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.
One of the coolest things I saw at Maker Faire New York was a performance by Tuvan throat singer Liron Peled and human beatbox artist Adam Matta. Tuvan throat singing is an ancient vocal technique practiced by the Tuva people of southern Siberia. Human beatboxing, imitating percussion sounds with the voice, grew out of hip […]
No discussion of the sights and sounds of Maker Faire would be complete without mention of the innovative music represented.
Amanda Ghassaei made a vocal effects box that digitizes the human voice using the granular synthesis function on Arduino.
Musician Kid Koala has released a limited edition CD and LP set of his new album 12 Bit Blues. Included is a working cardboard turntable that the buyer gets to assemble her/himself.
In this post Shawn Greenlee writes about his experience getting the Pure Data real-time audio synthesis tool working with Processing. Shawn is a musician and Foundation faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Take it away Shawn: Lately I’ve been using libPd and Processing to prototype audio apps for iOS on my […]
The Molecule Synth offers the elemental components of a traditional keyboard synthesizer โ a speaker & amp, a sound generator, and a pitch controller โ but presents those elements as pieces that you arrange (and rearrange!) in various combinations to create your own musical device.
This project consists of separate solar circuits that store energy and trigger motors and electronic oscillators in an arrhythmic sequence which is regulated both by the amount of light in the room and by variances in the individual circuits
