Giant Oil Drum Music Box
Artist Adel Abdessemed’s Music Box was featured in his 2009 Rio exhibition at New York’s David Zwimer gallery. You can see it moving, and hear it playing in the background, of the embedded video interview with Abdessemed.
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, 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.
Music Synthesis Added to Conway’s Game of Life
Dr. John Conway’s cellular automation simulation, the Game of Life has been accentuated with some 8-bit beeps and boops! This project, uploaded by YouTube user golece576, was run on an Altera Cyclone II FPGA. [Via Embedded Ppojects
Collin’s Lab: DIY Contact Mic
It’s amazing what a little disk can do โฆ when it’s layered with piezoelectric crystals. Piezo disks are impressively sensitive to vibration and can easily be adapted to work as a contact microphones. The trick is the preamp – a basic circuit used to match the piezo’s signal to levels compatible with modern audio gear inputs. The resulting piezo/preamp combo can be used for electrifying an acoustic guitar or simply exploring the lesser-heard world of small sound around us.
Kit-A-Day Giveaway – SAGA S-Style Guitar Kit
To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season. Today’s giveaway is for a SAGA S-Style Guitar Kit.
Minidoc of Circuit Bender Jamie Laboz
This video was created by a group of college students from the University of Arizona (nicely done, guys!) and details circuit bender Jamie Laboz of Chamber of Sounds.
DIY Contact Mic – Collin’s Lab
It’s amazing what a little disk can do … when it’s layered with piezoelectric crystals. Piezo disks are impressively sensitive to vibration and can easily be adapted to work as a contact microphones. The trick is the preamp – a basic circuit used to match the piezo’s signal to levels compatible with modern audio gear inputs. The resulting piezo/preamp combo can be used for electrifying an acoustic guitar or simply exploring the lesser-heard world of small sound around us.
Kit-A-Day Giveaway: Thingamagoop 2
Today’s giveaway is a Thingamagoop 2 analog noise monster (value at $110). Here’s the first part of John Baichtal’s review of the Thingamagoop 2 from the Guide…
