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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Molecular Gastronomy Presentation

Maker Square Stage , Saturday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Michael Zbyszynski will present an overview of Molecular Gastronomy for cooks at home. Topics and demonstrations include basic sphereification, foams, and hydrocolloids, and building your own Sous Vide system.

Web site: http://www.instructables.com/id/Carrot-Caviar/

About the Maker(s)

Michael Ferriell Zbyszynski Michael Ferriell Zbyszyński is a composer, sound artist, performer, and teacher in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music, is Assistant Director of Music Composition and Pedagogy at UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, and teaches Electronic Muic at San Francisco State University. Playing flute, saxophones, clarinet, Yamaha WX-7, live electronics, or things made from coffee cans and PVC, he has appeared with Respectable Citizen, Roscoe Mitchell, Myra Melford, Frank Gratkowski, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Frances-Marie Uitti, at the Other Minds Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Getty Center, and the Montréal Jazz Festival, and recently been in residence at the Montalvo Arts Center. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and studied at the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland, on a Fulbright Grant. He has taught at the Universities of California Berkeley and Irvine, Berklee College of Music, and Northeastern University, writes for Make Magazine, and can be heard on the ARTSHIP recording label.