Tina Blaine aka BEAN Bean's pursuit of percussion has taken her around the world from Africa to Asia and beyond. Inspired by global traditions and spontaneous music-making, Bean co-founded D'CuCKOO, the cybertribal ensemble that built custom MIDI controller instruments for interactive multimedia performance. She has also performed and recorded with Brian Eno, Mickey Hart, Malonga Casquelourd, Tracy Blackman, Haunted by Waters, Eda Maxym's Imagination Club, Sharon Knight, Pandemonaeon, Bindi Society and was one of the founding members of the RhythMix ensemble. An energetic performer/educator, Bean has conducted workshops at numerous universities and technology conferences across the country. She has also developed a variety of interactive media experiences while teaching at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center from 2000-2006. That work resulted in several museum exhibits including the Jam-O-Drum at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Zeum in San Francisco, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA and Give Kids the World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Bean's work has also appeared at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies in 2000 and 2001. She has been a contributing writer to Electronic Musician Magazine and was a "musical interactivist" at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto for two years. Bean is currently the executive director of Rhythmix Cultural Works and teaches family percussion workshops and "got Rhythm" drum classes.