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.
Gio sent in a link to this interesting preamp. The builder was able to make the preamp with parts on hand. I’m not sure I would have the tubes, but the rest of the parts are fairly common. [Thanks Gio] I was pleased with how well it turned out, at 30 bucks it looks pretty […]
Flowers by Jan van Nuenen was created using a Monome controlling Ableton Live via a max/msp patch called boiingg. I really like the combining of music and video into one piece of performance art. Live generates a string of midinotes with velocity 0 to 20 and back to 0. The velocity channel is used to […]
Here’s a neat opportunity for you music makers out there, the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition by Georgia Tech, Wired, and Harmonix (the makers of Rock Band): INSTRUMENTS Any new musical instrument is eligible for the competition. Instruments may generate sound acoustically or electronically, they may exist in physical or virtual manifestations, and they may be […]
Dorkbot-sea December meeting is coming up: Haven’t you always wanted to take all those noisy, furry, half-broken toys in your closet, tear them apart and put them together as something just a little bit evil? Well, now’s your chance! Dorkbot and Santarchy are combining forces to host an evil toys workshop. If you bring electric […]
Joseph Casbaria’s Sequential Resonation Machine manipulates amplified sound via a (very custom) 12-position rotary switch on the console’s face – This switch is controlled by a variable speed DC motor. The signal path is accessed from the patch panel via switch jacks in the center of the panel (2 jack groups). Next, the user can […]
Gijs Gieskes’ experiements with sound and light continue with the animated Strobovj synched to Gameboy LSDJ sequencer clock signal. Features include – The left knob sets the speed for the rotating plate. The strobe frequency, and the bike lamps light are set in sequence, recorded with the knob with the two push buttons below it. […]
Siemprelaluna posted this fast-action build and installation of a MIDI2600 kit complete with soundtrack made with a Synthcart on the Atari console. [via Matrixsynth] More: Atari 2600 MIDI demo
