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.
The Master Looper is a small handmade device that allows you the create real-time noise loops and sound effects at various speeds from x4 to x64. The creator, YouTube user grandtippler of Canberra, Australia, has a bunch of other videos of similarly small and neat electronic musical experiments, and he/she has an Etsy store to […]
Very much digging this classic clip of Herbie Hancock demonstrating a Fairlight CMI to some of the kids from Sesame Street. Guessing such technology may not dazzle today’s youth quite as much.
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 […]
Mike Senese, cohost of the Science Channel’s Punkin’ Chunkin’ and Catch It Keep It, rescued this tutorial from Internet oblivion and posted it on his personal site for posterity. [Thanks, Sam!]
Remember Tomas Henriques’ Double Slide Controller? The Meta-EWI is a sort of ancestor to that device. Based around an Akai EWI breath controller, the Meta adds four force-sensitive resistors, an accelerometer, joystick and 16 tactile switches. The add-on structure is also removable and can be used as a standalone interface. More pics and a deeper […]
Well, like they say – If you wanna make some noise, you’ll have to get you’re hands wet (k, they never say that). Ion Furjanic’s Electric Tea 1.0 (Peace Games) incorporates “porcelain bowls, metal orbs, speaker wire, water, and the conductive power of the human body” into an unusual interface for music. Certainly seems a […]
Dirty Electronics’ new PCB instrument creates some noisy-good reasons to touch a skull – The Skull Etching combines etched artwork and electronics into a unique touch instrument. The electronics for the instrument utilise just one integrated circuit (IC), yet the instrument features two oscillators, distortion, feedback network, filter and interference/hum/radio. Touch the skulls to play […]
