Digital Creative Workshops

Between lockdowns, we ran digital musical instrument craft and hacking workshops for local homeless people. The workshops were a collaboration between the Young Tech Lab at IKLECTIC, a Waterloo-based experimental arts platform, Accumulate, the art school for the homeless, and the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, part of the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London.

The first workshop focused on creating sensors for digital musical instrument interactions from common craft materials. The second offered an overview of instrument hacking culture and existing musical instrument projects and each participant had the chance to build a portable, battery-operated synthesiser.

Watch this space for further collaborations at St John’s bringing together arts, technology and local organisations.

I enjoyed having this session, It was educational and fun. The tutors are amazing!
Participant
Accumulate
I would love to explore this further and make even more things. Please do more in the future!
Participant
Accumulate
Very helpful and friendly people. Helped refresh a lot of memories with engineering as well as teach me new, unique and exciting ways to make a synthesiser. I am very grateful
Participant
Accumulate
Photos: Yveta Sedlakova

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