Meet Your ‘Maker Movement’

Discovered the ‘Maker Movement’. It is a movement that utilizes ‘Maker Spaces’ which are physical spaces that people can rent out and use re-purposed tools or industrial equipment. In these spaces people work hands on (often collaboratively) to solve problems. We had a ‘Maker Space’ set-up in class with work stations; here is one station below. When the white wire came into contact with the black ink it made a sound, I am still baffled by this sorcery. In regards to education the use of workstations mean that students can discover and experience learning at their own pace and without a teacher guiding them through it.

I gave my ‘lift pitch’ which was a choice between two ideas.

• write and record a piece of music using digital devices that are completely new to me (everything is new to me!), this would involve me buying a cheap audio interface and microphone to use with Soundtrap
• If I was able to accomplish this with relative ease I wanted to create a short story with audio using ‘tumult hype’

I chose this task as it would help me outside of uni, as I always wanted to record guitar tracks I composed and make a song with multiple instruments, instead of just recording guitar parts on my phone and hoping that I remembered what I wanted to do with them later.