Circuit-bending Workshop
Would you like to hack a radio to make it a synthesizer? If the answer is yes, join us and we’ll find out how to make alien music out of it.
In this workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to create a basic “circuit bending” project. The main aim of this class is to show how it’s possible to craft electronic instruments with minimal financial investment and without extensive technical expertise.
We will provide radio kits which we will then hack to create surprising sounds. In the process, you will learn skills of upcycling an old radio and some old audio electronics and turn them into a music instrument.
KOMA and Francesco will provide the kits and all necessary tools. If you have your own radio you’d like to hack, bring it along!
Schedule
- 16:30 to 17:00 Talk with Fra
- 17:30 to 18:00 Workshop
- Dinner break
- 19:00 to 19:30 Workshop
- 19:30 to 20:00 Final jam
About the teacher
Francesco Zedde (b. 1993, Italy) is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. His curiosity is often driven by societal and metalinguistic questions, and much of his work centers on the idea of the musical event as a social practice, employing DIY methods of organization and creation. This commitment began with playing and organizing concerts and later expanded into diverse creative fields, including hacking, circuit bending, augmented instruments, and interactive installations. In his practice, the use of obsolete and discarded materials holds both rhetorical significance and political weight, serving as a stance of resistance against corporate production and consumerism.
