Landfill Jam Band: DIY Musical instruments and noisemakers

Making music should not be about how to remove a lot of money in a guitar shop or endlessly tinker with expensive software. You can make a good noise from bits of wood and wire, plastic and steel. When you build your own tools to create their own sound comes naturally.

Landfill Jam Group is a step-by-step guide to making a full set of complete musical projects, no previous experience in carpentry or electronics required. Each assembly includes tips on how to coax the best sounds from the instrument, and encourages you to fashion design to fit your own style. Learn how to:

• Bust your old deck tape PDA old Skool Scratchbox
• Give your voice a robot conversion with the Droid Voice
• Circuit-bending unsuspecting childhood toys in the mutant glitching jazz-punk machines
• Transform cigar boxes in the thumb piano and electric ukuleles
• Build crack multifunction Mud Mr. Hiss preamp to connect to any electrical machine music

Along the way, you’ll explore the physics behind wind instruments, learn how to work harmonics, and get your feet wet with some music theory. To top it all off, the back of the book includes a soldering primer for complete beginners, as well as additional circuitry to adjust the tool even more.

Create your own team of your way!