Meridian Gallery hosts the first evening of the 14th Annual Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival, featuring Travis Weller (Texas), Matt Davingnon and Danishta Rivero.

The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching a large, diverse audience of all ages. It is also a festival where the public can participate in instrument building and tuning educational workshops, as well as hear unique sounds and compositions from up and coming artists. Now in its 14th year, Thingamajigs' genre-crossing MFP&T Festival is the only annual event completely dedicated to music created with made/found materials and alternate tuning systems. Past participants include Carla Kihlstedt, Walter Kitundu, Pauline Oliveros, Brenda Hutchinson, William Winant, and Laetitia Sonami.

This year's festival features music and world premiere performances from 10 exciting artists and groups from the Bay Area and beyond. Noted works include performances by New Yorks' Electric Junkyard Gamelan, a piece for computer controlled metal percussion by Matthew Goodheart and developed in collaboration with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley, Tim Phillips' Bubble Organ instrument, a series of sound sculptures for repurposed vintage typewriters called Poemophone by Tracey Cockrell, and new pieces for microtonal sixth-tone scale guitar by East Coast composer Lewis Krauthamer.

With concerts, artist talks and instrument demonstrations, we expect the 14th Annual Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival to be our most far reaching and successful event to date.

$15 General $10 Students/Seniors (sliding scale)
Reservations: (510) 444-1322 or boxoffice@thingamajigs.org
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For more information, please see the Thingamajigs website.

This year's festival is supported in part by:

Alameda County Arts Commission
Meet The Composer
Westaf Tour West Grant