You don’t have to be a Super Mario Bros. fan to love chiptune music. The blip blip and bloop bloop of 8-bit tunes kindles a playful spirit even in those who were not raised on early home video ...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/06/live-chiptune-jam-on-a-elektron-analog-rytm-musicmonday/
We’re always filled with glee when we come across a new project from Mitxela, and this project resulting in a quartet of slide whistles did not disappoint. Arranging music for the slide whistle...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/05/mitxelas-robot-slide-whistle-orchestrion/
Pay what you wish or livestream this musical event featuring performances by Siman Chung, Yi Li, Ying Fang, and Katelan Trần Terrell as well as a conversation moderated by Debra Lew Harder, inc...
RPi_Pico_WAV_Player is a high resolution WAV file player for Raspberry Pi Pico.The project features: Playback up to Hi-Res WAV format Channel: Mono, Stereo Bit resolution: 16bit, 24bit Sampling f...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/30/a-hi-res-wav-player-for-raspberry-pi-pico/
There is something about surprising interfaces: clapping to switch on lights is more fun than a flipping a switch. Pressing a panic-button to order a pizza is more fun than ordering via an app....
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/29/making-a-flute-controlled-mouse/
GEARNEWS shares how the Pi found its way into synths.Digital synthesizers are essentially computers in specialized housings. Rather than a keyboard with letters and numbers, their keyboards trigg...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/26/raspberry-pi-synthesizers-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/
The legendary Hans Zimmer sat down with Vanity Fair last month to explain his process in creating the soundtrack for the newly released ‘Dune: Part Two’.“Home Depot is our secret instrument...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/22/how-hans-zimmer-created-the-score-for-dune-part-two/
Your newest synth might be hiding a Pi inside. Gear News looks at the modern state of synthesizers and the impact of Pi. Digital synthesizers have existed in some form since the 1970s, with the N...
The awesome engineers and musicians over at Look Mum No Computer partnered with Lego to make the Lego Minecraft Shuffle. Here’s more from Look Mum No Computer:a project i did for lego / minecra...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/15/step-sequencer-made-with-legos-musicmonday/
Troy Sheets decided to develop the $199 Blipblox, an affordable kid-friendly synthesizer designed for ages 3 to up allow music making without a bunch of expensive equipment.“I thought that ther...
Mitxela.com features building an automated slide whistle orchestrion.When I built the first robot slide whistle, the plan was always to build a quartet of them, if time and budget had permitte...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/10/building-and-playing-a-robot-slide-whistle-orchestrion/
If you would like to remember a time that you probably don’t remember any more, or never remembered, put on Cars by Gary Numan. Somewhere between the synths, the J.G. Ballard-level technophilia...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/08/the-moog-polymoog-the-sound-of-gary-numan/
Tab is a tiny command-line software utility to render tablatures for numerous music instruments.Tab work well with ABC notation but you may use a simplified text notation, too. Tab operate over a...
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and very real music. Renowned Jean-Michel Jarre composer has put together a concert that brings together music and technology in spectacular fas...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/25/mixed-reality-ar-vr-concert-from-jean-michel-jarre-musicmonday/
James contemplated what many folks do: I really should make a list of all of my vinyl records.I decided to build a vinyl cataloguing tool powered by computer vision. The tool allows you to set up...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/22/cataloguing-a-vinyl-collection-with-computer-vision/
Awesome build from Dimitris Platis up on Hackster.ioAs you may have noticed, I often make videos about programming and the various projects I’m working on. While recording, I always have a scri...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/20/toetap-a-human-interface-device-for-your-toes/
It’s #MusicMonday at Adafruit. This neat projec tkevinjwalters shared on Instructables, shows how to make a guitar tuner and audio spectrum analyser using the Pimoroni Galactic Unicorn and a Pi...
Science meets art in this installation piece from Dmitry Morozov and Alexandra Gavrilova. Here’s more from Hackaday! and present an interesting electronics-based art installation, which probes...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/18/magnetite-makes-sounds-arttuesday/
BorisDigital used a Pi 4 to turn an old stereo into a streaming music player:For the streaming player software I decided to use the open-source moOde Audio project because it has an easy-to-use A...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/28/raspberry-pi-network-music-player/
MIDI Guy is a sound module with SAM2695, a single chip General MIDI (GM) synthesizer. It can generate GM’s 127 sound programs such as “Acoustic Grand Piano”, “Trumpet”, etc.You can also...
The first computery thing Alexis Ong did in the year 2024 was to nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of...
It’s going to be warm and rainy in NYC this week which means it’s perfect walking-under-an-umbrella-with-modern-classical-in-your-ears weather. If you’re not well versed in modern classical...
Here at Adafruit, we are lucky enough to hear the sounds of many machines. Our weekly #AdvancedManufacturing and #MadeInNewYork videos are filled with the rhythms of making. Back in the day hard ...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/26/the-retro-analogue-rhythms-of-floppotron-3-0-musicmonday/
WQXR streamed this Musical Biography of Florence Beatrice Price, the first woman of African descent to be recognized as a symphonic composer, on February 15. We highly recommend setting aside an ...
This year World Cafe is celebrating Black History Month by using music history to celebrate up-and-coming musiciansTo celebrate Black History Month this year, World Cafe is turning its ear toward...
