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.
Nodal is a free OS X application which allows one to design their own note generating system – outputting data to any MIDI synthesizer software such as Garageband. – Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is […]
While not conventionally musical, the Electrochemical Synthesizer’s process for generating sound is unusually interesting – Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations. The device demonstrates how […]
This open source serial to MIDI converter lets you easily get MIDI data from your Arduino to any Windows MIDI application of your choice over USB. Pretty cool hack that avoids the need for a MIDI out circuit for your Arduino or USB/MIDI converter to your computer. S2MIDI: Open Source Serial to MIDI Converter for […]
Canadian artist Joe McKay’s “Cellphone Piano” conects up each key on a standard synth keyboard to a corresponding key on a cell phone. As you play each note, you are dialing a number on the phone and each black key played speaks the number out loud. Just don’t get carried away or you might see […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Macetech writes – Some speakers from the TechShop junk shelves held together with zip ties. I should actually wire this up and put LEDs inside too! :) – I’m fairly sure adding LEDs would make that a full-on ‘party cube’. – Speaker Cube on Flickr From the pages of […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr user [fluxa] put an Arduino board to work outputting control voltage to a DIY SoundLab synthesizer. While the PC software has yet to be released, the Arduino code is pretty straightforward – using a pulse width modulated output through a simple resistor/capacitor filter. – CVAirSequencer Project on Flickr […]
Dorkbot Seattle recently played host the Catastrophic Cacophony Workshop: Josh Kopel, former co-organizer of MakePhilly, brings the maker challenge to Seattle. The theme is catastrophic cacophony and the challenge is to build the loudest, craziest, flashiest automated “musical” instrument ever. You will have to be able to step back and let your creation play by […]
