Maker Music Festival Project Directory

Results for "Acoustic"

...U...

U is a lamelaphone (that's the generic term for instruments with vibrating tines) in a U-shaped configuration. For each pitch there is not one but many tines in a row, tuned mostly in octaves, which can be played by stroking with a plectrum across the ro…

24 Hours Without A Sail...it isn't safe

This was a piece I composed & performed for the 2017 Ghostbird Theatre 24 Hour Festival, including alternative objects as instruments.

A Room Full of Unique Musical Instruments

A collection of musical instruments. Including strings, woodwinds, and lamellophones. Mostly built out of household items.

Artigiano del Suono

the "artisan of sound" project deals with the musical phenomenon, research into sound materials and the construction of musical instruments and objects to understand the relationship between humanity and sound

Birds

Birds was an installation of 26 identical sound machines during the exhibition Sounds Like Art

Celestual Harp

Celestial harp is a musical instrument with strings on a disk. By placing a sheet on the disk that shows the order of the melody, it is possible for people who cannot read the musical score to play a tune.

Centripetal Sound

Installation of 6 sound generators called Rotifiers.

Company Nomad Men: La Batt Mobile

A unique concept: two drummers play on the same drum set welded on a stylized tricycle designed and manufactured entirely in our workshop. Be careful, it turns ;)

Cyber-Totemic Objects and Sonic Mediators

Around 2005 after I finished my orchestral work Trade Routes commissioned and premiered by the Oakland Symphony orchestra I started reimagining concepts behind the late 20th century music of composers such as John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, and Karlheinz St…

Dinkinesh

Can you dance in 5?

DIY Celesta

This project is my attempt at building a celesta using machines available in a fablab and documenting the build. Documentation and design files are shared under a CC-BY-SA license.

Douser

A band of spring steel is animated by a servo motor

Dragging the Right Chord

“Dragging the Right Chord” is a functioning harpsichord made of corrugated cardboard and installed on a bicycle trailer.

ERA GELDES

Live online concert of the supersonic weirdo Era Geldes (the era of the money): with my self build instruments you are welcome to be carried away to save the planet from our culture.

Experiment with spring steel

Sound machine called "Snapper"

Failures, Prototypes, And Works in Progress

My work as an instrument builder was born out of the necessity to create a voice for myself to articulate and to compose. My instruments are all works in progress and by treating them as such, I allow myself to constantly develop and build in an organic …

flairdrum

By applying air pressure, a PET bottle can create an astonishingly clear and brilliant sound. The ingenious thing about it: the bottle is a sound generator and sound box in one. The higher the pressure, the higher the surface tension of the bottle and th…

Glass Wind Chime Instrument

Glass wind chimes are an indispensable feature of summer in Japan. Each wind chime has a different tone. The pitch changes depending on the shape and size of the wind chime. The wind chime instrument is a musical instrument where wind chimes …

Gliss Glass

Gliss Glass is an original instrument consisting of a series of custom glass vessels of various sizes, filled with water, interconnected by a system of tubes and valves. Though much larger than a wineglass, the instrument is played in much the same way, …

Granite Calliope

A Calliope built from a 1200 pound block of granite. 45 holes were drilled and tuned to produce the notes. Blowing compressed air across the holes make the notes play.

HIMALAYAS

Sonic massage and Civil DISCObedience

HONK NYC

HONK NYC! is an artist run organization that brings street band music and spectacle culture to audiences across New York. 2021 Festival: October 18-24.

Instruments for the Green Wood

This exhibition features instruments fashioned from raw materials, for this chamber opera 'The Green Wood', a genre-bending sonic romp through the world’s forests. The Green Wood seeks to uncover the voice, point of view, and inner life of the forest sou…

Kachivachero

Music made with objects that people forget or throw away.

Lego Microtonal Guitar

Unlike all playable Lego guitars in the world, Lego microtonal guitar is the first Lego guitar with a fretboard made out of Legos. All you need is a 3D printer and Lego pieces to have the fretboard ready to be inserted onto a standard guitar neck.

Marble Music Game

I made this Marble Music Game to play with my students. The idea is that you can change the notes and create melodies. Then you throw the balls and, hear how it sounds?

Music in Clay

I make, play and research clay musical instruments: flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets, didjeridus, and sound sculptures.

Nomad Men: L'Ethno Machine

On the road The music travels aboard an exceptional "Mad Max"-like machine, manufactured in the Nomad Men workshops, combining visual surprise and musicality. The machine will be operational in May 2021

Piano Liberado

Extending and expanding on the prepared piano concept.

Probability

Playable, interactive low-tech sound sculpture incorporating recycled materials.

Renzonica

The Renzonica started as an interesting father-son project for my five-year-old. Music is something we both love despite my absolute lack of talent or ability. My son is quite musical like his mother, so we thought together we could create a new type of …

Rinding Kalisemut

An instrument from Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia.

Skatchboxes and Skatchplates

The Skatchboxes here are part of a series of painted Skatchboxes called “Paintboxes,” created between April 2013 and February 2014. The Skatchboxes are made of cardboard boxes that originally contained computer parts (larger boxes) or computer keyboards …

Sound Cave Project

The Sound Cave Project immerses participants in the phenomena of thousands of musical strings sympathetically resonating every sound they make while inside. The wonder & joy induced by this experience invites participants to play with their own sounds b…

Step Back

A fully functional brass band on fire/in fire/shooting fire

Suena barro

is a multidisciplinary project comprised of ceramists, musicians, and luthiers, which focuses on the research and training on the construction of pottery musical instruments, as well as their collective performance. SUENA BARRO is as well itself an ensem…