In this conversation with Helen Leigh, we talk about technology from reel-to-reel tape recorders to synthesizers and to making electronic music with Makey-Makey and the Bela board. Helen is an advocate for people learning how to make their own instruments, to experiment with music and be makers of your own kind of music.
A German tech artist creates an interactive wall piano to surprise, entertain, and inspire backstagers.
John Karbassi is a synth nut who founded Modular Addict to make the hobby more accessible for other makers.
Anatole and Yan wanted to create something special for their electronic Music workshops, they created these totally unique MIDI/Mechanical instruments.
A new video series uses an obsolete drum machine to teach everything from voltage to vacuum tubes.
On Create Digital Music, our friend Peter Kirn has posted an exciting piece about an artist and maker, Jerobeam Fenderson, who has figured out how to generate dynamic musical drawings on an oscilloscope. Peter explains: Graz-based artist Jerobeam Fenderson is out to solve an age-old problem in the literal fusion of image and sound. Simply […]
Justin Emerson, Brett Marshall Lefferts, and Thom Uliasz are out to shatter the mystery of electronic music making. The trio perform, run workshops and make and modify electronic instruments under the name Burnkit2600. Last year at World Maker Faire in New York Burnkit2600 laid down the jams, keeping the crowds entertained all day. The trio […]
