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SUMMARY:Recomposing: From E-waste to Music
DTSTAMP:20261103T032141Z
DTSTART:20261127T090000Z
DTEND:20261128T160000Z
DESCRIPTION:Most of us have an old phone collecting dust in our drawers. Th
	is isn’t at all\nbecause it’s no longer functional. Rather\, it is the con
	sequence of a market\nstrategy called ‘planned obsolescence’\, which is de
	ployed by the ICT industry to\nincrease the sales of newer devices by maki
	ng working hardware seemingly\nuseless. But one man’s trash is another man
	’s treasure.\n\nWhile their battery might be old\, their camera depreciate
	d\, and their operating\nsystem no longer supported\, smartphones are stil
	l computers with enough power to\nperform complex tasks. Trashing them is 
	not only a (e-)wasted opportunity\, but\nalso a detriment to our ecosystem
	. What can we do with all these devices?\n\nTo open the conversation and a
	nswer this question with a concrete application\,\nthis workshop explores 
	the possibility of creating new digital music instruments\nbased on old sm
	art phones.\n\nOver two days you will learn how to repurpose old and cheap
	 smartphones into\nfunctional synthesisers. You will go through all the st
	eps needed\, discover the\njoys of granular synthesis\, Messiaen’s modes o
	f limited transposition\, and learn\nhow to work with open-source software
	 such as PostmarketOS and Pure Data. At the\nend of the workshop\, and pos
	sibly a small attempt to play all together\, you can\nfinally go back home
	 with your own custom synthesiser that’s too cool to stay in\na drawer.\n\
	nMore information and registration at www.fiber-space.nl.\n[https://www.fi
	ber-space.nl/reassemble/recomposing-from-e-waste-to-music/]
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/recomposing-from-e-waste-to-music
GEO:52.3727735;4.9003436
LOCATION:Waag - Nieuwmarkt 4\, 1012 CR Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:daytime,digital art,technology,workshop
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Most of us have an old phone collecting dus
	t in our drawers. This isn’t at all because it’s no longer functional. Rat
	her, it is the consequence of a market strategy called ‘planned obsolescen
	ce’, which is deployed by the ICT industry to increase the sales of newer 
	devices by making working hardware seemingly useless. But one man’s trash 
	is another man’s treasure.</p><p>While their battery might be old, their c
	amera depreciated, and their operating system no longer supported, smartph
	ones are still computers with enough power to perform complex tasks. Trash
	ing them is not only a (e-)wasted opportunity, but also a detriment to our
	 ecosystem. What can we do with all these devices?</p><p>To open the conve
	rsation and answer this question with a concrete application, this worksho
	p explores the possibility of creating new digital music instruments based
	 on old smart phones.</p><p>Over two days you will learn how to repurpose 
	old and cheap smartphones into functional synthesisers. You will go throug
	h all the steps needed, discover the joys of granular synthesis, Messiaen’
	s modes of limited transposition, and learn how to work with open-source s
	oftware such as PostmarketOS and Pure Data. At the end of the workshop, an
	d possibly a small attempt to play all together, you can finally go back h
	ome with your own custom synthesiser that’s too cool to stay in a drawer.<
	/p><p><a href="https://www.fiber-space.nl/reassemble/recomposing-from-e-wa
	ste-to-music/" target="_blank">More information and registration at www.fi
	ber-space.nl.</a></p>
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