I think this guy is never bored.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

You're perfectly right!

@h2o1969

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicolasBras I believe it.

@retrocjt

2 жыл бұрын

Or is he so easily bored, he thinks so deeply, and creates these incredible projects!

@mooflaghero1

2 жыл бұрын

Or he is always bored

@nathanjasper512

2 жыл бұрын

This dude is awesome. I'd love to go to his house and be like, "Hey Nick what are you making today?

As a musician, composer, and DIY music enthusiast, I find it insane how insanely talented and creative you are. It's almost hard to believe. I think I have basically watched all your videos

@daveyjoseph6058

4 ай бұрын

literally making gibberish sounds

@feli_1

29 күн бұрын

@@daveyjoseph6058 with instruments they have made themself and its rythm

@daveyjoseph6058

29 күн бұрын

@@feli_1 this is what happens when writers write with writer's block.

The spinning pan flute instrument is really neat!

Metal is so rich in unexpected overtones! I was just in a hardware store the other day with some angle aluminum and the variety of tones you could get by holding it in different places was incredible...

SO cool. The only instruments I ever made by hand was a few bamboo flutes. Never properly tuned but fun to play and fun to make.

I'm amazed at how good that sounds. It sounds like FM synthesis almost, one string sounds like multiple different frequencies clashing in the most elegant way. Fantastic work, mate.

@GuyNamedSean

2 жыл бұрын

That's what it is! I knew it sounded similar to something I would always mess with on a synth when I was a kid. I really love how soft and rich the sound is.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@reasonforhopewithin

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like a ton modulator

@reasonforhopewithin

2 жыл бұрын

Ring lol

@ossiehalvorson7702

2 жыл бұрын

Tbf it literally is multiple frequencies. Overtones and whatnot.

Really interesting idea!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

You have so much talent and creativity. You inspired me to start creating my own instruments and to learn others thanks a lot a don't stop what you do please.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! I'm really happy to see other builders, please use all those ideas and improve them!

Sounds like a gong.....love it! The tuning part=fascinating.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

That bicycle wheel one is amazing!

The final song sounds like something out of earthbound. Awesome!

WOW!! HE'S CRAZY ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS. ONLY A CRAZY PERSON CAN MAKE ALL THESE KINDS OF INSTRUMENTS AND EVEN BY HIMSELF. A VERY VERY UNIQUE TALENT TRUELY❤❤❤ 👍👍👍

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

When frenchmen are like you, they are the best people in the world to hang out with… I’ve met several like you in my time on earth so far! 😁👍 every creative has an iPad with procreate on it 😎 love your channel I’ve shared it with everyone I know who will also love it

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for your support!

Such a great, haunting sound. I love the way the tuning warbles as the strings vibrate!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Mee too!

dude i know you're gonna become so much famous, and you deserve every little bit of it, i genuinely think you're a genius

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We will see, but I'm working on it!

A bicycle pan flute love it. You come up with some crazy ideas.

Wow I just found your channel and this is amazing! I'm so inspired to sample sounds from random things around the house!

I like how excited he is when he finds somthing, that make a new cool sound and how he makes an instrument with this ... that is really cool

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm happy to share this!

Just amazing bro! I never thought of this idea. good job

I am impressed how much bell sounds you get with that metal pices. What is awesome!

Watching this just reminded me of a trick we did as kids. We would loop a long piece of thread through a wire hanger and tie the ends together. Then we hung the thread over the top of our head and leaned forward so the hanger hung down. Then we pushed the thread into each ear with our fingers and would swing the hanger into walls and objects and listen to the sounds/vibrations it would make. Just like then this is cool stuff!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

I love doing this too, this is the acoustic version of my intro!

@echodelta9

2 жыл бұрын

Younger hippie days someone taught us at a party to use an oven rack and 2 strings, built in reverb.

You've given me a lot to think about. Merci.

Not only is the invention ingenius, the music you make with it is also funky. Awesome!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

This is great, but I love that pan flute carrousel too! Thanks for sharing your work!

Very creative! Very musical! Great job!

EVERYTHING here is absolutely, totally cool. Thank you.

That music piece was insane 🔥nice work man 👍

This reminded me of a video I saw from a guy called "Edward Black Rose" where he made a keyboard that struck pieces of wire to make them vibrate, but he used a laser and a light sensor to pick up the vibrations. Kinda similar idea, maybe you could try his design when you're back from tour.

My god, so much work is being put into this videos! Amazing, Nico!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! I try!

Way to go....we're having fun now. Keeping doing your thing,....always a delight.

Very nice work and music! Intersting to watch this!

I LOVE these sounds! So inspiring... thank you!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Anything can be an instrument if you want it to. I like to find random things and play something on them its good fun. I can't make stuff though so you are on a mad level

Hahahaha man this is so damn cool, I love how much dedication you show here! Wicked sounds too!!! 💙

Cool idea

Nothing makes me happier than people who can make music out of anything!

So inspiring! Thank you man and good luck!

Amazing!

Yess! New Nicolas instrument!

Good sounds love it

Interesting sound possibilities. Actually usable and very configurable. I liked it in the less refined versions with tons of overtones. The less one thinks of bass guitar, the better here. Excellent work!

The first note you played on this instrument immediately reminded me of the Elfenlied intro.

Thanks for sharing. Happy to see that you are still breaking new ground! I like bass sounds a lot and like how the instrument sounds. I also liked the smaller coiled ones too. There is a lot of potential here.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Loving this man!!! Haven’t finish the video yet and already want to compose some music!!!❤ Thank U so much 🙌

What a nice idea! Great work!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Impeccable.

love it bro !

Awesome as always!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love your channel, fellow musician.

