The Electronic Musician's Emergency Adapters idea was started by Liz Mclean Knight, an electronic musician and workaholic  restless busybody who wanted to help other musicians get live gigs, perform live, project a professional attitude, and grow in their professional music careers. She based it upon her own kit that was fashioned out of a re-appropriated silver headphones bag made by Sony, and 3 years of adapters that she had (often painfully) come to realize were essential for an electronic musician who performed in live music venues.

After booking and promoting nights at a local club and seeing many laptop and electronic musicians play--oftentimes completely unprepared in regards to adapters--she decided that the best way to help her fellow musicians become successful live performers was to make sure they had the right audio adapters. She made a few early Emergency Adapter kits, got some feedback, and then went into production for the first version of the Electronic Musician's Emergency Adapters.

Liz would love to see every electronic musician--from the ones just starting out to those that have already been on a world-wide tour--to have the piece of mind and audio-problem solving ability to help them be the best musician they can possibly be, and be able to invent new ways of expression through computers and digital signal processing.

Liz McLean Knight lives and works in Chicago, has a monthly residency with Ramp Chicago, makes jewelry out of technological components, runs an online geek / electronic music lifestyle store, makes her own music, loves to write about boundary pushing electronic music, wants to help other musician's music reach more people, and writes about being an electronic musician.