Listening to Materials: making original instruments from common stuff
Mon, Oct 10
|Bengaluru
Build your own instrument and discover fresh sounds in common materials. Use materials from light manufacturing, hardware stores and flea markets to craft a beautiful DIY sound maker.
Time & Location
Oct 10, 2022, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Bengaluru, No 11, RWF West Colony, Yelahanka New Town, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
Guests
About the event
Join us for a half a day workshop on Monday October 10th at 11:00 a.m and a performance with the instruments at 5:00 p.m at The Indian Sonic Research Organisation studio.
Build your own instrument and discover fresh sounds in common materials. Use materials from light manufacturing, hardware stores and flea markets to craft a beautiful DIY sound maker.
The workshop will be conducted by Jay Kreimer and Bryan Day
About the Facilitators:
Jay Kreimer is a sound artist, sculptor, musical instrument inventor, video artist and educator. He has toured widely with his invented instruments, performing across Europe, North America, and in Beijing. Jay is currently a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, making original musical instruments in India from local materials, and performing on those instruments. He is associated with the Performing Arts faculty at MSU in Vadodara.
Bryan Day is a sonic adventurer, painter and inventor of curious things based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reimagining scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and other common materials, he creates amplified constructivist sound sculptures, which often take fantastical forms. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He spends his days designing, building and fixing exhibits at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.