Call for Makers has opened! We are accepting Maker applications through March 31, 2010.

This year’s focus is on Young Makers, with projects and activities designed around innovation, education and inspiration. We are excited to be engaging Makers of all ages. Get your entry/submission into us and we’ll provide you with a space to demonstrate, share and inspire Maker Faire attendees. As you know, Maker Faire’s success is a direct result of the cool stuff YOU make and share at Maker Faire. Come be part of this DIY community! Continue reading

Build your own theremin:: March 22-26, 2010; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm daily with 30 min break :: NK, Elsenstr. 52/2.Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin Neuklln :: Preregistration is required; email to enka_nk [at] gmx.de

[image: An Etherwave-Theremin, assembled from Robert Moog’s kit]

This workshop allows each participant to build their own theremin, the first electronic instrument, patented in 1928 by Lev Theremin. Starting with instrument designs from these articles, we will modify each theremin in a unique way. The built instruments will have the features of a real theremin, with more than 5 octaves and 2 antennas, for volume and pitch control. Continue reading

Handmade Music Brooklyn :: March 8, 2010; 7:00 pm :: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY :: “Free: Musical sewing machines, gestural controllers, touch-based hexagonal music hardware, trumpet-inspired A/V instruments, and electro-country honky-tonk — another party+variety show+science fair of the latest, oddest DIY music making tech.” (Peter Kirn)

Science fair, party, variety show - Handmade Music celebrates unusual DIY creations in music, with people who make their own tools to make their own music.

This month, Galapagos Art Space means a stage, a bar, and a huge lineup of free music: Continue reading

CMOS Music I - DIY Digital Music Workshop (Sequencers) :: March 6, 2010; 2:30 - 6:30 pm :: 3rd Ward, 573 Metropolitan Av, Brooklyn, NY :: Registration. Continue reading

Trenton Area Festival of Electronic Arts — An exploration of electronic environmental and performance art :: February 27, 2010; 12:00 - 11:00 pm :: Grounds For Sculpure, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, New Jersey.

An exploration of electronic environmental and performance art. Interact, learn and network f2f (no voltage required) where AV geeks are vanward and hip. Sights and sounds will stretch the imagination. Performances, exhibits, and seminars will mark the event along with an e-drum circle and an open Personal Media Player jam. Bring your favorite music or visual apps and we’ll do our best to plug you in to an impromptu multi-media happening. Or simply come treat your senses in a space transformed by light paintings, video sculpture, ambient soundscapes and experimental music. Continue reading

Jam Session @ 3rd Ward Brooklyn :: October 15, 2009, 7:30 - 10:00 pm :: at 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

[image: Wearable sonic dress with felted patch cords - patch cord by Sarah and Lara Grant]

The party celebrates the people making original tools to make original music, this one another grab bag of unusual inventive sonic technologies. Such as:

GREAT TIGER is an electro rock duo from Brooklyn. They get the party started with the help of The Box, a homemade MIDI controller made out of arcade buttons. Taking inspiration from Daft Punk to Deep Purple, GREAT TIGER fuses themselves into your brain with the help of bright lasers and poison-gas fog machines. Continue reading

May You Live in Interesting Times — Festival of Creative Technology :: different locations in Cardiff and Canton, Wales :: October 22-24, 2009.

This three-day Festival is all about “do-it-yourself’ with a programme that celebrates the latest intriguing uses of everyday technology and social innovation, enabled through shared ideas.

There’s a fantastic range of commissions, exhibitions, a tinker faire, discussions, workshops, screenings and participant-driven events. You can download a PDF by clicking on the ‘Timetable’. Highlights include: Continue reading

noise=noise and Goldsmiths Digital Studios present Sensory Response Systems, a live DIY punk electronics performance by Ryan Jordan:: September 16, 2009; 6:00 p.m. :: Studio 3, Goldsmiths, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW.

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Chiptune Marching Band — DIY soundmaking with Kazuhiro Jo, Jamie Allen from the Culture Lab at Newcastle University :: August 8, 2009; 12:00 - 3:30 pm :: NK, ElsenStr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059, Berlin, Germany :: Register by email: eNKa_NK [at] gmx.de :: Places are limited to 15.

Chiptune Marching Band from jamie allen on Vimeo.

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Some scientific sessions and some concerts of the ongoing SMC 2009 Conference — July 22-25, 2009 at the Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal — will be transmitted in real-time on the internet via the webcast platform of the Casa da Música, where the conference is taking place. Here is the programme of the webcast:

The Curators’ Concert, including works with live electronics, re-animated electronic circuitry, network performance and improvisation — July 22; 22:00 (Portugal time) Continue reading