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.
Founded in Japan in 1962 by a nightclub owner and an accordionist, Korg has been designing, manufacturing, and selling electronic musical instruments since the beginning. Their products have introduced ground-breaking features into keyboards and synthesizers and many of their older models are considered “classics.”
Make subscriber Jim wrote in to let us know about instrument maker and circuit bender Cavan Fyans and his positively retro and fully bent analog and digital noise inducers. Part exploration of constraint, part purpose-built interaction, his work has a visual aesthetic that compliments the aural assault locked within each piece. Check out his site […]
A number of readers wrote in to let us know about Leonard Solomon‘s fantastic bellows instrument called the Oomphalapompatronium. It’s like a mutant kitchen sink harmonium that belts out a tune as colorful as its name. You’ll find more outlandish and grandiose instruments of unusual and curious manufacture accurately described and skillfully demonstrated for your […]
Assembly of the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit @ warp-speed – complete with error correction!
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The folks over at Teague labs have built a fun Arduino based generative music maker with a unique minimalist keyed user interface called Muze. Instead of directly manipulating instruments, you use a color coded knob to tune or influence multiple aspects of the score Muse plays at once. If you’d like to play along, you […]
Machine Project is plotting an Apple II musical event on Saturday, June 25th, under the able guidance of Jason Torchinsky. They would like to borrow a bunch of Apple II computers. The old Apple II, first introduced in 1977, was a revolutionary computer in many ways. Sound capabilities were not one of them. The Apple […]
The Drum Kit Kit, available from the Maker Shed, lets turn you Arduino (not included) into a drum kit! Piezo discs act as the drum sensors so you can build your own pads or stick the the discs to your desk, paper cups, walls, or anything else that might carry a beat.
