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September 27, 2006
Kaoss Pad guitar mod (touch screen whammy bar!)
Phil writes - "While the Kaoss Pad is fantastic in many ways, it's not very friendly to guitarists in it's natural state, I quickly realized this. One would have to have it on a stand of some sort to use it while playing, which wouldn't do. A plan began to form. How hard would it be to put the touch pad on a cable of some sort and then mount it on a guitar? Usual disclaimer applies, if you break your gear don't blame me." [via] - Link.
Related:
More guitar projects - Link.
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Sep 27, 2006 09:37 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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September 25, 2006
Build your own Vvrtual analog synthesizer
Peter writes in with this neat looking DIY synth... - "You've seen plenty of DIY circuits for building a homemade analog synth. Here's your chance to build a fully digital emulation you can hack yourself. The result is a synth that's as full-featured as many commercial hardware models, but with a unique architecture and total programmability. You can buy the whole thing for well under $100, then program it to do whatever you want, with some significant resources already growing on the Web. Cheap, retro sounds, digital flexibility (with full MIDI support), and 100% hackable? Could be a perfect music hardware for the Maker. (See also the x0xb0x, of course, but this is a little smaller and simpler, and perhaps a better choice for getting started hacking.)" - Link.
Related:
AVRSYN Monophonic Virtual Analog Synth Kits - Link.
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Sep 25, 2006 06:46 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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September 23, 2006
Very early recorded sounds...
The National Park Service has a collection of early recordings (1888) recorded on phonographs and paraffine cylinders, in MP3 format... [via] - Link.
Related:
Edison National Historic Site, 48,000 disc and cylinder recording collection - Link.
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Sep 23, 2006 08:58 AM
Music, Retro |
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September 20, 2006
Weird Instruments
Sometimes I stumble across items that are just over the edge. What would you do with a midi blender? How could you rock a disc drive guitar? I don't know the answer, but I can't wait for someone to find out!Posted by Bre Pettis |
Sep 20, 2006 06:37 AM
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September 10, 2006
HOW TO - Barbie Bending: Cicuit bending a Barbie Karaoke machine
Pink is the new black, seriously. Grab a cheap Barbie Karaoke machine from eBay, junk store, or from a kid who wants to do something cool with it - then check out these schematics on how to turn it into a cool circuit bent musical instrument... [via] - Link.
Related:
Oodles of circuit bending projects - Link.
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Sep 10, 2006 08:41 AM
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September 6, 2006
DIY Cardboard box upright bass
Chris Badynee made his very own upright bass with scrap oak flooring, plastic casing of a Radio Shack science project buzzer, weed whacker twin and faucet spiggots... Thanks Jason! - Link.
Related:
- Making the pickup from a radio shack buzzer - Link.
- Cigar Box Guitar. Build and play this sweet-sounding 3-string instrument in an afternoon. MAKE 04 - Page 76.
- Cigar box projects - Link.
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Sep 6, 2006 03:32 PM
DIY Projects, Music |
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Jazz recordings etched into old x-ray film
Kevin Kelly's Street Use blog has an article about jazz recordings etched into old x-ray film - "In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film. I've long sought some images. Researcher Camille Cloutier pointed me to these, collected and posted by József Hajdú." [via] - Link.
Related:
József Hajdú's collection - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 6, 2006 04:06 AM
Made On Earth, Music |
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August 30, 2006
Drum Trigger
A cool Phil Collins style drum roll, coming to a mousepad near you!
This selfmade drum trigger pad I made in about 15 minutes for testing Alesis D4 drum module. It consist of synthetic leather (better use mousepad) glued on one side of tin sheet and piezo glued on the other. All this is glued on the spnge for absorving vibnration. For testing purposes it s easiest to solder cable with connector directly on the piezo. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Aug 30, 2006 09:11 AM
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Fold-Up Speakers
I like that these come in a little zip lock baggy. I wonder if the cardboard boxes actually enhance the sound and work as a bass box or just make them more stackable? [Via] - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Aug 30, 2006 04:29 AM
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August 29, 2006
Make your own musical instruments
Tim Escobedo says, "Simple AND playable DIY musical instruments in PVC, plastic and anything else that's cheap." Pictured here on the left is the $12 Uke and at right is the Plastic Fantastic Sax. Link.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Aug 29, 2006 06:39 PM
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August 28, 2006
Neptune: Homemade Instrument Action
Neptune is a band that plays rough musical instruments roughly. If you live in Seattle and you're into dirty DIY music action, you probably already have tickets for tomorrow night's show. Check out some photos of their instruments. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Aug 28, 2006 08:07 PM
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Circuit Bending Audio Looper
Here are some cool circuit bending projects! I love the case for this less than $20 audio looper! We had an article on circuit bending in Make Volume 4 and you can learn more at the author's anti-theory circuit bending website. - Link
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Aug 28, 2006 01:45 PM
Music |
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August 23, 2006
DIY "Monitor" Stereo
Rybitski took a broken car stereo and (re)made a home version that uses a computer monitor that lights up, he writes - "My friend, Jeremy came to me with a car stereo and an idea. He wanted to use the car stereo as a normal stereo because motorized faceplate no longer worked. We settled on an unusual case, but in the end it worked out well..." [via] - Link.
