Knobcon 4 – a massive synth meetup, featuring performances, workshops and vendors – will be held next week, Sept 11-13, 2015, in the Chicago area.

The three-day event, which focuses on electronic and experimental music and the tools used to create it, will be held at the Westin Chicago Northwest.

Highlights include two nights of live electronic music performances; a Saturday banquet with keynote speaker Malcolm Cecil; workshops on the Triadex Muse, acoustic synthesis and more; and synth DIY.

Here’s a performance video, featuring ‘mid-century modern’ synthesist Atomic Shadow (Rod Mitchell):

Vendors and Exhibitors:

• 4ms Company
• Analogue Haven
• Bastl Instruments
• Black Market Modular
• Blue Lantern Modules
• Circuit Abbey
• Detachment 3
• Delptronics
• Detroit Modular
• Division 6
• Dwarfcraft Devices
• EarthQuaker Devices
• Erica Synths
• Erogenous Tones
• Evaton Technologies
• Five12 Inc.
• FoxtoneMusic
• Grove Audio
• Frap Tools
• Hackme Electronics
• hexinverter.net
• Highly Liquid
• Kilpatrick Audio
• KOMA Elektronik GmbH
• KVGear
• Laurentide SynthWorks
• Make Noise Co.
• Manhattan Analog
• Metalphoto of Cincinnati
• Monde Synthesizer Inc.
• Moog Music Inc
• Nerd Audio
• Novation
• Old Crow
• Qu-Bit Electronix
• Rezonance Labs
• Roland Coroporation U.S.
• Softwire Synthesis
• Steady State Fate
• STG Soundlabs
• Synth City
• Synthcube
• Synthrotek
• Synthesis Technology
• Tsyklon Labs
• Verbos Electronics
• WMD
• Yamaha
• Z?ob Modular

Registration for the event is US $35. See the Knobcon site for details.