Pre/Fake Assessment

Salvaging Sound Devices

Planning for the next 20 mins

Y1
Graduation Proposal

// Year 1

HTML’ing, Repair’ing (Or break’ing), Sound’ing, Radio’ing, Solder’ing, Workshop’ing, developing the interest in Permacomput’ing, Server’ing

// Graduation Proposal: Salvaging sound devices

In this project, I will research the various ways in which abandoned media can be repurposed into sound devices. I consider "abandoned media" to be discarded devices that no longer serve their original intended purpose yet could still function as something else. For instance, a printer that has an “Internal Communication Problem” being repurposed into a percussive instrument. I’ll explore the ideas of speculative sound circuits, where playful and absurdist methodologies are applied to create sound using various unlikely technological devices (Richards, 2018) [2] , and Salvage Computing[3]. This will happen in a series of DIY/DIWO workshops/hangouts. The workshops will be hosted at Klankschool[4], together with Riviera Taylor.

Workshops

During the hangouts, we will explore various methods around salvaging components and dismantling devices, making our own instruments using these materials, live coding hardware through MQTT/OSC[7] servers & applications, and everything in between. Ultimately, they could lead up to a BYOP (Bring Your Own Printer) Orchestra. The hangouts will be held at the Klankschool and involve the Klankschool community. The hangouts are hosted in collaboration with Riviera Taylor, who’s writing a thesis about System Administration and Server Maintenance, and creating her project around Klankschool too.

At the moment, we're already having an (un)repair night every thursday, so if you're in the neighberhood, come by!

Field guide

The field guide is an open-ended, pocket sized, compact book, so the reader (and me) is invited to take the publication outside, further investigate, annotate and experiment with the discarded materials. This also gives me the opportunity to to continue the research after the project has ended.

I've set up a webpage on the klankserver, which is built using markdown/Jinja(shoutout)/CSS print techniques. It allows me to actively document as I explore.

BUT

here i can type out some issues