Merry Maxmas! We’re patching up some seasonal cheer and tidings of extra hot laptops at the Overlap Salon finale for 02009. Come ring the synthesized bells with us at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

When – Tuesday, 15 December, 02009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where – Gray Area Foundation for the Arts @ 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

It is the season for giving, especially of toys! And the elves at Cycling and Ableton have some magical new toys just leaving the workbench. We have three sessions on Max that will instantly turn your sleigh-bells into self-composing, self-aware, music-making devices.

Vlad Spears
3 Things You Can Do With Max For Live

Musician, Max/MSP gangsta and Overlap Salon co-organizer Vlad Spears will present on working with Max For Live, the real-time programming environment from Cycling ‘74 and Ableton. Vlad developed and commercially released the Daevl.Plugs, a popular suite of Pluggo plug-ins he’s currently porting to Max For Live. Most of his workflow is on the move into this new world: a slew of custom Monome and Manta applications and many Max tools for algorithmic and chaotic composition. Vlad’s been waiting to press the edit button for a long, long time.

Adam Murray
A Processing Object for Max

Adam Murray is a musician and programmer who created the fantastic ajm.objects, a collection of Max/MSP externals and abstractions including ajm.ruby, a Ruby programming environment right in Max. Adam’s now finishing work on another bridge object for Cycling ‘74 that will merge two worlds, neither of which will ever be the same again. Processing, meet Max. Max, meet Processing. Adam will give us a sneak peak at the upcoming Processing object for Max, which provides tighter integration between Processing, Max/MSP/Jitter and yes, Max For Live.

Elise Baldwin
Using Max in Performance, Design and Installation

Elise Baldwin’s work revolves around themes of collective memory, as well as intersections between the natural world and the technological. She has performed recently at the New York Electronic Arts Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Edgetone Music Festival, E.S.P. Media Lounge, and the National Queer Arts Festival. She’ll be discussing her use of Max in performance, sound design and installations, focusing on her 4 December work with Kadet Kuhne at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Holding Patterns & Collective Memories.

We’ll have cookies shaped like decorated trees and many varieties of snow-white milk to go with.

Join us for 02009’s final night of modern sound and vision! Sign up on the Facebook event or RSVP to connect@overlap.org

About the Salon:
The Overlap Salon is a regular meetup devoted to sharing code, ideas and projects built with the media toolkit Max/MSP/Jitter from Cycling ‘74 and Ableton’s electronic music performance application, Live. Our salons are a mix of performances, presentations and ad-hoc discussion, dependent upon the ideas and issues brought to the table. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

For further information, or if you would like to join the storied ranks of Salon presenters, please connect@overlap.org

This friday, December 4th, Overlap showcases it’s first collaboration with the SF Cinematheque, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with two awesome audio-visual performers, Elise Baldwin & Kadet Kuhne.

SF Cinematheque and Overlap.org Present :
Holding Patterns & Collective Memories: Elise Baldwin & Kadet Kuhne at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Friday, December 4, 7:30PM
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco

Tickets: members: $6 / non-members: $10
Advanced tickets: 415-978-ARTS

Drawing from each artist’s extensive work in installation and music composition, the live audio/video performances of Elise Baldwin and Kadet Kuhne create unique cinematic experiences through the application of real-time compositional techniques. With an interest in the transmitted electronic signal (via sensors, circuitry and neurons), Kuhne uses the medium to explore themes of communication, control and confinement in her works “Fight or Flight” and “Infinite Delay”. Equally engaged with innovative technology, Elise Baldwin’s works — Theatre of Plants and The Body Farm — consider the relationships between the natural world and the evolution of technology and themes of collective memory and history. Also screening: And the Sun Flowers by Mary Helena Clark and Paradise Falls, New Mexico by Christina Battle. (Steve Polta)

Damascus from the Mount

Originally uploaded by rejon

After taking some time away from big time projects, massive traveling and speaking, I’ve cranked up all things REjon because of my projects with StatusNet, Fabricatorz, and , Creative Commons.

I wanted to take some time to give thanks to all on the great holiday of Thanksgiving. I’m not giving thanks to the history of Thanksgiving, but to the concept of it, in giving thanks to all those I know, love and appreciate.

Thank you to my Overlap family! We have many big projects and plans we will unveil between now and the new year, so stay tuned!

Symbiosis Episode 35 – Simon Whetham

Simon Whetham has been capturing and composing with field recordings since taklng part in a research trip to Iceland in 2005.

Since then he has been gaining a steadily increasing profile: exhibiting in Iceland; recording in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil; performing at various festivals and events, both nationally and internationally; having a large amount of work accepted for release by labels such as Trente Oiseaux, Entr’acte, Lens and Gruenrekorder; commissioned by Creative Labs to build a surround sound installation to demonstrate their equipment and software; and invited to participate in two residencies at the Art Container in Tallinn, Estonia, the second to compose new work, collaborate with other artists using sound and run deep listening, field recording and compostion workshops.

