Operation makey music!

Operation Makey Music! was a free opportunity for young people living in four areas of Shetland to attend workshops to learn about and explore making music using small, portable synthesisers, drum machines and samplers to make electronic music. 

The equipment used in the sessions included Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators, Korg Volcas and Makey Makey. These workshops were a lot of fun and the participants were very creative with the music tech. 

WHAT WE CREATED

The young people first learned how to programme the devices, to create beats and melodies and how song structures work to create pieces of music. 

The last session brought all these skills together to create and record sounds and beats, contributing towards a piece of music for each of the four project locations. 

Listen to the finished tracks below to hear the huge range of sounds, beats and textures that the participants created. 

Korg Volcas are a brilliant range of micro devices which include analog synthesisers and drum machines with a small keyboard or keypad and lots of knobs allowing for brilliant expressive performance control. They can sync together and are great fun for live jamming.