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.
Musician Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Talking Heads, Zappa, NIN, Bowie, Paul Simon, the list goes on and on) has posted a contest on his site to “finish” one of the songs downloadable from his website: If Fall gets your creative firepit stoked like it does mine, you’re ready for our SMARTIE songwriting contest. here’s the […]
Duluth performance artist Tim Kaiser coaxes foreign sounds from far-fetched equipment made by hand.
Designed by Paul Sobczak, Peter Arendt, and James Pachan — The Midi Foot is a foot controlled switch box that interfaces with a computer via Midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) – Link.
Have you made a flower out of currency this weekend? Get to it! I’m still waiting to see some creative currency in the Make: Flickr Pool Video – Link PDF – Link Subscribe – Link In other news, I posted an mp3 of the music I made for this video and some folks sent in […]
uC Hobby has posted the second installment of their Arduino sound articles. This is the second in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The first article covered the various methods available for sound generation with an Arduino. In this article we take a small step; “Hello World” for Arduino sound. We […]
A Make: Blog reader, garydion, posted this in response to my Making Arduino sing piece: On the topic of music on microprocessors, be sure to check out this site where a wavetable synthesizer is programmed into an Atmel ATtiny45. Amazing! I had to download the code and program a chip to confirm it really does […]
On uC Hobby, they’re beginning a series on bringing sound to Arduino: This is the first in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The goals are to generate good quality sound which can be used to play simple tones, stored music, sampled sound, and even act as a MIDI synthesizer. I […]
