Get inside the art and craft of contemporary instrument creation with the Hand Made Music festival.

Hmm events will pop-up in three of Melbourne contemporary art and performance spaces over August: BUS Projects, KIPL and West Space. They will be a showcase for installations, workshops and performances from leading local and interstate experimental instrument makers.

For more information regarding participating artists, dates, venues and admission costs please visit handmademusic.me

Hand Made Music program at West Space:

Dusk Drinks & Clipz: 
Fri 26th August, 6-8pm
Handmade and open hardware video clip roundup
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Evening Performance/Demonstrations: 
Fri 26th August, 8pm-11:30pm – $15/10

Ernie Althoff – Why are musical instruments? Sonic objects
Dale Gorfinkel – What does play create? Cracked vibes and air. 

John Jacobs – Circuit bent toys and galvanics
Rod Cooper – Hacked motors and resonators

Makers Market: 
All day Saturday and Sunday.

Bring your CD’s, instruments, toys and gems from your workshop to sell. The market will also have a swaps and junk aspect so you could trade components, half built projects and even find a gem yourself!


Evening Performance/Demonstrations: 
Sat 27th August, 8pm-11:30pm – $15/10
Cor Fuhler – Keyolin and lamellophones
Paul Fletcher – Circuit bent iron and board
Eamon Sprod – found sound objects
Brian McNamara – Synthetic inventions

Workshop:
 Sat 27th August, 2:30-5:30pm
Dale Chapman – Introduction to circuit bending. 3 hours – $25

Meet the Makers – Artist’s talks: – Sun 28th August, 12-6pm – $ by donation


John Jacobs – Circuit bent toys and galvanics
Eamon Sprod – Hand made microphones and found sound objects
Ceri Hann – Socio-politics of circuit bending
Ben Kolaitis – Synthesis and fruit with Alex Cuffe
Chris Vik – Kineckt IR camera controlled synthesiser
Vijay Thillaimuthu – Raster bending video synthesiser
Brian McNamara – Synthetic inventions.

Festival Closer: 
Sun 28th August, 6-9pm – $ by donation.
Open mixer show and tell sound swap. Inspired by the festival? Last chance to swap and tell. Ideas, instruments, thumb drives all welcome. Proposals to handmademusicfest(at)gmail.com