A two-part workshop on making an e-textile instrument: noisy pompoms that respond to touch and movement to make sound. It walks through building the soft instrument from conductive materials and wiring it up — an accessible entry point to e-textiles and physical computing for musicians and makers.
Sam Topley
Sam Topley is a sound artist from Leicester, UK. She works with textiles to create handmade electronic musical instruments and interactive sound art work, including giant pompom musical instruments, knitted or 'yarnbombed' loudspeakers, and electronic musical instruments with e-textile interfaces. http://www.samantha-topley.co.uk/