Interning at the Workshop

1. Interning at the Workshop With Ciat-Lonbarde

2. Benjolin Burgundy Workshop • Benjolin is an analog brain sonic electronic kit • It is invented by Rob Hordyk, a Dutch goldsmith and engineer. • We assembled them in West Baltimore

3. Food was Served • Lamb-Goat marinated in Papaya with colonial spices. • Burgundy trappist ale, brewed with sumac, wormwood, mugwort, wood mushroom, spice bush berries. • Chicken was boil’d in the brew too. • There was a re-purposed medical instrument that became the case for the sonic electronic instruments

4. Micro Cottage • @ Electro-Music Gathering • NEW JERSEY • http://www.youtube.com/petermopar/v/ShEhyIb9h4c

5. Spyrallius Deerhorn Circuit • Constructed During Micro-Cottage hours at camp. • It is made on paper and features hand-woven spiral inductors, part of the radio frequency circuit to sonify any movement.

6. Deerhorn Workshop • @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin • Building multiple paper circuits • Culminated in a full-hall hanging installation using re-purposed aluminum cans and foil as antennae.

7. Teaching Kids • To shun the device while you participate in its performance • Indoctrination into soldering and other 20th Century Arts • Please don’t touch the antenna.

8. The West Baltimore Workshop

9. In the Workshop • We will cover the art of soldering for entrepreneurial applications, and as an ancient guild akin to stained-glass, luthery, organ-building, masonry, etc. • We will brainstorm circuits and create new formations, also physically re-purposing and recycling heritage electronics. • Listening is important, as the final object has a sonic dimension.

10. Extra-Curricular • Typical day may involve hike to the woods to get kindling for the woodstove • Cooking is important for the alliums cure maladies of the mind, and cabbages sustain, while beans en-gass, and the duck oil creates a finger-coating quite protective of the tarnishes of electronic components.

11. Analog Modeling • Say you have a compositional idea for a sound, something that you want to make life with your gestures. • You can do this by making an analog suck puppet (ASP)! • The idea must be modulated into the analog realm where we speak quantum, radionic, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration), and of bezels. • There are two core concepts at the Ciat-Lonbarde ASP workstation: sensors, and analog brains (nabra) • We use these to realize any abstract sonic concept in architecture, textiles, and tectonics.

12. Mental Modeling • Close your eyes. • We’re gonna think about the thing you want to manifest • We’ll talk about why later on, just think about what you wanna make • What color is it? What shape? What does it smell like? • You need to curl your mental sight into its nooks and crannies, see up around and inside of it. • This is holographic vision, and it’s only possible within your own mind.

13. Digital Modeling • One exercise is to reverse analog modeling, and create a computer music program by (mis)interpretation of a manifested ASP • The nabra can be modeled in computer language in various layers of literality. • The sensors can be automated or transposed to the video sensor realm. • This is where we explore random vs. chaos as arbitrary vs. patterned vis a vis Relabi • http://www.johnberndt.org/relabi/ • Csound, Chuck, Supercollider, Max/MSP, PD, Ableton, Nord, Capybara, ActiveX