Kid Crafts: Tin Toy Drums
As they’re exploring the world, kids, as a rule, take great joy in discovering all of the things that make NOISE. So, why not turn that natural curiosity into a fun, creative afternoon filled with DIY drums?
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Mark Crosbie’s Lego Drum Sequencer
Mark Crosbie’s cool Lego drum sequencer scans a “card” of bricks to form the beat.
VioBass: Bass and Tom Tom Drum Mashup
Using a tom tom drum, an Icoustic bass, and violin, iCoustic founder Ken Preece has produced what looks to be a low-end banjo on steroids. The size and proximity of the tom tom brings out the depth of the bass as he plays it. Definitely a hip way to play upright bass.
Jaime Oliver’s amazing membrane controller
Jaime Oliver’s “Silent Drum” uses a unique elastic membrane drum head as a sound controller. A camera reads the position/shape of the head as it’s deformed with the hands and then translates that into data that can trigger sound events. [Thanks, Alberto!] Silent Drum
Spoon box, mashing together a speaker and a drum
Here’s a neat sound sculpture made by The Books. The spoons are animated by playing sounds on a speaker mounted behind them.
Music box plays solenoid beats
From the MAKE Flickr pool Rotormind puts a new spin on a classic concept – The Micro Rhythm Orchestra is an update on the venerable music box tradition. I made it from a wooden cigar box and head-park solenoids scavenged from old disk drives. The solenoids are controlled by a microprocessor. Instead of playing a […]
arduiNoise(beats);
Bit-music loving Arduino users – I ported (and modded a bit) one of the Noise Toy programs over to the lovely and talented Arduino platform. Just add a couple of momentary switches to pins 8 and 9 and connect stereo audio to 3 and 4 – you’re done. Loud Objects’ code proved quite fun to […]
