I love ogling these crazed homebrewed audio power amps that people build. This one is based on Jean Hiraga’s 20W Class-A Amplifier, but it’s been tricked out further to become the “Super Class A 30W Amplifier.” Check out those monster caps. Those are six 220000 uF capacitors (1.2 Farads!) and (in the center) that’s a […]
Turn two salad bowls into a spherical array, ball of sound with amazing results. Thanks go to Michael Zbyszynski for the original article in Make: Volume 11.To download The Ball of Sound MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Ball of Sound article in MAKE: Volume 11 “Ball of Sound” and […]
Take two salad bowls and turn them into a spherical array, ball of sound with amazing results. Thanks go to Michael Zbyszynski for the original article in Make: Volume 11. View the PDF of this project and then pick up Make: Volume 11 here for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
Here’s an interesting acoustic sculpture by Jim Lee – he says it produces a “kind of choral moan reminiscent of a beehive”. Make sure you listen to the audio (links on his site), it’s a really cool sound.
Vimeo user Tony gives us a taste of the action at this past weekend’s Blip Festival with a performance by Sulumi. The NYTimes Jenna Wortham also ran an article profiling the event – The third-annual Blip Festival kicked off its four-day showcase Thursday night. Hosted by 8bitpeoples, a New York art and tech collective, and […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool The Swooftronic SB instrument creates some sweet signals courtesy of light-controlled filter & frequency. The demo gets particularly interesting @ about the 2 minute mark. – SwooftronicSB5 on Flickr From the pages of MAKE The MoofTronic Mini Synth – MAKE: 15: Music, Page 70 Subscribers–read this article now in your […]
Sakura Koshimizu’s waveform jewelry uses actual audio as its source – Waveform Series is the laser-cut shapes of the waveform of the sound in sound editing software environment. I used some human sound such as yawn, atchoum, giggle, wow, and the sound of church bell. – Waveform Series
