Articles tagged with: DIY
Dabbler & experimenter Paul Bower was browsing eBay looking at vintage steam engines one day, and decided to do something fun with it: he built a DIY steam-powered sequencer.
Using an old 1920′s steam engine …
In 1979, a book written by P.K. Sood called “Electronic Musical Projects” was published that contained plans and instructions for building all sorts of DIY electronic musical devices. It’s got plans for projects …
Trombone players often get a bad rap, so trombone player/DIYer Jonathan Crawford decided to really step up to the plate and do something about it.
Jonathan took a barbecue ignition system, a propane tank and …
Here’s a great DIY method to copy a vinyl record, making a copy that you can actually play on a turntable. The German website Zeit.de had this article up in German, however it’s now unavailable, …
We’re covered Niklas Roy before, and he’s got a new DIY project that synthesizes sound in a pretty interesting way. Niklas and Jari Suominen had a chance to play with a laser cutter for …
Robert Patterson Collier, a musician and DIY-er has built a thumb piano (or kalimba, mbira, lamellaphone, likembe) with coffee swizzle sticks for tines. And guess what – it sounds fantastic.
Here’s what it looks …
John Richards is a “Dirty Electronics” artist, exploring the music and electronics with an approach that is “designer trash, ugly, cheap, heavy, hand-made, designed to be handled or to come in contact with the body, …
The Drumssette is a programmable drum machine built by musician and circuit bender Mike Walters.
A very creative DIY use of an old four track recorder, it was built using the innards of a Tascam MF-P01. …
khoral is a 32 year old musician based in Nantes, France who uses his synths to write music in the pop/electro/folk/funk/whatever styles. He’s done a great DIY mod to the Korg Microkorg, installing it …
Diego Stocco in an accomplished musician, sound designer and crazy instrument experimenter. He’s managed to combine parts of a piano and parts of an electric bass into a fantastic DIY instrument that he calls the …
