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.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Smadin made use of an old liquor bottle tube as an amplifier enclosure for the Ruby circuit – BalvenAmp on Flickr Related: Coconut amp From the pages of MAKE: Cracker Box Amplifier – MAKE: 09: Fringe, Page 104.
Chris Graham is prototyping a modular breath-controlled instrument – This is the finished design of the main types of MultiWind instruments: – The Mini Instrument (payable in many styles including brass, harmonica and breath controller). – The Woodwind style instrument, which is convertible from the Mini Instrument by snapping on the Finger Unit. I really […]
I assembled my Noise Toy kit knowing that I wanted to put it in some kind of enclosure, so I made sure to break out all the switches with wires. I found an old tea tin in my father’s shop and he helped me mount the circuit inside. We used a piece of wood to […]
wigidy-wigetty-Woah, Nintendo DS homebrew software has come a long way! DScratch is the first module made using my Protein engine – it’s a little audio manipulation software running on Nintendo DS, which ables you to play with an .wav audio sample, a recorded audio sample or even audio streaming from DS’s embedded mic; you can […]
The Dutch music research organization STEIM is responsible for exploring and redefining the boundaries of music making and performance – expanding old notions of instrumentation and interaction into elements many sound-makers focus on today. Unfortunately, the governmental department that helps fund STEIM doesn’t know about this – Things are not well at STEIM. We are […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Fibra is manufacturing custom buttons for what’s sure to be an excellent MIDI controller interface – the visual documentation alone is thoroughly enjoyable (and nearly hypnotic) – keep us posted! – Live MIDI Controller (noname) set on Flickr Related: HOW TO – Make your own illuminated buttons
Sound candy is a simple sampler device with playback triggered by an accelerometer – this can lead to many-a-funtime, as demonstrated thoroughly above. Oh I do say this would be fun to remake, perhps I’ll give it a go myself – Sound Candy on Califaudio
