Queen’s Brian May and His Homemade Guitar
Legendary Queen guitarist talks about the guitar he made from the mantle of his childhood home.
Music
Flying Loft Musical Bed
Tarver’s instrument is unique to say the least. I recently spent some time with him to witness his invention first-hand and was taken aback. High above his loft, entangled into the foundation, sits his creation. It is a beautiful expression of do-it-yourself ingenuity that is one part concrete and two parts found objects. The interlocking […]
SoundArts at Maker Faire
SoundArts has an interactive “musical petting zoo” for people to experiment with and create some music. They were set up for Eduction Day, and will be at Maker Faire all weekend. Come check them out! Sound Arts is a multi faceted sound studio, created to serve corporate, advertising, and educational clients as well as a […]
Drawdio developments, and inventor Jay Silver at Maker Faire
Adafruit has a new posting with a link to their latest Drawdio Instructable, a new Instructables Drawdio group, and an announcement of an exhibit being mounted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. They’re doing a Drawdio exhibit this summer, from July 25th to September 25th, as part of “Freeze! 2009 International MedTech Art […]
Collaborative music project
In Bb 2.0 is collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon. People are encouraged to participate and send in their own videos. The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
Auduino space groove
Denkitribe posted this rather sweet demo of Tinker.it!‘s Arduino based sound synthesizer project, appropriately titled “Auduino”. While some delay/reverb+accompaniment have definitely been added, the sweet sounds of granular synthesis still shine through – I built one and plugged a stylus controller which was ripped from Gakken SX-150. It works very well. Its sound is dry […]
Bacterial Orchestra uses iPhones to create “viral music”
Debuting at the Volt Festival in Uppsala, Sweden, the latest incarnation of Bacterial Orchestra – Public Epidemic No 1 – will be unleashed on a participating public. Organizers speculate impending world-wide sound pandemic.
