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.
For those unfamiliar, Dub sirens are simple, triggerable, electronic sound effects devices commonly used in Dub Reggae music for synthy accentuation and atmosphere. GetLoFi shares instructions on how to build your own dub siren box using an inexpensive sound effects keychain plus a few other simple parts for about twenty bucks. Great tutorial – demonstrates […]
Create Digital Music, Etsy, and MAKE join forces to bring to life another night of audio-crafting delight – July 8th @ the Etsy Labs. Come see a myriad of sound-bearing ideas made real – Chiptune game-music Wireless sensor driven sound Wii balance board instrumentation Custom software for sound-mutation Experimental MIDI controllers of oddity … and […]
The “Sonic Picnic” set by Tony Kemplen, is a series of low tech modular sound generating devices built from Tupperware containers, potentiometers, switches, antennas, and simple circuitry. We’re not sure if there is also food inside the containers to give them the ambience of a real picnic, but we’ll save that detail for you to […]
Jim Robert made an instructable for stackable “gobos,” portable sound baffles for absorbing or reflecting sound for a reconfigurable sound work environment. He has the tutorial up on his website, too.
For three hot and sweaty nights in July, punk music and robots collide at the ICA in a series of exciting and evolving gigs called Neurotic. Neurotic highlights the neurology associated with the essential human experience of pleasure, learning, taste and ageing within the context of the instinct to dance. Artist Fiddian Warman fronts ‘Neurotic […]
Glasgow sound-makers Roy Mohan Shearer and Jonnie Common built this excellent manual playback device as a gift for their bandmate Chris – Simply a hack of the increasingly hard-to-source cassette walkman, I took out all the mechanics, hard-wired the tape circuit to ‘on’, lengthened the cable to the tapehead and housed the whole thing in […]
This robotic clarinet player took home first prize at the Artemis Orchestra Competition where participants are challenged to create embedded systems capable of playing traditional musical instruments. Developed by the Australian research group NICTA the robot operated clarinet impressed judges with its articulated mouthpiece interface and sheer playing ability. Second prize went to teamDARE for […]
