 The Minnesota Made Festival is a celebration of handmade electronic music in the state of Minnesota. And so we have invited St. Claude State alumnus Troy Rogers to come and work with our students and high school students and even community members to build electronic devices, robots if you will, that will make sound and play alongside live musicians. I use a really simple set of wire strippers. The music that is going to be made by these robots has a high level of improvisation, which really just means play. And so we will have a drummer, our chair of the Music Department, Terry Vermillion, will interact with what he hears from the robots and will, as the robots make sound, he'll react to what they're playing and because the robots will be controlled by a computer run by Troy, the robots themselves will react to what Terry's playing. So it's a very playful environment where they can learn from each other. It's not completely automated in the sense of WALL-E, that kind of a robot. It's certainly interactive controlled by Troy. Along with creating robots that make music, that have a strong local connection, we have this year we've invited Twin Cities based New Music Ensemble Zeitgeist, who have figured out how to perform classic electronic works, works that our students might read about in books or that you might hear about every now and then, specifically in this case by the composers Stockhausen and Cage. And these are important classic electronic works that are almost never performed live. Electronic music performance side along with the creation of new electronic music by robots in this case. And that encompasses all that is Minnesota made, the festival of handmade electronic music.