Workshops · Northern Ireland and the UK

Build an instrument. Learn how it works.

For anyone who wants to know what's inside the box. No experience needed, and we'll plan the sessions around your access needs. You leave with an instrument you made and understand.

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instrument design sprint

Dates to be announcedBelfast · venue TBC

instrument design sprint

  • 3 sessions
  • 12 places
  • £300
  • no experience needed

Three sessions of electronics, coding and design. You build an instrument to take home. Materials and tools are included.

Where your £300 goes
your kit and materialsabout £100
your share of the room and adminabout £60
free instruments, co-designed with disabled musiciansabout £140

When you book, we'll ask what you need to take part, and plan around it. Our venues have step-free access and a quiet space.

If you're a disabled musician, you can also have an instrument designed with you, free.

02

community workshops

Not running right nowCan be booked

Shoestring Synthesis

  • 4 hours
  • free or hosted

Build a cheap and dirty oscillator from the 40106 chip, with wonky handmade sensors to play it. Want to host one? Get in touch.

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past workshops

  • Make a Fuss
  • International Synth Design Hackathon 2023, 2024 and 2025
  • Vapour Waves (NIME and DAS)