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.
The O’Reilly Digital Media Center has a fun how to on making Cylon-y sounding voices – “You’ve heard their smoothly sexy yet alien voices. Vocoders are devices that make ordinary sounds sing or speak recognizable words. In this hands-on tutorial, Jim Aikin explains how vocoders perform their magic and how to set up your own […]
At a recent conference I met Joel Greenberg and saw that he made a great homemade windscreen, I asked him to cook up a how to, and he did! – this fuzzy project can cut wind noise for a fraction of the price of professional models. – Link.
That’s a nice dress you have, why thank you, I sung it myself! – “An Australian digital artist is using his voice to design textiles. Pierre Proske has developed computer software that translates different frequencies in someone’s voice into spiral patterns, producing what he calls ‘voiceprints’.” – Link. Related: DigitalStar – Link.
Susan writes – “Marie O’Connell writes a guest-article on Richard Hess’s blog about audio tape restoration. O’Connell’s piece is mind-blowing for its ingenuity. She solved the problem of Sticky Shed Syndrome with an IV bag, tubing, piano felt, windshield wipers, and a tape deck… oh, and of course, isopropyl alcohol.” – Link.
Wired has an article about some Makers who got tired of waiting for satellite radio to get to their phones / mobile devices, so they did it themselves – “Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius onto their cell phones. But as the two […]
But wait, there’s more! More music collaboration over the web! Tyler says – “NINJAM is a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for […]
This looks like a lot of fun! – ” Just plug any digital instrument – a MIDI-enabled keyboard, a MIDI-enabled guitar or MIDI-enabled bass, MIDI-enabled drums, or a MIDI-enabled wind-controller — into your PC or Mac computer, fire up the eJamming Station and we’re connecting you over the Internet to a whole world of musicians […]
