This Month’s Handmade Music event is shaping up quite nicely indeed. Peter of CDM gives a rundown of what to expect –
Handmade Music projects will again explode into the nerdster party in Brooklyn, with more ways to get involved worldwide. The science fair-meets-music lounge event hits Thursday night, and this time, you can walk home with your very own noisemakers – no musical or electronic experience required.
Tristan Perich, composer, sound artist, inventor, and 1-bit music maker will be onhand from Loud Objects to share the Noise Toy kit. He’ll walk you through making one, talk about how it works, and we’ll make a little racket.
And once we get a few of those kits made, you’ll be welcome to join in an impromptu Noise Toy Ensemble!
If you fancy higher-fi, digital music and virtual reality, we’ve got you covered, too, with a whole bunch of software projects.
- Noise Toy workshop with Loud Objects / Tristan Perich: Learn how this cheap kit can make glitchy sounds like Bzzzzrrrreeeeepehkhkhkhhhhhhhk! Workshop + kits – make one for free, $10 suggested donation to take it home!
- Force fields: Pulsantes is pulsating musical sequencer software with interconnected rings and force fields generating rhythms, created by Spanish artist Jaime Munarriz. (Jaime can’t be there, so I’m bringing his work!)
- Nintendo instruments and organic musical chemistry: glitchDS is a free cellular autamaton-based musical sequencer, ported from Nintendo DS to PC/Mac – this and other sound toys by Bret Truchan.
- Artificial musical realities: jReality is a Java library for creating real-time interactive audiovisual apps in 3D, with fully three-dimensional sound and visuals, motion tracking, stereo projection, and more, created by Peter Brinkmann.
- Wireless Sound Objects by Eric Beug are the equivalent of a wire-free modular synthesizer, for improvisation, performance, and education.
- Free business-card kits for exploring basic sound circuitry from PAiA didn’t ship in time for last month’s event, but they’re here now — get your free kit while they last, then draw your own sound controllers with pencils!
If you’re in the neighborhood (or anywhere near it) be sure to stop by, say hi, make sounds and/or circuits!
7:30pm, Thursday, March 19 – FREE!
3rd Ward
195 Morgan Ave.
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
(take the L train to Grand St.)
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