Hi all,

In the Music Technology program we build musical instruments and interfaces.

We want to create new things but we also want to learn from what others are doing.

Here is a list of links of interesting projects.

The list was created in our "Arduino course" as part as BIU music technology program by the students and for the students.

(see: http://biu.ac.il/hu/mu/barilan.html התוכנית למוסיקה וטכנולוגיה באוניברסיטת בר אילן)

Enjoy!

Nori Jacoby

Media Lab

TED lecture of Media LAB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj2QoLhfwew

Media LAB MIT: https://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/opera-future

Various projects in arduino/interaction music

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qp9cu2Px4&feature=youtu.be

See also: http://jerusalemsoundgallery.org/

Sound sculpture Installation: http://zimoun.ch/ (see also: http://earroom.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/zimoun/)

Fine collection of curious sound and objects: http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/fine-collection-of-curious-sound-objects-processing/

Gloves and invisible sound objects (installation): http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/09/grabbing-invisible-sounds-with-magical-gloves-open-gestures-but-with-sound-and-feel-feedback/

Body sensors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oh8YYONrLIc

Engines controlled by Arduino: http://www.creativeapplications.net/maxmsp/tele-present-water-maxmsp-arduino/

General Arduino Projects:

A sweet matchstick- so cute: http://www.instructables.com/id/Fire_free_LED_Matchstick/

Bikin Jacket with arduino:

http://www.instructables.com/id/turn-signal-biking-jacket/

3D interface with Force sensors:

http://silkehilsing.de/impress/

Moving furniture (sweet!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc6KkBHR-Yk

Musical instruments and interfaces:

A pencil that draws sounds: http://www.drawdio.com/

A lazer Harp: http://hacknmod.com/hack/create-techno-with-a-laser-harp/

Great way to augment the voice using VAMP of Media Lab:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~ejessop/vamp.html

Simple instrument that use a strip resistor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqnq_whYFo

Arduino Theramin that sounds bad but is cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wnQbG10RcM&feature=related

Using pumps to play music (super sweet!): http://xciba.de/pumpbeats/

Play on glass: http://vimeo.com/13684534

A max project: http://vimeo.com/13207393

KBOW  a hightech bow: http://vimeo.com/5235085

Using Wii and Max together, from minute 4 it's more the max part. The video is long but have useful tricks: http://vimeo.com/4832635

Using Ipad:http://vimeo.com/13806543

An ethnic drum machine:http://boingboing.net/2010/02/25/massive-arduino-and-.html

Water piano: sounds bad but nice control: http://vimeo.com/5819498

The same idea with arduino: http://vimeo.com/5314339

Simple usage of light sensor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtczkxTOUVM

Guitar with a keyboard: http://www.larsby.com/johan/?p=35

Rock  measurement – it's really nice: http://hacknmod.com/hack/rocker-scale-measures-how-hard-you-rock/

Noisemaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxdTvKqIRc&feature=related

drum machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxdTvKqIRc&feature=related

guitar pedal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X0bL6WS-VY

Amaxing talking piano:http://wimp.com/talkingpiano/

An ant-farm musical instrument: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/04/26/arduino-ant-farm-is-a-musical-instrument/

Breath Control in Max/Msp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmoTFhokEU&feature=related

Drumming in the air with Arduino: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjvy_jzGlAQ

Virtual strings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqnq_whYFo

Enviromental: http://earroom.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/sarah-van-sonsbeeck/

Tectonic: http://micahfrank.com/tagged/tectonic

Laser violin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtIxuFJjOI&feature=pyv

Lasers synth:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkhcwXpYy4

Robotic Control of instruments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5DgC-SOXmU

Some projects: http://www.niklasroy.com/ (see projects 1,3 and 5)

Floppy Disk Playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAgJPqrgKU&feature=related

Super Mario from Motors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAgJPqrgKU&feature=related

A true space craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STvBBP6aNC8

http://www.gersic.com/plugins/index.php?daCat=16
http://www.remixsoft.com/plugins/free-guitar-overdrive-vst/page/2/
http://www.shuttlebugrecords.com/Pages/shuttleplugs.htm
http://www.audiomastermind.com/browse-free_vst_plugins-5886988-1.html
http://www.vst4free.com/

Airpiano - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4Ovsh2DZY
with Ableton Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K10XB1ycT4
For more info look at the project's page at:
http://www.airpiano.de/

SynthGlove - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpLkX7X37D4
Midi controller, uses an accelerometer sensor to convert finger movements to midi messages.

Breadboard Sequencer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyQkUt-lY1g
Just a breadboard sequencer.

The first, called "Kasabian Football Hero". 
As it names says, it's the football version of Guitar Hero (again Guitar Hero. Sorry). 
The video will speak for itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjwoVqM_qE
Done with Piezo sensors used as knock sensors, 
for more info on that take a look here: 
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/KnockSensor

Second, dedicated for coffee addicts, is the "Arduino makes coffee too!".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7pOfJTQ5Dg
Read Arudino & Silvia's story [.. Osif ..?] here:
http://growdown.blogspot.com/2008/04/arduino-and-silvia-two-italians-one.html

Third, kinda cute, with an accelerometer, is the toy controller. A little interactive gaming with the Arudino:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVUrqaOvCfQ

A cool fourth, I mentioned gaming, so, I recommend having a look at this one:
http://vimeo.com/9056286
For the project's site - click here:
http://racer.sputnic.tv/

A nice way to spoil Glenn Gould's recordings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWG2u6Ah5v0&feature=related

And some more on Wind music :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZPpFyQWtE&feature=related

Apartment Lighting Arduino Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSqn1_EDx1c


Arduino as a standalone audio processing device. Capable of acting not unlike guitar effects processor featuring filters, delays, reverbs etc. Or a computed waveform synthesizer.
Site:
http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab/experiments/arduino-realtime-audio-processing/
Proof of Concept:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y241UMFNxDY

Interfacing Arduino with a wifi modem:
http://tinkerlog.com/2009/05/15/interfacing-arduino-with-a-telit-gm862/

Augmented reality, 3D interfaces:

Sweet robot "eye":

http://www.flong.com/projects/snout/

Augmented reality ad of a car:

http://hackaday.com/2008/12/13/minis-augmented-reality-ad/

3D interface:

http://oblong.com/

Wii project:

http://vimeo.com/3384319

Google Earth Interface:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoNwJ931aqI&p=A0B10DAC1B88FCAD&playnext=1&index=2

Robotics:

Simple infra red robot (jump to 1 min):

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-wall-avoiding-Robot!/

Robot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc6DKDFwg9c&feature=related

Examples to use arduino for musical instruments or interfaces:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wiki/Survey_of_Physical_Interfaces_for_Music

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wiki/Example_Gestural_Controllers

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wiki/Example_Interfaces

http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/

Technical:

Stanford Interaction course: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wiki/Survey_of_Physical_Interfaces_for_Music

Intro to Electronics by CCRMA: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wiki/Introduction_to_Electronics

Using Multimeter :http://tangentsoft.net/elec/movies/tt06.html

Arduino Workshop of Betzalel (Hebrew): http://cm.bezalel.ac.il/courses/mat09/?p=28

Measuring with Multimeter: http://www.ladyada.net/library/metertut/resistance.html

A list of electronic symbols: http://openbookproject.net//electricCircuits/Ref/REF_9.html