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.
Leafcutter John shares the steps he took to build a phantom-powered underwater mic from a steel can (looks pretty classy!) – I decided to house the pre-amp in the same enclosure as piezo elements (to avoid noise entering the circuit). The challenge here is to find a decent enclosure. As the piezo’s and the pre-amp […]
I am getting ready for my first NYC runway show, the Fairytale Fashion Show, on Feb. 24th at Eyebeam. I am writing about some of the preparations, on CRAFT and Make: Online. This show will be of the technology fashion collection developed at FairytaleFashion.org, where technology is used to turn make-believe into reality. Last week, […]
Using the open hardware Stimmmopped, you can tune your stringed instrument using you eye rather than your ear.
The latest item of interest presented by Casper Electronics could easily take centerstage at the next hardware hacking social. Casper’s Benjolin Light Synth provides an intense show of color as accompaniment for its broad and unpredictable sonic palette – This piece is built around the 2 Benjolin circuits, which is a complex, analog sound generator […]
Tim O’Keefe, Michael McIntyre, and Brock Roland of San Francisco State University’s School of Engineering created MARV, here. That’s “MIDI Actuated Robotic Vibraphone,” of course. Which is a nested acronym, really. Crank it all the way out and it’s “Musical Instrument Digital Interface Actuated Robotic Vibraphone,” or MIDIARV, which is not nearly so catchy. Each […]
Got a cool idea for a physical computing project (or actual music instrument) that uses MIDI, but don’t have a computer with an actual MIDI port?
Yoshi Akai’s Wireless Catcher analog synth derives control input from nearby wireless signals picked up by an onboard antennae. As if that weren’t interesting enough, the copper control panel sports some elegant decorative flourishes typical of his impressive body of work. Be sure to check out more amazing custom synth aesthetics on Yoshi’s site. [Thanks, […]
