In this workshop for 10-12 year olds, Andreas Hirsch offers some insights into techniques for making sound devices, including test recordings of small group improvisations with self-made instruments. Participants will learn how to build a cigar box-style, elastic thumb piano equipped with contact microphones, as well as a circuit-bending transistor [...]
An after-school FREE event for fellow educators to meet Watermill's Program Director and Education Committee, this evening includes a: Talk and screening from Irish Resident Artists ANU Productions Tour of the Center and its Collection Wine & cheese reception ANU Productions (key speakers) This performance group comes from Dublin, Ireland, [...]
The Cologne-based musician and visual artist Andreas Hirsch, aka TreeSpeedMusic, brings to Watermill a peculiar instrument he has been developing: the Palmonica, an electrified palm tree leaf that produces sounds akin to the thumb piano’s. During his spring residency, Hirsch will collect sounds from the area surrounding Watermill and integrate them into a [...]
