MEECAS 2011

[Hank The Curmudgeon]

My apologies if you already know about this event. I highly recommend it.

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!

Thank you.

Patrick McCarthy

www.MEECAS.com