Maker Music Festival [And Campus]

The Maker Music Festival celebrates the makers of innovative, experimental and just plain unusual musical instruments. On May 14th and 15th, the festival will introduce the 2022 exhibits. These DIY music and instrument makers will join our existing group of projects. Along with the collection of projects, there will be exhibits, lectures, demonstrations, interactive activities and performances that showcase the creativity and ingenuity of the maker music community. For a visitor to the site, the experience is akin to a real world ‘open studios’ tour. They can navigate from building to building and ‘visit’ the inhabitants therein. Each maker has provided video, images and text that describes themselves and their work. There are also links to social media, additional videos and maker websites. Visitors can also ‘tip’ a maker via the maker’s chosen payment method. The campus of buildings metaphor has allowed collectives and other groups to ‘own’ their own buildings. Groups such as Hackoustic (London), MakeMe (France) and Center for New Music (San Francisco) will occupy entire buildings. After the opening event, the website will continue to collect projects from makers around the world. It will serve as a hub for this community. As the site grows, there will be continuing live events and other activities. Visit www.makermusicfestival.com to experience the Maker Music Festival [and Campus]. In 2018 the first Maker Music Festival took place in Sebastopol, California. It showcased the projects and talents of a select group of music makers from the San Francisco Bay area. The event had exhibit booths, live performances, demonstrations and hands-on activities. It was produced as a fundraiser for our local makerspace, Chimera Arts.