MAKING A SYNTHESIZER WORKSHOP - YOGYAKARTA ARTS FESTIVAL (FKY) 28

Everyone has the potential to create sound. Just choose the tool or make your own sound generator. The practice of making your own sound instruments has been widely practiced. One of them is an electronic instrument, a synthesizer. This workshop will invite participants to build and assemble their own synthesizer and practice it in the sound composition process.. Information from FKY

This workshop was held for 6 days: 24 August 2016 at 15.00 – 18.00 WIB/ 26 August 2016 at 15.00 – 18.00 WIB/ 28 August 2016 at 15.00 – 18.00 WIB/ 31 August 2016 at 15.00 – 18.00 WIB/ 2 September 2016 15.00 – 18.00 WIB/ and 4 September 2016 at 15.00 – 18.00 WIB.

The result of the workshop which was held for 6 days was a presentation on the main stage by all 15 workshop participants on September 6 2016.

Lintang Radittya is a self-taught instrument builder and sound artist/ performer based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His current interests include DIY analog electronics, the relationship between sound and space, randomness, javanese futurism, and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, and experimental music. He has taught workshops, created exhibitions, performed live, given lectures, and created unique instruments and installations since 2007 across Asia, Europe, and Australia. In 2011, he founded Kenali Rangkai Pakai, a project that focuses on the research and development of DIY synthesizer culture in Indonesia, and in 2013 he initiated Synthesia-ID, a project that attempted to document and chronicle the country’s synthesizer culture (including building and development).