Date: Saturday, 1st October, 10 am – 15 pm

Location: Ljudmila, Rimska 8, Ljubljana

Mentor: Nicolas Collins

About the workshop: Assuming no technical background whatsoever, this workshop guides the participants through a series of sound-producing electronic construction projects, including: - Alternate microphones (contact mikes, coil pickups, using speakers and headphone as microphones, tape heads, binaural mikes, etc.). - ‘Victorian synthesizer’ (making an oscillator with just a speaker and a battery). - ‘Laying of hands’ on a radio circuit board (the poor man’s Cracklebox). If possible, participants should bring basic hand tools (wire cutters and strippers), a soldering iron, and some simple supplies (see accompanying pdf.)

About the mentor:New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for many years with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous musicians around the world. He lived most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam) and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Since 1999 he has been a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. His book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide.

The workshop was part of EarZoom - Sonic Arts Festival organised by IRZU - Institute for Sonic Arts Research.