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.
photo by julia Krash The bit-blissful sights and sounds get going tonight and continue through Sunday @ The Tank, NYC – Archaic game and home computer hardware is recast into the unlikely role of musical instrument and motion graphics workstation in the BLIP FESTIVAL 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists […]
The MAKE/CDM/Etsy sonic fun-derland event returns – this time @ our new location, Third Ward in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY! Kicking off the new monthly schedule, the first meet-up will be Thursday, Dec. 11th. Peter of CDM gives details – Bonus – Make Your Own Beep-It Optical Theremin. For the cost of parts (about $10), […]
SSRN-Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility by Philip Maymin… via Waxy & Kedrosky…. Philip writes- I compare the annual average beat variance of the songs in the US Billboard Top 100 since its inception in 1958 through 2007 to the standard deviation of returns of the S&P 500 for the same year and […]
HE Zhao wrote in to tell us about an open source Wii peripheral drum-kit project he’s been working on: I have recently developed Wii Drum High, a software integrates Wiimote, Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board to stimulate a complete drum set. Different gestures and joystick buttons result in correspondent drum sounds. I recorded some videos […]
Likely a huge hit at any Halloween party it attended, Casey Pugh’s Daft Punk helmet – It’s a 16×5 LED matrix installed inside a cheap motorcycle helmet I found on Amazon. I used the Arduino to program all the animations. (arduino.cc) The LEDs are on cardboard, so I punched holes between every single LED and […]
The Evolution Control Committee has developed a new interface for music software using 2 Wii remotes and a projector. Input is controlled via infrared LED thimble-gloves against a rear-projection screen. Certainly a speedier way to trigger the massive amount of Ableton Live loops seen in the above video. – Based off of Johnny Chung Lee’s […]
The winning project from American Maker is now available as a kit – AIRHEADS – AIRDRUMS – Winner of the 2008 MAKE FAIRE Chicago ” The best instrument they have seen since the Theremin” Airheads MINI 4 kit are sensors to be used with midi drum brains and synthesizers or midi I/O devices allowing one […]
