baltitronic

yeah, i know i'm spamming...but a friend of mine that i met at the midatlantic laptop battle just got a monthly show in baltimore (that of which i'm trying to help him with) and i was seeing if any of you guys could make it out. also looking for people to play. he just started inviting people today but i'm already on the bill for the first night. information on this is at www.baltitronic.net if you want to play one of these nights, i'm sure he'd be cool with that being that the ones that can make it to the shows would be "local" anyway (as far as being from delaware etc...shit, he has contacts in wilmington so it's no big deal). i'm checking the place out in a couple weeks but from what i see on the website, it looks fucking awesome. anyway, just bringing that to the east coast attention. that is all.

9 weeks site up

for those who may have not taken a peek at the comments from the last post, the 9weeks site is up and ready for those who'd like to sign up for the project. info on the site.

9 Weeks--Process Metaphor

I read this post today, and it reminded me of similar processes of creative thinking. I've had writing professors who would hand out an object at the beginning of the semester and all of the papers to be written during the course would be about that object alone, nothing else. What's interesting is how this process tends to sharpen our abilities to define, analyze, and reform our ways of thinking and producing new objects for discussion. For instance, write a 3-5 page paper about a white, un-lined, single sheet of 8x11 paper.

So while it seems many of us are doing various projects on our own, developing new ideas--let's all step into the dojo together on something. If people are up for this project, let me know and I'll add a subsite to my webpage and set up accounts. Proposed rule: each of us picks one sound or sonic idea, and for the next 9 weeks (approx 3 months) we will output one minute (minimum) of audio and upload it to the site for peer review. Let's see how this exercise affects our every day practice of sound production, ways we think about constucting a piece: what are its referents; what can be taken from how we use sound to produce affects; what are the questions, paradoxes, tensions, and contradictions we are trying to resolve--how effective are they, how can we make them moreso?

monome

this has been floating around for a little while, but i thought others might be interested. there are other videos up on monome. i believe they're doing a run of 200 of these goodies for somewhere around $500 a piece. don't know that i could afford one, but it's pretty darn nifty if you asked me.

VS

Video of Venetian Snares track playback in Renoise Tracker

audio relay in lafeyette

Please join us at 527 Main Street in Lafayette, Indiana on Saturday, March 25 from 9 pm to midnight for Lafayette's inaugural broadcast via the autonomous radio station Audio Relay, which was designed and built by Chicago's Brennan McGaffey for Temporary Services.

This event is open to the public, which is encouraged to bring:

Any sounds you have made and would like to broadcast
An FM radio – to receive and amplify the local area broadcast
CDs – if you would like to trade sounds with others at the CD burning stations

On FM 88.9, the Audio Relay will send the sounds of local artists over the airwaves and into a small area of Lafayette.

The following days will feature non-commercial sounds by artists from Europe, North America and South America, broadcast intermittently from different parts of Greater Lafayette, always between 9 pm and 12 am. This is an attempt to widen the scope of Lafayette's local radio, which is currently limited to classic rock, top ten pop charts, top ten classical music and plenty of religion.

Broadcasts and information on this project can be found at link starting Monday, March 27.

Artists include: 0100101110101101.org, Dave Allen, anonymous, ArtLab Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards, AZ, Luca Bertini, Candice Breitz, Hans Brändli, Andrew Bucksbarg, Charizma, Tony Cokes, Shawn Decker, Paul Dickinson, Dr. Muu, Barnaby Drabble, William Engelen, Alex Fahl, Jason Freeman, Kirsten Geisler, Jårg Geismar, Dani Gal, Eugenia Gortchakova and Wolfgang Wortmann, Gudrun Gut und monika enterprise, Hammermusik, Norbert Herber, Tim Jaeger, Mikael Jorgensen, Markus Kaiser, Kammerflimmer Kollektif, Keyboard + Nobara, Korpys/Löffler, Andreas Korte, Mischa Kuball, Stephen Lacy, Achim Lengerer, David McKenzie, Christian Marclay, Christoph Micklisch, Otto, Lisl Ponger, RAKEHILL, Honke Rambow, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Brandon Schakola, Rüdiger Schlömer, Jochen Schmidt, Hartwig Schwarz, Tim Sharp, spurse, Toliver, Sven Vieweg, Dennis Vriend, Detlef Weinrich, Scott Wolniak, Volker Zander, Georg Zeitblom, Philip von Zweck … more to come

Curated by Rosanne Altstatt with the local support of Esteban Garcia. Thanks to CAI. THANKS TO THE ARTISTS.

Doughnut Burger

"The burger... consists of a thick and juicy burger topped with sharp cheddar cheese and two slices of bacon. The burger is then placed in between each side of a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut."