DESN 350 SU02H: Topics Interdiscipline Design

Topic: Sonic Interactions 
Learn to combine analog and digital approaches by hacking existing musical instruments to create new sonic interactions and experiences. For centuries we have carefully handcrafted interactions of musical instruments, optimizing them for intuitive learning, playability and comfort yet many of the newest tools of musical expression are cold and intangible-using technologies in ways that ignore hundreds of years of accumulated knowledge. The goal of this workshop is to integrate old and new crafting methods by hybridizing an instrument that you bring with a small embedded electronic toolkit consisting of a RaspberryPi, a Sense Hat and an open-source software stack (included in the workshop price). Participants of the workshop will be encouraged to maximize musical expressivity, interactivity and experimentation. By using accessible prototyping tools we're able to experiment and create new interactions rapidly which will conclude with a musical performance. Bring your ukulele, hand-drum, toy piano or xylophone and we'll hack it into a new digital sound instrument.