INTERACTIVE SOUNDSYSTEMS

Beam Team was an afterschool program in which youth were offered a theme, technical guidance, a bunch of odds and ends to play with, and a series of connected prompts and students work in pairs to brainstorm, design and build out ideas. At the end of the program, we invite family and friends to come experience and celebrate what's been made. I designed the program and led all of the sessions.

During the 2018-2019 school year, the theme was Interactive Soundsystems. Using funnels, slinkies, cardboard, analog electronics, motors, tin foil, chopsticks sewing and more, Beam Team designed the way that we turn the sound on and off, the way that we hear the sound, what the sound is, and one or more ways to manipulate the sound using Pure Data. Beam Center, 2018-2019.

See also Arcade Stations and Beam Team.