Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Heather Normandale Band

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Heather Normandale Band

Home: California, United States

Our band is performing on the Rock the Bike pedal power sound system. We are proud to have previously toured with bike-powered sound through 14 different countries in Europe and North America for a total of over 12 months of biking!! We are looking forward to contributing to this ongoing community of environmental musicians and sustainable technologies!

Ensemble Club

Faire: Wichita

Maker: Ensemble Club

Home: United States

Ensemble Club is made up of students from several different schools around the Wichita area, though we are based in East High. We incorporate instruments of all kinds, and musicians of all skill levels.

MusicHArt – L’esperienza nella musica visiva

Faire: Rome

Maker: B.P.S. Business Performance Services S.r.l.

The MusicHArt project was started in 2018 by the innovative start-up B.P.S. and its evolved version was launched in 2022 after years of experimentation. In the team Gianmarco Merlini represents the creator. It is inspired by research carried out in the field of synesthesia between music and color to allow artists and composers to transform their musical works into forms of abstract art through software that analyzes the melody and reproduces its relative abstract design. The result is a digital abstract canvas as well as the audio-video recording of the creation of the work.

Hand-Crafted Electronic Music: Eurorack DIY

Faire: Elkhorn

Maker: Karl Stamm

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Eurorack is musical synthesizer hardware. Come play with live music generation, and hands on analog electronics, to make sounds nobody has ever heard before. Let's explore how electricity makes sound, and the tools to craft any sound you can imagine

Mia Pixley – cello, voice, and inner space

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Mia Pixley

Home: California, United States

A 45 min set of music performed on cello, voice, and looper w effects pedal.

TheRickshawLive

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Timothy Ryschon

Home: Florida, United States

TheRickshawLive is a live-performance soundstage and recording studio that is pedals players and their #motionalmusic through novel venues like streets, alleys, trails, and plazas, launching smile, giggles and joy!

Goodman Guitars

Faire: Hudson Valley

Maker: Brad Goodman

Home: New York, United States

My name is Brad Goodman of Goodman Guitars. I have been handcrafting fine instruments for 50 years. I build flattop and archtop guitars in my shop in Brewster NY.

Motion Melodies

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Bailey Stevens

Home: New York, United States

Experience an interactive synthesizer where your movements shape the sound. See your music come to life with our real-time visual displays. It’s a unique, hands-on musical system.

StepMania: A DIY Dance Dance Revolution

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Daniel Morrisey

Home: California, United States

StepMania is a game primarily designed to be experienced with a dance pad that runs entirely off of user generated content.

TwistBit

Faire: Rocklin

Maker: Slade Darrin

Home: California, United States

Electronic music artist TwistBit presents a live DJ mix of original tracks, exhibiting bizarre genre fusions and rule-breaking EDM.

in/out machine

Faire: Eindhoven

Maker: Albert Epping

Home: Nederland

Probeer de in/out machine! Druk op een knop en luister naar het geluid dat de 10 speakers met elkaar maken, speel vals op het laserorgel. Draai aan de knoppen en laat met de LEDs mooie kleuren en patronen ontstaan.

Ricky Robot

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Ricky Robot

Home: California, United States

Want to play four dimensional chess, or virtual dodgeball? How about saying hi to 3d printed, low cost, robot arms? Maybe you just want to chill and watch a mesmerizing algorithmic lightshow synced to music. Then come see Ricky Robot's inventions!

FabLab Belluno: Ecosistemi Sonori

Faire: Trieste

Maker: FABLAB BELLUNO

Home: Veneto, Italy

Ecosistemi Sonori è un'installazione interattiva che rivela le relazioni invisibili della vita attraverso la musica e la tecnologia. Esplora l'interconnessione tra gli esseri viventi e crea un senso di appartenenza ecologica attraverso un'esperienza sonora unica.

