Another round of good stuff fills out the lineup for this month's Handmade Music @ 3rd Ward, Brooklyn. Peter of CDM provides details - Robotic gamelan instruments with the Gamelatron, created by Zemi17 and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) – check the video above! Rescued PDAs and iPods making music, with the Linux-powered R...
This week's flashback installation comes from lucky MAKE Volume 13: the R-Tronic 8-Bit Toy Music Sequencer by Brian McNamara. Phil Torrone originally blogged this sequencer about 2 years ago. He had[...]
Mountain Bike Rescue This Friday, May 22nd, is the deadline for the MakeShift challenge that appeared in MAKE, Volume 17. To enter, send a detailed description of your MakeShift solution with sketc[...]
Here's the latest from media art superstar Zach Lieberman and friends: Lights On is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a fa[...]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Rotormind puts a new spin on a classic concept -The Micro Rhythm Orchestra is an update on the venerable music box tradition. I made it from a wooden cigar box and head-par[...]
After seeing our previous proto pr0n post, Alberto wrote us pointing out the meticulous proto layouts from ChaN. Another great example of much of someone with obvious love for the craft, we've fea[...]
In Bb 2.0 is collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon. People are encouraged to participate and send in their own videos. The videos can be played simultaneously -- [...]
Debuting at the Volt Festival (site in Swedish) on June 6th in Uppsala, Sweden, the latest incarnation of the Bacterial Orchestra - Public Epidemic No 1 - will be unleashed on a participating public[...]
[Photo from M. Barcley on Flickr] Smart Challenge, a gathering of student transportation projects is having their culminating event of the year this weekend. High school students are provided wi[...]
At the beginning of April I was lucky enough to go to New York City to help Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of MAKE, prepare for his appearance on The Martha Stewart Show! The show was taped o[...]
Once upon a time when I was about four years old, my father went up the road to buy a couple of piglets, and he took me along. We brought them home to our little farm in a burlap bag in the back of ou[...]