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.
Nick created interactive flash versions of two of his homebrew synths. Though I was at first expecting all the synth’s interface functionality recreated in software, the wide array of strange samples is still fun to experiment with. Sweet panel design too … but the interior’s aesthetic is even better – Don’t miss Nick’s other awesome […]
Liubo documents the setup/customization involved with routing Arduino sensor data to the Max for Live software. Joining the audio capabilities of Ableton Live with the malleable data processing of Max/MSP, this should make controlling multimedia with hardware a relatively simple task (and likely a much faster than before). From Ableton’s site – Basically, Max for […]
[begin_noisegeek_rant_here] There’s no doubt that the Dubreq’s classic Stylophone keyboard holds a special place in the ranks retro-cool musical instrumentats. Similar stylus interfaces have been employed for various synth-DIY endeavors, with ease of implementation being an obvious plus.(who needs switches? just touch GND to a PCB pad!) Unfortunately, the original infamously lo-fi plastic synth wasn’t […]
Heeding the call of stonewashed lumber, experimental musical instrument maker Bart Hopkin and his percussionist friend Joyce Kouffman head out to the beach in this video to show us how to build a driftwood xylophone.
Austin area synthheads are in for quite a sweet treat – the Handmade Music Austin event series kicks off this Sunday (Oct. 18th) with a kit-building workshop and subsequent group synth jam – 4ms Pedals, Bleep Labs, Eric Archer, and Church of the Friendly Ghost have brought Handmande Music to Austin! Starting October 18th, we […]
Finnish computer science doctoral candidate Cessu created a hack to make music from (dramatically slowed) bit-level operations in his CPU. A similar technique called “software visualization” is more commonly used to clarify the operation of complex algorithms for educational and analytical purposes, but Cessu seems to be the first person to try it with sound. [via Hack a Day]
If you’re impatient with the preamble and want to see it work, scan forward to about 0:39.