Cheerful Electronic

Faire: Eindhoven

Maker: Maarten Janssen

Home: Nederland

Als Cheerful Electronic maak ik allerlei elektronica kits voor Arduino en andere development boards. Mijn kits lopen uiteen van een leuke thermometer, of een lichtkrant die je zelf kunt programmeren, tot synthesizer modules gebaseerd op de OPL2 en OPL3 audio chips uit oude PCs waarmee je je eigen synthesizer kunt bouwen. Mijn OPL Studio kit geeft je een uitgebreide OPL3 synthesizer met touch screen, MIDI, analoge inputs en de mogelijkheid je eigen muziek te maken en op te slaan op SD kaart.

Marquette King

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Marquette King

Home: Arizona, United States

Arizona-based entertainment savant, Marquette King has been focusing on dialing in his new-age take on sound for the past several years. The All-Pro NFL Punter, Marquette has been officiating the marriages of different contemporary genres and mediums, making sure to not just engineer the music, but to make the audience experience the audible illumination coming through the speakers. A different player in the entertainment game, Marquette’s long time spent on the football field introduced him to need of expression and release through songwriting, acting, and sound. Utilizing these passions specifically curating the relaxing and enchanting emotions with the mix of EDM, House, and Pop-Hop continue to push the boundaries of what new genre breaking music can be.

MicroKits: Synths and Theremin Kits

Faire: Asheville

Maker: David Levi

Home: Virginia, United States

You can build your own electronic musical instruments with MicroKits! Use our kit to build your own Theremin, or connect everyday objects to our synthesizer to build your own keyboard. We’ll have a banana keyboard out that you can play!

Slidebox guitars

Faire: Central Oregon

Maker: Jonathan Dailey

Home: Oregon, United States

Using a mix of contemporary and vintage materials, I build 3 stringed electrified cigar box guitars. I invite you to take over the creative process and keep the art alive by picking one up to play. The open tuning allows for anyone to learn.

Bertha2, external player piano

Faire: WNY Regional

Maker: Malcolm Boyes

Home: Ontario, Canada

Bertha2 is a hardware device that uses linear actuators to play the piano. It's essentially an external player piano. It is able to play any digital music that is provided to it, albeit, not as gracefully as some might hope.

Homemade Instruments

Faire: Louisville

Maker: Malachi Kamler

Home: United States

This is a collection of instruments that were built completely from the ground up! From winding pickups to fashioning DIY tuners, nearly all of aspects of these instruments (and their accompanying amplifier) have been assembled from scraps!

Comedy Improv

Faire: WNY Regional

Maker: Mike Kowal

Home: New York, United States

Comedy Improv show in the styles of 2nd city and Who's Line is it Anyway? Followed by a workshop to show basic improv skills to intersted kids and have them perform improv bits of they wish, great experience for aspiring actors and other performers

Suffolk County Community College Physical Sciences and Engineering

Faire: Long Island

Maker: Suffolk County Community College Physical Sciences and Engineering

Home: New York, United States

Come say hi to some local STEM teachers and students! We have some fun activities, plus some info about what we do.

Cutting Records with Equipment of the Past and Todays Technology

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Razzy Records

Home: California, United States

We've refurbished 1950's era record lathes, originally used to record audio on acetate blanks by radio stations and courts in the era before magnetic tape and digital recording. By adding a modern sapphire stylus, modern amplifiers and computerized signal processing we can cut great sounding audio on polycarbonate discs (or squares) that play on any record player. Experience the fusion of technology and nostalgia as we guide you through process that creates each intricate groove, transforming raw sound into a tangible masterpiece. Time permitting, we will cut 7 inch 'single' records live for Faire attendees (for free, but only original, non-copyrighted sources).

Hand-Crafted Electronic Music: Eurorack DIY

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Karl Stamm

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Openpipes.org

Faire: Rome

Maker: Rodolfo Bonnin

OpenPipes is a global, open-source project that empowers DIY enthusiasts to create their own Virtual Pipe Organ • Organ console plans, including an Arduino controlled Midi Pedalboard, • An Arduino-based full control circuit, • A whole set of Midi peripherals, including traditional buttonboards and OLED screens manager • Pipebian, our own Linux based pipe organ audio engine. • And much more! OpenPipes invites worldwide participation, democratizing the traditional sound of Pipe Organs. Visit our exhibit to see a functional sound engine, live controllers, and 3D console models. Join us and have fun!

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