The 9th Austin Handmade Music workshop is happening this sunday (July 11th) at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Tx. The workshop will consist of building little photo-theremin kits (see video below) followed by a synthesizer/circuit bent show & tell and part swap meet. The festivities start at 2pm and go until 7pm. Theremin kits are $5 and are on a first come first serve basis. Come on down and check it out. It should be fun! For more info go HERE
On Saturday, March 20th, I went to the 6th Austin Handmade Music workshop at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin. This month we were able to choose a kit from all of the previous kits that were offered. I was sick for last month's workshop so this worked out great for me. I chose the kit they made last month, the Space Baby, designed by Nathan Wooster of Wooster Audio. The Space Baby is a delay box with controls for delay, ring modulation, delay modulation, feedback and mix. It has a nice mellow echo-ey sound and the ring modulation and delay modulation make it sound even trippier. This was the most difficult kit in the work shop series, mostly because it was hard to read the resistor color codes on the myriad of blue resistors on the kit... good thing Nathan was there with a meter so I could test them. However once I got past that it was pretty easy. Nathan was nice enough to offer advice and double check solder joints while I put it togethor. Where else can you go to build a kit and have the engineer actually keep an eye on you while you put it togethor? Pretty cool if you ask me. Below is a video demo Nathan made showing off what the Space Baby can do.
I think this kit is my favorite yet of the Austin Handmade series and I've already spent hours playing with it. If you want to build your own Space Baby you can order kits HERE.
There was another kit available that I haven't made yet because it is new. It was Eric Archer's "Tune in Tokyo" LFO noise maker which sounds like endless tuning for an AM station that doesn't exist. It sounds pretty bitchin'. You can check it out HERE.
For more information about the Austin Handmade Music workshop series go HERE.