Great. As always.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Love your work. Please do more

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Great work.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

OMG! I wind my own guitar pickups, and this idea never once occurred to me. Thanks for the video and the inspiration!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and have fun!

I love this bit! The finished instrument sounds a bit like 8-bit video game music but in higher resolution if that makes sense. If I wasn’t inspired by your other projects already, I definitely feel like I need to mess around with magnetic and piezoelectric pickups now and sample some ASMR type stuff! Kudos! Thank you for the great content! This is quickly becoming one of my favourite channels!

Amazing! I loved it.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Juste génial !! Quel kiff !!!

Genius! 😍

Very nice design❤

Wow that really reminds me of the 90's band Laika, their first album Silver Apples of the Moon. So good man! Really love it.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

probably the best instrument u built so far

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Good! Keep going Nicolas!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I will!

Oh Man I love your videos!!!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

Very cool project, very interesting sounds!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nicolas, this video was very well edited, I can definetely see a nice bump in the quality of your content

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I try to learn from every video!

This is insanely good

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice ! Continu 🤙

You are a madman! I love the electric kalimbass, and I need to know more about the rotary pan pipes and "trombone flute".

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

I will have the occasion to work again on those systems! And the bass pump flute is already in my ebook

That was really cool! 😯😎👍

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

So Floydian the beginning ! All you do is great, go on ! Vous êtes passionnant, un mixte entre un génie et Jason Momoa :D Bien à vous.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Grand merci!

As guitar player myself, when I saw you used a Seymour Duncan pickup for this experiment it suddenly came into mind the scene from Back To The Future when Marty tells Doc "Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?" Cool experiment though!

great idea, as always very innovative, sounds a bit like a controlled theremin with vibrato

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Tu t'eclates, mec!!! C'est de folie ton truc, impressionnant! Bravo!

Try using one of those tiny electret mics as a contact pickup on the base. They work wonders, or get into MEMS mics even more up to date. Then amplify it and have the amp drive a low resistance coil with a iron core and place it close to the wire. In one phase it will be deep and the other hookup it will rival a water-phone or anything to score a space movie. This is how the e-bow works, it's rather simple.

Very entertaining!

I like your MWL (More with less) approach!!! I remember the modular nerds of the Schneider Psycho Circus freaking hot on how much $$$ their rig cost... but never producing anything half as creative as what you do. THUMBS UP! An artist is not defined by the cost of his pencil. But by his skill to be expressive.

Very interesting Nicolas!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Keep going on! You'll hit a trend one day

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Working on it!

I'd love to make a "horror movie sounds" instruments with this kind of technique, it would be so cool to make live sounds with it from your haunted house on Halloween.

Now I know how to make an insane speed woodwind arpeggio, nice

Tu cartonnes , Ce qui m'impressione c'est la qualité apporté a l'éstétique visuelle en plus de la sonore. grand respect.

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Grand merci! C'est souvent l'objet qui dicte la forme, moi je m'adapte!

@philippequintard2378

2 жыл бұрын

​@@NicolasBras yes and it show in a certain way , as the violin with nail even if it's not made to be super fancy (des bois precieux des gravure etc) it seem as it's fall all naturly in place. here it's the (because of the packaging) form of the string who give this feeling. 10 years ago I made some didjeridoos in plastic, the first one did have this almost organic even though it was vacuum cleaner and leaf blower tube (i suppose) it all seemed to fall in place, the made with pvc tube didn't had this vibe. But it could also be the confidence and smile you present the instrument with that could be a part or the origin of this impression. ( association implicite?) Either way thanks for sharing all those idea!

Genius 👍

One thing I’d like to touch on is that guitar & bass pickups, while they serve a similar purpose to microphones, actually work by sensing how far the metal string is. A pickup contains a magnet, close enough to the string to slightly magnetize it. When the string is vibrating, the magnetic field changes, and this causes a coil of wire in the pickup to generate a small amount of electricity. In contrast, microphones use any sound vibration to physically vibrate an electrical coil inside near a magnet, which causes the same generator effect. This is why pickups can’t pick up your voice, or something like a nylon string. They can, however, pick up the sound out of a smartphone due to the speaker having a vibrating metal coil inside, which has a similar effect to the pickup as a guitar string. So, while similar in many ways to a microphone, they are not the same thing.

Love your work, just wish you would post more often!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

I'm working on a Short serie that will come more often, and those coming weeks I'll experiment a full time on KZread, a lot more is coming!

@zanerichter3806

2 жыл бұрын

Can't wait!

perfect for drum and bass techno etc.

I recommend one or two Floyd Rose saddle for tuning this easier. Maybe with extra screws to push the wires up.

it's nice to watch and listen 👍

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

ahhhhh man i love that you cut the workshop sounds to be on beat

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

I always have fun mixing the workshop's sounds with the background music!

Best video on youtube.

The song you mar with all those intruments legit is what plays in my head when i take acid. Music liek that. I love it

I just came across your channel today. I'm very interested in your work. Subscribed!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks and welcome!

"Electric Antennae" - I love it!

I have an old wind up clock that uses a coil spring as a chime and sounds similar too it. Hits it with a small brass hammer

Nice.

The best of the world!!!

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

wall-mounted grandfather clocks use a coiled wire for the chime, hence the colorful sounding gong sound. Cuckoo clocks use the same thing followed by two whistles. Your instrument sounds bell-like.

You and Chad Zuber are probably my two favourite “chiseled straight from heaven” kind of creators, lol

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

i'm not surprised this works, this is pretty much an electronic piano, except with a very small sound board. i'd like to hear this being used to play something like, the theme from i dream of genie.

the track at the end is VV DOPE

@NicolasBras

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

This is amazing. If you ever going to extend one to an octave (OR BEYOND) might consider diverent gauges. Pianowire have plenty. Cheers.