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.
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 […]
Thunder Eagle guitars made a fun looking guitar from copper pipes and gears – The Villanizer started life as a Rhoads Jackson V. It’s not every day you take a band saw to a guitar that plays as well as this thing does. However, I had no distinct plan other then doing a mechanical look […]
Each digit of pi was assigned a note and then played to 1,000 places – it’s catchy! Link & more math songs here.
REMINDER: tranzducer – April 27th Brooklyn, NY – TONIGHT The aural bacchanalia that is TRANZDUCER @ LEMURplex is looking quite special this month. For TRANZDUCER.004, we’ve got international representation straight outta Poland, a few surprises in store, and as always: interactive art from LEMUR! Come down to LEMURplex on April 27th to see and hear […]
Here’s how to make a fun & simple wind instrument from a soda bottle – The plastic bottle, this common object of consumption, this vulgar domestic waste, can replace the noble bamboo to ape a wind organ. It only takes, with a pair of scissors, to carve a longitudinal “whistling” slit within the body of […]
