In Photos: Discovering Sound Making, Electronics at Culturefix NYC
Handmade Music found a new home on New York’s Lower East Side, at Culturefix , an electronics boutique cum gallery, bar, and tapas. The philosophy of this event has long been to simply open the doors, letting a community of people come together, make some noise, and have fun and learn. So we’re indebted to the people who made it happen – and I think there were some lessons to hopefully reproduce. And yes, part of why I share this is I hope we can work over time to provide more resources, so that it’s easier to organize events and workshops to involve people in discovering the music technologies about which we’re passionate. Left: Ted Hayes and Neurohedron, photographed by Mattron (see his Virb pages .) Right: Nick and his Smomid guitar. Photo courtesy Lem Fugitt / Robots-Dreams . Highlights: Great food and drink and art. First, I owe huge thanks to Ari and Cole and the whole staff of Culturefix for serving up delicious food and drinks in the kitchen/bar. There’s no reason tech has to be served on an empty stomach. I gather some purchases went down up in their drool-worthy audio boutique. (I, uh, bought a mixer…) But perhaps best of all, it was nice being in a gallery with an active show and being surrounded with texture and visual inspiration. Lots of people soldering and making electronics, even for the first time
It’s an epic piece of work, a real testament to the efforts of its builder. 