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Attic Ted Attic Ted
Status: Accepted
It's an insane asylum country gothic carnival of musical performance art, utilizing old Hammond organ, cello, noises, and masks.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:attic+ted oddball carnival

Baruzuland Shadow Theater Baruzula
Status: Accepted
Moving, living art in the form live shadow puppetry layers projections, theater, soundscape, dance and fire to create an enchanting tale through a visual stream of consciousness. This spectacle emerges from a live-in performance studio Step-Van, gypsy style.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:shadow+puppetry ,fire+dancing,enchanted+forest

Belaharr Drum and Dance Troupe Belaharr
Status: Accepted
This group of drummers, dancers, and friendly musicians in Austin performs rhythm and music drawn from Afro-Cuban, Middle Eastern, and other cultures around the world. At 2pm, after our regular performance, we're having a MakerJam. Bring anything percussive and come play along with us, or join in the MakerLine conga line!
Type: Topic: Tags:Performance

Bella Peregrina Ranch Kumpania Peregrina
Status: Accepted
This versatile, interactive Halloween troupe includes horses and a blue and gold macaw and a bevy of costumes: Renaissance, cowboys & Indians, Headless Horseman, Lord of the Rings, a wolf, a witch. Performances include rides, petting zoo, dancing horses, flying parrot, jousting, skills-at-arms games (mounted archery, quintain, rings, heads, reeds, pigsticking, javelin), Roman riding, poi (flag & fire dancing), singing, and fortune-telling.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:interactive Halloween costumes performance horses bird poi fire flag singing jousting games "fortune

Benderella's Toy Lab, A Circuit-Bending Work-Zone Dr. Manda Clair Jost
Status: Accepted
Circuit bending, the art and science of modifying battery-powered soundmaking devices, inspired Benderella's most famous project, the Defib-Modulator--a synthesizer expression modulator based on a vintage heart defibrillator. Come by to smear your chest with conductive gel and try it out! Or build your own FrankenToyZilla. All ages welcome.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:circuit+bending circuits music toys sound electronics circuit bending

Beyond the Frames of Light and Strange Sounds Lori 16MM Varga
Status: Accepted
A handmade, analog 16mm motion picture exhibit of experimental media which reappropriates material in 35mm slide & 16mm film formats, all juxtaposed from seven projectors. Circuit-bent instruments & mag oxide tape readers supply Avant-Audio for the screening.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:AVANT GARDE, LORI 16MM, 16MM, FILM , ANALOG, weird, unusual, performance, experimental, culture jam

Circuit-Bent "Easy" Button Mattheiu Brooks
Status: Accepted
Make a fun instrument by circuit-bending an Easy® button that you can buy at any Staples office supply store. The switch in the upper right activates the bend and the potentiometer tweaks the bend. "Tha-a-aaat was eeeeaaaaasy!"
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Circuit bent, instrument

Cirque Du Molé Doryan Rice
Status: Accepted
In this performance cooking / variety show, two chefs go head-to-head, and their bouts are peppered by variety acts that come out to entertain the audience between courses.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:Cirque, Food, Iron Chef, Molé, variety show

Cranky and Plucky Dominique Vyborny
Status: Accepted
These two large, interactive cones made of sheet steel create sounds from soothing to cacophonous. Cranky boasts 24 hand-crank music boxes pop-riveted to its exterior. Plucky looks very much like an old gramophone horn. Its four piano strings produce a deep, bass-like sound.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:art metal+work interactive music resonance

Daisy and Friends Raphael Abrams
Status: Accepted
Come by to get your hands on the Make Daisy mp3 with its gang of fun peripheral projects. Be among the first to see a brand new kit for making your own twitchy artbots.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:mp3 art craft fun fur robot twitch kit

Fantastic Piano Soyoung Park Cho Rong Hwang , Laurel Boylen , Shin-Yi Huang
Status: Accepted
Water, pumps, glitter and lights react as you conduct your own 'water orchestra'. Sensors detect your movements and translate them into a mystic and beautiful piece of music that you can manipulate through your motion and proximity to the instrument.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:Interactive Art, Physical Computing, Musical Instrument, Water Globe, Sensors and Motors

