Music

Vibrating box breaks in your stringed instruments

The ToneRite play-in device works by relieving the tensions inherit in wooden acoustic instruments. A new or even moderately played instrument has a tendancy to have a lot of individual components that resonate independantly. By transferring certain types of energy to an instrument for a period of time the ToneRite can cause the instrument to resonate as a whole and as a result your instrument becomes incredibly responsive, problem notes improve, less bow pressure is required, the sound comes more quickly with less effort and the overall quality of tone increases.Read More

Record And Play Your Own Records With Gakken's Gramophone Kit

Gakken's Gramophone kit can play records of any size, using a bamboo needle to belch crackling analog goodness out of its nickel-plated iron horn. Playback speed and tone are adjustable, and the player is powered by a hand crank.

But the most fun part of the Gramophone kit is the ability to record your own music directly to vinyl.Read More

A musician has harnessed the power of two Nintendo Wii remotes to become a cyborg percussionist with the robo-band Jazari. His playing of one drum machine can evoke an automated response from another, so that he can go around the drum circle in a beautiful display of human-robot improvisation using solenoids.Read More

Easy to build LED light box dances to your music

Here's a really simple electronics project that plugs into your computer or music source, and the LEDs react in sync to your music.Read More

These creative sculptures are cast in resin and hand painted designs that are available as a trumpet, piano, clarinet, and guitar. Priced at $30.Read More

The world's first voice recording dates back to 1860, more than 17 years before Edison's phonograph was invented

Thomas Edison's “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil in 1877 wasn't the first recorded sound. A Frenchman named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville was the first to record sound almost two decades earlier.Read More

Building makes beautiful music with grand piano and violin

This cool grand piano design was built in Huinan city, Anhui Province, China. The stairs up to the piano are located inside the glass violin standing in front of the building.Read More

Developed by Korean electronics manufacturer FILS, this innovative and transparent material is actually a stereo speaker system.Read More

Evertune Bridge keeps guitars in tune forever

Stringed instruments have been around for centuries, but nobody's figured out how to keep those strings in tune — until now. The breakthrough introduced at CES 2010 is called the Evertune Bridge, with individual springs constantly pulling against each string at precisely the correct tension to keep each note the same.Read More

Fusing his background in engineering and innovative design, Moritz Waldemeyer's work with LEDs and lasers see him as the first port of call for designers and artists looking for concepts with a digital twist. When Wallpaper approached Waldemeyer to design a ‘Home Disco’, he responded with typical flair, producing this magical, awe-inspiring electro coffee-table.Read More