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.
Paul of Vacoloco needed an easy way to test out some of his synth projects so he built a basic sequencer based on an ATmega16 chip – It sends MIDI notes and velocity on a user selectable Midi channel along with two MIDI CC’s (user selectable) and of course has variable sequence length. You can […]
Neil Feather demonstrates his unusal pedal based instrument – The Melocipede “is a bicycle-based roto-zither. It has 14 strings (strung hub to rim) and 8 (1.5v ) motors and 4 magnetic pickups. The pickups run through a mixer as the melocipede is pedaled in both directions and bouncing plucking etc.happens. It sounds alternately like a […]
A new update to the DS Music Interface Software project includes support for high-res data messages in the OSC format – OSC is an emerging standard for exchanging music control signals that is much more flexible and modern than MIDI. For example, OSC can directly communicate via network, so the PC-side DSMI server is not […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Matt the modulator housed a thingamakit bleep-synth in an the box from a Velleman amplifier kit. Nice use of available resources – and it looks pretty dang cool to boot! – Thingamakit_2 on Flickr More: ThingamaKIT build photos
Great news! Looks like the pioneering electronic performance arts center is safe for now, due in no small part to all the support sent from around the world – The Dutch Council for Culture has reversed their initially negative decision. They were without a doubt impressed by the well over 1000 insightful, eloquent, personal letters […]
Phil Clandillon saw a recent post about sparebots, and was moved to show his own work. Asked about his technique to make the animation, he responded with great detail and technical clarity: It was a very DIY operation. I’ve been doing these interactive flyers for around 6 years in my spare time for Sancho Panza, […]
Here’s an lecture by acoustic archaeologist Paul Devereux detailing some of his research into the sound made by the rocks of ancient cave-dwellings. Interesting info – I wasn’t aware of the sonic potential of “rock on rock” percussion.