Fast and Easy Electronic Make-and-Take Brad Martin
Status: Accepted
Make your own electronic circuit kit in five minutes -- without soldering! Assemble a simple LED flasher or an electronic music instrument known as a "ribbon controller" or "electro-theremin". Complete the LED project as a prerequisite to the second project. Both kits include extra at-home experiments for extra "making" fun.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:ribbon+controller LED flasher throwie transistor kit electronic

Flaming Halloween Edwin Wise
Status: Accepted
Get set for the season with pneumatic and static props, makeup, lifecasting, and a preview of the SCARE for a Cure haunt.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:halloween fire science sound vibration props lifecasting silicon The+Robot+Group

Foleyvision Foleyvision
Status: Accepted
Strange foreign films are dubbed live with voices, music, and sound effects. Come by to enjoy an episode of Japanese Spiderman.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:"Film with live dubbing!" "Live sound effects!"

Foot Patrol Foot Patrol
Status: Accepted
Enjoy the only foot-fetish funk band in existence. The singer / keyboard virtuoso is blind and happens to be very interested in feet, so all of the songs this band sings are about that oft-underrated body part.
Type: Topic: Tags:funk band live music foot feet

Haircuts by Robots amelia winger-bearskin
Status: Accepted
No, it's not automated grooming, but rather an epic sci-fi rock opera that tells the story of a torrid love-triangle between a woman, a man and a robot, all set against an intergalactic backdrop where danger lurks around every corner. The robot's parents are a guitar and a typewriter.
Type: Topic: Tags:band, rock, concert, projector, projections, video, art, video art, multimedia, stills, visual, arts

Inflatable Speakers Marc Greenberg
Status: Accepted
With some mylar balloons, off-the-shelf parts, and an hour of your time, you can make a your own set of inflatable speakers. Come see the world's first inflatable flying amplified MP3 player!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:Inflatable Speaker Loudspeaker Amplified MP3

Interactive Art Car Build Sponsored By HEYA HEYA
Status: Accepted
Get involved in a HEYA project made possible by Toyota! In the spirit of collaboration, HEYA and art car expert Harrod Blank will be hosting an interactive Art Car Build throughout the weekend and Maker Faire attendees will have the opportunity to take part in the creation.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:Art Car, Build, Art, Car, Music

Kosmophone Jerry Chamkis
Status: Accepted
This synthesizer plays "music from space". A gamma-ray spectrometer controls a MIDI music synthesizer using cosmic rays in the range of about 3 to 7 million electron-volts (MeV).
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:cosmic+ray space+music gamma+spectrometer

Livid: Experimental Video Controlling Instruments Livid Instruments
Status: Accepted
Use the Viditar, or trigger video while playing the either the bass or guitar models, or manipulate video effects with motion detecting interactive projection system.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:video+instruments midi+controllers video+performance

Make Bot, Break Down: An Audio/Video Centrifuge Michelle Mayer
Status: Accepted
This three-member information ministry instigates spontaneous throw-downs everywhere and anywhere Earth people need a party.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:DJ VJ DVJ video projection DIY

Manager's Choice Manager's Choice
Status: Accepted
This mutated new wave dance rock hatched in a garage laboratory from an explosive concoction of worldbeat and early punk music with one goal ... dancing zombies. The unit boasts 4 singer-songwriters who send the beakers bubbling over with a hook-riddled and danceable set. During the day, they masquerade as: 1) a dementor 2) a tuscan raider 3) a golf pro and 4) a replicant. Can you guess who does what?
Type: Topic: Tags:performance

Operator Operator
Status: Accepted
This Euro-synth band based in Austin prepares a potion of equal parts synth-pop and indie rock with a dash of glam. Operator makes music that's extremely foreign yet instantly appealing. Arrangements consist of whirling electronics and taut guitar, structured around an inextricable combination of bass and electronic drums. Smooth vocals cool it all down, and simple melodies arranged in complex layers drift apart only to recombine in anthemic moments that sparkle with emotional depth and humanity.
Type: Topic: Tags:music rock synthesizer analog electronic band

