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.
Brooklyn musician Moldover shows his approach to converting a standard MIDI controller into something more suited to the fast-paced live loop manipulation – aka ‘controllerism‘. For a more in depth info on his hardware and software techniques be sure to check out Moldover’s Approach to Controllerism part 1 & part 2 [via Matrixsynth]
A skillful rendition of the classic Super Mario Bros theme as performed by Randy George on a Moog Etherwave Pro theremin with a bit of distortion added. – ooo6 on YouTube
In their video for Return of the Box, musical duo Beatrix*JAR demonstrate that circuit bending is not only fun – but a great way to bring couples closer together. Too cute! [via GetLoFi]
Sebastian built this new aesthetically enhanced version of his Toriton water surface music controller for display @ the South Australian Museum’s Science Week. Nice work – the copper pipe used seems to keep with the instrument’s elemental feel, and congrats on the much deserved recognition! – Toriton Version 1.5 More: – Toriton Plus: Water Surface […]
Architecture in Helsinki’s fully embroidered video for their song Like It Or Not as stitched by Mathematics. (somewhat reminiscent of Megan Whitmarsh’s work)
Matryomin is the unique, original erectronic musical instrument invented by Masami Takeuchi in 1999. It is a type of theremin – oldest electro-musical instrument invented in Russia – shaped Russian traditional wooden doll, Matrioshka. It hold form of Matrioshka perfectly, moreover, performing five octaves range. The distance of 1 octave at Low-Middle range is equal […]
Another cool piece of software from Murat Konar (who brought us the MacBS2), the “GarageRemote” is a free Mac OSX preference pane that allows the control of GarageBand’s transport functions from any MIDI Controller with programmable buttons. So if you’ve built a MIDI device, you can easily get GarageBand to listen to incoming noteon/noteoff messages […]
