DIY Instrument: Making & Hacking

How do you feel about DIY instruments, sensors, and controllers? This is a workshop open to musicians and aspiring hackers of all skill levels and disciplines, utilizing technology or not.

Onassis Stegi invites artists, musicians, sound engineers, designers and programmers in a three-day hackathon to collaboratively create new instruments and sounds, and explore new ways to make music.

Selected participants will have the opportunity to build new instruments and create their own compositions, and new ways to make music, noise, & sound. The outcome of the workshop will be presented to the public on the last day through an open performance by the participants.

The challenges

How can an electronic system be used as an interface of experimental enquiry?
Can you create an expressive interface for playing electronic music?
What is the importance of networks (humans) and decentralised knowledge in relation to technology?

Program

Friday 11 January

18:00-21:00 | Welcome and short presentations by the mentors

Saturday 12 January

10:00-22:00 | Making & Hacking with the mentors

Sunday 13 January

10:00-17:00 | Making, Hacking, Composing

17:00-19:00 | Open performance

Credits

Mentors
Enrico Bertelli (UK), Alexandros Drymonitis (GR), Tina Dolinšek (SL), John Richards (UK, De Montfort University), Max Wainwright (UK) and Tara Pattenden (UK, in partnership with Music Hackspace)
Organized by
Heracles Papatheodorou, Dora Vougiouka

The event is part of the Interfaces project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

The workshop of Tara Pattenden happens with the support of Music Hackspace.

Music Hackspace is a London platform and community experimenting and interacting with music, technology and sound organising regular DIY workshops, events and artistic residencies. Music Hackspace is a Somerset House Studios Resident and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.