Nikola Tesla, the Opera: A Preview
Jim Jarmusch has released a short clip of the Nikola Tesla-inspired “opera” he’s been working on for several years with composer Phil Kline.
Music
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.
Nightmare Metronome Reminds You That Time is Money
TEMPO, TEMPO! is a piece of kinetic art in the form of a metronome with an audible spark. Or, according to creator Sanela Jahić, it’s “a kinetic object which form a narrative about accelerating the production process and enhancing work performance in order to increase competitiveness and improve profits.” Since I work as an […]
Learn to Shred with a DIY Guitar Trainer
I am sort of a ridiculously visual person. Tell me something complex, show it to me in abstract, and I’ll struggle to understand it until steam shoots out of my neck bolts. Show it to me as literally as possible and I’ll never forget it. Learning guitar as a teen, I found guitar chord charts […]
The Effects In This Video Are Incredible, Here’s How To Build Them All
This video popped into my feed this morning as I sipped my coffee, waiting for my kids to shuffle their way to the breakfast table before school. As I watched this with them, completely mesmerized, I realized that you can make every single one of these effects at home! So often, my kids find our experiments to […]
Retro-Mod Speakers Made from Ikea Salad Bowls
If you’ve ever lusted after those iconic B&W Nautilus speakers (which cost a staggering $60,000), you might be interested in this Ikea hacker’s homage to audio gear that no one can actually afford. Using Ikea salad bowls, Damir Paco of Denmark created these unique speakers. To build them, he used three different sizes of the […]
Listen To Music Composed By A Pillow
Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay and Hungarian cimbalom player Bálint Tárkány-Kovács turn traditional embroidery into musical compositions in a collaborative project called “Sound Weaving.”
The Wheel from This Guy Keeps on Turning
Mobile bands (not the cellular kind) playing while on the go are nothing new. In fact, there was a festival (Streetcar Mobile Music Fest) in Portland, Oregon back in October of last year, where different bands played on street cars that traveled all over the city. While that may have been mobile, it certainly […]
