Well this is exciting! Jane Lippman, librarian in the music department at Parkway Central Library, has invited Consonant Collective to cut records for the public once a month for the next year, beginning in October.
Using our ~1945 Rek-O-Kut Challenger, we will make you a record by embossing up to 5 minutes of music or other audio onto a polycarb disc for you to take home. The events are totally free, but each session caps at 20 people, so you must register via Eventbrite beforehand. Here’s all the information you’ll need to participate, per Jane:
Workshop dates: 10/8, 11/12, 12/10, 1/14, 2/11, 3/11, 4/8, 4/22, 5/13, 6/10, 7/8, and 8/12
Everyone will have the chance to make one 7-inch, 33 1/3 rpm record. The maximum amount of audio that fits per side is 5 minutes. In addition to your record, there will be a paper sleeve you can decorate as an album cover. Feel free to BYO craft supplies for album decorating purposes, but some will be provided.
Register for the event at Eventbrite. Your FREE Eventbrite ticket reserves your time at the record lathe and your materials (record blank, paper album cover). Once you've reserved a ticket, please email your audio file to Katie and Joe at diydiscsphila@gmail.com before the session.
The first session in October has already filled up, but there is a waitlist. Add your name to the waitlist by emailing lippmanj@freelibrary.org. Folks on the waitlist get first dibs on tickets for our next session in November. If anyone cancels, Jane will go through the list in the order you email them.
Regardless of ticket or waitlist status, you are welcome to attend the session and listen to music with us!
Big thanks to Jane for this cool opportunity!