Maker Faire New York 2010

Octant

Octant can be described as a one-man band featuring mainly acoustic robotic musical instruments that back up front man, Matthew Steinke, like a player piano as he sings, shouts, and plays various home brew instrumentation.

Visit www.octantmusic.com and www.matthewsteinke.com to see more.

Live video performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axpb7_jJlmQ&feature=related

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About the Maker(s)

Matthew Steinke

Octant

Matthew Steinke is less an artist than a mad scientist. His installations often involve animatronic critters wandering about with adorable sinisterness, while his drawings and animation include disparate, evolutionarily dubious amalgamations of the organic and inorganic bunged peremptorily together. He incorporates that kind of Frankenstein genius into his music as well; he builds his own instruments, and his current band, Octant, is perhaps best known for its use of acoustic musical robots. In a era of multimedia works created by collectives and art stars with workshops of hirelings, Steinke has the ideas, the skills, and the work ethic to operate as a scrappy, no-budget demiurge. His dense, funny, haunting installations and performances feature everything from animatronic puppetry and meticulous animation to interactive homemade kinetic and sound apparatuses. Each piece offers an incomplete glimpse into an evocative, elegant, claustrophobic cosmos. -Bert Stabler

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