A lot of airplanes come in low over the park where I walk my dog. I recorded a bunch of them and layered them together.
instrument-a-day 9: overflight chorus
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Category Archives: instruments
instrument-a-day 8: violin tuning peg hole reamer
It’s not quite an instrument, but there’s a chance it’ll come in handy someday. It would’ve been much easier to buy one of these things. Thanks to Adam and Noah for helping me figure out the machine tools!
instrument-a-day 7: bottle imp 1
A glitchy MIDI thingy in a bottle. Source code on github: https://gist.github.com/moonmilk/d72f815c7c233b4783e7
instrument-a-day 6: the big m
the big M: marbles in a candy tin
instrument-a-day 5: bottle bass
I saw this video about turning plastic drink bottles into string, so I made some bottle string and stretched it on a 2×4 to make a sort of bass guitar. The string snapped a few times, but it sort of works!
instrument-a-day 4: thermometer drum
It’s a tin can with a rubber membrane on top. When I stick it in cold or hot water, the air pressure changes, changing the tension of the membrane.
I’m strumming the drum with day 1’s toy: moonmilk.com/2016/02/01/instrument-a-day-1-joe-strummer/
instrument-a-day 3: the whisperer
instrument-a-day 2: dysonharp
A block of accordion reeds from a long-ago impulse purchase on ebay, and a vacuum cleaner.
instrument-a-day 1: joe strummer
Instrument-a-day is back! This is my ninth year of making a new musical instrument (loosely defined) every day in February.
An easy one for day one: I tied a piece of fishing line to a battery-powered cappuccino frother to make a strumming machine.
instrument-a-day 25: wooden synth, special wfmu edition
You may be able to own this machine if you give money to WFMU during their fundraising marathon next month!