HANDMADE MUSIC NIGHT: Felted musical suits and arcade button music!
October 15, 7:30 to 10 p, Free Admission & Colt 45 while it lasts

The party that celebrates the people making original tools to make original music returns with another grab bag of unusual inventive sonic technologies. This month, performances and demos:

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.

SARAH AND LARA GRANT, two sisters who specialize in blending textiles and technology, offer a wearable music instrument with a performance by a dancer. Their felted sound garment which turns the body into a
sound emitting interface.

...and, as always, some surprises.

Makers, you're free to bring projects - working or not - to share, troubleshoot, and play! Power / PA / projector available; bring your own cables and (if you can) extra speakers.

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Handmade Music Night
September 17, 7:30 to 10:30 p, FREE

The noisy, electrically-powered, instrumentally imaginative, science-fair-party Handmade Music returns to Brooklyn in September. This month, our featured guest is sound artist and 3rd Ward faculty member Amanda Ervin. She'll show off some of her elegant electronic creations and will present a conglomeration of automated sounds, layered oscillators and looping toys.  All raw and noisy, with a hint of rhythm, just because dancing is fun! After the event, if you're interested in learning more, take one of her workshops so you can make your own work (like the tone generator below).

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OPEN CALL FOR WORKS

Bring your own work to the party!  All projects, all media (electronic, acoustic, hardware, software), and all levels of functionality (working, partially working, in-progress, completely broken) are welcome! It's a chance to show off what you're doing and get tips from fellow makers from around the greater-NYC DIY music community.

If you're interested this month - or want to get our attention for a future month - sign up on our Google Docs form: http://bit.ly/hm917call

New from Handmade Music Night: Open Lab
6 to 10:30 p, 7:30 p Featured Guest, All night: lots of surprises, noisy, working, not working - the lot.

Our workshop is now your workshop. In addition to our regular Handmade Music science fair - sonic party series, we're now offering open lab events during which people can bring hardware and software projects to work on. Whether you're an absolute beginner trying out a new kit for the first time or an advanced programmer or hardware maker, it's an open space in which you can spend several hours getting something accomplished. Get that fuzzy synth / strange noisemaker ready to make a racket at a Handmade Music event!

Bring your work and any tools or cables you may need. We'll provide space, power, and inspiration and ideas from other like-minded DIYers, experienced and newbie alike.

Featured guest: Morgan Packard
Expressive live music in code, with SuperCollider

SuperCollider is a great, free, open source synthesis engine and programming language. It's in the same general family of tools as Max/MSP and Pure Data, but is code-based, not graphics based. It's well-documented, has an active user base, a very helpful mailing list, and is very much a live project.

Ripple is a sound design tool and framework for SuperCollider synthesis. It takes care of a lot of repetative and boring stuff so you don't have to -- including loading sound files, generating GUI's, and saving presets. It's built to be extended, and is a great way to quickly try out synthesis ideas. It's also a simple but powerful algorithmic sound design tool.

Handmade Music Night, July 16, 7:30 to 10:30 p, FREE

The HANDMADE MUSIC party returns with a science-fair-style showcase of new creations in music making! This month, a showcase of the latest high-tech inventions for musicians, complete with demos, an open lab to meet the creators, and live musical performances...

Sequence everything: CRUDBOX / STEVEN LITT
The CrudBox is an original hardware step sequencer in a briefcase, which plugs into and sequences everything from cassette decks to power tools and turns them into musical patterns.

Looping hardware: LOOOP-R / RUI PEREIRA
Looop-R is a musical, visual, hardware, software instrument.

Shake the beats: EGGBEATER / TED HAYES
This wireless, egg-shaped controller lets you mash loops, control filters, and play music using live gestures.

Ableton hacking: AKAI APC40, HACKED / MICHAEL HATSIS
Live laptop fans, take note: the commercially-available Akai APC40 Ableton Live controller warped to make new musical performances possible.

More information: createdigitalmusic.com, handmademusic.noisepages.com

On the menu for May's Handmade Music Night:

* ROBOTIC GAMELAN: The GamelaTron by League of Urban Robots makes an appearance, with a fully robotic composition for a high-tech take on the traditional Indonesian instruments

* RESCUED iPODS: Hans-Christoph Steiner is saving old mobile devices and PDAs from being junked, by harnassing open-source software to make them powerful, useful, expressive, fun tools, toys, and instruments instead

* POCKET ANDROIDS: Peter Kirn shows off a new, in-progress app for turning Google's open-source Linux platform into a gestural controller - and for connecting any computer running any operating system for music, visuals, and interaction via Java and OpenSoundControl

Open hacking and party + time to get close to the instruments and gadgets + mini-workshops/show-and-tell + a musical performance by the Robotic Balinese Gender Wayang

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