This Weekend: 2011 Kansas City Regional Electro-music Festival - Parkville, Mo - July 22, 23, 24, 2011

Hosted by Kevin Kissinger and Shane Morris, the KC Regional electro-music festival encompasses all styles of electronic music, DIY instruments, performances, collaborations, and demonstrations. Free and open to the public for all ages.

The KC Regional formed from the increasing need for a live performance outlet for experimental electronic music in the mid-western states. The festival is not limited to participants in the region alone, but does seek to consolidate and network with artists in the extended area. The intention is to create a cooperative community where artists and enthusiasts participate and benefit together.

Hosting both stereo and 5.1 surround sound, the Walnut Creek Clubhouse is a wonderful setting just of the Missouri River with the KC skyline on the horizon. The venue has large vaulted wooden ceilings, wonderful lighting, comfy couches, and great acoustics.

This year the festival will have a large screen with real-time digital art by Michael O'Bannon.

Friday, July 22

10am Doors Open

Noon Herpich and Morris Collaboration ambient improvisation

1pm Kevin Kissinger Workshop Parkville, MO DIY modules for analog synthesis

2pm Ryan Lee Toms Kansas City

3pm KWA Indianapolis, IN UltraSonic Illuminations

4pm Tensor Sensellation (Damon Mar and David Herpich) Lawrence, KS

5pm DIY Panel Discussion A panel of expert DIY builders and designers discuss topics related to do-it-yourself electronics.

6pm Damon Mar DIY Workshop Lawrence, KS Founder of MarSynth music, Damon will discuss his approach to instrument/equipment design.

7pm John Hoge New York City, NY Classical theremin

8pm Charles Rice Goff lll & Michael LaGrega Kansas City, KS

Prairie Village, KS Premier of four new experimental electronic compositions, all written specifically for this event.

9pm Kevin Kissinger Parkville (Walnut Creek), MO Kevin will perform his original theremin compositions with his surround-sound system.

10pm David Herpich & Shane Morris Lawrence, KS and Fayetteville, AR ambient improvisations

11pm Lauri des Marais Greenville, NH Classical Technology; Movement So Still With Sound

11:30pm dRachEmUsik (Charles Shriner) Indianapolis, IN eclectic ambient, glitch-groove, noise, and nujazz

12:30am Collaboration (open) Late night Ambient Drift

Saturday, July 23

11am Har Chester County, PA Ambient/dark-ambient guitar soundscapes

Noon Christian Birk "Electron" Workshop

1pm Cody Loyd "Pure Data" workshop

2pm Retardo D-2 & Shitbird (Zaxx Davros & Barry Zimmerman) San Francisco, CA, St. Louis, MO Improvised experimental controllerism and hexidecimal programming with visual projection,live vocals and a robot that dances & interacts with the audience.

3pm Jon Doe/B.I.O.Crew & System7 (Joe Walker) Dallas, TX Disco-edit, House, Breakbeat/Electro, Drum and Bass songs

4pm Synth Invasion (Chris Hodges) Lincoln, NE Trance, Techno, Electronic
Dance Music

5 - 7 pm Workshop: "Concepts in Free Form Improvisation" Indianapolis, IN Join dRachEmUsik (Charles Shriner) for a practical improvisation workshop. This will be a highly interactive session. For more information, click here.

7pm SuicideLane (Christian Birk) Atlanta, GA and New Orleans, LA Electronic dance music including Berlin School, Disco, Hous, Techno, and IDM.

8pm Adamon (Damon Mar) Lawrence, KS Experimental electronics

9pm Kip Rosser Morrisville, PA Transcendambiental Medication

10pm Emerald Adrift (David Herpich) Lawrence, KS Introspective improvisations

11pm Howard Moscovitz Philadelphia, PA Midnight Christus & the Cosmonaughts
(Scot Solida and Har) Hutchinson, KS Unusual post-apocalyptic psychedelic art rock

1am Late night Ambient Drift

Sunday, July 24

11am Shane Morris Fayetteville, AR Ambient electronic

Noon Marsynth Jam (Damon Mar) Lawrence, KS

1pm Workshop: "Tools and Considerations for film composing" Lauri des Marais

2pm Lunch/setup

3pm Kevin Kissinger and friends Parkville (Walnut Creek), MO Collaboration

4pm Clock Sync Collaboration

More info at http://kevinkissinger.com/kc...