Awhile back one of our favorite music modders, Sam Battle, aka Look Mum No Computer, transformed a Gibson Les Paul into a guitar synth. And it’s lovely. Here’s the story from Look Mum No Comp...
TôBach on SoundCloud has created a song entirely made using dial-up modem samples.Check it out on SoundCloud.
The first time a ginormous roll of bubble wrap arrived in the Adafruit shipping department, a hush fell on the shippers. None of us had ever seen so much bubble tape in one place. For every squar...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/05/the-dream-a-bubble-wrap-flute-barrel-instrument-musicmonday/
Cornell University hosts a class humbly titled ECE 4760. It’s a class on microcontrollers. As you might imagine, these Cornell students make some pretty cool stuff. Recently, Pelham built a MID...
While physics and I have a terrible history, the author breaks down the physics of waves on guitar strings where even I was able to understand it. WIRED shares the how and why.Perhaps the most ic...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/29/the-physics-of-waves-on-guitar-strings/
The glory days of WinAmp and other music visualizers are making a c0meback with this projkect from Rafael and Eric. Here’s more from Hackaday:The design is quite interesting, going beyond the u...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/29/finding-vibes-with-a-winamp-inspired-music-visualizer/
Korg has revised the 1977 PS-3300 into a full scale analog poly synthesizer. Redisigned by Fumio Mieda, a prototype is expected to be on display at NAMM 2024.The original PS-3300 was a very expen...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/23/fumio-miedas-redesigned-korg-ps-3300-fs/
Wonderfully creative musical instruments are par for the course over at Look Mum No Computer. In the case of the Flamethrower Organ, they’ve created a reinvention of a strange historical instru...
Short Docs celebrates filmmaking with a West Coast perspective. We seek bold voices who break with convention and present undiscovered stories that challenge, move and inspire audiences. The Last...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/19/the-last-repair-shop-l-a-times-short-docs-searchlight-pictures/
The 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Concert is happening at 7pm on March 9. Tickets available here. Meet this year’s finalists and their instruments here.The Guthman Musical Instrum...
Mid-century Modern may be a bit of a punchline for some folks. But for others, the design philosophy of mid-century modern furniture, architecture, and appliances conjures up imaged of Frank Lloy...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/15/mid-century-aesthetics-in-elaborate-synthesizers-musicmonday/
Adafruit’s Game of Life Kit is swell, but Nervous Squirrel has done something special. They’ve combined Conway’s cellular automata simulator Game of Life with an 8×8 jack Eurorack .module ...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/08/eurorack-with-conways-game-of-life-musicmonday/
ronfrtek shared this NeoPixel ring build that’s sure to add some vibes to your music listening setup on Hackster.io:Every time the sound is detected the LEDs will move and randomly change color...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/05/make-your-neopixel-ring-react-to-music/
Drum machines are fun, but there’s nothing quite like the sound of en electronic drum pad. The percussionist for Kraftwerk, Wolfgang Flür, may have invented them. Here’s more from CDM: himse...
Team Musical Cocoon: Zora Che, Hana Chitsaz shared their immersive symbol of transformation over on Hackster.io:Great music is a window into the sublime. We created Musical Cocoon, an all-encompa...
David Hilowitz has spun up a sequencer on a bicycle wheel. He’s using a young engineer’s science kit, some headphones, and some tin foil. Here’s more from Laughing Squid:In this video, I co...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/25/bicycle-wheel-sequencer-musicmonday/
For many of us, the our only association with ballet is The Nutcracker. Classical repertory versions and new takes and wild subversions like Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut are a holiday tradition fo...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/11/dance-of-the-sugar-plum-fairy-on-a-1980s-synth-musicmonday/
Many are familiar with the terms “high” and “low” pitch. But are they universal? Definitely not. In an online resource put together by Jon Silpayamanant, many other terms have been collec...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/04/are-pitches-universal-musicmonday/
As it turns out one of the pioneering synths was the humble Commodore Amiga. Here’s more from Magical Synth:“I made a video about the very first polyphonic, subtractive soft synth available t...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/27/synth-secrets-of-the-commodore-amiga-musicmonday/
In this video, scientist Kimberly Arcand explains to viewers how mathematical mapping translates pixels into different sounds and composer Sophie Kastner talks about translating those sounds as a...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/21/universe-of-sound-data-to-music-translation/
HackSpace Magazine Issue 72 writes about making music on a Raspberry Pi Pico:Most microcontroller programming environments have a way of making beeps, and even if there’s not an in-built meth...
It’s Native American Heritage Month and it wouldn’t be fair to celebrate it without also acknowledging some of the darker moments in Indigenous American history.54 years ago today, the Indian...
Engadget shares all the details on the new Ableton Live 12. This version includes a macro oscillator synth and has the ability to create MIDI arrangements or transform existing ones via new tools...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/19/a-look-at-the-ableton-live-12/
Beautiful tools and visuals? Sign us up. Learn about scale, modes, chords and more on muted.io, via flowingdata. Check out muted.io here
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/13/learn-music-theory-online-for-free-with-muted-io/
Some of these classics popped into your head as soon as you read “synth” and “movie” in the same sentence. MovieWeb shares 22 of the best, some of which you may not even associate with sy...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/13/some-of-the-best-synthesizer-movie-scores-of-all-time/