Family Workshop: The Sound of Light and Shadow
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8-14 year olds and their grown-ups are invited to a free workshop exploring toneLamp, a musical instrument which reads visual patterns and transforms them into otherworldly sounds.
The workshop will be hosted by Jasmine Butt, an artist who's inspired by a century-old half-buried technology called 'optical sound'. This strangely futuristic sounding technology is how cinemas used to record and play sound - using light and shadow!
This workshop will be a playful, hands-on exploration of sound, where attendees will investigate the tones that different patterns and materials make. From the soft thrumming of a fluffy tartan scarf to the high whirring of tiny printed polkadots.
Over the course of the session, you will get the chance to explore existing patterns as well as make your own, and combine them into one long collaborative composition, which we will feed into the toneLamp to listen to.
About Jasmine Butt Jasmine is currently a post-graduate researcher at UWE's Computer Science Research Centre. She is part of a new 'Expressive Computer Interaction' Research Group, exploring the facilitation of close, human encounters with creative technology. Jasmine's work is driven by a desire to democratise understandings and access to music technology, and to 'un-black-box' the fascinating inner-workings of audio synthesis.
Our family workshops are made possible with our partners in the Pervasive Media Studio, which are the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol.
