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.
“Otto” which means “ear” in Greek, is a device that amplifies hidden sounds in the environment using suction cups and magnets. Used as multiple units, the project can produce a layered sonic experience through emitting ambient sounds. Pretty interesting idea for creating a musical performance of sorts, we just wonder exactly how melodic the resulting […]
Next time you are driving down the road you might have to turn down the stereo in order to listen to the soundtrack. Some engineers at the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in Japan have developed “Melody Roads” that use cars as tuning forks to play music as they pass over them. The concept uses grooves […]
Eric released a new wireless MidiTron – MidiTronâ„¢ Wireless is a wireless sensor-to-MIDI interface. It consists of a compact sensor interface/transmitter unit and a corresponding receiver/output unit which interfaces via USB or MIDI. It provides 20 inputs in any combination of up to 10 analog inputs and 20 digital inputs. Sensor inputs are converted and […]
Peter Bennett, a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Center in Belfast, made this sequencer that you program with ball bearings. It has four tracks: kick, snare, hi-hat, and cowbell. – [via] Link.
Seems like every couple years a vinyl comeback article makes the rounds, maybe it’s really going to happen! – From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don’t mean CDs. Vinyl records, especially the full-length LPs that helped define the golden era of rock […]
This “Juke Box Entertainment Center” costs about $200 and makes it pretty obvious how old your media collection is by showcasing up to 104 CDs, 80 DVDs, VHS tapes, and your small, 27 inch TV. We like the homage to the past, but we wonder if its compact design makes it a bit difficult to […]
Mark writes – You remember Field of Dreams, the baseball fantasy movie where Ray Kinsella heard a voice that whispered, “If you build it, they will come,” don’t you? Well, ARRL Education and Technology Program Coordinator Mark Spencer, WA8SME, has come up with a successor to his No-Solder Code Practice Oscillator project that–if you build […]
