Biomechanical “Terminator” mic stand
Artist Chris Conte created this gorgeous custom microphone stand for Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace (Warning: Auto-play music). More info at Wired. [via Dude Craft]
Music
Great American Horn Machine plays MIDI music, spreads happy
Dana (Mon Valley, PA) built “The Great American Horn Machine” using a gasoline-powered air compressor, 620 gallon air tank, along with an array of ship & train horns + whistles. The whole thing is controlled by a couple dozen relays hooked up to a Highly Liquid MIDI board, and in case you didn’t notice -it’s […]
The trees are alive with the sound of music
Diego Stocco made this short composition Music From A Bonsai by tapping, rustling, and bowing various parts of a Bonsai tree.
Beatfeat, shoes that turn your stomps into sounds
Arturo Vidich and Eric Mika built these musical shoes, called beat feet.
SXSW 2010 Web Awards are Thingamagoopy
It’s about time somebody made a media award that actually does something other than serve as a impromptu murder weapon. At this years SXSW festival, the Web Awards were built around Bleep Labs’ Thingamagoop 2, the analog synth toy (which now has digital/Arduino-control capability). Bleep Labs In the Maker Shed: Thingamagoop 2 Our Price: $100.00 […]
Analog synth heaven with Vince Clarke
Fawning fanboys (and fangirls) of analog synths may want to hold onto their wigs and keys before laying eyes on synth pioneer Vince Clarke’s “cabin” in Maine. Clarke was a founding member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure. In this vid, he gives Motherboard the grand tour of his studio in the woods and his […]
Schlitz box amp
If you have to ask why… Well, just don’t ask why. [Spotted on the MAKE Flickr pool] (BTW: This is a cracker box amp, a la the project in MAKE Volume 09) Schlitz Amp
