Posts tagged ‘guitars’
Record your electric guitar at home
Thanks to everyone who came to the opening of the Curiosity Lab. We made a lot of guitars, drums, and played with Eric Singer’s Musical Robots. On that day we used a software to record and listen to the electric guitars on a laptop. The software is called Audacity.
Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Audacity can be downloaded here http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ . Audacity was started by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg in the fall of 1999 at Carnegie Mellon University. It was released as open-source software at SourceForge.net in May of 2000.
If you missed making an electric guitar or would like to make another musical instrument, then join us on September 18th. We will be making electric guitars and experimenting with sounds and noise.
Paul
Hooray for creativity! Three cheers for the Curiosity Lab!
Jeff Schreckengost with one of his guitars
I’ve been interested (obsessed may be a more appropriate word) in guitars – their design and the sounds they make for the past 30 years — and have always had the desire to create my very own music-making tools.
I tinkered a bit with old thrift store instruments, trying to find various ways to improve or alter them. I learned many things by trial and error and had a lot of fun along the way.
My goal is to create functional works of art from found objects; It’s a recycling mission of sorts. I may reconfigure existing instruments or build everything from scratch using reclaimed hardwoods. When someone picks up one of my instruments, they’re often shocked and amused that what they’re holding may have been a dining room table, part of a barn floor or a door to a church.
I’m really pleased to have a few of my instruments on display in the Curiosity Lab and hope they inspire others to make their very own imaginative musical tools.
To see some examples of the things i make, visit http://jschreckengost.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/instruments/ or drop by the Curiosity Lab and see them in person while you create your own one of a kind instrument.
Jeff
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