_mix_lit presents: a flat imagination workshop | Goodbye Mind + dani derks

Friday, January 17th 2025, 7 o'clock pm eastern standard time: performances by &

Saturday, January 18th 2025, 1 o'clock pm eastern standard time: workshop led by

both events will be held at The Perch Music & Arts Workshop

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A queer-led + beginner-friendly workshop perfect for anyone curious about modular synthesis, digital music making, and sound design. Participants will learn the fundamentals of making and shaping sound through VCV Rack, a free software modular synthesizer. We’ll cover the basics of the program’s interface, dig into signal flow and mixing, and explore techniques for creating modulation and changing timbre.

requirements: personal laptop with the free version of VCV Rack 2 installed and personal wired headphones

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dani derks is part of the day-to-day operations at monome in upstate NY and a member of the extended universe of Whimsical Raps – dani assembles instruments and creates documentation for ways to engage with them. Their personal projects are centered on coding through improvisation, creating their own environments for playful and exploratory music performance gestures.

The Goodbye Mind is the semi-experimental but definitely existential poetry-tunes of Amber Renee and Jake Noonan.

Warren C. Longmire is an queer negro writer, technologist, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the former contributing editor for Apiary Magazine, the host of House Poet: Spoken Word Dance Party and the founder of _mixlit. He is a board member for Blue Stoop. You can find Warren’s work in journals including American Poetry Review, Cartridge Lit, and Prolit Magazine as well as the Best American Poetry 2021 Anthology. His second full length project, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop (Bunnie Press), was released in November of 2023.

William Hazard makes poems with computers. Recent work can be found in , , , , , and on GitHub. He teaches at Temple University. He edits at Overpass Books. He hangs out at llllllll.co.

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