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.

Industrial Sound Controllers

Tristan Shone rolled out the ‘big guns’ for Maker Faire Bay Area 2010. His Industrial Sound Controllers are a musical force to be reckoned with and their sheer size and weight demand considerable attention upon seeing them firsthand.

Tristan took a few moments out from setting up to speak with Becky Stern before performing, and explained some of the functionality of his very custom gear. For more on his unique brand of ‘heavy metal’, be sure to check out the interview in MAKE, Volume 22 and the how-to on building your own 8-mic MIDI controller –
https://makezine.com/22/tristanshone/
http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol22?pg=119#pg121

Continue Reading January 21st, 2011April 20th, 2015 Becky Stern

John Park in the Maker Shed: Joystick-driven VoiceShield

John Park of Make: magazine builds a fun audio playback device using an Arduino, VoiceShield, and 2-axis joystick from the Maker Shed http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKSKL3&Click=37845

Continue Reading January 21st, 2011April 15th, 2015 John Edgar Park

Collin’s Lab: Guitar pedal hacking with Arduino

Instead of chaining multiple guitar effects in search of a new sound, I decided to mod just one. Using an Arduino microcontroller board + digi-pot chip, I was able to add a variable gating effect to a fuzz pedal.

source code + more infos here:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/collins_lab_guitar_pedal_modding_wi.html

video, audio, & riffs by Collin Cunningham

Continue Reading January 21st, 2011February 22nd, 2022 Collin Cunningham1

The Sporenspiel, a spore-activated glockenspiel

This shows an early incarnation of the Sporenspiel, a glockenspiel which is automatically played based on the amount of spores falling from a mushroom in real time. This video shows the Sporenspiel being played from a video file of mushroom spores, but it will eventually be triggered by real life mushroom spores. [Thanks, Adam!]

Continue Reading January 19th, 2011 John Baichtal

Arduino MIDI accordion

Incredible, a MIDI accordion for under $100! Ukraine’s Dmitry Yegorenkov wanted a way to practice accordion while wearing headphones, and didn’t want to shell out over six grand for the Roland model with MIDI out, so he made his own, source code and schematics included. Accordion Mega [via Arduino Blog]

Continue Reading January 18th, 2011 Becky Stern

RFID-reading musical instrument

The C60 concept was created to bring tangibility to the digital music experience. A card represents a song or a collection of songs. Placement of a card on the C60 table causes the music represented by the card to be played. Multiple cards placed on the table form a clockwise ordered playlist. [Thanks, Dave!]

Continue Reading January 16th, 2011 John Baichtal

Intro to Circuit Bending

Summary Hack a day has an excellent “Intro to Circuit Bending”. Their article combined with some previous coverage and pages of MAKE will allow you to make incredible retro, blippy, noise :) Electronic musical instruments are a lot of fun for a hacker because, with a small palette of tools, know-how and curiosity, they are […]

Continue Reading January 14th, 2011 Phillip Torrone

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