Two day workshop of building and hacking the Trinity synth with Bastl Instruments as part of MENT Festival!

DATE: 4 and 5 February // 4 – 8 pm
MENTORS: Bastl Instruments (Václav Peloušek, Ondřej Merta and Peter Edwards)
LOCATION: Vodnikova domačija, Vodnikova cesta 65, 1000 Ljubljana
REGISTRATION: delavnica@ljudmila.org

About the workshop

Trinity is a universal musical instrument and original sounding modular groovebox. It can function as any type of digital synthesizer, sequencer, controller, arpeggiator or almost anything that can be programmed into a micro-controller. Trinity is designed to be connected and combined with other Trinities of different functions in a chain, so that you can create your own music making environment.

The first day of the workshop is focused on building and learning the Trinity synthesizer, while the second day is focused on hacking the instruments with possibility of attaching sensors or coding entirely new firmware. The building process will be guided by explaining the basics of electronics and soldering. Because the Trinity can be re-programmed every participant will learn how to upload different kinds of firmwares and understand their software architecture which is a gate into hacking the synthesizer. The Trinity synthesizer is Arduino compatible and all hacking can be further expanded by the users by the powerful open-source online knowledge base. The Trinity can be used as drum machine - drone synth - polyphonic synth voice or noisy fm synth. The Trinity can natively speak MIDI and with side connectors the different Trinity Instruments can be easily connected and synchronized.

Day 1 | 4 – 8 pm | building and learning the instrument
Day 2 | 4 – 8 pm | open end - hacking the instrument + performance of all participants as Bastl Orchestra in Kino Šiška

About the mentors:

Bastl Instruments is dynamic and community driven company focused on producing hand-made electronic musical instruments. The products we make mainly spring from our needs we have as musicians and range from tabletop instruments and utilities to modules for eurorack modular systems. We are based in Brno, Czech Republic where they also run a small shop called noise.kitchen. It all started in 2011 as Standuino and transformed into Bastl in 2013.

Registration

WORKSHOP IS FULL!

Contribution for two day workshop 45€ and needs to be settled before the start of the workshop on site. All expenses for materials are included, workshop products remain in your possession. Workshop will be in English language, the number of participants is limited, so please apply/announce yourself to delavnica@ljudmila.org. No previous skills are needed, newbies are welcome. Bring your own headphones, laptop with Arduino installed (instructions to be obtained on day 1) and mini USB cable, if you have your tools feel free to bring them.

Organised by Ljudmila, Art and Science Laboratory, Projekt Atol Institute, Kino Šiška and MENT Fesitval in collaboration with Vodnikova domačija.

With support from Ministry of Culture and Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.