Tuesday April 11th, 2006 Drake Underground 1150 Queen St. W. Toronto 9:30pm-2:30am $5-$10 PWYC
Full Spectrum Dominance DeafCon 3 Code Xanthophyll presents: INTELLIGENT DESIGN MOVEMENT An evening of generative music, animation & poetry hosted by Eric Shinn Featuring: - NAW & NOKAMI - MANTISSA & FRIEND OF PHI W/ EXISTENTIAL IDIOTS FEAT. & C.O.I. - GLOSSOLALIA CREW VS. MINDBENDER - THE PLANKTONAL BIOMASSIVE feat. Nintendo DS Electroplankton array - LEN GOINS & DAFYDD HUGHES W/ BEN BOGART How can complex beauty emerge from simple conditions? What forces guide unfolding creations, and how can their evolution be directed or controlled? Join us for a pilgrimage into the soul of human-computer collaboration as artists working with customized generative software systems perform music, animation and poetry made in part to make itself, but not without human help! The evening will begin with ambient soundscapes, progress through video game electro bleeps and glitchy hip hoppery, and end off with visceral danceable techno come for a part of the night or enjoy the full spectrum of the evening s entertainment (approximate set times and artist info below) 1:00am-2:30am DJ HYPERCOLOUR presents DJ CHRIST SHEPHERD ON EZEKIEL'S WHEELS OF STEEL - After a bizarre experience involving flying saucers and DanceMix'92, for this special event Eric Shinn's DJ alter-ego Hypercolour has been called upon to be reincarnated as "DJ Christ Shepherd on Ezekiel's Wheels of Steel". Behold the gospel according to mash-ups of diva house, supernatural country-western ballads, early-90s breakbeat techno, sacred chorales, praise-hop, and amens. 12:00am-1:00am NAW & NOKAMI noise factory/arts electronica www.nokami.com naw.phoniq.net - Here we have the pleasure of experiencing a rich audio-visual collaboration between two highly-accomplished performers and innovators with digital media. NAW is Montreal ex-pat and current Torontonian Neil Wiernik, renowned techno producer and composer of danceable and experimental music since 1988, with releases through such notable labels as Noise Factory, Pertin_nce, Clevermusic, Piehead and A/S Systems. An avid designer of custom software environments, NAW has been working at customizing the open-source Pure Data software to enable live creation of refined techno compositions with subtle randomness, in an inspired reaction to the convention of generative music that is often herky-jerky and over-chaotic. Possibly the most well-organized chaotic dance music! - Nokami is Montrealer Eric Filion, renowned for striking visual contributions to such international arts events as Optronica, Arts Electronica, SHARE, CeC, SAT, Champs Libre... Having recently moved to Toronto, he has been building a collection of footage filmed throughout the city, with each scene serving as malleable material to edit live with real-time musical interaction in his Descension project. With heavy processing in software ranging from Premiere and After Effects to Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Resolume, Visual Jockey and FreeFrame, the resulting visual interactions are striking and complex. These are enticing animations of urban deconstruction, with physical landmarks and virtual architectures all moving in synchronicity to the throbbing pulse of Naw's relentless rhythms. 11:00pm-12:00am MANTISSA & FRIEND OF PHI W/ EXISTENTIAL IDIOTS FEAT. & C.O.I. www.brokenbeat.ca/robb www.mantissa.ca - Friend of Phi is Toronto native Robb Gray, who is coming back home from a programming sojourn in Vancouver to showcase for us his unique blend of what he calls "aleatronica" - a fuzzy dice-pimpin' ride over rolling rhythms and melodies of the broken beat, drum and bass and glitch-hop varieties... He'll be playing with a modular algorithmic music composer, using number sequences like Morse-Thue, earthworm and 3n+1, and fractal generators like gingerbread man, chip, henon and kamtorus. Just nod your head! - Mantissa is a project of Toronto-based media artist Jeremy Rotsztain, who develops live cinema techniques using synchronized audio-visual performance. Achieving painterly animation effects with colour fields and pixels evolving according to generative patches and random algorithms, on this special occasion Mantissa's vibrant visuals will also feed off of Friend of Phi's musical output to achieve sensory synchronicity amidst the collaboration's unified unpredictability. - Existential Idiots is the name taken by dynamic duo Lucas Goldstein and Joel Blain, whose goal on this evening will be to create a musical chaos into which Friend of Phi's sonic machinations will devolve. They are threatening to play with a hacked Speak-and-Spell, circuit-bent electronic sound spasms, flute flouting, stochastic turntablism and Darwinian DJ best-fit selecta-ism - we should be very scared indeed! 