranzducer – April 27th Brooklyn, NY – TONIGHT The aural bacchanalia that is TRANZDUCER @ LEMURplex is looking quite special this month. For TRANZDUCER.004, we’ve got international representation straight outta Poland, a few surprises in store, and as always: interactive art from LEMUR! Come down to LEMURplex on April 27th to see and hear […]
Here’s how to make a fun & simple wind instrument from a soda bottle – The plastic bottle, this common object of consumption, this vulgar domestic waste, can replace the noble bamboo to ape a wind organ. It only takes, with a pair of scissors, to carve a longitudinal “whistling” slit within the body of […]
Here’s a really cool AVR based MINI recorder that uses SD, and LCD and IR (remote) – [via] Link.
Jason over @ Hackszine shows you how to run an iTunes (DAAP) server in Linux with Firefly – Firefly, formerly mt-daapd, is an open source digital audio server that can stream your music library to iTunes. Linux appears to be the most supported platform, but there is also beta support for Mac OS X, Windows, […]
Hand crafted electronic musical instruments by Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan – – [via] Link.
