Audio Amplifiers

Learn how to work with audio amplifiers and incorporate sound into your projects.  Whether you’re a musician, furniture maker, visual artist, or craftsperson, this workshop starts with the basics of working with electronically amplified sound so you can design, build and connect your own custom, battery powered, portable amplifiers and speaker systems.

This beginner level workshop is geared for those looking to get a start in electronics through sound.  We’ll cover basic electronic concepts and dive right into building a simple battery powered amplifier circuit. Circuits in the class will be built using solderless breadboards to make assembly quick and easy, reducing the need for soldering in our projects.  In addition to working with breadboards and soldering skills we’ll include identifying basic components, and reading schematics and datasheets.  We will also look at a few more chips you can use for bigger, louder systems.  In the end you will walk away with your very own portable battery powered amplifier and the knowledge and skills to make some serious noise!

Instructor
Phillip Stearns (AKA Pixel Form) is a practitioner of sonic and visual arts; music composer and performer; electronics sculptor and installation artist. He views technology as a medium for exploring the global society-environment system and how changes in the relationship between society and environment manifest in our technology—particularly as solutions to a cascading set of problems created by contemporary culture. Through the medium of networked systems, his work explores the horizons of information, politics, noise, control, proximity, subversion, corruption, interconnectedness and interrelatedness. Central to his practice as a visual artist and a performer are the use of custom electronics, hand-craft, hardware hacking, media technologies and iterative processes marked by a judicial use of materials, restraint, simplicity, a careful balance between conceptual depth and playfulness. He has presented, performed, lectured, exhibited, led workshops and screened works at various festivals, conferences, residencies, museums and institutions around the US, Latin America and Northern Europe.

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