Electric Waste Orchestra: Learning and Teaching Music, Electronics, Programming, and Repurposing

Presented at HOPE X (2014), July 19, 2014, 5 p.m. (60 minutes).

The technology to turn e-waste into musical instruments is free, open source, and waiting to be fully explored. At this talk, you'll learn how the computer junk piling up in IT departments everywhere can be transformed into novel input devices, allowing kids and adults alike to create physical instruments to control electronic music.

Presenters:

• Colten Jackson
  Colten Jackson is a machine and design assistant at the Champaign Urbana Community Fab Lab in Illinois. Working with a diverse set of fabrication tools and surrounded by a wonderful community of makers, Colten works to introduce people to technologies they might not expect they have access to and creates objects that exemplify what happens when talent pools overlap within the maker movement.

Links:

• http://x.hope.net/schedule.html#electricwa
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE X (2014)/[HOPE X] Electric Waste Orchestra - Learning and Teaching Music.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apE2CBPt2Sg

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