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.
Plan-K-Troniks demos this unique mod for the Gakken SX-150 analog synthesizer – a green plasma disc, used to control sound via contact with the stylus. Great – now on to the Gakken Tesla coil! SX-150 Analog Synthesizer Kit
Continue ReadingThe by-no-means-subtle flash and racket of Zippy’s squarewave cylinder – …here’s my brand new homemade analog synth, inspired by the Thingamagoop, but designed from scratch by Zippy. It’s controlled by three mercury tilt-switches and of course, buttons-and-knobs. Fun to play! The sound changes as you rotate the thing. It’s brain is seven square-wave oscillators: three […]
Continue ReadingLorin Parker of Electric Western demonstrates his Phantastron vacuum-tube sound synthesizer under the control of electric guitar rendering “magic sub-octaves” matching sub-octaves in the process. I have witnessed firsthand what the Phantastron does to a guitar signal, it is both brutal and beautiful!
Continue ReadingThis video for bike virgins runs through all of the parts and nomenclature of a 10-speed bike. The soundtrack to the video was done by bangin’ and clangin’ bike parts. It reminded me of that classic Frank Zappa appearance on The Steve Allen Show where Frank and Steve played bicycles. Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners [via […]
Continue ReadingAssembly of the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit @ warp-speed – complete with error correction! Mini-Theremin
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Cute little set of “ghetto speakers” make from four disposable waters cups and toothpicks. Something for the kids to do on a rainy day, not as a replacement for your Bose (or your Altec Lansing). CupSpeakers [via Dinosaurs and Robots]
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Sebastian made a hardware-only (no microcontroller) drum machine – I wanted to make a device that plays back digital audio, without the use of any programming or a microcontroller or a computer. In other words, the most basic rompler, as a hardware-only device. I’m continually impressed by the complex breadboarding I see in projects like […]
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