Makers of Sense and Metamann introduce their live performance of electronic music and visual collaboration. Original sounds, graphics and dynamic symphonic movements will welcome guests to a journey combining unusually warm electronica, hip hop, house, trance, dub, live instrumentation and urban elements with new styles yet to be coined.

Brother El and Cristián Huepe comprise the internationally known Chicago-based production team of the Makers of Sense. Their musical creations emphasize an alternative reality beyond restrictions of usual positions and momentums identified by the measurable world. Through the auditory experience, this new environment forces traditional sensibilities to rearrange inside listeners’ mind. The music of the Makers of Sense then becomes a guide for building and exploring new realms outside the everyday world providing unbounded possibilities.

Metamann has reached millions of listeners by deejaying and producing for various national and international events, networking through the internet, touring, and participating in multiple releases.  In order to expand his horizons beyond the local scene, Chilean based Metamann used tools familiar to him as a publicist and graphic designer to establish his name within the international electronic music community.

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The fused energies of the Makers of Sense and Metamann offer pulsating beats, live PA experimentation, traditional/nontraditional synthesis techniques, breath taking soundscapes, mesmerizing light show and groovey hip hop vocal performances into a striking sonically rich unique experience.  Their musical sensations are sure to entice the avid listener and bind the hearts of those who have just discovered of electronic music.
 

The Makers of Sense are Brother El and Cristián Huepe. Together, they fuse energies to create radical bodies of music that combine unusually warm electronica, hip hop, house, trance, dub, live instrumentation and urban elements with new styles yet to be coined. Their union of vibes is best described by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which states that the more precisely a position is determined, the less precisely its associated momentum can be known and vice versa. This quantum principle defines an alternative reality, which cannot be restricted by the boundaries of our every-day world. Similarly, the music of the Makers of Sense defines its own alternative reality beyond restrictions of usual positions and momentums of our measurable world. Through the auditory experience, this new environment forces traditional sensibilities to be rearranged inside the listeners mind. The music of the Makers of Sense then becomes a guide for building and exploring new realms outside the everyday world and provides unbounded possibilities.

The “Makers of Sense” will perform anywhere in the U.S.A. at the highest bidder’s 2008 New Year event or celebration. Bids start at only one thousand dollars... plus shipping and handling.

(Chicago, IL, October 13, 2007) - Forget iTunes or Napster, an electronic-music duo from Chicago is taking the internet music business to a whole new level by offering their live act on eBay to the highest bidder. The name of the band is the Makers of Sense, and they are determined to make more sense of the performance market by using new technologies to bring their show directly to the audiences.

“We see our act as powerful, interesting, and entertaining”, said Brother El, one of the two members of the band, “and people have loved every one of our shows”. But the Makers of Sense believe that the performance market, just like many other aspects of the entertainment business, is controlled by insiders who push a few artists by spending millions in promotion. “People like new, energetic, and original shows, but they are often enticed into overpaying for a familiar tune rather than trying new things”, said Cristian Huepe, a.k.a. labo_labs, the other member of the Makers of Sense duo, who holds a PhD in physics and shares his time between research in complex systems and projects as a musician and producer. “The music market then becomes a self-fulfilled prophecy, where the successful artists are those who can invest in giant advertising and promotion budgets”, he concluded.

The Makers of Sense decided to skip the intermediate players, using the power of the Internet to reach directly a larger audience of event organizers. “Thousands of people are putting together shows or parties for the ’08 New Year’s Eve,” Brother El said. “This is a very large potential market for emerging bands.” But in today’s performance market only a few artists receive high compensations while a large number of acts barely cover their expenses. “The differences in show prices are astounding,” Huepe added. “I saw a pair of Celine Dion tickets on eBay at twice the starting bidding price of our entire act!” The Makers of Sense started offering today to the highest bidder a performance of their 12xSS (twelve times superior sound) tour show on December 31st for a New Year’s Eve event anywhere in the U.S.A. The bidding started at 1,000.00 US$ plus shipping and handling (the price of 2 Airplane tickets from Chicago to the show location). The performance is listed under “Electronic-Music Live-PA Show for '08 New Year’s Eve” in the Everything Else – Weird Stuff – Slightly Unusual category.

The Makers of Sense are Brother El and Cristian Huepe. Together, they fuse energies to create radical bodies of music that combine unusually warm electronica, hip hop, house, trance, dub, live instrumentation and urban elements with new styles yet to be coined. Their live-PA show uses laptops and machines to produce an original, interesting, energetic, and dance-friendly performance that has been presented with great success in national and international venues, events, and festivals. The release of the band’s debut album Shallow Enough to Drown is scheduled for June 2008.

The Makers of Sense are Brother El and Cristián Huepe. Together, they fuse energies to create radical bodies of music that combine unusually warm electronica, hip hop, house, trance, dub, live instrumentation and urban elements with new styles yet to be coined.  The Makers of Sense have a unique sound; the group actually creates an alternative reality beyond restrictions of usual positions and momentums of our measurable world.  The music becomes a guide for building and exploring new realms outside the everyday world by providing endless possibilities. 

Individually their careers actually started long before they met.  Both artists share a passion for music and creativity that inspired them to create this new group, Makers of Sense and create a bond that transcends time, musical genres and cultural boundaries.  Cristián Huepe [labo_labs] is a Chilean musician and physicist with vast creative experiences.  A native of Chicago, Brother El is CEO of The Beat Bank, an independent record label and production studio focusing on artistic development and quality productions over quantity and trend.  Brother El creatively blends music with an esoteric intensity.  He is a musician, artist, engineer and producer bound by a necessity and love for his art.

Their lives took them on very different paths, while living in France for five years to complete his Ph.D. in physics; Cristian performed live electronic music and collaborated in diverse, artistic, projects. Previously, he led the pop/punk/jazz band Malavida; they were featured in a compilation album of the best Chilean emerging bands. Crisitan’s additional credits include: the score for a video presented at the Art and Body exhibit in Milan, Italy, production of music for the magazine 9/9-Practical Art Review, and a featured artist in the Pro-Zak exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Paris. In 2000, Cristian recorded his solo album eclectise, an eclectic mix of acoustic and electronic elements, at the Musicopré studios located in a farm on the French countryside.

While Brother El was doing his thing in the Windy City, he founded the "The Hip Hop Project" at Loyola University Chicago's radio station WLUW 88.7 FM. Brother El has cultivated musical collaborations with various artists including Chicago rap group Earatik Statik. In addition, Brother El shared his journey through chaos with the release of the solo album Through the Cracks of Concrete. His album threads the inspirations and voices of African Diaspora, past and present while showcasing his individual technique capturing the sighs and pavement pounds of Chicago's elevated trains.  The project received critical acclaim and was voted, Best Record of the Year by New City Magazine, 2001.

Some of the awards the group has received include:

Voted the Best Experimental act of Chicago 2008 by Chicago Reader & Constituency

Prize winner of the Artist Forum Electronic Music Competition 2007

Awarded a City of Chicago Arts Grant (CAAP - Community Arts Program) for 2 consecutive years 2006 & 2007

Cristián currently lives in Chicago, working part-time researching independently as a National Science Foundation grantee, while performing his live-electronic-music-show and collaborating with various artists and focusing on Makers of Sense.  Brother El stays in the studio, making music and concentrating on world domination. 

For more information on the group contact Zenobia Simmons, zenobia.simmons@tmo.blackberry.net or visit www.makersofsense.com.