Related:
Check out his other DIY projects here (I like the coil clock) - Link.
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Aug 23, 2006 05:11 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Home Entertainment, Music |
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DSAmp - Control Winamp from you DS
Here you go, control Winamp with a Nintendo DS over Wi-Fi (source code included) - [via] - Link.
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Aug 23, 2006 10:26 AM
DIY Projects, Gaming, Music |
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HOW TO - Build an open source MIDI keyboard
Barry @ HeadFuzz writes - "This project details the steps to build your own Open Source (musical) keyboard which connects to a computer via USB and sends MIDI signals. This is achieved using an AN2131 development board. The AN2131 is now discontinued, so development boards can be bought cheaply on eBay. Alternatively you could use another USB microcontroller, if you are able to port the firmware. You could also hack any EZ-USB based device, of which there are many..." [via] - Link.
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Aug 23, 2006 09:40 AM
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Bob Moog memorial foundation for electronic music
Brad Fuller over at the O'Reilly Digital Media blog pointed to a new Bob Moog memorial foundation established by the Moog family that is going to have scholarships, a Bob Moog memorial museum, outreach programs for disadvantaged students and special events for electronic music - [via] - Link & check out the documentary series podcast.
Pictured here, a Moog doll designed by Archer Prewitt, author of Sof'Boy. Photo courtesy of Press Pop Gallery - from our MAKE article, MaxiMoog: A tribute to the man who gave us so many ... - Link.
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Aug 23, 2006 05:46 AM
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August 21, 2006
PLAY.orchestra - sound installation from the Philharmonia Orchestra
If there are any Makers in the South Bank in London, you might want to check out this sound installation - " PLAY.orchestra will be based outside the Royal Festival Hall for 7 weeks this summer starting this weekend! 56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each cube containing a light and speaker. Sit down on the cube or stand in the hotspot to turn on that instrument and bring 58 friends to hear the full piece.. switch on Bluetooth on your mobile phone and receive a ringtone of the piece you've created as well as other Philharmonia Orchestra ringtones." [via] - Link.
Related:
Update: MILK AND TALES, (Narrative Environments team) PLAY.orchestra - by Arlete Castelo, Melissa Mongiat & other rabbits - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 21, 2006 10:15 PM
Events, Music |
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August 20, 2006
Free DJ mixing program
Here's a free DJ app for Macs with real time audio mixing and recording - "djay is the groundbreaking new software for Mac OS X. It takes full advantage of Apple's latest audio and graphics technologies, and runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors. It supports all common file formats, such as mp3, aiff, wav, aac, caf. With djay you can control and mix your whole digital music collection with two realistic virtual, interactive turntables and both record and transmit the audio in real-time over the Bonjour network to other connected djays. " [via] - Link.
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Aug 20, 2006 08:21 PM
Computers, Music |
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August 17, 2006
Elements of Interactive Art: A Creative, Mac-Based Introduction" class in NYC
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes - "I'll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. We'll also take a brief look at the open-source software Processing, for a more code-based approach. The idea is to learn some of the basic skills of designing interactive art and DIY multimedia projects, so that people can create their own custom software creations. You'll also see some of the tech behind a project in an upcoming issue of Make. The class is hosted in East Williamsburg at the new 3rd Ward gallery, a membership-based, interdisciplinary studio for artists, dancers, and musicians. Make readers can use code PK0806 to get either 10% off a three-month membership or a free workshop of their choice. Non-New Yorkers, I hope to have some resources in the early fall on Create Digital Motion..." - Link & info.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 17, 2006 03:47 PM
Arts, Events, Music |
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HOW TO - Make a TRAXMOD - SD card MOD player
Here's a DIY MOD player you can build (MOD is sorta like a MP3, popular in the 80's with Amiga computers) - "TRAXMOD is a small digital audio player using the Philips LPC2103 ARM7TDMI-S high speed microcontroller chip (prior versions were based on Microchip dsPIC DSPs). Currently, the ARM port can play raw wave audio streaming off of a FAT formatted MMC/SD Card at 44100Hz, 10-bits, stereo. It is also beginning to play small 4 channel MOD files. The hardware for TRAXMOD/ARM can be built using a BBMICRO Protoboard and a few additional low cost components. " - Link.
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Aug 17, 2006 02:36 PM
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