DIY EMI / A / V / Noise
Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2022 (GATHERING)
A how-to for making your own custom acoustic-tech ‘monochord’. Viewers are show how to select, combine and play materials. All tools are shown and techniques demonstrated. Various options to suit your very own build.
Barry’s approach is a akin to a recipe where he suggests potential ingredients, a step by step process (how & why), and even some serving suggestions.
Original paper designs by Peter Blasser / Ciat Lonbarde
PCBs made by mudlogger (gifted to me by Chromadots)
The circuits function well together, producing all sorts of charming micro-tonal sounds.
The video (individual piece HERE) was made from recordings made by participants in the Squeal & Scrape workshop at Ten Acres of Sound festival.
Live feed of the online screening event: HERE.
The Squeal & Scrape workshop is being hosted virtually at the Ten Acres of Sound festival, Stirchley.
After the Squeal & Scrape workshop at Framewerk Gallery Belfast, the participants will perform support for JD Zazie at the 343 as the Squeal and Scrape Orchestra.
Saturday 26 October. Doors 8pm. Tickets £7/5. BYOB. No Glass.
JD ZAZIE is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist and sound artist living between Berlin and Bolzano.
The participants will build two items:
• a piezo transducer (contact mic)
• a small amplifier powered by 9v battery.
The sound produced is not clean; it’s dirty.
The circuit is not complex.
This workshop is suitable for beginners, with no previous electronic circuit making experience.
booking email – barryjoecullen@gmail.com
Location – Framewerk gallery & framing service.
When – Saturday 26th October 2019. 13:00-17:00.
Cost – £10
Make Your Own Light and Sound Device in Response to Brian Eno, 77 Million Paintings
This playful adult workshop is an opportunity to build your own O’Scamp, an audio device which is controlled by light. Participants will be introduced to electronic components and will construct their own circuit, through exploration, experimentation, and customisation. At the end of the workshop, participants will take away a functioning sound generating instrument. No previous knowledge is required.
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Contact Mic and Dirty Amp Workshop V3
Saturday, June 23 at 2:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Catalyst Arts presents a free workshop with Barry Cullen, in conjunction with our current exhibition, Interzone.
Please e-mail catalystarts@gmail.com if you’d like to attend. Places are strictly limited to 10 participants. All components will be provided by Catalyst Arts.
INTERZONE @ Catalyst Arts, Belfast
24th May – 5th July 2018
Barry Cullen | Jonny McEwen | Una Monaghan | Saul Rayson | Susannah Stark
Interzone brings together a group of internationally prominent and emergent artists whose approaches to their individual art practices embrace sound, installation and visual components. The project is a six week conversation, the gallery re-imagined as liminal land between borders, playing host to a sustained exploration of the multi-faceted, complex, mutually invigorating relationships possible across visual and sonic art practices and rejecting outmoded separation between disciplines within contemporary art. Codes, glitches and loops permeate the assembled constituents of the exhibition, instigating a shifting inter-connection between what is seen and heard. The title references both the International Zone setting of William S Burroughs taboo breaking 1959 novel Naked Lunch and the mysterious, dreamlike “Zone” in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker.
Interzone will be complemented by a series of live Sonic Art performances on the opening night and to coincide with June and July Late Night Art Belfast.
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