The Scrapyard Challenge Workshops, led by artists Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katharine Moriwaki, are intensive workshops where participants build simple electronic music controllers (both digital and analog inputs) out of found or discarded “junk” (old electronics, furniture, outdated computer equipment, appliances, turntables, monitors, gadgets, etc.). Participants also build simple drawing robots or “DrawBots” with motors, batteries, and drawing markers that can be connected to Serial or MIDI interface. At the end of the day or evening, the workshop participants have a small performance/concert where they play their instruments together as a large ensemble.

Bring in:
Junk
Glue Gun/Glue Sticks
Soldering Iron

This was a blast!

Sideshow of Scrapyard Challenge 2009!

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Here is a short video of  “The Scrapyard Challenge 2009 Concert”!

The video index will only be up for a short time.  They take up way too much space, but I wanted to make them available for everyone to download.  If you’d like one and know (and know which one it is because there are about 40) and you didn’t get a chance to ownload it, email me and I send it to you.

The individual presentations start with #000018, so if you know where you where in the lineup you can narrow the search, I’d relabel them, but I do not know everyone’s name.  Let me know who is who and I’ll try to rename the videos.  Enjoy!