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.
If you’re only somewhat aware of what circuit bending is–or have no idea!–be sure to watch BEND: Short documentary on circuit bending created by Greg and Tim Andresen of Greater Sirens with Nick Petterson and Thomas McColskey for one of their classes at Expression College. It features interviews with Dmitri SFC, Derek Sajbel (a.k.a. Dr. […]
Cristian Martรญnezโs Kraft Test Drummie and Robert Plant electronic musical instruments are super cool, and were even winners of the Made of Imagination contest in the category of Homemade Instrument. From the contest site: Cristian Martรญnezโs submission is a modified toy affixed with metal sponges, car antennas, and crocodiles clips. He is accompanied by his […]
Arboration controls a projected landscape based on the musical input of the user.
Learn how to take a guitar or bass with a broken headstock and flip it around. Build a headless guitar!
Sebastian Tomczak is able to control a servo directly from Ableton using a Teensy.
Bringing their Radiophonic Workshop to the web, the BBC attempt to recreate their classic Wobbulator and Ring Modulator sounds online, using JavaScript and HTML5.
Amanda Ghassaei built this fun Arduino-powered noisemaker: The glitchbox is a sample-based drum machine used for live audio or MIDI sequencing. The buttons on the front of the instrument play back nine audio samples stored in its memory. A switch on top records and loops sequences of these samples. Once a sequence is recorded, additional […]
