18.12.10

Workshop presentation



i was invited by Champ d'Action to collaborate on a workshop on analog synthesis, to be given to high school students. plan is to have them build their own simple synth (coupla gated NAND oscillators) and then try to have them perform a 'piece'.
always nicer to make noise than to have to listen to someone else talking about the history of it.

this is a small presentation of the workshop idea, trying to convince teachers and the like to invite us to their schools, basically.
we had a single 4093 on a breadboard, aka 4 oscillators, aka 2 pairs.
each pair has a 'main' and a 'modulator' osc, and together they're gated by a control voltage sent from an Arduino.

on the left is Champ's artistic director Serge Verstockt, layering on some pitch shifter and delay, on the right is The Wiz Roel Das, gating the oscillators and thus controlling the beats with Max/MSP + an Arduino, and i'm in the middle turning knobs controlling frequencies.

i particularly like how it looks like we're floating in mid air. (we're not. sorry.)
Woop woop.