For all of eternity I must lay here, writing…
INSTRUMENT O’ THE WEEK
Hello, everyone, and welcome to this installment of Instrument o’ the Week, the never ending series of crappy musical instruments that people are unlikely to ever use or perform with. Until today, that is. Today I present the Glass Harmonica. The glass harmonica was [...]
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INSTRUMENT O’ THE WEEK
This week we’ll look at the Beep-It optical theremin, designed and sold by Michael Una.
The Beep-It is truly a fantastic theremin and unfortunately Michael is currently sold out, but you can purchase a Beep-It of your own for only $30.
If you couldn’t get enough of the musical vegetables [...]
INSTRUMENT O’ THE WEEK
Sorry I’m a little late this week. Here’s your instrument, the carrot clarinet:
Like that? Then you’ll love this Vegetable Orchestra that is performing at a benefit for the Spanish Vegetable Workers Union.
Ladies and gentlemen, with the election finally over, we can now worry about more important things:
INSTRUMENT O’ THE WEEK
This weeks instrument is the kazookeylele. You can probably guess what kind of instrument that is. If not, well, watch this.
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INSTRUMENT O’ THE WEEK
This weeks instrument is the laser harp, first invented when somebody realized that lasers could be mixed with harps in an unholy alliance of lasers, hands, and midi interfaces. Suck on that!
It’s also very easy to build your own. Once you’ve done that, it’s childs-play to put together your very own [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
INSTRUMENT OF THE WEEK
This week it’s all about the automatic guitar machine created by a British street performer. He doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, and was so fed up with unreliable guitar players that he made a machine that enables him to play with his feet, while simultaneously playing violin. This guitar machine is [...]
That’s right, it’s (late) Tuesday®, and it’s time for:
INSTRUMENT O’ THE WEEK
This weeks instrument is the arduinoboy, concocted by trash80.
The arduinoboy is software you can load on to a gameboy cartidge. Add an arduino board inside the gameboy and interface with the gameboy’s midi chip, then create some beautiful chip music.
via Make Magazine
Hey. I know these aren’t actually musical instruments. These are sequencers. Tangible hardware sequencers.
So why am I printing this? Because YOU try to find a new instrument every week. That’s what I thought.
What? You say we’ve never even covered the didgeridoo or the french horn? I don’t care. If you want to write IOTW, you’re more than welcome to. Until then, all you’re going to get are mixers, sequencers, and midi-directed microwaves. Asshole.
Anyways, the basic idea is that you have several instruments, some sort of input device to read the location of some objects and a lot of free time on your hands. Which is why you read this whole page to begin with.
The reactable is an electronic instrument based on a multi-touch display. It allows for multiple users and has a pretty wild user interface. Check it out.
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