Sonica festival, Ljudmila and Projekt Atol are presenting a 4-day workshop residency with DIY custum built instruments master Yuri Landman. Hack your hard drive into a lo-fi instrument, build your own electronic Kalimba or create your own string instrument based on Kazimir Malevich paintings. Or do all three under the mentorship of world renowned creator, who designed instruments for Sonic Youth, Liars, HEALTH and Dinosaur Jr.!
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WORKSHOP PROGRAM:
11 November // 7 pm // Hacked Hard Disc Drive
12 & 13 November // 5 – 9 pm // Malevich String Plate
14 November // 11 am – 3 pm // Kalimba
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HACKED HARD DISK DRIVE
Nov 11 @ 7 pm
Ljudmila
With a simple deconstructive hack you can turn your old Hard Disc Drive into a wild sounding low frequency dub step “BWWFFOOOOHHH“. For this workshop you have to bring your own HDD and IMPORTANT: check the type of screws used on your harddrive and buy a screwdriver that matches with these screws. Most HDD have small torque screws. Any decent DIY shop has screwdrivers for these uncommon screwheads.
Follow the registration steps here:
http://wiki.ljudmila.org/
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MALEVICH STRING PLATE
Nov 12 and 13
5 – 9 pm
Ljudmila
In this workshop Landman guides a group of participants in their process to create a unique instrument of their own design. Based on the famous geometric abstract paintings by Malevich Landman found a way to enhance the sounds of strings by crossing them. The sounds of these clustered strings can be compared to Chinese gongs, Gamelan bells and spooky metallic sounds often occuring in scary movies. Each participant makes his own sets of crossed strings, resulting in an abstract sound plate sculpture. The instrument is electric, so can be plugged into a guitar amp for maximum sound pressure!
Cost: 35€
Follow the registration steps here: http://wiki.ljudmila.org/
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QUICKSTEP KALIMBA
Nov 14
11am – 3pm
The Quickstep Kalimba Workshop features an electric version of an African instrument called Kalimba. This electric variant is handy to plug in any amp and to use at live performances. The tuning is adapted to the 12 tone common in Western music, but can be adapted to the traditional tunings as well if desired.
Cost: 7 tone 35€ // 12 tone 60€
Follow the registration steps here: http://wiki.ljudmila.org/