Pipe Dream Craig Newswanger
Status: Accepted
Resonance Labs presents a windless pipe organ based on controlled feedback. Its 16 tuned, MIDI-controlled PVC pipes provide a rafter rattling bass line for an orchestra composed of Tesla coils by the Geek Group. Each pipe has a speaker and microphone pickup with a control circuit that feeds the microphone signal to a 30-watt amplifier and a speaker for each pipe.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Resonance tesla+coil music electronic pipe+organ

Poor Man's Bagpipe Bob Pennington
Status: Accepted
Say you join an Irish band, and the need arises for a bagpipe player. But bagpipes are very expensive and they take years to master, and players are hard to come by. No problem! Combine some odd parts, a bunch of ingenuity and a bit of leprechaun luck, and the pipes they will be a-blowin'.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:An affordable , easy to master Bagpipe "Non-Traditional " materials used Can be learned to

Purl Drums Corey Fogel
Status: Accepted
This ain't how your granny makes your scarves! This unique, ongoing, ambient performance combines two very different artforms: knitting and drums.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:knitting drumming corey fogel

Rabbit Fist Harold Lehman
Status: Accepted
This band combines guitars, drums, laptop/keyboards and voices to create layered punchy-pop arrangements around subjects ranging from fear to death, unrestrained-capitalism to sensory overload.
Type: Topic: Tags:music rock

Radarcave Steve Marsh
Status: Accepted
This performance of electronic noise and music uses circuit-bent drum machine and keyboard, and self-made analog synth.
Type: Topic: Tags:performance circuit+bending electronic noise Steve+Marsh

Ralph White Ralph White
Status: Accepted
Banjos, kalimba and mbiras, accordion, and singing: this artist makes no attempt to process or arrange his material. Although he plays the banjo, his style has more to do pre-bluegrass, southern Appalachian "claw-hammer" playing, where the whole fist is used, sort of like a claw, rather than the popular style of finger-picking the strings.
Type: Topic: Tags:music

Rattletree Marimba Joel Laviolette
Status: Accepted
This Zimbabwean marimba band builds all its own marimbas--including the impressive six-foot tall bass one.
Type: Topic: Tags:Homemade+marimba Zimbabwean

Sand Castle: The Interactive Audio Retrocluster Jason Asbahr, Ed Robinson, Heather Dority, John Cooney
Status: Accepted
This experimental, interactive audio installation retrocluster, built on an obsolete NeXT system, displays images of animals and machines while reacting to children with sounds of matching and juxtaposition.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:cluster audio interactive retro

Scratch Sensor Board Amon Millner , Paul Medlock-Walton , Robbieb Berg
Status: Accepted
Use this sensor board and the Scratch programming language to sense and respond to things going on in the physical world. Come by to use the Scratch Boards and craft materials to quickly create things like interactive Halloween projects.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:sensors programming crafts interactive scratch

Screamin' Babyhead Band Marvin Niebuhr aka Professor Conrad
Status: Accepted
This visual and audio extravaganza features Rogue Bio-mechanicals.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:circuit bending,bizarre mechanicals, salvaged toy parts, musical distortion, The+Robot+Group

Secret Tree Aichen Lin and Ji Sun Lee
Status: Accepted
Confess a secret, and its flowers bloom, and its fruits ripen. The tree interprets and stores secrets in a uniquely altered format to be enjoyed later. It is inspired by and transcends the special trees in Shel Silverstein's book The Giving Tree and Wong Kar Wai's movie In the Mood for Love.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:"max/msp" "arduino""tree"

Sideshow Tramps Sideshow Tramps
Status: Accepted
Not only will they play you a set using their own homemade musical instruments, but they will also demonstrate the philosopher's stone, faith healing, and other miscellaneous lesser miracles.
Type: Topic: Tags:performance music musical+performance homemade+instruments cigar+box+guitar washtub+bass "tr

