For the Fusion festival, we wanted to focus on Sound and Image. We will bring expertise in making instruments and music/visuals and invite fusion visitors to make their own. The workshops are based on open source electronics instruments and DIY philosophy.

The workshop leaders will help people to create simple devices (according to their initial expertise, the attendants can choose what level they want to get involved at) to produce sound or to work the sound produced by another device. In a very similar way, the devices can also be use to VJ images, produce analogue projections and work on them.

Workshops

DIY SYNTH & CIRCUIT BENDING: Synth have been a part of electronic music since its origins. We will help people to create their own either from a basic pcb board or hacking children electronic-instruments.  The diy-synth generate a signal, which you can combine to produce different noices and even music!
Friday 1st of July at 18:00 in the Workshop Hangar.

DIY-VJ WORKSHOP: We are bored of the all the same club visuals made with software and laptops. That´s why we will set up a workshop to create visuals in an analogue way. Together with hacked overhead projectors, dia-positive projector and some lightmasked spots participants create a visual show for the evening that is performed outside of the hangar. By passers are invited to join creating and watching the show that stands in a row with psychedelic club visuals of the 60s, russian shadow theatre and contemporary paper craft.
Friday 1st of July at 22:00. Location to be defined (Check workshop hangar for more info)

DIY DUBPLATE MASTERING: Cutting dubplates is essential to contempory dance music since the late 60s. We will give the opportunity to cut drony, noisy dubplates out of wooden, plastic and soft matrices we will bring with us. With boxcutters, scalpels and old turntables participants shizzle little carves that create sounds by playing on a turntable.
Saturday 2nd of July at 18:00 in the Workshop Hangar.

PFANDTASCHE: DIY BOTTLE-TOP+BANNER BAG
Upcycle it! During this workshop you will learn, share and investigate the possible REUSE of PVC banner, plastic bottle-tops and inner bike tube by making them into a great bag. No electricity needed. We have all the tools and trash you need! …..we will also bring lots of trash for awesome Trash Fashion. From VHS tapes till candy wraps! Feel free to bring your favourite trash and Upcycle it into treasure.
Saturday 2nd of July at 18:00 in the Workshop Hangar.

At the MakerLab will provide attendants with the possibility not just to enjoy the music and the visuals, but to create their own and even to play together with other artists.
We also would like to invite Djs, producers and Vjs to come along and show participants what you can do with the instruments!!

Contributors

Each MakerLab is made out what each participant brings. The Maker- Lab Fusion 2011 is co-created by: Bausteln, Facade printer, Open Design City Pfadfinderei, The Anxious Prop, Trial-Error, Vr Urban, and We Creative People

Tags: 2011, Bausteln, DIY Synth, Dub Mastering Plate, Facadeprinter, Fusion Festival, MakerLab, Open Design City, Pfadfinderei, The Anxious Prop, Trial-Error, VJ, VrUrban, WeCreativePeople