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Circuit Benders’ Ball tickets are now on sale over at FortHouston.com! The three day festival pass is $35 purchased in advance or $50 at door. Single day tickets are $15 advance or $20 at door. Workshops are $15 advance or $20 at door (if any slots remain). Those who purchase the festival pass in advance will get a sweet LED lanyard with their name on it.
Show tickets are limited to 100, so be sure to scoop yours up as soon as soon as possible. Online sales for all tickets ends Wednesday, April 9th at 11:59 p.m. If you wait later than Wednesday night, you’ll have to purchase your tickets for the higher price at the door. If you wait later than Wednesday night, you’ll have to purchase your tickets for the higher price at the door.
Before purchasing tickets, please read our Code of Conduct. CBB is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.
Here is the schedule for performances, panels, presentations, and workshops. You can also view the schedule via Google Docs or download a printable pdf version.
You can see participant bios with clips of their work on the Artists page, full descriptions of panels & presentations on the Panels page, and full descriptions of the Workshops (with ticket links) on the Workshops page.
Performances
Friday, April 11th
| 7:00 PM | Skoolgirl |
| 7:25 PM | Electric Inertia |
| 7:50 PM | The Tree is Base |
| 8:15 PM | Graphic Tease |
| 8:40 PM | Brady Sharp |
| 9:05 PM | Carl Oliver |
| 9:30 PM | WΛ∀E |
| 9:55 PM | Brendan Byrne |
| 10:30 PM | Hardon Collider |
| 10:55 PM | Jeff Boynton |
Saturday, April 12th
| 7:00 PM | Mike Hester |
| 7:25 PM | Cher Von Circuit Jam |
| 7:50 PM | Noise Furniture |
| 8:15 PM | Aether Jag |
| 8:40 PM | Hadals |
| 9:05 PM | Garland Villanova |
| 9:30 PM | Workshoppe Radio Phonik |
| 9:55 PM | stAllio! |
| 10:30 PM | SURVANT |
| 11:05 PM | Tim Kaiser |
Sunday, April 13th
| 4:15 PM | Tim Carey |
| 4:35 PM | Dylan Ethier |
| 4:55 PM | sugar sk*-*lls |
| 5:15 PM | Abandoned On Fire |
| 5:35 PM | b4by f4c3 |
| 6:05 PM | Morgan Higby-Flowers |
| 6:20 PM | dish_drone_dish_drone_dish_drone |
| 6:45 PM | Waveshaper |
| 7:15 PM | Age |
Panels & Presentations
Friday, April 11th
| Panel | 5:00 PM to 5:50 PM | Introduction to Circuit Bending |
| Panel | 6:00 PM to 6:50 PM | Towards a Circuit Bending Standardization |
Saturday, April 12th
| Presentation | 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM | Electronic Enclosures Design |
| Presentation | 12:00 PM to 12:50 PM | Society of the Spectacle: Culture jamming, Détournement &Tactical Media |
| Presentation | 1:00 PM to 1:50 PM | Computer Models of Circuit Bending |
| Panel | 2:00 PM to 2:50 PM | Culture Jamming part 2 plus Fair Use & Artistic Appropriating |
| Panel | 3:00 PM to 3:50 PM | Glitch Art / Dirty New Media Panel |
| Presentation | 4:00 PM to 4:50 PM | SynthTable First Look |
| Panel | 5:00 PM to 5:50 PM | Bending Visually |
Sunday, April 13th
| Presentation | 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM | Knew Beat Demonstration |
| Presentation | 12:00 PM to 12:50 PM | Making Music by Code Alone |
| Panel | 1:00 PM to 1:50 PM | Structural Biases in Local Show Booking |
| Panel | 2:00 PM to 2:50 PM | Chiptune Panel |
Workshops
Saturday, April 12th
| 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM | Playdoh Vs. Lego: A Composer’s Take on Hacker-Culture |
| 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | Piezo Mic Making |
| 2:15 PM to 3:30 PM | Hacking the Gameboy |
| 3:45 PM to 6:15 PM | Hex-Schmitt trigger Oscillator |
Sunday, April 13th
| 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM | Subverting Apple & Google |
| 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | Bending with Photoresistors! |
| 2:15 PM to 4:30 PM | Microcontrol of a Macroworld: Physical Computing with Arduino |
Here’s the schedule in block format. Download a printable pdf version here.
