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.
Brian writes – Inspired by the wealth of hard-drive recycling ideas on hacked-gadgets and the >springverb research posted at Electronic Peasant. When looking at both these pages… this hack becomes pretty obvious. It helps that i had all the materials laying around already. Hard drive spring “speaker” – [via] Link.
Incredible! The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share … all » complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic […]
This MIDI Decoder from Highlyliquid is for DIY filter circuits, circuit bending, and MIDI-to-DIN sync conversion – Link.
Here’s a bit more about the “beat blocks” by Jeff Hoefs that were at the ETSY/MAKE handmade music night – Beat Blocks is a tangible interface for a rhythm sequencer. The user is able to create and manipulate an 8-track drum loop (4 tracks in the featured prototype) on the fly by physically re-arranging blocks […]
From The Amazing Rolo: This weekend I finished the Wii Loop Machine software that I started a few weeks ago. It’s a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time. It’s now ready for download as a standalone application…if you have a Mac with OSX (10.4.8 or […]
Alan writes BillaBoop is a real-time audio driven drum controller. It was created by Amaury Hazan who is a PhD Student at the Music Technology Group and is specialized in Machine Learning and its applications in the Music Technology field – BillaBoop is a real-time audio driven drum controller which allows the user to control […]
Randofo writes – After making a few Telephone Handset Microphones I came to realize that all of these handsets had perfectly good speakers that were not being put to good use. I set out to correct this problem. This is the natural solution. Sockphones are socks that are headphones. The sound quality isn’t the best, […]