Simon is currently organizing and curating ‘Active Crossover’, a touring exhibition and exchange project which has just run for two weeks at the Arnolfini in Bristol, incorporating a large scale sound installation, performances by Simon, John Grzinich, Iris Garrelfs, Jez riley French, Maksim Shentelev and Douglas Benford and four days of presentations and workshops.

The piece Simon has composed for Symbiosis uses material from a number of projects which was presented at the ‘Future of Sound’ event at the Arnolfini, Bristol, 25th April 2009. He has returned to the material for this composition, feeling it indicates his current working methods, includes unheard recordings, but also incorporates older material, almost being a retrospective. Recordings from extremely differing environments and locations are juxtaposed but create a complementary whole.

www.simonwhetham.co.uk
www.myspace.com/simonwhetham
www.activecrossover.co.uk

 

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I am on the job hunt again. I have joined the ranks of the marginally employed. Apparently I am in a good profession, as there is work available for front-end web design, but the question often remains: Is that enough? Am I doing something I can fully engage in?

Well, we shall see.

In the meantime, let’s look at a place that I ran across recently via a friend, and just again on craigslist jobs.

Green For All

Making official the idea that we’re moving into a new economy, Green For All states in its mission that it is a group about empowerment. Empowering people in the US to contribute as well as participate in a real sense to a green economy. Presently, much of green technology: solar panels, windmills, hybrid cars, are cool.. but not really accessible. Unless you are making enough money to afford solar, are a rancher.. or again are making enough money to afford a hybrid car, your options are pretty limited. The point being that it’s great to push new and useful technologies with cash on-hand, but there are also little things that can be done within the community. Cleaning up, making your environment livable — really engaging with your surroundings and not waiting around for someone to tell you “it’s time”.

Green For All puts together training to help people change policy and hopefully the culture surrounding this type of participation. Like the Freelancer’s Union, helping to inspire and move individuals working for themselves to work together, so too is Green For All helping people to take a stake in their neighborhoods, raise awareness and flatten the landscape of how we can participate in this new and wild world of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Still, no flying cars, but we can make progress.

Actually, it’s all about me

If you’d like to know more about my qualifications, or better, if you would like to hire me, you can find my information here:

http://louisrawlins.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/louisrawlins

Happy Thanksgiving!

As some of you already know, over the last few months i’ve been self-releasing some live recordings, exclusively to my facebook fan page and mailing list for free. The experiment seems to be going pretty well, and I’m feeling a lot of potential for releasing more work like this in the future.

It’s all about having a direct line of distribution and communication with people that are listening. Whether i’m self-releasing a new piece, or working with Overlap.org, or Ghostly or 12k or any other another record label, direct distribution from me to the people who want these sounds and images will always be an efficient and meaningful method of obtaining the material. Regardless of what happens in the future with itunes, emusic, amazon or any other place that carries my work, my mailing list will always have THE connection to my work, and me.

So far i’ve offered “Live on Earth Vol.1 ” for free when we hit 1111 fans on facebook, and the next release, “Live on Earth Vol.2″ , will be sent to my mailing list when we hit 2222 fans. Vol. 2 is going to be a couple different recordings of the same improvised piece called BEAMS. i’m finishing mastering it now, and within 250 more ppl on facebook, i’ll send the gift to my mailing list.

Connect and sign up here : http://bit.ly/cwlist

facebook page page – http://bit.ly/3Nc5pn

Electricwest is Boise, Idaho-based DJ/producer, Pat Benolkin.

Since 2007, he has released albums with Boltfish, EED, and Archaic Horizon, and has contributed to compilations for Envizagae and IVDT. He has also remixed artists such as Christopher Willits, Headphone Science, Cheju, Obfusc, Milieu, and more. Pat also releases music under the alias, Eluder.

A new Electricwest EP will be released on Overlap in early 2010.

www.myspace.com/electricwest
www.last.fm/music/electricwest
http://electricwest.bandcamp.com
www.myspace.com/eludist 

Symbiosis Episode 34 – Electricwest

“I wanted to create a flowing, well-rounded showcase of some of my favorite material while also representing the continued direction the project, musically. It was definitely a challenge to select only a handful of tracks from several years worth of songs and remixes, most of which I love very much. Once I had them compiled, I arranged and mixed them by key rather than tempo. The result is what I had hoped to achieve – a brief but effective aural portrait of Electricwest. I hope you enjoy it…” – Pat Benolkin, November 2009

Electricwest – Crystalline
Electricwest – Flourish
Electricwest – The inability to relate pt. 2
Electricwest vs. NIN – Choke me, I’m not
Electricwest – Ronin
Electricwest – Seven is the number
Electricwest – The crawls
Electricwest – Isolation
Headphone Science – Spirits at night (electricwest remix)
Christopher Willits – Colors shifting (electricwest remx)
Electricwest – At this depth

Get in touch, leave your comments and shout about overlap to the world…

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Next week: Simon Whetham

Drop me a line if you have got an artist you want to see featured or if you want to submit something to Symbiosis.

Have a great week!

Simon

 

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