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.
After sufficient incubation, Eric Archer released this inspiring specimen of audio electronics unto our ears. The Dual SP0256 Vocal Synth produces some decidedly thick synchronized pseudo-vocalizations – and it’s certainly no slouch in the features department either – 2 trigger inputs to step through pitch and vocal sequences independently speech data stored cartridge-style on EPROM […]
I first blogged about Brian H.’s classic NES “harmonicarts” two weeks ago. Since that time, I am pleased as punch to announce, Brian has opened a store selling them in our very own Makers Market. Right now he’s got Top Gun and WWF Wrestlemania versions available, both in the key of C major.
Though he built it over a quarter century ago at the age of twelve, Russ Hoffman’s SN94281-based synth box can still oscillate with the best of ’em – that my friends, is one quality soldering job. You may recall my DIY-synth-geek senses were piqued by a pic of this project a while back – Russ […]
Arturo Vidich and Eric Mika built these musical shoes, called beat feet.
Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects is a rather cryptic project by design students Georg Reil and Kathy Scheuring, who transform ordinary household objects into acoustical and musical experiments. The magical character of each object is accompanied with a little story, almost completely concealing the existence of technical components such as speakers or sensors. Only […]
Makers Stephanie McCarty and Andrew Siu built this fun interactive audio device using a couple of Arduino and some miscellaneous parts.
Kat and Jim run Sonodrome from Tynesmouth, UK, on the northeast Channel coast. Besides the hardware featured here and in the Makers Market, they also write and distribute music software, including a digital effects rack designed for their Posc kit.
