The Electronic Didgeridoo
Kyle Evans is a musician and DIY electronic tinkerer. He’s come up with a fantastic instrument/controller called the “Electronically Modified Didgeridoo”. It’s a regular digeridoo with pickups inside and all sorts of Battlestar Galactica-type controls all over.
The audio is sent wirelessly to a computer, and the controls modify effects and other parameters in real time via his custom software. When Kyle plays the instrument, he’s got access to all sorts of textures and sounds that give so much more dimension and depth to an already-trippy instrument.
Kyle says:
I created this instrument to experiment in the combination of the organic sound qualities of a didgeridoo with the advanced signal processing capabilities of modern computer programming and sound synthesis.
This custom built didgeridoo features externally mounted modules that allow the performer to process and manipulate the sound of the instrument in real time. All control data is transmitted wirelessly via blue tooth and is controlling several audio processes created in a custom-built software environment.
Check out the video:
i just wet my pants…sweet christ, that is the coolest thing ever!!!
I second the precedent comment…wet my pants. The stuff is really impressive and almost as if you are playing an instrument that wasn’t intended for a human audience.
By all means, tribal instruments are the most versatile.
Wow, I also need to change my pants and I want to buy one, please take my money!!!
Wow thats a fine peice of kit you have invented there. I would love to get that in the Dyframix studio with some beats n other tech. Will they be for sale??!!! I can put that on stage in the uk for you man:) it’d go down a storm at the festivals. Get in touch plz.
blaaaaaaade runner
So, did anyone else think that the sweep between 1:24 and 1:28 sounded like Pink Floyd?
Holy crap that is awesome and this dude is gonna be set for life!
Not to take away from the tech tricks shown here but there is no way you can call that a Didgeridoo. A REAL Australian Aboriginal digeridoo player can make all those sounds and more WITHOUT a computer. It takes years of practice to be able to breathe in and out at the same time (yes thats what it takes to really play a digeridoo) …you want really amazing musical (not programming) talent watch these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSXjpWUDvO4&feature=related
The Australian Aboriginies are the most supressed and abused native population on the plant
@ keewee
he is circular breathing…
hey keewee, he is circular breathing. I am a friend, he just loves messing with sounds! ha. He obviously means no disrespect to the natural sound. He is just exploring the combination…yeah know? Not sure if he still does it but he was into building sound effects pedals for a while.
OH and go check out popular science, there is a couple page spread on him with this. Later random article I found! ha
hi kyle,
can you build a electronic divice for my didge?
how much you ask? i realy like the sound !
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greetings jimmy