Noise Night Tonight!

Designed by Jeff Chenette
Tonight is the last Noise Night for a couple of months! So no excuses this time, come by, and make some noise. Bring some stuff to plug in and jam with, or go all the way and perform a quick set for us. Tools will also be available for people who want to work on things.

Noise Night is being held this time at the NEW Willoughby and Baltic space. Which is 9,000 square feet of awesomeness. Come by and see things before walls go up, and help us break in the new space with a baptism of sound. The address is 13 Joy Street, Somerville, MA. We are on the second floor, which you can get to through the door on the right.

Once again, my good friend Jeff Chenette made the kick ass Noise Night poster. You can check out his blog here. He is an amazing illustrator, and if you have an event you want a poster for, then please hire him. (Email him at jeffchenette at the gmail dot com)

Last Workshop for a Couple of Months

Photo of the first circuitbending workshop, by Bill T Miller

Tonight is the the last workshop for a few months. So make sure to come out if you want to work on something! This is also a special event, because it will be the last Noise Night to take place at the current Willoughby and Baltic community space, which is where it all started.

Where will it go? To the NEW Willoughby and Baltic community space, which will be part of the 9,000 square foot facility the W&B is moving into this weekend. The new facility will allow for more room, more tools, and more people to take over the world do cool things in. I'm super excited about it.

On top of that, tonight is the first night I'm opening up my own bending supplies store, and allowing people to purchase items in quantity. Before, you could always get a single pot or knob from me, but now, I've got a full inventory of everything your bent heart could desire. Well, maybe not everything, but certainly enough to do some major mods to whatever you are working on. I've also got some Easy buttons left over from the Maker Revolution that I'll teach people to bend.

Sadly, I've still not finished editing the videos from last month. I shot over an hour of footage, and I just haven't had time to get most of them done. I'll try and get them up in the next week or two.

So come out tonight to 195g Elm St, Somerville MA (right in Davis) and say hello. Bring a toy to bend, a kit to build, a project to show off, or just come by to see what's up. It's always a great time, with great people doing great stuff. Like always, the event is free, and BYOB. Donations are welcome, and are given directly to the W&B.

Upcoming Event Changes

Since a number of Noise Night regulars are going to be heavily involved in the upcoming Boston Cyber Arts festival, we are going to be canceling the second meeting this month. Instead, we are going to be putting on a show at the Maker Revolution during Cyber Arts! (April 9th is still on as previously scheduled)

What does that mean exactly? Well, we are now looking for performers for that Saturday evening (April 25th). We are holding the event in the Microsoft Startup Labs in Kendell square, which is an amazing space. There are only a few slots taken, and times are not yet set, so people still have time to sign up. Both audio and video will be available for performers.

How do I sign up and participate? We are actually going to hold mini auditions at the next Noise Night next Thursday the 9th. On top of that, we are going to use the upcoming Noise Night to start having performances in general. There will be both 15 and 30 minute time slots, as to be able to get in as many performances as possible. 30 minute slots will be given only if there are enough 15 minute slots for those who want them. Basically, this will give you 15-30 minutes to show off what you do, and make music, talk, whatever. It will be your 15-30 minutes to do with what you wish.

Click here to sign up.
Both audio and video tie-ins will be available, so bring your crazy video stuff to be projected. If you aren't sure if you will be able to perform, just mark down that you are interested, but not sure. You can also just show up to the event with your stuff, and slots will be allotted if available. I'm going to try and leave room at the end for a jam session. Being that this is the first time I've opened up the event to allotted performances, I'm not sure how many people are going to perform. Sign up, or just show up to find out with us! Soldering irons and tools will still be available for those who want to work on things.

In other big news, we are only going to hold two more Noise Nights after the April shows before going on break for the summer. May the 14th will be quite specifically a workshop oriented Noise Night. Bring in your things to work on, show off, or just to jam with. It will be closer to the events so far. May the 28th will be a full blown show! We are going to find a venue for it, and it will get it's own post when more information is available.

Noise Night #6 Wrap

It turned out to be 'kit night' for Noise Night. Since it was a small group gathered this time (I blame it on the rain) we assembled some of the prototypes Jimmie has been developing and had fun with them. I built his APC kit into a container my friend Charlie gave me to use, and Jimmie worked on his 40106 break-out business card. For the latter, he played it and it was awesome -- and it needed very few parts, too.

Noise Night This Thursday - 03/26

Don't forget this Thursday is Noise Night! Bring you projects this Thursday and feel free to jam. as usual we'll be setting up soldering irons for those who wish to circuit bend.

Noise Night #5 Wrap

With Jimmie out of town, Wayne Wylupski curated Noise Night on March 12. The well-versed and inestimable Bill T. Miller, of Boston's proto-noise experience Orgy of Noise brought some of his smaller trouble makers this time. Ted Read, local musician and circuit bender joined us for the first time. It was great to have Jon Schwartz join us to find out why we do what we do. Though less play and more show-and-tell, we told a lot of our experiences building and playing and sculpting music out of sound.

Next Night: March 26. See you, and Jimmie, there!

Noise Night 4 video up

I only really shot one video this time since a few others had cameras as well. I mostly recorded parts of the jam session that took up at least the last hour or so of things. I tried to show the types of things that go on at Noise Night.


You can see in the beginning that Fred Owsley is working on a circuit bent turtle. By the end he has finished it up, and starts to play it. Wayne Wylupski also built his SX-150 Analog Synthesizer Kit at the event and started playing it as well. There were even some first time benders exploring a Speak and Read. This is why Noise Night exists.