PhD Percussion From Home Made Machines

US Sam Underwood's zany sound gadgets      04/06/24

Sam Underwood is a musical instrument designer, musician, and sound artist based in the UK. His youtube channel features a wealth of zany, off the wall gadgets for making music - each with their own unique character and sonic behavior! Below are more examples if you're keen to see more...

 

 

I've been endlessly making videos showcasing the individual modules that make up ams, my acoustic modular system, for my PhD thesis. These don't show the full system or even particularly sonically stimulating uses but I've got to the point where I wanted to share some more bits...

Here's a rough edit of some of the parps, clinks and bonks.

 

One more for good measure...

 

More from his youtube channel Parp Clink Bonk - Making things that make noise...

His website: https://www.mrunderwood.co.uk/

 

About the author [midierror]: midierror is co-founder of Potato Audio, he makes nifty Max For Live devices, award-winning Sample Packs and hosts the 'midierror meets...' interview series speaking with all kinds of people working in sound & music. 


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