Chiptune Marching Band workshop

CHIPTUNE MARCHING BAND @ Pixelache

Venue: Taik Media lab
Time: Friday 3 April, 13:00-16:00

Part of the Pixelache09 Digital Craftsmanship programme
Limited for 20 participants!

Chiptune Marching Band is a workshop and performance. Its involves people from all walks of life making electronic sounds with one another, out in the world and in the open air. Armed with the tools and know-how for hacking together alternative-power systems and square wave sensor circuits, we take to the streets.

The workshop hosted by Jamie Allen (CA/UK) & Kazuhiro Jo (JP/UK) of Culture Lab, Newcastle University (UK). http://chiptunemarchingband.com

Banding together to learn, build and perform. We propose a public workshop and subsequent performance, inviting festival attendees to explore localized energy generation, public sound performance and DIY power… Chiptune Marching Band is a 2 hour workshop + 1/2 hour performance where participants build a small tonal sensor(light, temperature, distance, etc.) driven sound making circuit, itself powered by an alternative energy source (solar, human-kinetic, wind, etc.). With discussions around these technologies as well as short topical briefings in audio synthesis and environmental and urban art, each participant creates his or her own lo-fi sound source. With noise-makers at the ready, we take the group out onto the to the streets, bringing the event to the streets as the Chiptune Marching Band.

• Duration: 3hrs (afternoon)
• Number of participants: approximately 20
• A kit of parts is provided to participants to build variations on battery-less (alternative energy powered) sensor driven sound making circuits

The Culture Lab team (4 or 5 staff) will deliver the workshop and will teach topics in:

• Building sound and sensor circuits
• Micro-energy generation
• Hardware hacking

Participants will finish the workshop with a working breadboard musical instrument, and the group will then be grouped together as a “marching band,” parading in the streets around the festival as a public performance and spectacle.

Please sign up to workshop by sending an email to chiptunemarchingband ((at)) googlemail.com. Please include your name, email, phone number.