LEGO headphones
Check out this rockin’ pair of LEGO headphones from Instructables user =D.
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 and myself before […]
Making gestural music with the iPhone
My friend, experimental musician, media artist, and director of the Culture Lab at Newscastle University, Atau Tanaka, has tweaked up some iPhones to transform them into gestural musical devices. Here he performs with Adam Parkinson: In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone. The accelerometers which typically serve […]
Drumsette, 4-track cassette-based drum machine
MAKE subscriber Mike Walters (NYC), from Mystery Circuits, sent us a link to this amazing project he did that turned a Tascam 4-track tape recorder into a programmable drum machine. I love that it looks like something off the set of the original Star Trek. I almost expect to hear the voice of Majel Barrett […]
More fun with plasma speakers
We’ve covered plasma speakers before, and these vids don’t really add much in the way of additional info, they’re just different variations on the theme — a theme I find endlessly fascinating. The top vid is by way of TechEBlog, the second is from John Warren (via Adafuit). Check out his blog post below for […]
Kaossonome touch-sensitive LED matrix
Inspired by the Kaoss Pad and monome music controller/interfaces, Alexander Randon created the Kaossonome The Kaossonome is my first electronic music controller design. It interfaces the musician via a touchscreen, resting on top of a 256 LED matrix, and eight rotary encoders with pushâ€buttons, four on opposite sides of the LED matrix. Enclosed within an […]
Diego Stocco’s “Bassoforte”
Ever since I discovered the composer Harry Partch in the early ’80s, I’ve been fascinated by musicians/composers who build their own instruments. There’s marching to the tune of your own drummer, and then there’s making the drums you march to! Diego Stocco is one of those musicians/sound artists who’s constantly experimenting with finding sound, rhythm, […]