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Interactive Performances
1 to 25 of 255 Cent Coffee
5 Cent Coffee
5 Cent Coffee is an eclectic trio dedicated to organic old fashioned sound; an amalgamation of a by-gone nation, mixed with the fresh scent of a smile or the wail of a lament.
Ukulele driven original material with stand up bass and melodeon - throw in a washboard, a kazoo - some junk
- an old shoe, wear a grumpy hat, cry a tear or two, and you're there by the side of an old dusty highway...
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
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Ballistic Cats
Ballistic Cats
Enjoy a combination of Sun Records rock-and-roll (but faster), surf rock (but smarter), swing (tangy!), and roots rock.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:music ballisticcats ballisitc+cats
Crank Ensemble
The Crank Ensemble
From sparse "plinking" to layered, melodic loopiness to hardcore noise, these all result from rhythmic, repetitive patterns made by crank-operated machines designed by artist Larnie Fox.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:music home made instruments performance art
Crankabout Mechanical Theater
Ernie Fosselius
The hand-carved, hand-cranked mechanical automata and puppet passengers who ride in this homebuilt pedal car enjoy the tunes of its homemade crank organ, and so will you!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:human+powered
Crowd Control: A People-Powered Party
Johnny Cakes and Zuckabee
Login now or at the event with your Facebook account, and the Zuckabee Mashbot will use <i>your</i> favorite music in its "mashterpiece" performance. Also featuring live updates from Makers around the Faire.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:Music, interactive, magic,
Diet Coke and Mentos Mega-Fountains
Eepybird
Help the original Eepybird guys build their amazing Mega-Fountain using Diet Coke and Mentos! Soda practically explodes as carbon dioxide rapidly escapes from the bottle. Note: Saturday only.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:coke, mentos, interactive, performance
Dreams of Electric Houses: a Shadow Play
Il Teatro Calamari
Build a puppet, and bring it to life in this shadow theater. Follow the life of a house from construction through remodeling, in the portions performed hourly by this company funded by a Henson Foundation Grant.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:shadow puppetry, interactive, performance, hands+on, Teatro+Calamari
Foal
Douglas Irving Repetto
A baby horse table takes awkward steps. Its sibling will emerge from nothing more than scrap wood, a pile of dirty rags, and lots of ice coffee.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:horse table robotics recycled sculpture
Haunted Garden Sound Art
Simran Gleason
This spooky room listens to your every movement and creates an ambient soundscape based on what it hears.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:generative music interactive soundscape
Kamishibai: Japanese Storycard Theater
David Battino and Hazuki Kataoka
Classic folktales told with kamishibai ("paper theater") storycards enchant kids of all ages. Japanese street performers popularized this format in the days before television.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:kamishibai storytelling storycard theater kids folktales performance Hazuki Kataoka Battino
Kid Beyond
Kid Beyond
Singer. Beatboxer. Songwriter. Live looper. One-man vocal band.
Kid Beyond loops and multitracks his voice onstage to create his own live backing tracks – layering his impassioned lyrics over his own beatboxing and vocal instrumentation. The result is a riveting, soulful brew of pop electronica.
What takes most people an entire band to produce, Kid Beyond executes with his own mouth. You're in the presence of a higher power... you want to get up and dance." – SF Weekly, Best of SF
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:beatboxer live+looper electronica
Lemon Lime Lights
Lemon Lime Lights
Tangos, waltzes, and punk-ass rock make for a Junkyard Cabaret.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
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Lil' Billies
The Lil' Billies
Lil' Billies play bluegrass and American folk. They all started playing under music teacher John Fuller at Menlo Park’s Peninsula School, one of California's oldest progressive schools.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:"Lil' Billies" " Bluegrass" Penninsula+School" Music"
Loop.pooL
Rick Walker
Found and invented sounds combine in an interesting musical show using state-of-the-art live looping techniques.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:live+looping music found+sound electronica interactive
Once Upon a Toon
Joe Wos
Uniquely blending storytelling and live illustration, this cartoonist/storyteller draws the stories as he tells them in this lively interactive program for all ages.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:cartooning, storytelling, performance, family
Paper Airplanes
John Collins
These paper airplanes tumble, flip, flap, circle, drop helicopters, pierce the air like darts, and even stay aloft indefinitely. Learn to fold some simple planes yourself!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Crafts | Science
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Project: Pimento
Project: Pimento
Prepare to swagger in sophisticated, space-age style with the world's only theremin lounge band and its repertoire of toe-tapping mid-20th-century favorites.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:theremin lounge band awesome
Spins & Needles Craft + DJ Session: Mixing Beats + Making Stuff
Spins & Needles
Work on hip projects (sock monkeys, pixel bead projects and DIY t-shirt printing) while listening to funky beats in sessions that mix craft and music.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Crafts
Tags:craft project DJ music
Tarantulas Jug Band
The Tarantulas Jug Band
Early 20th-century musicians began playing on cigar boxes, washboards, and so on. Hear ragtime, tin-pan-alley, Delta blues, rockabilly, and work songs on homemade jug-band instruments.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:jug band music home-made instruments
The Disgusting Spectacle
Team Spectacle
Inspired by Tim Hunkin's 1979 coin-op nose-picking machine, made bigger and grosser. It's huge. It has nostrils. A finger goes in. Boogers come out. Eeeeew!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Tim+Hunkin Disgusting+Spectacle Hamster+wheel nose nosepicking Don+Bruce Tracy+Feldstein
The Evolution Control Committee: Live Infringement
TradeMark Gunderson
With credits including inventing a music genre (the mashup) and a cease-and-desist from CBS, The ECC's party-science Thimbletron performance is not to be missed.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:copyright sampling music
The Great Puppet Musical
The Un-Scripted Theater Company
Specializing in exclusively improvised, handcrafted theater, The Un-Scripted Theater Company presents its newest show. Puppets they made star in scenes and songs determined by you!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:improv theater puppets music singing crafts performance handmade
The Time Outs and The Devil-Ettes
The Time Outs and The Devil-Ettes
Toe-tapping tunes send tykes and go-go dancers jumping. Submit to the songwriting contest before the set or online—and hear the winning lyrics premiered live!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
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Total Annihilation
Total Annihilation
Fronted by 11-year-old Eddy Demon, these young masters of kid punk annihilate the universe, starting with your eardrums and everything in between!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:rock music, kid band
Uke-y Stardust
Kelly McCubbin / Ukeapocalypse
Kelly "The Ukulele Apocalypse" McCubbin and his extended band of variously-attired uke-heads will perform David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars," from beginning to end, cabaret-style, entirely on ukulele and other cheap instruments. Freak out! All right!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
Tags:ukulele Ziggy+Stardust ukeapocalypse
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