Ditching traditional concepts like melody and rhythm, experimental artist Tim Kaiser performs atmospheric music. With a stage full of his own handmade instruments, his soundscapes are both visually and auditorily compelling. His Frankensteined creations, with names like “Portable Apocalypse Oscillator” or “Patron Saint of Noise,” re-box LFO synths, violins, vehicle parts, contact microphones, and other found objects into an eccentric show of lights and drones. Kaiser has scored films, been featured on PBS, and in magazines such as Make Magazine, Wired and New Art Examiner. His various “gonkulations” can be found at the numerous DIY music fests and eccentric tours he drags them off to, or on tim-kaiser.org.