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.
BobsDogHouseon writes – I saw one of these somewhere a while back and always thought it would be fun to play with. A quick Google came up with several including the one in this picture. It’s available online for about $33. I’m no kind of musician and I’ve never built a musical instrument before but […]
If you’re an audio engineer or record your own music, this seems like a pretty interesting book – it’s all about how the Beatles were actually recorded, looks like a lot of gear info too – Never before has there been such an absolutely thorough and definitive look at how the Beatles’ albums were recorded. […]
Jonah writes – Here’s a low-rez version of a NEW video! we just made about our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops! Watch it above! This video details a lot more of the projects built in the workshops and has some footage of the performances that conclude the workshops. A DVD of this is available upon request. […]
Brian writes – Inspired by the wealth of hard-drive recycling ideas on hacked-gadgets and the >springverb research posted at Electronic Peasant. When looking at both these pages… this hack becomes pretty obvious. It helps that i had all the materials laying around already. Hard drive spring “speaker” – [via] Link.
Incredible! The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share … all » complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic […]
This MIDI Decoder from Highlyliquid is for DIY filter circuits, circuit bending, and MIDI-to-DIN sync conversion – Link.
Here’s a bit more about the “beat blocks” by Jeff Hoefs that were at the ETSY/MAKE handmade music night – Beat Blocks is a tangible interface for a rhythm sequencer. The user is able to create and manipulate an 8-track drum loop (4 tracks in the featured prototype) on the fly by physically re-arranging blocks […]
