Pocket Piano DIY Synthesizer

Critter and Guitari have introduced the Pocket Piano Arduino Shield – a board for making the Arduino into a portable stand alone music synthesizer. Features: 25 keys and multiplexer circuitry 4 potentiometers, 1 controls output level Microchip MCP4921 12 bit SPI DAC Passive low pass output filter

The Coin Turntable Music Sequencer

This is a demo of Thiago Teixeira’s Coin Sequencer, a physical interface for sequencing audio samples. uses four IR transmitter/receiver pairs to detect reflective objects (such as coins) passing under one of four tracks. When such an object is detected, an audio sample is triggered on the computer.

Electronic Music At The Maker Faire

Yann Seznec, aka The Amazing Rolo, captured a set of videos of electronic musicians demonstrating their electronic musical instrument creations at Maker Faire 2009 in San Mateo. In the first video, Elly Jessop, a masters student at MIT Media Lab, talks about her Vocal Augmentation and Manipulation Prosthesis (VAMP).