Seattle Music and Technology Geeks....
Once a month Dorkbot - Seattle presents "people doing strange things with
electricity". This month Dorkbot is focusing on laptop performance
(Ableton's Live) and live video (Cycling 74's Jitter). Dorkbot is also
sponsorship the Decibel Festival: First Annual NW Electronic Music and Arts
Festival - Seattle (www.dbfestival.com) which will be discussed at the
Dorkbot presentation this Weds.
Read on:
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At 7.30 PM on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3RD at CoCA's ALL NEW LOCATION
(
http://www.cocaseattle.org <
http://www.cocaseattle.org/> ) at 410 DEXTER
AVE N,
DORKBOTSEA gets a spring-is-coming groove on with three of Seattle's most
innovative LIVE AUDIO + VISUAL ARTISTS. This month's meeting is all about
DJs,
VJs and the cutting-edge technologies they build and deploy to bring the
most
exciting music and visual effects to our night-time city. They'll show you
how
to use these techniques in your own audio+visual work, and then they'll do
some
virtuoso showing-off themselves with an all-star set. We'll also be hearing
about DECIBEL, the first ever Northwest Electronic Music Festival,
brainchild of
Sean Horton (aka Nordic Soul - remember him dj-ing the original dorkbotsea
meeting?), and happening here in Seattle this fall. As always, ADMISSION IS
FREE, though a donation to CoCA is strongly encouraged. We'll have a keg
and
cocktails, so don't forget to RSVP so we can make sure we buy enough
tequila.
We're looking forward to seeing you!
Presenters and performance:
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* RANDY JONES: LIVE AUDIO+VISUAL SHOWS - CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGY... Local
musician, programmer and co-founder of Orac Records, Randy Jones, will
discuss
the ideas and technology behind the live audio+visual shows he has been
doing
since 2000. To make these shows possible, he created some new objects for
the
Max/MSP programming environment which later became part of Jitter, Cycling
74's
video and matrix processing toolkit. Randy will show us what Jitter is
about
and talk about other works it has enabled, as well as works predating it
which
'got him into this whole thing in the first place'. (
http://2uptech.com/)
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* KRIS MOON: TURN YOUR LAPTOP INTO A BATTLE MACHINE!... Seattle-based
Kris
Moon has been djing since 1993 (he currently shares the spotlight with a
mechanical bull at a secret downtown location), and will be leveraging his
long
experience in the field to teach you how to ready your own machine for a
live
performance using Ableton Live, focusing on adjusting loops with envelopes,
assigning keyboard hotkeys and using only the laptop with no controllers. A
degree of familiarity with the basic operation of Ableton Live
(
http://www.ableton.com <
http://www.ableton.com/> ) would be helpful, but is
not
essential for this presentation.
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* BRIAN THOMAS: RETHINKING THE LIVE MUSIC EXPERIENCE... Despite being an
avid
electronic music fan, local synthesizer addict Brian Thomas found the live
performances associated with Electronica somewhat lackluster. His response:
to
create a new way to perform electronic music. The culmination of this
effort is
a new form of live experience that incorporates all the elements of a modern
music performance: audio, video and lighting. Performance itself has been
added
back into the experience, since Brian will not be stuck behind a turntable
or a
laptop. With the intricacy and fullness of the whole experience, you may
just
forget that he is performing with all these elements- LIVE!
(
http://www.7Laws.com)
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* Q: WHAT IS DECIBEL?
* A: Decibel is a four-day, multiple venue festival designed to expose the
Northwest to both the international and regional electronic music scenes.
Running from 9/23/04 - 9/26/04 inclusive, Decibel aims to educate as well as
entertain through workshops, seminars, open discussion, comfortable venues,
excellent sound, exciting performances, interesting visuals and a diverse
selection of quality electronic music. The festival will focus on no
predominant electronic music genre, but instead will emphasize the
similarities
that unite all forms of electronic music (synthesis, technology, dance,
urban
post-industrial culture, digital art), and will feature the work of talented
local producers, label owners, DJs and performers alongside the artists that
have influenced them from further afield. (
http://www.decibelfestival.com/).
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* PERFORMANCE: ALL-STAR SET featuring Randy Jones and Brian Thomas.
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In summary:
WHAT: dorkbot 08: DJs AND VJs DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH
ELECTRICITY
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, 3RD MARCH at 7.30 PM
WHERE: CoCA (
http://www.cocaseattle.org <
http://www.cocaseattle.org/>
for directions) - NOTE NEW LOCATION
BRING: Work in progress, anything you'd like to share or discuss
DRESS: Dancing shoes!
RSVP: PLEASE RSVP to dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org. It helps us plan
seating, drinks etc..
ADMISSION: FREE, donations to CoCA encouraged
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