[General] Fwd: CMKT 4 Contact Microphone Building Class at Makers Local 256 April 13th

[Bob]

Can we get an idea of who will be around and want to go to this
workshop if we have it?  Some are going to Notacon in Cleveland, I
know.


Bob




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From: CMKT 4 <cmktfour at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Subject: CMKT 4 Contact Microphone Building Class at Makers Local 256 April 13th
To: contact at makerslocal.org


Hello,
My name is Jeff, I'm with the circuit-bending rock band CMKT4. We
manufacture and sell Bottle-Cap Contact Microphones. Recently we have
introduced kits for building contact microphones our way and we have
started to teach workshops about the process we use to make our
EconoMICs. Since then we have taught our workshops at over 15
hackerspaces across the Midwest.

We are headed to New Orleans and back on a spring workshop tour, and
our tour route will bring us near Huntsville, AL on Wednesday, April
13th. We were wondering if you would be interested in hosting a
contact microphone building workshop at your hackerspace.

At our workshops, everyone who buys a kit ($15 per workshop attendee,
includes a kit; $10 apiece for additional kits)  will learn to solder.
 They will also work with hot glue, zip ties, shielded cable, a piezo
electric disc and recycled bottle-caps to make a fully functioning
Bottle-Cap Contact Microphone.  These microphones pick up physical
vibrations and transduce the vibrations into an electrical audio
signal.  Students are encouraged to bring instruments and found
objects to listen to through the microphones.
There is a dry-time involved in the materials we use, however, during
that time, we will put on a brief circuit bent and contact microphone
performance for the attendees.

You can hear more about us at http://www.facebook.com/cmkt4
http://www.myspace.com/cmkt4 and http://cmkt4.bandcamp.com/, we have
performance videos at http://www.vimeo.com/channels/cremedementia.
Follow us on twitter @cmkt4.

Thank you for your consideration and keep in touch,

-Austin Cliffe, Jeff Cox, Zach Adams - CMKT 4

www.facebook.com/cmkt4
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