Overlap + swissnex + You collab at QB1 Robot premiere – April 24th, 2009

Overlap is pleased to announce a new collaboration with swissnex San Francisco and YOU.

On April 24th swissnex is unveiling the QB1, a robot that alters the fundamentals of human-machine interaction. To celebrate the occasion, and kick-off a new relationship with swissnex, I will be dj’ing two short sets, and the Overlap.org max/msp freaks (= me, louis, barry) will be unveiling our own generative system of music. The goal is to fill the event space with beautiful ambient sounds via systems of constrained indeterminacy. This system will process and morph and resynthesize MIDI files that are submitted to Overlap.org by YOU (yay!).

If you’d like to submit, here are the guidelines for Overlap Music Bot submissions:

1. All MIDI files must be in the key of Amaj, D#maj, or F#minor.
2. Submission must be made through overlap.org. > sign-in and make a post with a link to your MIDI file(s). If you are not currently registered on overlap.org you can do so here ! – http://overlap.org/wp-register.php
3. No limit to the # of files you wish to submit.
4. Credits to all artists involved will be announced at the event and follow-up posts about the QB1 event (more below).

swissnex premiers QB1: Staring At You

[Gestural interaction with QB1.]

Program:

Location:

http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/activities/events/QB1_robot