We learn, share, and make things.
We learn, share, and make things.
NYC Resistor is getting together with UrbanGlass to do some amazing classes later this year. See UrbanGlass’s site for all the details and to get your tickets quick before they sell out: Neon Robots with Joe Upham, Ranjit Bhatnagar and…
Last month I went to Paris with a bunch of artists to work on an installation at the Palais de Tokyo museum. The structure in the picture is made mostly from salvaged materials, and it’s full of robotic musical instruments…
Make music – or funny noises – with technology! On Saturday, February 16th, learn to make a soft and cuddly electronic synthesizer, and on Sunday the 17th, use the power of the LAZZZOR to make whistles and ocarinas! Soft Circuits…
Composer / sound artist / improviser Tuna Pase is visiting us from Istanbul. Come jam with her at NYC Resistor this Saturday, January 19th, 5-8pm! It’s free, but please get the details and RSVP at eventbrite. Tuna Pase is a…
I just finished Pentametron: a twitter bot that sifts through about 5 million tweets a day, collecting just the ones that happen to be in iambic pentameter. The result is a sort of collective nonsense poem from the internet’s endless…
This is Bre Pettis playing a homemade 8-bit-style violin. And this is where you can get plans and instructions to make your own! thingiverse.com/thing:6912
Here are some of the whistles made by participants in today’s Laser Whistes class. There’s still two workshops left in the noisy noise series!
Do you like making funny noises? I do, and every February I try to make a new handmade musical instrument or noisemaker every day of the month. To celebrate 2011’s noisy noises, I’m hosting classes every Saturday in February. Electric…
“In order to play the theme 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities.” In the 1890s, Erik Satie wrote a very short piece called Vexations, with a…
The radio show Science Friday made this nice video at our Junk Guitar workshop last month. Thanks to Shelley and Flora from Science Friday, and to all the participants in the workshop!