Maker Faire

TripKnight   TripKnight
TripKnight
A live music experience. Part folk, part blues, part hip hop and all experimental. TripKnight is more than just a band. It is a community with members in multiple states with a history of good times from Black Rock City, to New York City and from North Carolina to Northern California.

TripKnight   TripKnight
TripKnight
A live music experience. Part folk, part blues, part hip hop and all experimental. TripKnight is more than just a band. It is a community with members in multiple states with a history of good times from Black Rock City, to New York City and from North Carolina to Northern California.

Eddy Demon Total Annihilation   Brendan Thorn
Brendan Thorn
A rock and roll alternative that's hip and surreal rock with awesome lyrics, great drummer, experimental guitarist, and a bass player. It is most excellent with a new wave of licks.

Microfiche   Tim Lillis
Tim Lillis
Microfiche is an instrumental four-piece from San Francisco who draw diagrams for your ears and mind. If you were to use the pinnacle of nineteenth-century signal processing technology to transpose the sounds of hope, despair, patterns, the lack of patterns, fear of mechanical men, and whale calls, you would almost have the sound of Microfiche. They have been playing together since the beginning of 2007, and are currently unsigned. Microfiche have an old microfiche reader - turned light-sensitive MIDI instrument and an interactive LED Graphic EQ backdrop to accompany and augment their sound.

Gowns   Ezra Buchla
Ezra Buchla
From the ashes of West Coast spazz combo the Mae Shi and legendary woodworking noiseniks Amps for Christ has emerged a Frankenstein assembly of minimal percussion, a cappella harmonizing, and raw folk melodies christened Gowns. Erika Anderson and Ezra Buchla have married personal, intelligent lyrics and homemade bent electronics to create remarkably haunting drone-pop masterpieces. Their whispered vocals mingle with hushed instrumentation, only to collide, explode, and slowly burn a hole in your frontal lobe by the night's end. - flavorpill

The Evolution Control Committee presents The Wheel Of Mashup!   TradeMark Gunderson
TradeMark Gunderson
Spin the wheel and make your own new mashup!

Culann's Hounds   The Hounds
Culann's Hounds
San Francisco-based high-energy, virtuosic musicians playing traditional Irish, hoe-down, zydeco, and original music. Their other influences include punk, rock, country, and reggae. Violin, Accordion, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocal Harmonies; jumping, dancing, rebel yells. Headliners for the San Francisco Irish festival.

The Evolution Control Committee presents The Wheel Of Mashup!   TradeMark Gunderson
TradeMark Gunderson
Spin the wheel and make your own new mashup!

Abney Park   Robert Brown
Abney Park
Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cummerbunds were proper adventuring attire. They’ve picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem.

Cypod Musical Movement   Beau Casey
Beau Casey
Live electronic music performed by Cypod, LX Rudis, and Bill Wolter.

Toychestra   Lexa Walsh
Lexa Walsh
Toychestra is an all-women musical ensemble that plays toys. Some are actual instruments like toddler-sized pianos and xylophones and drums. Others just make great sounds, like the pink zoo train or Boo Megaphone or the acoustic, multi-sonic Activity Center. Each instrument is individually amplified with contact microphones and the collection is mixed live for a bigger electronic sound.

LOOP!STATION   Bass
Bass
Live looping duo performance. One woman, one man, one voice, one cello, multiple layered "loops" hand-tooled and shaped into lovely, cascading, provocative orchestral compositions with an immediate soul-rocking palpability.

Kid Beyond   Joyce Williams
Joyce Williams
Looping his voice live onstage, Kid Beyond layers his soulful lyrics over his own beatboxing and vocal instrumentation -- creating an astounding brew of pop electronica. Kid B has shared the stage with Keane, Imogen Heap, Lyrics Born, Buckethead, String Cheese Incident, Spearhead, Widespread Panic, Amon Tobin, KRS-One, Sage Francis, Particle, and many more.