Interactive Music and Motion Machine

'SCIENTIST IN RESIDENCE'
at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Ten Week Hands-on Workshop
Instructor: Robert Porter, Ph.D. With Bruce Shapiro, M.D.

Build a music and motion 'seeing' machine that will make for dramatic and dynamic interaction between the dancers and the self-generated music. No experience necessary, just interest and enthusiasm. The participants will learn about materials, electronics,light, sound, sensors, the use of an oscilloscope, and more. When this interactive electronic sculpture is completed the fun begins again when the collaboration with a local dance troupe creates a new performance. Participants will be able to install, operate, explain, train and troubleshoot on a working interactive motion and music machine – the electronic sculpture.

In the Ceramics/Mixed Media Studio

GIVE SCIENCE A PIECE OF YOUR MIND !

Ten Mondays beginning: September 17, 2007
4 – 6:00 PM. $95 Fee and $20 for materials.

Robert Porter, PH.D, long time Sebastopol resident, is a scientist and artist that
taught physics and developed student electronic laboratory equipment at SSU.
Porter received advanced electronics training in the U. S. Air Force and later
worked at Lockheed. He also worked in management, engineering, manufacturing, and research and development positions with Kuwait Chemical, Philco, RCA, Varian, and Bay Alarm.