TOM MAYS, Max & Karlax

MEECAS 2011 Midwestern Experimental Electronics Conference and Showcase

"MEECAS 2011
What have you been tinkering with?

Saturday, October 22
12 Noon - 12 Midnight
Lizard's Liquid Lounge
3058 W Irving Park Rd. (map)

The annual Midwestern Experimental Electronics Conference and Showcase (www.MEECAS.com) is a free, day-long, inventors' networking symposium highlighting the past year's innovations in the areas of Musical Instrument Design, Performance, Circuit Bending, Data Hacking, and Video Art.

There are lectures, demonstrations, interactive installations, a daytime circuit bent open mic, and an evening's showcase of the Midwest's most innovative artists and inventors. Children welcome from Noon - 4:00 PM if accompanied by a parent.

Inventors, Artists, and Musicians are encouraged to bring their latest experiments, instruments, videos, etc. to demonstrate during the circuit bent open mic or to place on the "work table" as part of the interactive installations section of the event. Audio-based installations should include headphones.

EVENING SHOWCASE: 6:00 PM - Midnight
This year's Evening Showcase features the work of:
- TOYDEATH, Toy Town, Sydney, Australia (their first ever webcast!)
- Tim Kaiser, Duluth, MN (last performance of his Fall tour!)
- Talking Computron, Minneapolis, MN (the force behind Get Lo Fi)
- Spunky Toofers, Columbia, MO (part man, part circuit, all jazz)
- Space Gun Bunny, Fort Wayne, IN (design, explore, repeat)
- ROTH MOBOT, Chicago, IL (circuit bent toys, granular synthesis, & electroacoustics)
- The Ring Toss Twins, Minneapolis, MN (witchy use of technology)
- Mother Daughter Crime Team, Chicago, IL (sychronized MIDI/CV circus)
- Dustin E., St. Louis, MO (noise artist extraordinaire)
- CMKT4, DeKalb, IL (pioneers of future fusion)
- Alex Inglizian, Chicago, IL (musician engineer)
- adamon, Topeka, KS (synth drone lord)

VIDEO PROJECTS: Noon - Midnight
Various Artists (Experimental electronic video projects welcomed!)

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS: Noon - Midnight
Various Artists. (Experimental electronic projects welcomed!)

WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS, DEMOS: Noon - 6:00 PM
Noon - 1:00 PM, Vactrol Fever with Patrick McCarthy
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Build a Bending Buddy and/or Build a Contact Mic with CMKT4
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, What is Circuit Bending? with Various Artists
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Brains from the Thunderbirds, The Audio of the Aurora Borealis with Sam Piro

MEECAS STORE: Noon - Midnight
Exhibiting and performing artists will be selling recorded works, experimental musical instruments, electronics kits, apparel, etc. to offset their costs.

LIVE WEBCAST: 5:30 PM - Midnight, CST
www.ustream.tv/channel/meecas-2011

CALL FOR DEAD BATTERIES: Noon - Midnight
Bring your dead batteries to the MEECAS and we will send them to a proper eWaste recycling center. Last year the MEECAS audience brought enough batteries to fill a bucket!

ether^ra SBSFALL

YouTube Uploaded by potterpaint2000 on Oct 14, 2011

"a Serge Creature/Seq A w/Buchla 200eimprov. http://etherra.blogspot.com/"

iRig MIDI: MoDrum on an iPad synced up with an Electribe EMX-1 via Wired CoreMIDI Connection

YouTube Uploaded by fingerAudioApps on Oct 14, 2011

"The EMX-1 sends out MIDI Start, Stop and Clock messages that are received by MoDrum's MIDI Clock Input. The iRig MIDI input port is connected to the Electribe's MIDI output port.

http://www.finger-pro.com/modrum
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/irigmidi"

MoDrum - Synthesis-based Drum Machine - finger
iRig on eBay
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

Haliburton Moog Moogerfooger Case with Patch Points

flickr By elektrobahnmusik

"haliburton travel case mooger modular. all aluminum. version 2 added x y controler."

This reminded me of the GearMedia Moogerfooger Patchbay concept... GiMP

Circuit Bent

This one in via James via Married To The Sea.

Update: Married To The Sea is from Drew, the man behind Toothpaste For Dinner and of course Natalie. He is very into synths. Check out some of his videos previously posted here.

Yamaha TG33 with Studio sound card

via this auction

Vintage ElI analog echo delay reverb

via this auction

"This unit is in great condition and works great, its a "wana be" roland re 201. it has stereo inputs with EQ. the sound is surprising very good."

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Yamaha Tenori-On orange TNR-O with Original Box

via this auction

Cyndustries modular synthesizer MODCAN A Universal Event Generator

via this auction

See the seller's other items for more.