Music

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.

Today on Maker Camp: Making Plucky Musical Projects

Today on Maker Camp: Making Plucky Musical Projects

Today Maker Camp continues with the DIY Music theme as we meet meet three artists who building their own unusual instruments and coax beautiful sounds from them. Starting at 11am PST we’ll hangout with Walter Kitundu who makes nature-powered, hand-built record players; Krys Bobrowski, creator of kelp horns, an instrument she made by drying seaweed so that she could play it with her French Horn mouthpiece; and Zeke Leonard, maker of cigar box guitars.

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Maker Camp Singalong

Maker Camp Singalong

Grab your guitar and gather around the Maker Camp campfire. Or blast your favorite maker sing-along ditties while you build your Maker Camp projects during DIY Music week. We have pulled together our favorite songs for kids of all ages in which you can belt out your love for all things “maker” or celebrate your being the unique, inventive, and imaginative person that brought you to Maker Camp!

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Maker Camp Kicks off DIY Music Week

Maker Camp Kicks off DIY Music Week

Week five of Maker Camp is all about making music—with whatever you’ve got. Like a banana. Today we’ll get to learn (and listen) how to do just that with MaKey MaKey co-creator Jay Silver. MaKey MaKey connects to your computer and… to you! Or bananas! Or whatever you can think of! It also connects to Scratch, a fun and free programming language (scratch.mit.edu), and allows you to play games and control animations, all via your own controllers or fruit instruments. Today’s hangout will also include a very special guest: Damian Kulash, lead singer and guitarist of the band OK Go joins to jam with Jay on a fruit instrument of his own design.

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