November 6, 2014 | 2PM
1335MABINI
1335 Mabini St., Malate, Manila
Building Synths? Into 8-bit game music? Want to learn how and make one? lifepatch – citizen initiative in art science and technology is holding a workshop.
LOOK/LISTEN: http://vimeo.com/110240161
In this workshop participants will be invited to identify basic electronic components, soldering the correct way and how to add sound into the synthesizer. Advanced participants get to chain up the 8-bit synth together, or to a CRT monitor to create glitchy visuals!
Info:
8-Bit Mixtape started from a fun session with lifepatch boys Budi Prakosa and Andreas Siagian and Austrian hacker Marc Dusseiller while they were exploring the possibility of using BabyGnusbuino, a simple microcontroller that was developed by Anyma. The idea was to create a synthesizer from an affordable programmable chip that is playful and could be used by anyone to play the music.
8-Bit Mixtape turns a mathematical expression into a single line of programming code which generates Algorithmic symphonies, with a different pattern in both in audio and visual are generated from the mathematical expressions that were used. It was Sakarias Lehtomäen (FI), aka Viznut, who first posted about the algorithmic symphonies from single line of code, that got many people even without scientific background came up with their formula and shared throughout the internet. 8-Bit Mixtape took some of the tracks generated from these formulas and enhanced them by giving some variables that could be controlled by the user.
In 8-Bit Mixtape version 0.9 Budi Prakosa and Adhari Donora of lifepatch will collaborate to make it easier for beginners to assemble the synthesizer. In this workshop, participants will learn to identify basic electronic components, how to solder the correct way, and how to add sound into the synthesizer, and how to how to party with their own hand-built 8BitMixtape synth!
***VENUE IS AT 1335MABINI (1335 Mabini st. Malate, Manila) starts at 2PM for a few hours (til you finish building), followed by an open jam with the synth toys to be broadcast at WSK.FM RADIOLAB 107.9FM / ustream.tv/channel/wsk-freewaves
LIMITED SLOTS: CONTACT fetedelawsk@gmail.com or 09206045559 for reservations! First come first serve. — with Dre Levinge, Etienne Ricardo, Ian Carlo Jaucian and 12 others at 1335Mabini.
