it may be snowing outside, but it's raining inside. and you know what that means: the next dorkbotnyc meeting will take place at precisely 7pm on wednesday march 7, 2001 at the columbia university computer music center. directions and info at: http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/dorkbotnyc ===== please note that because we will be doing four presentations this month, and time is precious, and it makes money to take money, we will be starting promptly at 7pm. really. you'll know that the meeting has started because the wonderous strains of christopher bailey's freshly lathed "dorkbotnyc theme song" will sweeten the air for two minutes and fifty one seconds before the first presentation begins. so please get there by around 6:45 if you a) want a seat (it's getting really crowed) and/or b) don't want to miss the first presentation. ===== this month's presentations: Tom Ritchford gets loopy: Live loops of MIDI wind, voices and more result in a very personal sound that has variously been described as "a celestial glee club" and "a beautiful electronic haze". Dean Snell - The Grid: Phase one Amoeba An exploration of the use of generative techniques to create an emergent work combining Video, Graphics and Music. A simple cellular automata controls both video and music in a 16 celled grid made within the Max environment with Nato controlled video. Noah Vawter will teach you how to short-circuit the subliminal matrix: Presenting his scrabbled hacking of the Analog Devices DSP Evaluation Kit in a how-to forum, he will teach you how to create torrentially-evolving, unique electronic sounds (on a budget). Joshua Goldberg's Talking Popcorn: Joshua will demonstrate Talking Popcorn, his Max-based morse-code/popcorn interpreter commissioned by the artist Nina Katchadourian. ===== see you there! douglas ........................................................................ ........dorkbotnyc: people doing strange things with electricity........ ................http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/dorkbotnyc................ ........................................................................
