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.
The iPhone is proving to be quite a platform for portable music apps. This new digital ocarina from Smule aims to convert Apple’s wonder-phone into an expressive and nuanced instrument all its own – The Ocarina synthesizes sound in real-time, just like a regular instrument, based on actual gestures including wind input, tilt, and finger […]
I’m really digging Zebranalogic’s Circular Oscillator enclosure design – the layout/shape is unusual and cool – but the transparency and visible PCBs just seal the deal – Circular Oscillator VII [via Matrixsynth]
4 track voice recorder for iPhone… via Wired.
The eyeSequencer creates ambient music from the unique pattern of the human iris – Every now and then you see some particullary beautiful eyes … some of them inspired me to use images of eyes to create musical material. I wrote a little framework/application in Processing to help me analyse the image. “Scanners” circulate in […]
I’m happy to announce that the Gakken SX-150 Analog Synthesizer kit is now available in our Maker Shed. This sweet little synth is about the size of a large sandwich but sounds a whole lot more awesome. It sports controls for resonance, attack/decay, cuttoff filter, pitch envelope, has an external control input along with built-in […]
Paul Slocum’s “Pi House Generator” creates an evolving soundtrack of house music which goes on forever(almost) – The software progressively calculates the sequence of digits in pi, starting at 3.14 and progressing towards infinity. As the program calculates the digits, it feeds the results into an algorithmic music generator containing my structural criteria for house […]
Percussionist and Metal Sculptor Steve Hubback creates gong instruments in many varied shapes and sizes – often exploring medieval and gothic themes. Check out the gallery pages on his site – Very metal!
