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.
Bozai writes – This is one of my DIY works. It uses a mp3/wma/wav/mid decode chip VS1003, ATmega8L and SD card. It supports various bitrate music file. Supports both FAT16 and FAT32. For the reason of space, resource the screen was not added. But a couple of LED were used to indicate the state. :: […]
Peter writes- Bob Collier has been reimagining thumb pianos, making his own instruments into unusual cases (camera and jewelry cases), adding fake fur, and integrating features like “self-sampling” voice recorders, amps, and speakers. With some light effects, the instruments take on entirely new characters, and he’s worked up a mind-boggling number of variations on the […]
Matt wrote in with his article for the instrument he to his local Dorkbot music event in Columbus last week, he writes – This project started as an instrument for Sonic Tooth, our local Dorkbot music event. I was looking for something where you could put any sound into the mix. As an instrument, it’s […]
This my new favorite circuit bend/music mod, worms. Ashfordaisyak writes – Here we see an ensemble of worms creating sweet, sweet electroacoustic music on an electric touch contact feedback device (battery powered). No worms were harmed, despite the fact that they appear alarmed. They secrete albumen which is a sort of numbing thing (I think). […]
Here’s a neat kit/music box guts so you can make your own – Make your own music box melodies with this mechanical music box set. Comes with hand-cranked music box, one pre-punched music strip that plays the “Happy Birthday” song, 3 unpunched strips (48cm), a hole punch, and instruction manual to have you creating your […]
Paul sent in this human-powered P/A, developed by Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool) and Nate Byerley (aka The Juice Peddler) for the rock band Shake Your Peace, which just finished a 600-mile, 31-stop performance tour across Utah entirely by bicycle Link.
Mzed writes – Acoustic instruments radiate sound in a wonderfully complex, 360 degree fashion, while conventional loudspeakers radiate in a much more boring, spotlight of sound. You could spend a ton of money on fancy products: Hemisphere from Electrotap Experimental Meyer Array or you could follow these instructions to build a cheap array out of […]
