To the unfamiliar, "crowdsourced" means that the content that is the most popular "rises to the top" via votes--as in, the crowd chooses what's the most relevant. Threadless is a good example: only the designs that are voted hottest actually make it to production.
Electronic music fans and supporters were asked to vote on a number of submissions from Chicago artists to determine the lineup for a night of entertainment at the Empty Bottle. Approximately 600 online-votes later, the results were in, and the top four acts were picked, and will perform in order of the number of votes received.
Friday, April 22, 8 PM TRANSISTOR 5045 N. Clark St., Chicago $5 suggested donationBYOB
TRANSISTOR presents experimental circuit bent performers Tim Kaiser and Roth Mobot. According to Art Tape, "Tim Kaiser not only creates compelling musical soundscapes, but he does it all with instruments he has built -- truly hand-made music for the atmospheric aficionado." Says Kaiser, “My music is atmospheric; I’m not as concerned with melody or rhythm as I am with texture and feeling… …perhaps I’m creating a kind of folk music from the future.” (Source: Theatre Intangible interview with Tim Kaiser). More of Tim's work at www.TimKaiser.org.
Roth Mobot's Patrick McCarthy and Tommy Stephenson have been transforming music composition from an activity of composition and "correct duplication" to exploration and "sonic discovery" with their strategically improvised "recursive jazz" performed on home made experimental and circuit bent devices since 2005. More at www.RothMobot.com.
Recently Roth Mobot was invited by Northwestern University to give one of their lecture/demonstrations of experimental musical instrument construction to a the local Science Club chapter of the Boys and Girls Club of America.
Patrick explained the principles of constructive failure, acoustic exploration, and rudimentary experimental electronics hacking to a group of approximately twenty students and their teachers.
The students have been studying how science is used in the creation and control of music and have been constructing their own instruments for the past few weeks. Their session will end in a week with a talent show of their instruments. They invited Patrick to be one of the "judges" at the show.
The College of DuPage's student newspaper, the Courier, recently published an interview with Tommy and Patrick in their Arts section.
It's a nice write up, focusing on our approach to music, our re-purposing of discarded technology, and our academic focus on community building & academics.
If you have a moment give it a read and tell us what you think (you can leave comments on www.RothMobot.com).
For almost two years now various hackers, circuit benders, engineers, inventors, sculptors, and musicians have been meeting every Saturday at the weekly eSymposium, a lateral teaching/learning fab lab that focuses on experimental electronics and other DIY approaches to the "acquired technology arts."
Starting this Saturday, we will focus the first eSymposium of each month on a particular guest speaker to give an informal lecture about some technique, discovery, or passion that they have been pursuing.
This Saturday, our first speaker will be Tomer Gal (of Welcome Tomerica). He will be speaking about, and showing concrete examples of, using control voltage to synchronize various devices, different sources of control voltage, and using home made midi-to-control voltage conversion hardware to control multiple hacked and bent devices.
An excellent example of Tomer's technique in action can be heard in the audio archive of his stellar performance from this year's MEECAS.
We are currently booking lectures for this series. If you would like to be a guest speaker at the eSymposium please send a message via our Contact page.
TOYDEATH, the cartoonish Australian-based band, bring their unique stage show to the U.S. for the first time. They exclusively use a collection of modified toys to create their music and perform fully decked in far-out costumes.
LORD OF THE YUM YUM,
(aka Paul Velat) provides more smiles per gallon of free water than any other comedic, experimental performer who scat/throat-sings classical and popular melodies, in the greater Midwestern area. We are very lucky to have The Lord as our Host and our Master of Ceremonies for the evening!
CMKT4, from DeKalb, IL, use guitar, bass, drums, synthesizers and circuit-bent toys to create textured anthems and crunchy, bluesy numbers bleeding into electronic, semi-improvised Kraut rock.
ROTH MOBOT use a unique strategically improvised “recursive jazz” to control common discarded electronics and the misplaced humorous language of toys, to create symphonic soundscapes.
How to Build a Simple Contact Microphone Workshop
Sunday February 20th, 2011, 1:00- 2:50 PM
Contact mics are inexpensive, easy to build, and can be a source of new sounds for recording, art installations or live performances. Intermediate Circuit Bending WorkshopNEW!
Sunday, March 6th, 2011, 1:00 - 4:50 PM
This class will focus on the next level of electronics hacking. How to read and write electronics schematics, how to assemble and use home made oscillators to get more out of your devices.
Build Your Own Portable Amplifier Workshop
Sunday, March 13th, 2011, 1:00 - 4:50 PM
This workshop will guide you step by step through the process of building your own standard, battery-powered, portable amplifier.
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