NRK Dagsrevyens coverage of workshop in Oslo:

I hold a number of different workshops where the participants build and learn about electronics and sound.

A workshop can last anywhere between one hour and several days , and tailored to suit the participants age and ability. From un-initiated 11- year-olds to more experienced electronics hobbyists, the primary goal is always to teach the participants a set of skills with witch they can experiment and explore further. We avoid unnecessarily complicating things, and focus on play rather than theory and maths. For those who are interested, more in-depth information about the theory of what we are doing is always readily available. I have held workshops in schools, at festivals and a variety of different venues. Building MIDI controllers, random music generators, drumming robots and programming software and hardware.

Below are some examples of the various workshops available.

We build a basic light sensitive drone-synth using a 40106 hex inverter chip. The entire circuit is assembled on a solderless breadboard, so no soldering required. This workshop focuses on experimentation and play and the participants all bet to modify and create their own unique bleepy-bloopy noisemaker. With plenty of tips and tricks to get more interesting sounds. The participants take whatever they have built home with them for fun and further experimentation. The video to the right (in Norwegian) shows the concept that the workshop will be based around.  The idea behind the whole workshop, is to show the audience that electronics aren't necessarily so complicated and inaccessible as they may seem. Once we've learned enough to scrape at the surface, and to avoid dangers like hazardous electrocutions and huge explosions, we can experiment and google our way to the most fantastic inventions.

Depending on the age and experience of the participants this typically takes 1-2 hours

This is like the breadboard oscillator mentioned above, only instead of using a solderless breadboard we will use a printed circuit board and solder the components on. Rather than learn experimentation and modification the participants learn to solder and build a fantastic bloopy-bleepy cmos noise synth that boasts four light-controlled pulse -wave oscillators one of witch has sync and two LFOs that modulate the oscillators via LEDs. Its fantastic fun to play with.

Depending on the age and experience of the participants this typically takes 1-2 hours

I will typically tailor the printed circuit board for each workshop and can include your logo or image on the circuit board, the one imaged to the left was made for Bandorg.

Oneliner code music

We solder together a circuit board hosting an attiny85 microcontroller that we subsequently program using a computer, a usbasp programmer and the Arduino IDE. The main purpose of the board is to experiment with extremely lofi generative 5 bit music, but the atmega can practically be programmed to do anything. The board has a simple pseudo stereo output configuration, or optionally a more complex mono 5bit DAC output. It also has a light dependant resistor, a potentiometer and a tactile switch that can be freely connected and utilized via the pin headers and IDC connectors.

Depending on the age and experience of the participants it typically takes less than one hour to assemble the circuit board and minimum 1 hour to write some code and have fun

I will typically tailor the printed circuit board for each workshop and can include your logo or image on the circuit board.

To the right is an example of the kind of generative music that can be made with this kit, and below it is an alternative more complicated-to-code and arguably more musical alternative.

This workshop requires that the participants bring a computer.