MINNEAPOLIS BENT FESTIVAL 2008
We attended our first Bent Festival in NYC in 2006.
2007 Bent Festival was held in LA, NYC & Minneapolis. It was put together by the TANK & Intermedia Arts hosted.
Get Bent @ The Bent Festival, 2008 City Pages Article click image below:
Beatrix*JAR performance @ Minneapolis Bent 2008
Here is a 2008 Bent Festival Documentary shot by Derek Sajabal, aka Dr. Rek.
BENT PROGRAM
The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture.
If you have the least bit of curiosity about electronics or electronic music, or if you've ever just wanted to rip your toys apart, this festival is for you. Each day we will have open studios with expert circuit benders and hardware hackers on hand to help you get started. There will be installation artists building circuit-bent artwork throughout the space. There will be a full schedule of in-depth workshops. There will be nightly concerts featuring some of the best circuit benders and DIY electronics performers in the world. It is pure unadulterated fun for the whole family. You will have a blast.
MINNEAPOLIS BENT FESTIVAL LINE-UP
THURSDAY MAY 1
7pm - Bent Festival Reception / Art Opening / Listening Party (Lobby)
ART INSTALLATIONS
Jason Wihlem – INT_Routine, Milwaukee
Raul Gshrey – Cases, Germany
Mike Una – Beat and Bleep Bike, Chicago
8pm - BENT FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Datura 1.0 – Minneapolis
Igloo Martian – Wisconsin
Caly McMorrow – Minneapolis
Brian McKenna – Zero Bit Video, Amsterdam
EraSer – Italy
Beatrix*JAR - Minneapolis
FRIDAY MAY 2
7pm Highly Liquid Workshop
8pm - BENT FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Ronald J. Schleper – Denver
Life as Number Five – Wisconsin
Talking Computron – Iowa
Sounds Happy – Chicago
Circuit Ben – UK
Loud Objects - NYC
SATURDAY MAY 3 – AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
11:00pm - 1:00pm
INTRODUCTION TO CIRCUIT BENDING – Intermedia Arts Theatre
Beatrix*JAR & DJ Dan Demchuck
A great opportunity for kids of all ages to learn circuit bending! Bring an old battery powered electronic toy that makes noise to work on.
1:00pm – 3:00pm
555 TIMER APPLICATIONS WORKSHOP - Intermedia Arts Theatre
Mike Una and Alex Dyba (getlofi.com)
$3.00 Supply Cost / (Bring a Toy to modify).
Learn how a simple 555 timer circuit can open up a world of opportunities, like pitching down unbendable toys and adding a tremolo like effect on pitch resistors. During the workshop we will show you how to create a Theremin like synth and use 555's square-wave oscillations for injecting into the data lines to create randomness and glitches.
3pm – 4:30pm
ANALOG SENSOR DEVICES - Intermedia Arts Theatre
A Lecture with Mike Taylor
This workshop covers the basics of building and working with analog sensor devices. It will also cover the basics of physical computing by looking at some inexpensive ways to interface sensors with computers. I/O platforms will include the Arduino and CreateUSB interfaces. We will also look at software like PD, Max/MSP, Jitter, and Processing. After an overview of the basic hardware and software, the workshop will cover building basic sensors and the electronics theory for analog signal conditioning. We will look at resistive voltage dividers and direct voltage output types of sensors. I will demonstrate my 3D accelerometer ball, magnetic shaker ball, 3D light sensor, and a really easy to build ribbon controller. If time permits we will also look at some software programming for computer interfacing.
3:00pm - 5:00pm
CIRCUIT BENDING DRUM MACHINES - Intermedia Arts Library
Ron Schelper
Class Limited to 15
Learn how to creatively modify your 1980's PCM and analog drum machines. Some of the best rhythmic noise can be had from the Yamaha RX series and DD series, Roland TR series, Alesis HR and SR series, and Kawai R-50 as well as many kids toy drums. A brief primer on digital logic and analog circuits will be offered, and detailed instructions on my personal favorites, the Yamaha RX-17 and Roland TR-505, as well as instructions for other models as needed.
