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.
CDM highlights this interesting approach to music sequencing. More than just incredibly-fun-looking music software, Al Jazari is an art performance and installation (which also appears to be high in fun) – Al-Jazari is livecoded entirely by gamepad, and employs a simple graphical language to allow robots to interact with each other and move over a […]
It’s funny how you can use a technology countless times and the knowledge of how it works can still rank somewhere between very little and zero. In the spirit of taking things apart and in the interest of getting to know everybody’s favorite media format in more intimate detail, Björn Edström dissected the MP3 format […]
We posted about the digital ocarina that’s available for your iPhone. But what if you don’t have an iPhone? Make a traditional clay ocarina! Then again, if you don’t have a kiln it may be cheaper to just buy an iPhone. I wonder how well this would work with polymer clays like Fimo? The techniques […]
This video shows a homebrew MIDI-CV box playing algorithmic acid from Max on a connected x0xb0x synched up to a Jomox drum machine with Live and Rewire connecting everything. The result is a pretty cool Arduino-controlled DAC, allowing one to send smooth (non-PWM) voltages into a 303, x0xb0x, or other voltage controlled synth. Check out […]
… well it certainly looks capable of inducing ‘force choke’ at the very least. Either way – Thomas built this masterful ring of sequential synthesizer control around the 16-step sequencer project from MFOS. The prominent layout was created using Front Panel Express and design files are available on his site. But as with most complex […]
Martin documents his experimentation with Arduino and realtime audio signal processing and generation – The first set of examples alter an incoming audio signal and put it back to an audio output. We achieve effects like Reverb, Phasor, Flanger or Ringmodulator. The second set of examples are outputting computed waveforms like Sinewave, Bell and Xylophone […]
“Sounds of Room” by Michel Dudek consists of several speakers and sensors in a space that echo the normal sounds of the building into a cacophonous chorus of daily activity in the space. Really interesting construction on this piece which looks like it’s part of an alien space craft. Sounds of Room Medianovercontrol via Bartholl
