I'm planning on producing an informal series of music performances for the
second half of this year which focuses on artists who build new instruments.
(For example, Bart Hopkins, Pamela Z, Kitundu, Tom Nunn, Sudhu Tewari, etc.)

This would not be a regularly-occuring series, but rather a show every 2
months or so at either San Francisco's Luggage Store Gallery or Oakland's 21
Grand Gallery. I can't promise huge audiences or income, but I think the
idea of seeing instrument inventors will bring people out.

If you are an instrument inventor who either lives locally or will be
visiting the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall, please contact me,
including bio information, some notes about what types of instruments you
build, and hopefully a website.

In this series I'm not counting the following as "invented instruments":
-Unaltered found objects
-"Prepared" regular instruments (except in cases like Eric Glick Rieman or
Paulo Angeli, where the "preparations" are permanent installments which
require the instrument to be played much differently)
-Software instruments for laptop computer (since you didn't invent the
laptop computer, and much of the current software seems to be built for
creating new 'instruments'.) Exceptions will be made if either your input
into the computer is a unique self-built device or the computer's output
triggers devices you built in the physical world.