5:00pm – 7pm BENT BARBECUE
8pm - BENT FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Crème De Menthia – Illinois
Memory Selector – Minneapolis/Chicago
Albino Ghost Monkey - WI
Tim Kaiser – Duluth
DJ Tendraw - UK
Dr. Rek – Japan
Bent 2008 mpls DVD trailer 1 from Derek Sajbel on Vimeo.
BENT PROGRAM
The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture.
If you have the least bit of curiosity about electronics or electronic music, or if you've ever just wanted to rip your toys apart, this festival is for you. Each day we will have open studios with expert circuit benders and hardware hackers on hand to help you get started. There will be installation artists building circuit-bent artwork throughout the space. There will be a full schedule of in-depth workshops. There will be nightly concerts featuring some of the best circuit benders and DIY electronics performers in the world. It is pure unadulterated fun for the whole family. You will have a blast.
MINNEAPOLIS BENT FESTIVAL LINE-UP
THURSDAY MAY 1
7pm - Bent Festival Reception / Art Opening / Listening Party (Lobby)
ART INSTALLATIONS
Jason Wihlem – INT_Routine, Milwaukee
Raul Gshrey – Cases, Germany
Mike Una – Beat and Bleep Bike, Chicago
8pm - BENT FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Datura 1.0 – Minneapolis
Igloo Martian – Wisconsin
Caly McMorrow – Minneapolis
Brian McKenna – Zero Bit Video, Amsterdam
EraSer – Italy
Beatrix*JAR - Minneapolis
FRIDAY MAY 2
7pm Highly Liquid Workshop
8pm - BENT FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Ronald J. Schleper – Denver
Life as Number Five – Wisconsin
Talking Computron – Iowa
Sounds Happy – Chicago
Circuit Ben – UK
Loud Objects - NYC
SATURDAY MAY 3 – AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
11:00pm - 1:00pm
INTRODUCTION TO CIRCUIT BENDING – Intermedia Arts Theatre
Beatrix*JAR & DJ Dan Demchuck
A great opportunity for kids of all ages to learn circuit bending! Bring an old battery powered electronic toy that makes noise to work on.
1:00pm – 3:00pm
555 TIMER APPLICATIONS WORKSHOP - Intermedia Arts Theatre
Mike Una and Alex Dyba (getlofi.com)
$3.00 Supply Cost / (Bring a Toy to modify).
Learn how a simple 555 timer circuit can open up a world of opportunities, like pitching down unbendable toys and adding a tremolo like effect on pitch resistors. During the workshop we will show you how to create a Theremin like synth and use 555's square-wave oscillations for injecting into the data lines to create randomness and glitches.
3pm – 4:30pm
ANALOG SENSOR DEVICES - Intermedia Arts Theatre
A Lecture with Mike Taylor
This workshop covers the basics of building and working with analog sensor devices. It will also cover the basics of physical computing by looking at some inexpensive ways to interface sensors with computers. I/O platforms will include the Arduino and CreateUSB interfaces. We will also look at software like PD, Max/MSP, Jitter, and Processing. After an overview of the basic hardware and software, the workshop will cover building basic sensors and the electronics theory for analog signal conditioning. We will look at resistive voltage dividers and direct voltage output types of sensors. I will demonstrate my 3D accelerometer ball, magnetic shaker ball, 3D light sensor, and a really easy to build ribbon controller. If time permits we will also look at some software programming for computer interfacing.
3:00pm - 5:00pm
CIRCUIT BENDING DRUM MACHINES - Intermedia Arts Library
Ron Schelper
Class Limited to 15
Learn how to creatively modify your 1980's PCM and analog drum machines. Some of the best rhythmic noise can be had from the Yamaha RX series and DD series, Roland TR series, Alesis HR and SR series, and Kawai R-50 as well as many kids toy drums. A brief primer on digital logic and analog circuits will be offered, and detailed instructions on my personal favorites, the Yamaha RX-17 and Roland TR-505, as well as instructions for other models as needed.
5:00pm – 7pm BENT BARBECUE
8pm - BENT FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Crème De Menthia – Illinois
Memory Selector – Minneapolis/Chicago
Albino Ghost Monkey - WI
Tim Kaiser – Duluth
DJ Tendraw - UK
Dr. Rek – Japan