Event was rescheduled and is now taking place on Wednesday, March 15 6:30pm-9:30pm

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This workshop is an introduction to modular synthesis for total beginners. We will spend 90 minutes in lecture, with time for questions, and 90 minutes in small groups working with the equipment, with support from a second instructor. We will start with an embodied and intellectual introduction to voltage, move through basic synthesis terminology and signal flow, and finish with suggestions as to how to continue learning and playing. My intent is for you to find a sense of wonder and confidence as a synthesist. This workshop is designed to be accessible to people with no experience in electronic music or sound art, but regardless of your level of experience, you are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Weds, Mar 15, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Free
PICA, 15 NE Hancock St, Portland, OR 97212
https://pica.org/events/r2r

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Helen Spencer-Wallace is an artist, creative coder, electronic musician, vocalist, and somatic educator based in Portland, Oregon. They make works of sonic and personal presence. They work in installation and performance, often both at once. They mess with inconsistent and multiple selves, explicit deception, and being a scary beautiful digital choir. Their solo work centers on extended vocal technique and nonlinear song manipulation. Most of their work these days uses presence sensors in concert with digital and traditional methods of composition. Their teaching practice focuses on creating new curriculums that increase access to music and digital arts technology, particularly in creative coding and analog modular synthesis. Helen is particularly interested in how emotional, energetic, and somatic rapport affect the accessibility of learning in fields that are systematically exclusive to people of certain classes and identifications. They also particularly enjoy teaching and developing curriculum for classes that contain students with diverse experience levels in the subject area. They teach creative coding and analog modular synthesis at Portland Community College and through whateverSpace/SLP, and have taught students from all over the world, of many walks of life, and from ages 8-60.

Matthew Rempes is a video instrument designer, synthesist and educator based in Portland, Oregon. His work is centered around creating novel analog computing instruments to explore obsolete analog video formats and experimental sound design. Matthew is passionate about sharing the joys of audio/video synthesis and enabling others to create their own instruments, having taught dozens of workshops on synthesis theory and DIY synthesizers in the Portland area. He primarily administers Synth Library Portland's Lending program and organizes opportunities for local and visiting artists to lead synthesis-related workshops.