Yuri’s Night 2008

This Saturday is the Bay Area Edition of Yuri’s Night, an event in honor the anniversary of the first space flight by Yuri Gregarian. It includes a host of speakers including Will Wright and Stewart Brand, and musical performances from a variety of artists, with my friend Nathan Blaz on the bill at some point in the evening.

My own contribution to the procedings is via Daniela Steinsapir’s TinGirl installation.

Hope to see you there.

Yuri’s Night Bay Area
2pm - 2am, April 12th, 2008
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Recombinant Media Labs Retrospective

I ran across a folder of pictures from several events at the old Brannan Street location of Recombinant Media Labs in the last year. I thought it was worth a bit of a retrospective of this amazing location, and to catalog some of the people that worked so hard on the place. There are many that I don’t have pictures of…

First, a jazz trio in our gallery space. This Steinway is an absolutely amazing piano.

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Max/MSP Raw Filter Pack

I’ve ported a collection of raw filters to Max/MSP from puredata.  These are basic single pole and zero components, for real and complex signals, with their coefficients controllable by audio signals. They allow the construction of more complex filters.

There is an example of a 5-pole butterworth lowpass provided in the pack.

They are currently compiled for OS X only, but the source is provided and should compile fine under Windows.

For the theory about their use, turn

Electrociclando Pictures

Daniela Steinsapir’s Electrociclando exhibit was a great success. The show was well received…these pictures were taken at the opening night.

Adventures in Slitscanning

I’ve been thinking about slitscan effects ever since the Biosphere and Egbert Mittelstädt performance at Recombinant Media Labs last year. Egbert uses slitscan techniques to great affect, and the surround cinema format of RML was a perfect canvas for his work.

The rendering process he uses took quite some time, a majority of the week leading up to the show, and so I wanted to explore the possibilities of

Daniela Steinsapir: Electrociclando

This week Daniela Steinspair’s Electrociclando exhibition opens at the Matthei Gallery in Santiago, Chile. We worked together developing a number of interactive video works that will be in this gallery, combining elements of robotics, social audience interaction, and realtime video and audio processing.

The works deal with media and mass production in our society and our technologically saturated culture. The audience sees themselves in the eyes of robots, triggers installations through social gathering, and views recombinant composites of their mirrored selves and video works.

Mills College Signal Flow Festival

This next weekend is Mills College’s Signal Flow Festival. This is always a refreshing and well produced series of New Music concerts. The compositions are original and experimental, and the performances are always very artful. The whole series is a must see every year.

The four days of concerts include pieces by composers including Kevin Adams, Jen Boyd, Zina von Bozzay, Aili Chu, Alex Chechile, Tomás Diaz, Kristen Erickson, Karl Evangelista, Jordan Glenn, Jason Hoopes,

Marcus Schmickler and Kevin Drumm

Marcus Schmickler (editions mego)
Kevin Drumm (mego)

Thursday, March 6st 2008
Doors at 8:30pm
Location and more info: 650.255.8947
$10 donation

Marcus Schmickler
will present a new version of his latest algorithmic piece ‘Altars of Science’ (Editions Mego), utilizing various applications of granular-synthesis and chaos-functions onto microtonal pitch material. Marcus Schmickler is internationally well known in various contexts of contemproray music. He is closely associated with the a-Musik label and over the last years he has worked in the fields of electronic,

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Sonic Boom and Careen Ajar

Spectrum feat. Sonic Boom
Careen Ajar (Naut Humon, Scott Arford, and Li Alin)

Saturday, March 1st 2008
Doors at 8:30pm
Location and more info: 650.255.8947
$10 donation

SPECTRUM featuring SONIC BOOM

“Sonic Boom” is the alias of Pete Kember, best known as the singer/guitarist in the legendary hypno-drone unit Spacemen 3. In 1990 he issued his lone solo LP, Spectrum; after the 1991 swan song Recurring, Sonic recycled the Spectrum title as the name of his new band, which debuted with

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Love, beautiful indie interactive world

Love is an MMO with beautiful and original graphics. What is more impressive is that the game’s creator, Eskil Steenberg, is building this world entirely on his own. To help overcome the time consuming task of creating an entire world of game art by himself, many of the graphics in the game are procedurally generated.

Conceptually, it is a game based on exploration of an alternate world with friends,