Lo-fi Granulator Workshop

Are you a regionally based maker or musician working with electronic sounds or instruments? Would you like to build your own instrument and contribute to research about cultivating regional electronic music? Then join our Lofi Granulator workshop and building your own granular synthesiser. Granular synthesis uses tiny loop based playback of sampled audio to create textural and spatial effects.

We’re looking for musicians and makers of all skills and experience levels to participate, from bedroom tinkerers to experienced musicians/makers. Following the workshop there will be an opportunity to present/perform the instruments at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental alongside a range of performances.

Workshop: 1-4pm Saturday 17th January 2026, Sauerbier house, Port Noarlunga.
Live event:  afternoon/evening Sunday 18th January 2026, ACE Gallery, Adelaide.

There may be some cost involved to cover the parts for the synthesiser. Eight places are available.

Please contact Tara Pattenden to register interest via email Tara.pattenden@griffith.edu.au

About Our Research
The ARC research project ‘Cultivating Electronic Music Across Regional Australia’ is a joint venture between Griffith University and RMIT.

‘Cultivating Electronic Music Across Regional Australia’ connects arts and technology in regional areas by working with local electronic music makers who design, create, and perform music with self-made or commercial digital tools. By understanding how music making functions across regional Australia, we can develop strategies to improve access and use of local and online resources available to electronic musicians and makers and explore how they can connect with local cultural and technology infrastructure to share their skills and creative expertise with others in their communities and beyond.

Our team of sociologists, musicians and makers conduct this research by collaborating with regional communities to run workshops, performances, and events. For example, we recently took part in the brave New Works festival in Denmark, Western Australia, co-designing and running a series of workshops with local musicians culminating in a performance by the workshop participants, playing their newly built instruments, at the festival’s closing concert. On the Sunshine Coast in QLD, we ran an instrument-building workshop, which led to a show and tell performance event organised by local artists the following month.