Kinder Bender Ensemble

Amar Chaudhary,
Wayne Jackson,
Synthia Payne,
Tim Thompson,
Falling You

An evening of solo and ensemble performances of experimental electronic music featuring modified toy instruments and custom computer-based synthesizers and controllers. All of the music involves live performances, often in an improvisational setting. The program will include "traditional computer music", works inspired by folk and popular influences, interactive music and dance and a truly bizarre extended jam by the full Kinder Bender ensemble. The ensemble was featured in the recent Santa Cruz Digital Arts festival in April, 2003, and many of the performers have participated in the Woodstockhausen festival. Among the technologies featured in the performance are Open Sound World, a real-time music-and-audio processing environment developed at CNMAT, KeyKit, a real-time language for musical-event processing, and circuit bending, the modification of off-the-shelf electrical toys and appliances to explore new musical applications. For more information click here.