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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Microfiche

West Stage , Saturday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Location: Music Noise

Microfiche is a San Francisco-based, four-piece instrumental outfit – something of a noiserockdanceparty. A Microfiche show delivers a full-on extrasensory experience, drawing diagrams for your ears and mind while keeping your booty shakin’.

Microfiche will team up with Andrey Turley and Mike Carnes to deliver a full-on Audio-Visual collaboration, inviting the audience to use crowd-controller sequencers, and incorporating large-scale VU meters and microfiche machines turned light-sensitive MIDI controllers.

Web site: http://www.microfichemusic.com

About the Maker(s)

A collaboration between software, hardware, manufacturing, and graphics experts. These three gentlemen explore the intersection of music, lights, graphics, customizable machine behaviors, and sensing technology. This booth is in part related to a performance by the band Microfiche at Maker Faire. Mike Carnes will have some new versions of his shifters with microcontrolled LEDs putting on light shows. Tim Lillis will have some of his new illustrations and designs (he does the Tricks of the Trade comic strip which appears monthly in Make Magazine). Andy Turley will have some new interactive goodies (maybe some games or something). And we're working on a collaborative project to highlight the way our strengths complement each other. One plan is to use some wireless microcontroller boards to set up a proximity detection system. The system will be able to detect how far we are from the booth, and this information will be used to control a projected image. We talked about the image representing each of us as a different colored square that moves along an path, with the paths intersecting in the the middle. As the squares get closer and overlap, new images will emerge.