Making: Midi Madness

In this workshop you will work in pairs to create textile MIDI controllers using the MIDI Madness Maker. There will be an introduction to soldering, making textile sensors and bringing it all together to make music! In your team, one person will start soldering the MIDI Madness Maker DIY kit, while the other person will create sensors using textile techniques such as weaving, knitting and embroidery in combination with conductive yarn.

The focus of this workshop is not on programming, although reprogramming the boards in the Arduino IDE is definitely possible! There will be several code examples to play with - and you will have access to them afterwards. For this workshop we will stick to using Korg Volca series synthesizers with MIDI-TRS (MIDI over mini jack) and a wireless sound application on your mobile phone, so we will focus on 2 output options during this 4 hour workshop. The workshop is beginner friendly, no previous experience with soldering and e-textiles is required. Previous experience of programming in the Arduino IDE is good, but not essential - it will mostly be useful for exploring MIDI Madness Maker beyond the workshop.