Contact Mic Workshop

Overview

This is an email we received.

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.