Years ago Brandon, a good friend of the Icedbreaks Crew, did a presentation of Spun Academy's technological capabilities by demonstrating a tangible interface synthesizer. His goal was to get access to the Museum's Rocket Scientists to take things to the next level, but found himself on the other side of the table. Instead of Brandon asking the questions, these curators had so many that Brandon couldn't get to his.
He went over how the Spun Academy uses DJing, hip hop, electonica, etc. to get kids motivated to learn math, geometry, physics, and more. The curators immediately requested that Brandon and the Academy work with them to build exhibits to be featured at the museum. After countless emails, a visit to Spun Academy by the Institute design team, and a private conference...Design Zone was born. The project took years to complete and is now featured at OMSI's primary exhibit studio until May 30th, 2011.
If you live in Oregon, or South Washington, get the whole family and group of friends together to enjoy this music inspired Design Zone!!!
"Visitors explore relationships between length and pitch in musical instruments, ratios and rhythms, and visual representations of sound in On Stage!, Dance Party, and the DJ Recording Studio. Area highlights include Laser Light DJ where visitors discover how laser light show technicians create mesmerizing patterns, and Turntables, where they can practice their DJ skills by trying to seamlessly match beats per minute to the tempo of a new song." - DESIGN ZONE WEBSITELinks:
SPUN DJ ACADEMY
THE OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
OMSI's DESIGN ZONE
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The Portland, OR campus of Spun Academy is hosting a DJ Hero tournament through the month of March. For details, go to: http://www.spunacademy.com/djhero.html