Category: Workshops
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Circuit-Bending Part 2
Title: Circuit Bending Workshop Location: MadLab Description: If you’ve ever wanted to get into circuit-bending or DIY electronics in general, this circuit-bending workshop, presented by The Noise Upstairs, will give you an introduction into the art of bending. Over the course of two sessions you will learn some basic electronics and soldering, and end up with your very…
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No-Input Mixer Workshop – 14 April 2011
To sign up email workshops@thenoiseupstairs.com or talk to Anton or Rodrigo (or Richard!). Workshop dates will be March 20th and 27th with the performance happening April 14th. ‘No-input’ describes the state of an audio mixer fed back into itself. The name is slightly misleading however: there is input to the mixer – the output. Audio mixers…
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Yuri Landman – Homeswinger Workshop – 12 November 2010
The Moodswinger is a new electric 12-string instrument invented by Yuri Landman. Developed over six years of prototyping and fully realised in 2006 for the band Liars, Yuri has custom built derivatives for such musical luminaries as Sonic Youth, David Holmes, Half Japanese, Enon, Lou Barlow, dEUS, The Dodos, Blood Red Shoes, HEALTH, Liam Finn,…
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Instrument Building Workshop – 13 May 2010
Instrument design is many things to many people. It brought us the modern orchestra, the engineering feat that is the grand piano, the digital sampler, and a near endless world of things in between. There are several classes of instruments (as can be seen on page 3) and we will explore nearly all of them…
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John Zorn’s COBRA Workshop – 11 February 2010
John Zorn’s Cobra is either an often performed contemporary music composition, an improvisational game, a short attention span barrageof noise, a social experiment, or every piece of music you’ve (n)ever played or heard. I can’t be certain as to which it is or isn’t but I do know that it involves a group of performers, a…
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Laptop Workshop – 8 October 2009
Laptops make great musical instruments there’s so much you can do with them. Effects, live coding, processing, sampling just some of the fun you can have with a laptop. Laptops are increasingly ubiquitous while the capabilities and instrumental performance opportunities are ever increasing. We are offing a free laptop noise making workshop as part of the October Noise Upstairs.…
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Circuit Bending Workshop – 9 July 2009
Circuit-bending is an electronic art which implements creative audio short-circuiting. This renegade path of electrons represents a catalytic force capable of exploding new experimental musical forms forward at a velocity previously unknown. Anyone at all can do it; no prior knowledge of electronics is needed. The technique is, without a doubt, the easiest electronic audio…