This article appeared in Make: Vol 92. Subscribe for more great projects. After years of hauling music equipment to jams — and ages hooking it up — synthesizer guru Mark Vail and I found a solution: We prewired small, battery-powered synths to effects processors and packed it all into briefcases. Now we could simply flip open the lids, plug into the P.A., and play; with headphones we could even jam in cafés without raising a ruckus....
This article appeared in Make: Vol. 91. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! The kazoo falls into a category of musical instrument that I would describe as “very easy to make noise, deceptively hard to sound good.” All you have to do to make a kazoo do its thing is to hum into it! But in order to play in tune, you have to hum in tune. In other words — you have to be...
Sound design is a wizardry that goes unnoticed even though it surrounds us. It’s also more bonkers than I imagined. This talk by Kirk Pearson starts with “How to make a T. Rex sound in three relatively achievable steps,” and goes wilder from there. It finally answers the mysteries of where the goriest sound effects come from. Dogbotic is one of North America’s premiere audio studios — composing for animation, film, installation, theater, podcast, games, web, radio, and every other...
Arduino Team — May 27th, 2025 There are a handful of instruments that are staples of modern music, like guitars and pianos. And then there are hundreds of other instruments that were invented throughout history and then fell into obscurity without much notice. The Luminaphone, invented by Harry Grindell Matthews and unveiled in 1925, is a particularly bizarre example. Few people have ever heard the Luminaphone and so Nick Bild recreated the unique instrument using...
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