Live Stage: Handmade Music Brooklyn [
NYC]

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:
* ELECTRO-COUNTRY + unusual instruments with the Owen Lake band, covering honky-tonk country classics on synths and electronics and showing off Jeff Snyder’s original Manta touch instrument
* AUGMENTED SEWING MACHINE + ENSEMBLE with monome and other creations, featuring Lara Grant (sewing machine) + Matt Ganucheau + Peter Kirn
* AUDIOVISUAL HYPER-TRUMPET the TOOB, an expressive digital instrument
…plus surprises, hands-on with lots of inventions, plenty of makers and technologists to meet and buy beers in exchange for tips, crafters, inventors, and more.
Hosted by createdigitalmusic.com, the craft marketplace and community Etsy, the DIY bible Make Magazine, and the trend-setters of XLR8R Magazine
For the full lineup: here.
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