This is a short excerpt from a recent performance put together for the celebration of one year of Level 4 - a Southend-on-sea based arts and culture magazine. A friend and I were asked to come up with something which would be child friendly for the event, he runs a night called 'Panic' and I play at these events. We decided that a synth that the kids could play would be a good idea, and went about building a simple six oscillator synth with LDR's to control the pitches of the six oscillators. we also made some shakers with contact microphones in, and added some effects to the mix. This was quite successful with a number of kids playing and having fun with a little help from us for about fifteen minutes, whilst the parents looked on... Less