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...
Maybe you didn’t have that friend who discovered the music videos of Michel Gondry, and who watched them one by one until they came to the video for The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar. And ma...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/29/chemical-brothers-and-midi-musicmonday/
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/
tape-deck by Jarek Lupinski is a rather a user-unfriendly design:To play music, just give it a tape. tape-deck plays to end of the tape, reverses, and plays the other side. HOW DOES ONE PAUSE / S...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/23/tape-deck-a-user-unfriendly-cassette-playing-design/
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/
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...
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/
Axis of Awesome famously pointed out that only four chords are used to make a slew of the biggest pop songs ever. And it’s true. Many many, pop songs use the “the four-legged stool of the I, ...
There’s something eternally magical about a music box, nostalgic and fantastical as well as mechanically fascinating. Process X published a neat manufacturing video of Nidec Instruments, Japan�...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/30/the-process-of-making-high-quality-music-boxes/
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/
AudioWanderer presents on YouTube their take on Winamp running on a Raspberry Pi with an LCD display.First released in 1997 by Nullsoft, Winamp became the go-to Windows software for playing back ...
If you listen to contemporary pop music, you’re listening to music that has been deeply influenced by techno. On a certain level contemporary pop music is techno. And if you’re listening to t...
Michael Steil on pagetable.com writes about dissecting a dummy promo Sony MiniDisc.Many pre-recorded MiniDiscs are rare and expensive. An extra rare special case is the dummy promo copy of Michae...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/11/dissecting-a-dummy-promo-minidisc/
Hacked smartwatches are everywhere nowadays. He’s a fun one. Simon Brem has transformed the PineTime smartwatch into a MIDI controller via Bluetooth. Here’s more from hackaday:The project is ...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/06/hacked-smartwatch-as-synth-controller-wearablewednesday/
What is resonant frequency and why did it make me spill my coffee? Sophie Abrahams over at OxfordSparks drew from work by Jiwon Han. Han wrote a paper to help us understand resonant frequency a...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/04/spilling-coffee-and-resonant-frequency-musicmonday/
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...
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...
Maybe you didn’t have that friend who discovered the music videos of Michel Gondry, and who watched them one by one until they came to the video for The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar. And ma...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/12/how-the-chemical-brothers-work-midi-musicmonday/
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/
Awesome new episode of Great Big Story that profiles Vlad Kreimer and Soma Laboratory, which is based in Warsaw, Poland. Some of these sounds really are out of this world!If you’re a fan of the...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/13/youve-never-heard-instruments-like-this-before/
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/
Kevin on the Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects blog received a non-working 1985 Yamaha DX100 synth.My thinking here is that as it is a pretty nice synth with most of its functionality on a sin...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/08/diagnosing-a-yamaha-dx100-music-diyelectromusic/
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/