SPECIAL FEATURE: Intro To Audio Synthesis: Build An Instrument!
Schedule
Sun Sep 14 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA | Sebastopol, CA
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Build a playable instrument capable of responding to external controls in real time!In this workshop, participants will learn how to design electronic oscillators with integrated circuits and discrete components.
These will then allow us to synthesize musical sounds from the ground up and arrange them into melodic and rhythmic patterns.
After completing this workshop students will be prepared to engage in much more complex instrument design projects, such as sequencers, mixers and drum machines.
All materials provided – no experience necessary.
About the Instructor: Sean Russell Hallowell (isorhythmics.xyz) is a composer and video artist based in Sonoma County, CA. His time-based art synthesizes experimental techniques developed from hand-built circuitry with a cosmic perspective on music as a conduit for physical and metaphysical energy. His music has been showcased at venues and festivals across the US as well as internationally in Mexico, Chile, South Korea, Japan, Belgium, the UK, Croatia, Poland, and Iceland. Recent audiovisual experiences have been installed at galleries in San Francisco, New York City, and London. His art is inspired by outmoded media technologies, e.g. analog audiotape and cathode-ray tube televisions. Through them, he explores phenomenologies of time in relation to the fourfold arts of number that philosophers of Medieval Europe called the quadrivium — i.e. music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. He holds degrees in music from Brown University (AB) and Columbia University (PhD).
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Where is it happening?
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
