<font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">(Please forward to whomever you feel may be interested)</font><div><br></div><div>This rather late reminder is for a workshop that seems to have slipped people's minds - a member of the circuit-bender band CMTK4 is going to be in town and giving a workshop on Contact Microphones, specifically their own bottle-cap encased mics. There will be soldering and if anyone has issues with soldering, you will have an opportunity to learn in this workshop.<div>
<br></div><div>Contact mics are generally used in the music industry, but <b>that is not the entire spectrum of their usefulness. </b>They can be used to pick up ANY surface vibration for any purpose, and are readily applicable to human interfaces with embedded electronics. (Tap sensor door lock anyone?)<br>
<div><br></div><div>The original email is copied below, and here is the facebook event they set up for this: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162621903792910" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162621903792910</a> (I can't check it here at work, but this is the link they sent along)<div>
<br></div><div>(203 Brown St., say 6:30-7:00 pm)</div><div><br><br>=========================================<br><font color="#990000">My name is Jeff, I'm with the circuit-bending rock band CMKT4. We<br>manufacture and sell Bottle-Cap Contact Microphones. Recently we have<br>
introduced kits for building contact microphones our way and we have<br>started to teach workshops about the process we use to make our<br>EconoMICs. Since then we have taught our workshops at over 15<br>hackerspaces across the Midwest.<br>
<br>We are headed to New Orleans and back on a spring workshop tour, and<br>our tour route will bring us near Huntsville, AL on Wednesday, April<br>13th. We were wondering if you would be interested in hosting a<br>contact microphone building workshop at your hackerspace.<br>
<br>At our workshops, everyone who buys a kit ($15 per workshop attendee,<br>includes a kit; $10 apiece for additional kits) will learn to solder.<br> They will also work with hot glue, zip ties, shielded cable, a piezo<br>
electric disc and recycled bottle-caps to make a fully functioning<br>Bottle-Cap Contact Microphone. These microphones pick up physical<br>vibrations and transduce the vibrations into an electrical audio<br>signal. Students are encouraged to bring instruments and found<br>
objects to listen to through the microphones.<br>There is a dry-time involved in the materials we use, however, during<br>that time, we will put on a brief circuit bent and contact microphone<br>performance for the attendees.<br>
<br>You can hear more about us at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/cmkt4" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/cmkt4</a><br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cmkt4" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/cmkt4</a> and <a href="http://cmkt4.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://cmkt4.bandcamp.com/</a>, we have<br>
performance videos at <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/channels/cremedementia" target="_blank">http://www.vimeo.com/channels/cremedementia</a>.<br>Follow us on twitter @cmkt4.</font><br><br><br><br></div>
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