CAC Atelier | Build A Voltage Controlled Atari Punk Console
Language: English
Date: 23/06/2018
Time: 11am – 5pm
Location: Chronus Art Center (No.18 Bldg, No.50 Mo Gan Shan Rd)
Introduction
This workshop is designed for anyone interested in exploring sound design, music composition and most of all building your own synthesizers, noise makers and sound effects. We will be learning how to build a voltage controlled Atari Punk Console (APC) based on the very cheap 556 dual timer chip and other components. We will also learn what oscillators are and how oscillators create notes through voltage control from other synthesizers such as modulars, soldering components on a printed circuit board (PCB) and mounting the finished APC into a small project box or containers such as tea boxes, etc.
For this workshop we will be using basic physical computing tools such as soldering irons and a drill press to drill holes into the project case. You will be provided with a PCB and the components to solder them to it. You will use a container to drill holes into it to fit the PCB, attach the inputs/output and potentiometers. But don’t worry about any technicality, this workshop will teach you all the basics from scratch.
Example of soldering iron and snips
Example of container
语言 英语
日期 2018.06.23
时间 11：00 – 17：00
地点 新时线媒体艺术中心（上海市普陀区莫干山路50号18号楼）
SOUNDSPADE (Benjiamin Leeland Bacon)
Based in Shanghai, China — SOUNDSPADE is the stage name of BENJAMIN BACON (USA) for his music, sound art and dj projects. He is the founder and resident musician for VOLTAGE DIVIDER • 分压器, a series of live music, interactive media events based in Shanghai that explore different experimental and avant-garde musical styles and non-traditional production methods and he is also the co-creator and resident DJ for BLACK EYELINER • 黑眼线. In 1994 he formed DIES IRAE ! US with fellow confidant Jonathan Ford (Dissociate) and performed at festivals such as Wave Gothik Treffen in Leipzig, German. In the late 1990’s Jon and Ben left DIES IRAE ! US and formed the electro-industrial duo ANIMADVERSION and in the early 2000’s he went on to form the band BLINDWORKS. Throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s he Dj’d at various venues in North America, Europe and Asia.
He is the co-founder of Dogma Lab, a cross-disciplinary media and design consultancy based in Shanghai. He is a Professor of Computational and Media Design at Shanghai Institute of Visual Art. He previously a professor in the Design + Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design and was the former Director of the undergraduate Design + Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design. Additionally he has held professorships at several top ranked international Universities such as New York University Shanghai.