Chip Tune Marching Band — workshop + performance :: Space, 129-131 Mare St., Hackney, London, E8 :: October 24, 2009; 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. :: To book your place, go here.

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Participants will build a small tonal sensor (light, temperature, distance, etc.) driven electronic instrument powered by an alternative energy source (solar, human-kinetic, wind, etc.). With noise-makers at the ready, the group will take to the streets as the Chiptune Marching Band.

In the workshop, participants will be lead through workshop concepts and presented the basic electronics knowledge required to create their own portably powered electronic instrument. Participants will then be grouped together as the Chip Tune Marching Band, parading the streets as a public performance and spectacle. Armed with the tools and know-how for hacking together alternative-power systems and square wave sensor circuits, they will make their own instruments and take to the streets. At the end of our march, participants can take their instruments home.