A bass made from a heavy duty rubber strap. Way too low to be good for anything, or even audible, really.
Tag Archives: instrument-a-day 2008
instrument-a-day 20: whisperer.js
Trying out the tone.js library for browser noises, with the same primitive speech synthesis idea as days 12, 17, and 18.
Try it yourself at moonmilk.com/16/02/whisperer.html
instrument-a-day 17: teensy whispering imp
instrument-a-day 2016: ladybug dance
Just some dancing ladybugs for valentine’s day.
instrument-a-day 13: squeaky stick
After my dog was done chewing on this stick, I drilled some holes in it and chopped the end off to try to make a membrane pipe. It didn’t work very well, making only a single, annoying note.
instrument-a-day 12: vowelizer
Take a table of vowel formant frequencies, round them to the nearest MIDI notes, and play them on the built-in synthesizer. You can totally hear the vowels on the whistle instrument, and kind of sort of hear them on the piano.
Max/MSP source code at github.
instrument-a-day 11: live at musical ecologies
Sorry, you had to be there (because I forgot to make a video).
(thanks to Gilly Youner for this video!)
instrument-a-day 10: carousel
Inspired by Pierre Bastien’s music machines, I made a little chime carousel.
instrument-a-day 9: overflight chorus
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 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!