I really recommend the upcoming "Circuit Bending" workshop at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. It's tres fun. The teacher Patrick is a fairly zany Chicago-artist alley-diver type, with a yen for taking children’s toys and dementing them, sonically speaking. I like him a lot.
http://www.oldtownschool.org/workshops
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Take apart your old toys and make a brand new musical instrument! Circuit bending is the art of modifying existing electronics (like children's toys, guitar effects units, inexpensive battery-powered instruments, etc.) to create unique musical instruments by adding wires, knobs, and switches to control new connections within the device's pre-existing circuitry. Enjoy bizarre sounds, electronic loops, sampling, distortion. At the end, you’ll be able to identify and name parts of a circuit board. You'll also open a battery-powered device safely, explore its circuitry, install an output jack, switches, body contacts (and more!), and control new sounds like pitch, randomizing sound generation, distortion, (and more!).
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