Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 416 Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator that resides in a tunnel 27km in circumference beneath the earth near Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the LHC is to help us understand some …

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Cell phone keytar
May 10, 2010 – 2:44 pm | No Comment
Cell phone keytar

From the crazy-weird file, Steffest from Belgium has created a DIY cell-phone-keytar monstrosity. The Phone Guitar was born out of a presentation about mobile cross development that Steffest was working on.

He says:
Music apps …

8-bit arcade guitar synth
April 29, 2010 – 7:53 am | 4 Comments
8-bit arcade guitar synth

Mike Davenport has hand-built an 8-bit “arcade guitar” synthesizer as part of a DIY senior project for his studies at the University of Florida. Inspired by classic video game consoles, it uses an FPGA (field-programmable …

Thermatron: the flame-controlled synthesizer
April 28, 2010 – 12:50 pm | No Comment
Thermatron: the flame-controlled synthesizer

It’s fairly well known that a flame can actually conduct electricity. For example, many hot water heaters use this principle – a current is passed through the flame, which allows the the heater …

DIY floppy drive echo and delay
April 23, 2010 – 9:40 am | 2 Comments
DIY floppy drive echo and delay

Daniel McAnulty is an electronic music composer, device maker, song writer, photographer, and general all around useful fellow from Oakland, CA. Daniel has come up with the ultimate in DIY audio effects: He’s …

Theremin-playing cat
April 22, 2010 – 4:42 pm | One Comment
Theremin-playing cat

For some reason, cats and keyboards go together just so darn well. What could be better than a cat playing a piano ? How about a cat playing a theremin!

Even though it hurts …

Fine collection of curious sound objects
April 21, 2010 – 4:42 pm | No Comment
Fine collection of curious sound objects

Georg Reil is a musician and artist from Deggendorf, Germany. He’s put together this video of a collection of very curious sound objects.
At first sight, each one seems quite trivial, but exhibits exceptional and …

Vektron modular synthesizer
April 19, 2010 – 9:44 am | No Comment
Vektron modular synthesizer

Niklas Roy is a musician and electronic madman. He’s built a DIY device called the Vektron modular synth because he says: “Sometimes, I need to listen to some strange zoundz.”.

The Vektron modular is an …

Looping around the house
April 14, 2010 – 12:48 pm | One Comment
Looping around the house

This is great – Musician Simon Panrucker straps a digital camera to his head & takes a microphone around his house, looping sounds. The result is a great demonstration of his ninja looping skillz, …

Lego sequencer
March 4, 2010 – 10:42 am | No Comment
Lego sequencer

Yoshi Akai is an artist, musician and instrument designer from Tokyo, Japan. Yoshi has been producing DIY musical instruments with very unique input systems as works of art, and using them in performances.
The work …

Commodore 64 Keytar!
March 1, 2010 – 9:34 am | 6 Comments
Commodore 64 Keytar!

Jordan Bartee is a musician, circuit bender and and electronic tinkerer. In a moment of insanity genius, he decided to grab a Commodore 64 and a MIDI keyboard, and then combine them with the …