Organon Lutheries Lab is a series of sessions for sound practitioners or anyone interested in musical instruments. We want to open up a forum where we can discuss, make, and play instruments together. # Organon Lutherie Lab II: Collective Exploration on Amplification `2026-11-05 18:00-20:00` **Location: Lilla Salen ([KMH](https://maps.app.goo.gl/UEeNSHsXXMkVh13w8))** In this workshop, we want to invite you to collectively explore amplification as a way of activating materials and listening to their less perceptible qualities. Rather than working towards a specific theme or outcome, we will experiment hands-on with different materials, technologies, and ways of building instruments. We will explore membranes, strings, fabric, mud, metal, and other materials, alongside speakers, transducers, contact microphones, Bela boards, and other technical approaches. Through these combinations, we want to investigate what happens when amplification becomes a way of expanding the qualities of matter, a way of making the micro audible, of bringing hidden relationships and subtle vibrations into perception. What can amplification reveal about a material? How does a material change when we listen to it through a different body? Can amplification become a way of reading matter, rather than simply making sound louder? Bring materials that you are curious about, and together we will experiment with ways of activating, connecting, and listening to them. Feel free to bring some materials with you. [Register your attendance here.](https://tally.so/r/aQbvNy) # Organon Lutherie Lab I: Uncharted Territories `2026-09-15 18:00-20:00` **Location: Lilla Salen ([KMH](https://maps.app.goo.gl/UEeNSHsXXMkVh13w8))** What is lutherie to you? In the first session of Organon Lutherie Lab we want to invite you to diagram—to map out the ways you relate to your music making contraptions. We will share our insights into lutherie and diagramming as practices to understand ourselves together with sonic materials. With this activity of drawing out relationships between sonic bodies we want to encourage you to develop an abstract map that can survive change and perspective—a map that is porous, not a literal one-to-one tracing. Together, we want to make a cartography of ways luthiers and musicians perform the relationships they have with instruments. Can diagramming be a catalyst for new ways of thinking about our instruments?  We will provide all materials necessary for the workshop. We may invite you to share your resulting diagrams in a future *Organon Lutherie* publication.