In this workshop, we will forage electronic components from e-waste. Opening up discarded electronic circuits to find and extract useful components. Those components will then be used in the construction of a distortion effect circuit with a contact microphone as the input source. For the circuit, we will use an etching process to make our own printed circuit boards that are customizable to some degree. We will then populate the boards with the electronic components we salvaged, and explore the sounds that they produce and the changes in sound by use of different electronic components.

Friday & Saturday: 10:00—18:00
Sunday afternoon: informal presentation of the results

No pre-requisite knowledge or skills.

Things to bring:

• Wired headphones
• A black permanent marker (fine point if possible)
• Scissors or a utility knife
• An apron / clothes that can be stained

📟 The workshop will include salvaging components from broken electronic devices, so if you have items to forage from it would be great to bring them (particularly audio/music-related objects, objects with buttons and knobs, older items from the 70s and 80s).

🎸 If you have a music instrument that you want to run through the electronic circuits that we will build during the workshop, you can bring it along.

Tickets for the workshops

Tickets get you a seat for the 3 days of the workshop (19/09→21/09)

• Full price • 80€
• Friendly price for students, teachers, citizens of Molenbeek, unemployed, 65+, Fablab members • 50€

Combo tickets workshop + dinners

Workshop participants are invited to join the dinners on Friday & Saturday evening with a special price of 8€ per dinner instead of 15€!

• Full price + 1 dinner • 88€
• Full price + 2 dinners • 96€
• Friendly price + 1 dinner • 58€
• Friendly price + 2 dinners • 66€

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[lucía xaxalxe] (she/her) is a self-taught musician, digital artist, and cyber nymph in Brussels. In her live music, she uses gameboys and handmade synths to paint looping sound landscapes.

🔗 https://cyber.nymph.garden/
🔗 https://www.instagram.com/xaxalxe
🔗 https://sunny.garden/@xaxalxe

Veerle Pennock (she/her) is a maker, educator, and founder of Acid Solder Club in Utrecht. Her work moves between DIY electronics, synth building, and reusing discarded components to create new instruments and sound machines. Beyond teaching, she also repairs and renovates obsolete devices, bringing old gear back into use for visitors of the workspace and via live performances on stage.

🔗 https://acidsolderclub.com/
🔗 https://www.instagram.com/acidsolderclub/