Instead of creating a project that I would use only one time for some special reason like an event or a show, I wanted to create a tool for making sound that I could continue to play and develop for a long time. I am a musician who loves making strange sounds and textures with my bass guitar so creating a guitar amp developed naturally. I started to create drawings of different variations of the amp in my sketchbook. As I continued to draw the amp, I thought of how I could remove the “cabinet” of the amplifier made from wood and use fabric instead. Subconsciously I was thinking about food or cooking at one point and an image of a meatball came to mind. Meat could be elegant and fancy, it could be wholesome and represent something special or it go the other way, brutal and messy. The combination of a meatball and guitar amp sounded very bizarre. I jumped right in…
The entire project took me way out of my comfort zone and I am grateful to have had the chance to learn how to build my own musical instruments using fabric/ craft materials.
I have used the instructables interface to create a project profile for my final Computational Craft project. Please check out the link to my Meatball Guitar Amp prototype.
Kind regards,
Andrew James Sapala
www.ajsapala.com