Noah_Thorp

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) Presentations

2001 Junipero Serra Blvd., Daly City, CA, 94014

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.

* 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/

* 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

* 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.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR2ID8j_mU

* A lightning talk by you? Give a 5 minute presentation on a computer music project or media technology that you have been working on. Bring your laptop and the let Noah Thorp know that you want to present.

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.

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer

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/

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.

* 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

* 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 ).

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.

Best,
Noah Thorp
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer
http://www.barcmut.org


BArCMuT @ Digidesign Tuesday July 19th