Hello! My name is Sandy and I will be facilitating our workshop this weekend at Science Gallery Melbourne! We will be creating small noisy soft sculptures together, where we will embroider our own stories into sensors that can be used to make sounds in an electronic synthesiser system. In the workshop, we will be working with the DaisySeed embedded computer for music, with the MPR121 capacitive sensor.
To make sure we get the most out of our time together this weekend, it would be great if you came to the workshop plugdata prepared on the laptop you will be using for the workshop. plugdata is a free, open-source patching environment based on Pure Data and you can install it from their website. The installer will prompt you to select which plug-ins to download, we will only need the ‘standalone app’, so feel free to unselect all the other plug-ins.
If you have any concerns or questions, we can sort them out on the day of the workshop!
The workshop will be split into 2 sections, the first focused on programming our own synthesisers and wiring it up to a capacitive sensor, and the second section will be making our actual soft sculptural sensors through sewing and embroidery. Please let the SGM team know if you have any access needs prior to the workshop.