Radio Gig This Evening

One of my favorite performance options is working with Gregory Taylor and Tom Hamer as a three-piece all-improv electro-acoustic group. Everyone spends more time listening than playing, which is always a refreshing way to spend the evening. You'll be able to stream the show live at WORT, or catch an archive after the fact. I'll be rocking the portable cab this evening, and also will be using a modded Korg Poly 800 that I picked up at a yard sale for $50. Should be great, and I hope you'll listen in.

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Files/information for MediaLive workshop

Here are some links for stuff used for the MediaLive workshop today:

The Powerpoint
The Danger Shield sub-patch

If you weren't there, I hope you can follow some of it. But it is a pretty cool workshop! Also, Sparkfun is rocking it right now, so people are going to come out of this with Brains Full Of Stuff.

Link to MediaLive: http://www.bmoca.org/2012/04/medialive-2012/

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Visuals Gig Prep for July 13, 2012

Working today and tomorrow, then I'm off for gig-prep for July 13's performance at the MediaLive festival. I'm doing visuals for Janet Feder and Andrew Pask, and just finished up the performance patch last night. The above is a capture from a basic run-through test.

I was struggling with some transitions, and realized I just had things in the wrong order. As soon as I corrected that, it all seemed to come into focus. Now I have to work on the equipment setup, do some run-throughs, and I should be read for the show.

My visuals for this one will mostly be generative, with only a few of the live-camera-to-gloopy-projection bits that I'm typically known for. Nevertheless, it still pretty much has my signature to it...

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A Complete Scam

 I'm not sure if you've seen these yet, but here is a case where Amazon is playing blind to complete scam artists using them for a commerce site. Check out the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Analog-synthesizer/dp/6132672486 The analog synthesizer community is hot for anything that they can get their hands on, and their friends/family are also interested in giving them gifts about their passion. But read the description: it's just a bunch of Wikipedia articles printed into book form... ... for which they charge $50! The Kindle market is already loaded full of crap-alikes, but now we are getting B.S. like this - a very blatent ripoff. Amazon needs to figure out that this is exactly what people run away from: the sense that their interests are being used as part of a money-grab. I know they think they are immune to this stuff, but Abebooks, B&N and others are just waiting for them to trip over their big feet. [ddg]

My students at work!

Affect from audrey Seiler on Vimeo.



One of the talented students from my Advanced Visual Programming class was kind enough to post a video of her performance that evening - one where Janet Feder and I performance live guitar for her to provide visualizations. I'm on electric (with massive looper action), and Janet is on acoustic.

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