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.
If you’ve performed kive with a band, you likely know how important monitor speakers are. Without a vocal monitor, things can go awry quite quickly – and to make matters worse, many small venues don’t have them. To keep tabs on sonic output, Mark took matters into his own hands and built this “Wedgehorn” monitor […]
If you were at Maker Faire Austin, you may have seen this honky-tonky belt buckle Ryan from SparkFun built which incorporates an MP3 player. It even has an MMA7260 Triple Axis Accelerometer on it to create a hip-thruster interface (i.e. you change songs by thrusting your hips). Oh, THAT’s not going to look embarrassing on […]
The new incarnation of Handmade Music will be causing a ruckus this evening @ 3rd Ward in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If you’re in the area, be sure to stop on by and check out the fruits of sound-maker labors – and if you have a project to be heard, be sure to bring it along! […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Farnea’s “last drones” are quite nicely built mini-synths, representing 3 very popular DIY electronic instruments – the last drones built for my friends, playing with me in Elisha Gray band. on the left FESTER, the optical theremin. on the top Ag0 LOLLOSO, the weird sound generator. on the right WHAT […]
Although we tend to shy away from anyone calling their project a “first”, this video claims to be the “first music video shot entirely with an iPhone” using a jailbroken phone and the “Cycorder” application which lets you record video directly to the flash drive of the phone. In any case, we still don’t understand […]
James “Dr. Krazy X” McCracken III sent us pictures of his steampunk-y take on the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit build. Mini-Theremin The theremin, invented in 1919 by Russian scientist Leon Theremin, is one of the world’s earliest fully electronic instruments, and is also unique in that it was the first musical instrument designed to be played […]
nitro2k01 investigates using the versatile Arduino platform for use as synthesizer modules – The idea of using my Arduino for modular synth utilities started out as a crazy idea that I’m now starting to seriously like. The pictures above shows my first design, an oscillator. (I have plans for other modules, see the bottom of […]
