Artist Paul Rubenstein has recently been teaching kids at two Brooklyn high schools to build their own guitars from scratch; with lessons on winding home-brew pickups, microtonal fretting and DIY amp constructions. When the lessons are over, he lets them rip and the results sounds like some long lost New York no-wave artifact.
Nick, Ayonde, Hector, Rashid, Vishal and Mr. R
And you can find more tracks, images and videos of their class work here. (via WFMU)
Posted by Warren at May 13, 2008 12:35 AM | Instruments