Open Music Labs on Piezos
Here’s a tutorial from Open Music Labs on piezo transducers.
Music
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.
Codec Shield by Open Music Labs
One of our audio hardware contributors, David Cranor, is super-enthused about the Open Music Labs’ Audio Codec Shield.
NTH Hackable Synthesizer
Columbus, OH makers Kevin Holland and John Staskevich have built a seemingly fun to play hackable synth using a PIC microcontroller, 8-bit DAC, and analog low-pass filter. It includes an integrated step sequencer and simple, intuitive controls. The device was built with hacking in mind, so you’ll also get a spare hardware DAC channel, on-board […]
Gutted Guitar Reborn as Spice Rack
A guitar will often die a slow death by peeling its own wood bottom from the glue that binds it to the rest of the body. This might very well relegate the instrument to firewood, but Asaf Tz’rtkof saw potential in the exposed brace work.
A Scanner, a Calculator, an Atari, and a Hard Drive Walk into a Karaoke Bar…
http://vimeo.com/33181232 …and after several rounds of zinc whiskers, take to the stage for a rousing if slightly off-key rendition of The Animals’ 1964 version of The House of The Rising Sun. From Vimeo user PURETUNE, who writes: For this video i recorded each instrument separately with a decent stereo mic and i also used a […]
The Modular Electronic Drums of Nick Yulman
Nick Yulman, of NY Soundworks, recently debuted debuted his Index Boogie performance piece at PS1. The piece consists of various solenoid-powered noise makers, which Yulman calls either “Surface Poppers” or “Drum Beaters”. They’re designed to be modular music devices that can easily be mated to virtually any inanimate object.
Half Hour Headphone Hat
Winter has fully arrived in Massachusetts. While digging through our “Hats” box today, I happened upon a flappy number from last year. Santa recently brought me some cheap headphones, and a few amplified speakers too (but those are for another project). Tonight turned out to be the time to merge the two into a Headphone […]
