5th Annual Bent Festival - Festival of Circuit Bending - LA, NYC and Minneapolis
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BENT FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES - April 17-19, 2008
http://www.bentfestival.org
Grand Performances: 350 S. Grand Ave Los Angeles, CA 90011
Zero Point: 1049 E 32nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90011
The Tank is pleased to announce The Fifth Annual Bent Festival of
hardware hacking, DIY electronics, and circuit bending. The term
circuit bending refers to the inspired short-circuiting of battery-
powered children's toys to create new musical instruments, and over
the last few decades a worldwide subculture has sprung up around this
amazing art form. The Bent Festival began as a celebration of circuit
bending, but has quickly grown to embrace not only circuit benders but
also artists who create instruments and artwork from scratch using
homemade circuitry. Artists from around the globe perform music with
their homemade or circuit bent instruments each night of the festival,
teach workshops to adults and children alike, and create amazing,
interactive art installations. The festival brings together artists of
all ages and showcases the state of the art of DIY electronics and
circuit bending culture.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE LOS ANGELES 2008 BENT FESTIVAL:
Each night is free with a suggested donation of $10.
A Festival Pass to all events is available for $25.
Thursday, April 17 @ Grand Performances | 7PM SHARP
Concert #1
der warst
Aimee Norwich
univac
POMPON
embarker
Friday, April 18 @ Grand Performances | 11AM - 5pm
Workshops
11:00am "Intro to Circuit Bending" - with Phil Stearns and Aaron Drake
1:00pm"Antique Experimentation; Tubes, Coils and the Mystical DIY of
the not-so-ancient" - with Lorin Edwin Parker
3:15pm Phase One Workshop for the Omnichord Workshop - basic Omnichord
bending - with Joker Nies
Friday, April 18 @ Grand Performances | 7PM SHARP
Concert #2
Tasos Stamou
XDUGEF and OGOGO
Krach der Roboter
Clay Chaplin
Pleather
Saturday, April 19 @ Grand Performances | 11AM - 5pm
Workshops
11:00am Phase Two Workshop for the Omnichord Workshop - Basic bending
and exploring additional possibillities - with Joker Nies
1:00pm Omnichord Orchestra Dress Rehearsal
1:00pm "Building an intercosmical communication device
with Krach the robot" - with Krach der Roboter
3:15pm "Lecture on designing audio chaos generators"
- with Rob Hordijk
Saturday, April 19 @ Grand Performances | 7PM SHARP
Concert #3
Joker Nies
Lesley Flanigan
Travis Weller
Pete McPartlan
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Saturday April 20 @ Zero Point | 10:30pm
After Party
Loud Objects
DJ Tendraw
casperelectronics
Art Installations on display throughout the festival from:
Kichul Kim
Clay Chaplin
Cooper Baker
The Bent Festival is produced by The Tank, a non-profit space for
performing and visual arts in New York City with a mission to provide
a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for
artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Grand
Performances is Southern California's largest presenter of free
performing arts with a primary focus on bringing together the diverse
peoples of Los Angeles for concerts celebrating the cultural
contributions of our community's peoples. The Bent Festival is made
possible in part by Make Magazine, the first publication on the
subject of DIY technology projects, Grand Performances and by
Periscope Entertainment, a Los Angeles based film and television
company that prides itself on supporting independent thought and
innovative creation. This event is also made possible with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.