So why did Matt choose Rapid as his supplier?
“The website was easy to use, and the components were all there. We wanted to have a supplier that had everything we needed in one place so that children or their parents wouldn't have to look at multiple sites. I also saw that you do things to support communities, and that is something that all companies should be doing in some way.”
What’s the future for the co:noise project?
At the time of writing, in March 2020, the coronavirus has seen schools close across the UK. Social gatherings have been banned, so there will be no more workshops for a while, but home schooling provides Matt with another platform to make some co:noise.
“We are looking into building the online 'how-to' instructions more on our website www.moogiewonderland.co.uk. It's something that children and their parents can do at home and it doesn't cost too much – if you get the components and a variety of resistors, capacitors and potentiometers, there is a lot you can do with a simple synthesizer such as a square wave oscillator - so it makes sense to make people aware of this now.”
“We are also planning a project to encourage children to create graphic scores (such as a drawing or a collage) that can then be shared online for other children to improvise music as they interpret the unconventional score - hopefully using instruments they’ve built themselves!”
“As soon as we are able to, we want the co:noise project to turn into a more regular thing – an electronic instrument building club, more ‘how-to’ instructions, and even an experimental orchestra with different sections. We also want to start introducing the idea of graphic notation, which was pioneered by the likes of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhousen and is well suited to electronic music.”
Bring the co:noise!