Solargrafica Andreas A. Zingerle
Status: Accepted
Solarigrafica uses lensless camera with exposure times of up to 6 months to demonstrate the path of the Sun, revealing the invisible movements across landscapes. This installation includes a soundscape of processed samples to create a spherical atmosphere.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:pinhole camera, recycled cans, bioart, experimental photography, soundart

Spelunker Steve Marsh
Status: Accepted
This solo act creates a primitive blues-in-a-cave experience. It is performed exclusively on self-made instruments, including an electric 2x4 with slide, a bass 4x4, and electric springs, and vocals channeled through effects and live loops.
Type: Topic: Tags:performance electric+2x4 solo electric+blues Steve+Marsh

Terp 2 It ColdTowne Theater
Status: Accepted
A nerdcore rapper from Austin whose performance is aided by sketch comedy videos and a professional wrestling belt, Terp 2 It has opened for MC Chris and for "Comedy Central Presents...."
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:performance, nerdcore, rap

TeslaPhonics Scott Coppersmith
Status: Accepted
I'll be joining Joe DiPrima (local Austin Geek) and some other members of The Geek Group - Kalamazoo, MI with my MIDI controlled Tesla Coils. If I can work out the shipping (from IN), I could bring my IEC demo Fusor also.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:MIDI Musical Tesla Coils

The Geek Group Geek Group
Status: Accepted
Five musical Tesla coils harmonically accompany a selection of high voltage/physics experiments, including liquid speakers, a 10-foot-tall Jacob's Ladder, ring launchers, fusers, and quarter-shrinkers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:musical music tesla coil high voltage geek group

The Jitterbox Gabe Barcia-Colombo
Status: Accepted
Change the tune on this modern dance contraption and watch the beautiful tiny dancer shake and shimmy along with any song (as long as it's a hit from the 1940s)! But beware the talky talk radio, this dancer loves to boogie but hates chit chat!
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:physical computing radio video art music

The Painful Leg Injuries The Painful Leg Injuries
Status: Accepted
This unique music combines field recordings, homemade electronics, gameboy, circuit bent toys, software-based instruments, warped old instruments, audio data gathered from file conversions of visual art, and lovely cello drones.
Type: Topic: Arts | Science Tags:"performance" "artist" experimental+music circuit+bending "LSDJ" Gameboy+Music sound+art "no

The Planck Stringed Instrument Seven Sexton
Status: Accepted
Sounding like a guitar, pedal steel, koto, or sitar, this 7-stringed musical instrument is played horizontally, a bit like a piano, by tapping the strings.
Type: Topic: Tags:guitar stringed+instrument tapped pickup transducer

Theremin for the Masses Aileen Adler
Status: Accepted
The Theremin is one of the first electronic instruments ever built, in Russia in 1919. It is played without actual, physical touch! You simply control pitch and volume by moving your hands back and forth within two electromagnetic fields that are radiated off of two separate antennas. Come by for a short demonstration on how the Theremin works, hear how it sounds, and give it a try yourself.
Type: Topic: Science Tags:Performance

Thereping Vernon Graner
Status: Accepted
Come play this unusual, synchronized, digital musical instrument. Simply wave your hand, and you’ll hear something that’s part theremin and part bagpipe.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:Thereping theremin electronic+music Basic+Stamp "Parallax" The+Robot+Group

Tree Music Trevor Reichman
Status: Accepted
Performing original compositions about sustainability, the earth, and other related interests, and focusing on all original compositions, self production, and distribution, tree music takes DIY independence from the music industry to the extreme.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:music DIY

Video HowTo + DIY YouTube
Status: Accepted
YouTube experts answer any questions new users have, help solve issues existing users may be experiencing, and showcase great DIY videos created by Make Magazine and the many other great gurus on YouTube.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:video

Washtub Jerry & Bruce Newman Washtub Jerry & Bruce Newman
Status: Accepted
This combination workshop and music performance will reveal materials used, reasons for selection, Q & A with Wash & Bruce, and crazy things that have happened along the way to making the washtub bass.
Type: Topic: Tags:performance workshop

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