Date: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 22 – 24 May, every day from 5pm till 8pm

Mentor: Karl Heinz Jeron

Location: Ljudmila, Rimska 8, 1000 Ljubljana

About the workshop: Robots work in the industry, help in households, play football – or make music as an orchestra! In this workshop, participants build and play with a simple, modular and fully analog sounding robot. The basic circuit generates interlinked sound output and has a completely modular, voltage-controlled architecture. This means that it can produce single-voiced drone or can be combined with other units to make complex swarms of drone and signal feedback interaction. Participants in the workshop build their own circuits to take home. Through this process participants discuss some of the fun highlights of how and why the whole thing works. The goal of the workshop is an audio performance with all the created robots. The workshop is about the creation of a robot orchestra, where sound synthesis and composition are set by light, graphics or pictographs.
The project was inspired by Daphne Oram, whose pioneering achievement, a synthesizer she built in the late 50s, is almost forgotten.

Registration: Contribution for three day workshop (9 hours) is 20 €. All expenses for materials are included, workshop product remains in your possession. Workshop will be in English language, the number of participantss is limited to 12, so please apply/announce yourself to: delavnica@ljudmila.org. No previous skills are needed. Newbies are welcome.

About the mentor: Karl Heinz Jeron was born in 1962 in Memmingen Germany. He lives and works in Berlin. From 2000 to 2006 He has been a lecturer for Multimedia Art at the University of Arts Berlin. His works have been exhibited at ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Documenta X, ICA London, Walker Art Museum Minneapolis, Berlinischen Galerie Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco.

Program Free-Circuit is supported by JSKD.