10:30pm-11:00pm GLOSSOLALIA CREW VS. MINDBENDER bjjm.tnir.org www.myspace.com/mindbendersupreme - Inspired by Deep Blue's steep learning curve and stubborn challenging of chess master Kasparov, but without the corporate backing of IBM, Toronto's Glossolalia crew brings a DIY approach to the borg-like task of assimilating hip hop lyrical flows and breakbeats. Armed with Bronwyn Miller's Pure Data breakbeat engine and Festival speech synthesis rap patches, DJ Kids & Explosions' Ableton arrangements and Finlay Braithwaite's production wizardry, the crew will engage local emcee extraordinaire Mindbender in a prototype computer-vs-human rap battle. Here we have a David-vs-Goliath scenario where for once humanity is on the Goliath side of the equation - so will you root for the experienced human with proven skills on the mic, or the underdog rapping software that spits twisted flows because it doesn't understand the meaning of its words!? 10:00-10:30 THE PLANKTONAL BIOMASSIVE feat. Nintendo DS Electroplankton array electroplankton.nintendods.com - Electroplankton is Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai's wonderfully bizarre new title for the Nintendo DS handheld gaming system. By providing 10 unique virtual sea-life environments in which plankton growth can be directed to achieve different sonic effects, Electroplankton blurs the line between game, simulation and instrument. With the gracious support of Nintendo Canada, for this special event up to five DS Electroplankton systems will be played simultaneously for an immersive sea soundscape created live by Laura Barrett, Eric Shinn and Daniel Borins. 9:30-10:00 LEN GOINS & DAFYDD HUGHES W/ BEN BOGART www.sideshowmedia.ca www.mortmain.com www.ekran.org/ben - Dafydd Hughes retains a deep love and respect for musical traditions, having studied jazz piano at Mohawk College and the University of Toronto where he achieved a degree in performance with a minor in composition. He especially loves the tradition of forward-thinking experimentation, as his music currently fuses acoustic and electronic elements using programming environments such as Csound and Pure Data to synthesize the seemingly disparate genres of church music, jazz improv, rock and electroacoustics. - With a hand in various incarnations of industrial ambience, sonic deconstruction and technical tinkering, Len Goins aka "mortmain( )" says that he seeks epiphanies in exponential contexts and forces cathartic redesign of legacy systems, that this procedure is transhuman, always audible and machine-seeking, and often spontaneous and/or automatic and generally apathetic to its environment. - Ben Bogart's new media projects span from responsive architecture to software development, audio-visual programming to performance, anywhere from local workshops to international conferences. To accompany Len Goins and Dafydd Hughes' music, Ben will present his Self-Similar visual performance piece. This is centered on the fractal theme of self similarity, generating images though an openGL feedback process so that the part resembles the whole. This is performed live in response to the audience and the music.
IDM - Intelligent Design Music :: Algorhythms :: Generative :: Improvisational :: Pseudo-Random :: Controlled Evolution :: Cellular Divisionary :: Glitch-hop :: Technorganica :: Aleatronics lysergic jump bust metropolis link hellish rail asparagus edutainment meat corpuscular crash ink warm rap beluga individual materialize jaunty superhighway stank javascript know whale irony tense tokyo secretion brain sulk calypso egg salt pharmacologist fuss high aleatory incarceration encephallogram rayon lion dude heaven tangible smog cat bossa-nova go boyish tesseract whale girl neon fragment stream god paleontologist screen alteration aleatory pedicure coronated torpedo locust chlorinated her rats sari lap tongue mouth rust doughnut eggplant guns cow nose soundcard crash autistic snipped amazing mash overwhelming hedonism kiss unravel pink theremin pharmacopia quadrophonic hype clone weasel metamorphic effigy skull pen sexuality salvation ziggurat need has fjords designer axis ray summer alphabet pheromone gale sexuality why wail there candid unusual thug borg you draconian swoop geodesic saint hedonism discipline labyrinth service nocturnal link drug salvation magnet boyish cheese of acrylic glossolalia snipped snip goosebumps javascript think recessive ass typography state toilet xenophobia gravitation borscht dominatrix then autoerotic gene slip subject need fuchsia hypnopoedia marijuana rust puppy anaphylaxis synaesthesia turntable machine hype needs plank neighbourhood die twin maybe cowboy usual contagious spire twisted rap music