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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Bay Area Computer Music Zone

Location: Expo Hall 211

A collaborative area for computer music makery by Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (cnmat.berkeley.edu ), Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (ccrma.stanford.edu), and the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (barcmut.org). Exhibits will include the CNMAT "Ball of Sound" (120 speaker spherical array), Adrian Freed's stringless cello controller (CNMAT), the Particle Chamber (a surround sound infrared controlled installation by Kial Knickerbocker), the entranced interactive music video game (monstro.us), a EEG Biofeedback music machine (Jeff Stot), the sonic palette (sonicpalette.com), custom DJ software (flyloops.com), new sonic interactions using low cost toolkits and open source from CCRMA, and more. When you come by check the schedule for performances and presentations by the Proyekto Collective, Star Pause, DJ Cypod, Torsos and Wake (with the SN76477 complex sound generator chip and a circuit bent Casio), and many more.

Web site: http://www.barcmut.org

About the Maker(s)

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (http://www.barcmut.org ) is a forum for computer music technology researchers, developers, and enthusiasts to come together for presentations of computer music techniques and technologies (all music genre outputs are welcome). Participants come to learn new techniques, better the code base, find collaborators, and find out what what's happening in studios, labs, universities, and live work spaces around the Bay Area.