DIY synth workshop with Riccardo Marogna
DIY synth workshop with Riccardo Marogna
9-10 November, 2024
Doors: 13:30
Time: 14:00 – 18:00
Location: iii workspace, The Hague
Language: English
Max participants: 15
Suitable for: 18+, no previous experience required
Requirements: participants need to bring their own laptop and headphones
Learn how to design, develop and build your own electronic instrument with a Teensy board and the Teensy Audio Library.
Teensy is a small yet very powerful board with an intuitive visual environment that makes it possible to easily patch new instruments from scratch. Starting from simple tutorials, the participants will get to know the Teensy environment, learn how to design synths and effects and finally prototype their own electronic instrument on breadboards.
Program Overview
DAY 1 (4 hours)
Participants will be guided through a series of tutorials to get some familiarity with Teensy and the audio library. We’ll learn how to patch a synthesizer with the Audio System Design tool, and how to export and run the code on our Teensy board.
DAY 2 (4 hours)
In the second part of the workshop, participants will be guided through making their own synthesizer/effect. We’ll connect potentiometers, switches, pushbuttons, leds, capacitive sensors, in order to interact with the instrument. At the end of the workshop, each participant will bring home a diy electronic instrument, including a Teensy board, audio shield, various components.
Your synth kit *
Teensy 4.0 board
DAC module
Breadboard
Various electronic components
Participants need to bring
Own headphones
Own laptop (with the latest version of Teensyduino downloaded)
Snacks!
*when purchasing your ticket, you may choose to pay for both the workshop and the synth materials to take home, or to pay only for the workshop, and only borrow the materials. At the end of the workshop, you can always decide to pay for the materials.
About Riccardo
Riccardo Marogna’s work incorporates instrumental practice with woodwind instruments, diy electronics, extended instrumental technique, free improvisation, fixed media. He has been leading workshops on improvisation and live electronics, and has a ten years long experience in teaching clarinet and computer music.
As part of his artistic practice, he is an active maker of electronic and software instruments and any kind of weird thing which can produce sound. He likes to combine his expertise in electronic and software engineering with his artistic practice, working with simple and humble materials such as recycled wood, diy electronics, recycled circuits.
For questions, email workshop coordinator yun[at]instrumentinventors.org
DIY Synth Building is presented by iii with financial support from The Municipality of The Hague.
