| Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) Presentations
@ Digidesign, Tuesday July 29th, 7pm
2001 Junipero Serra Blvd., Daly City, CA, 94014
RSVP Here: http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/8221557/
Thank you to Digidesign for hosting! Please RSVP by 9am Tuesday
morning so that we can check you in at the downstairs desk.
Our presenters this month will include:
* Tim Thompson - Making simultaneous use of many languages,
applications, and hardware is easier than ever. Tim will present the
internal details of his latest installation, which combines KeyKit,
Plogue Bidule, Salvation, Chipmunk, OpenCV, Cairo, C/C++, Python, OSC,
VST, and Freeframe software technology with Pertelian, Doepfer, and
Fingerworks hardware technology. See http://nosuch.com/tjt/fingerpaintingplanets/
for videos of the installation.
* Takuro Mizuta Lippit - Artistic Director at the renowned Netherlands
Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) will present on STEIM
and also demo some of his own recent works. Here are links to STEIM ( http://www.steim.nl
), one of Takuro's performances ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR2ID8j_mU
), and his personal web site ( http://www.djsniff.com ).
* Rubyist Giles Bowket will present on "Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI
Generator". A talk that he gave on this evolving project at the ruby
conference GoRuCo is posted here: http://goruco2008.confreaks.com/02_bowkett.html
* A lightning talk by you? Give a 5 minute presentation on a computer
music project or technology that you have been working on. Bring your
laptop and the let Noah Thorp know that you want to present.
BIOS:
TIM THOMPSON enjoys the creative process of developing artistic
software for both music and visuals, often involving the use of
unusual controllers. Most widely known as the developer of the KeyKit
programming environment for algorithmic and realtime MIDI
experimentation, he has more recently been inspired by events such as
Burning Man and Woodstockhausen, where his interactive creations
include a 12-foot high lyre and an antique radio. He lives in Silicon
Valley and collaborates with local ensembles dud (dudland.com) and
DOUBLE VISION (double-vision.biz). Tim's home page (nosuch.com)
documents the variety of his activities and allows people to play with
web-based algorithmic music toys.
GILES BOWKETT is a programmer, artist, and modern-day beatnik. He's
used Rails since 2005, spoken about Rails and Seaside at OSCON 2007,
and will soon be published in "Advanced Rails Recipes." Since
discovering Rails in 2005, Giles has built many Rails apps, including
Hulu, which sees more traffic than Twitter. His presentation on
Archaeopteryx at GoRuCo in New York this April was the highest-rated
presentation there. Jeremy McAnnally described his MountainWest
RubyConf presentation as "brain-meltingly awesome." His blog often
shows up on Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News. In his past lives he was a
Perl guru, a Java hacker, a rave promoter, and an art student. He
lives in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and northern New Mexico.
DJ SNIFF (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) believes in the instrumental autonomy
of the turntable and the musicianship of the DJ. He is a turntable
musician working in the field of improvised and experimental music.
His music focuses on the live reconstruction and narratization of the
phonographically amplified - the music, the sound, the technology and
the past. To achieve this, he uses a unique setup consisting of hand-
made hardware interfaces and a custom Max/MSP software along with one
turntable and DJ mixer. He is also a concert/event curator for
electronic music and a researcher of music technology.
While studying Art History and Philosophy in Tokyo, he was active as a
DJ in the underground electronic music scene and formed a collective
called smashTV productions which organized genre-mixing events such as
anti-Gravity and bistro-Smash!. In 2002, he moved to New York to
pursue graduate studies in computer music and physical computing at
NYU's ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program).
Since 2005 he has been involved with STEIM's (Studio for Electro-
Instrumental Music, Amsterdam) R&D lab and is currently its Artistic
Director. dj sniff regularly performs with computer musician Yutaka
Makino as Audile and with saxophonist Keir Neuringer.
Best,
Noah Thorp
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer
http://www.barcmut.org
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