[spectre] DIY Eurorack + Making music with lights @MusicHackspace

[Susanna Garcia]

Dear list

We have some workshops coming up at the Music Hackspace.

Apologies for any cross-post.

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DIY Eurorack workshop weekend with Befaco 
Sat 27th and Sun 28th August 2016  – 11am to 19pm
Music Hackspace @ LimeWharf. Vyner St, London E2 9DJ

Hands on workshop: build your own synth modules on eurorack format. We provide all the necessary components to build your device from scratch. Each participant builds her/his own machine during the workshop. Join us for a weekend of DIY modular synth making.

More info and bookings: http://musichackspace.org/diy-eurorack-workshop-with-befaco-on-27th-and-28th-august/

Befaco modules available to build + 4ms and Bastl kits are also available. 

Befaco is a Synth DIY/open hardware platform focused on designing modules and organizing modular synth workshops regularly in Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and London. 

https://www.befaco.org/en/

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MAKING MUSIC WITH LIGHTS 2 days course with xname
Sat 24th and Sun 25th September 2016 – 11am to 18pm
Music Hackspace @ LimeWharf. Vyner St, London E2 9DJ

This workshop intertwines practice (musical and performative), theory (historical context and aesthetics) and technique (electronics). It culminates with a performance and a composition. The course will be lead by xname.

More info and bookings: http://musichackspace.org/events/making-music-with-lights-2-day-course/

DAY 1
Sat 24th September 2016 – 11am to 18pm
Construction of simple oscillators powered by solar panels
Why solar panels and what do we learn from them?
Basic of electronics and soldering for beginners
Reading schematics and reproducing a circuit
Modifying a circuit and fine tuning your noise
Sensing systems and LDR (light dependent resistors)

DAY 2
Sun 25th September 2016 – 11am to 18pm
Imagining a live set using a choreography of lights and the oscillators constructed.
Composition and synaesthesia with light controlled electronics.
Understanding frequencies in terms of colour and sound.
Melody as colour, beat as pulsation.
Manipulating interferences.
Expression, gesture and interaction in performance.
Rhythmics, tempo, syncopation, cacophony.
Examples from contemporary composers.

xname (aka Eleonora Oreggia) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Milan and based in London. She makes interactive installations and live performances. Made of self built electronics, lines of code, and other inert matter (noise, dust), her alchemic constructions often contain a live element, something that has to happen, yet unpredictable. Her live compositions transform light and other electromagnetic frequencies in sound waves through self built synthetisers and complex semi chaotic machines. The result is a hypnotic spectacle dominated by industrial and noise-techno frequencies. She is currently associated with the Augmented Instruments Laboratory at Queen Mary University where she is developing electronic musical instruments within the Antennas & Electromagnetics Group. She is also the founder of Nebularosa, a record label promoting electronic music that challenges the established modes of music production.

http://xname.cc
http://nebularosa.net

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The Music Hackspace programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. 
These workshops are part of the series #SoundUnfolded, curated by Susanna Garcia. 
#SoundUnfolded brings together action-based ideas about sound and explores the relationships we can establish with sound through the act of making.

If you have any questions please email us at: workshops at musichackspace.org

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