i’ll be LA for this surprise show, sunday night.
this is a party for Create Digital Music’s 5 year anniversary, and a collaboration with DubSpot.

LOS ANGELES, CA – NOV 08 2009
Christopher Willits – audiovisual performance
+ other performers Kid Beyond and Irwin.
8pm – King King Hollywood – 6555 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA. 90028

workshop info – http://www.dubspot.com/abletontour/losangeles.html
+ other artists giving workshops earlier in the weekend:
Scientist
Kid Beyond
Daedelus
Justin Boreta
Thavius Beck
Barry Cole
+ many more..

i’ll be leading a workshop in Austin sunday Nov, 15th

all info here :
http://christopherwillits.com/events.html

image by basic sounds.

Just back from Thailand and what a trip it was! Well rested and looking forward to sharing some of the great mixes over the coming months. We have sublime beats, field recordings from the farthest areas of the earth, and combinations of sounds you won’t expect. The bar is set high but I know we can keep pushing the envelope!

We have just released Chris McNamara’s wonderful ‘Vague Cities‘ on Overlap’s digital label – check it out. And there is a very special mix by Chris McNamara coming up next week.. subscribe to the podcast feed or via iTunes to get it first.

Thanks to all of the Overlap crew – especially Louis, Jon, Vlad & Chris – for keeping the podcast regular whilst I was away. Now.. back to normal programming.

A very special live set from Australian artist Tim Koch this week.

He tells us:

“The mix is all original stuff, it was a live set from a while back that had accompanying visuals.

Tracklist:


Introduct
Haarlem Posture
Cutcut
Ik Zat Fout
Attery Bop
Zephyr #2

I think the motivation of that live set took its cues more from the associated visuals for the gig that were mostly motion based clips – or more specifically distorted motion of trains, animals, or standard everyday objects moving in a way they shouldn’t. Dynamically some of the music of mine isn’t always directly engaging, but in conjunction with the imagery there was more of a sense of urgency and foreboding perhaps evoking ‘chase scene’ dynamics and tension for the lack of a better term. Almost as if there is an outcome that is certain, and the underlying tone is that of a dark or sinister climax to all that leads before. I think my dissatisfacion with the music scene and business in general at that time was definitely evident in some of the music, but there are also some blissful and euphoric moments amongst the thick tension

At the moment I have the EP ‘Vanitas’ on Ghostly International in the States, which will be followed by a full length and some compilation appearances. Currently I am recording with a humble setup of acoustic guitars, rhodes, abbreviated drum kit and a bass – so essentially a standard band setup but with edits on the laptop, but definitely with a focus on one-pass recording, so the dynamics of the performance are more apparent than digital edits.”

Tim Koch on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tim+Koch

And check out his selections on Cyclic Defrost earlier this year.

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

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Next week: Chris McNamara
Drop me a line if you have got an artist you want to see featured or if you want to submit something to Symbiosis.

Peace,

Simon

 

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Overlap.org Max/MSP/Jitter/Live Salon, 7-9 July 22nd. RSVP to info@overlap.org for the address of our July meeting location in Downtown San Francisco.

It’s getting time again for our monthly Salon devoted to sharing code, ideas and projects built with Cycling ‘74s New Media Toolkit Max/MSP, and Ableton’s electronic music performance application, Live. This one promises to be the biggest one yet, and we are incredibly excited to be joined this month by the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Meetup Group.

This month we will have the following presentations:

- UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) has had a twenty-year involvement with Max. Currently, CNMAT manages a distribution of dozens of objects and hundreds of patches covering controllers, additive and resonant synthesis, analysis, (electronic) music pedagogy, and open sound control. Michael Zbyszynski will present a brief overview of what is available, where to get it, and how it is being used both on stage and in the classroom.
- Peter Nyboer will be showing the new Livid Ohm64 controller. Peter says, “I’ll talk about how to control the LEDs, show off the editor, and show some max patches that I’ve been developing that will provide good fodder for discussion on how to make instruments for this beast!”
- Matt Ridenour (VJ Mattbot) will present and perform with his Euclidian sequence generator Max external. There will be a web link provided to the Mac OS X beta version of the Max external, example Max patches and a Ruby class implementation for non- Mac/Max users.

BIO:

MATT RIDENOUR (a.k.a. VJ Mattbot) escaped the linear world of single channel film/video after discovering interactive multimedia in the Spring of 1995. His work occupies the liminal spaces between random and generative chance, impromptu decisions, preprogrammed structures, emergent behaviors, meaning and noise. His work has been presented in installation, live performance, theater, architecture, recorded media and network based formats. He has been coding audio, video, and installation pieces using Max/MSP since 2001. Matt Ridenour received his BFA in Filmmaking from the University of Oklahoma in 2000.

PETER NYBOER has been making software as a partner of Livid Instruments for about 5 years. Livid Instruments has a variety of open-source and commercial applications for audio and video artists. They have been making low-volume, high quality MIDI controllers and look to carve out a unique niche in the controller market with the Ohm64.

MICHAEL FERRIELL ZBYSZYŃSKI is a composer, sound artist, performer, and teacher in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music, is Assistant Director of Music Composition and Pedagogy at UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, and teaches Electronic Muic at San Francisco State University. Playing flute, saxophones, clarinet, Yamaha WX-5, live electronics, or things made from coffee cans and PVC, he has appeared with Respectable Citizen, Roscoe Mitchell, Myra Melford, Frank Gratkowski, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Capacitor Performance Group, Frances-Marie Uitti, at the Other Minds Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Getty Center, and the Montréal Jazz Festival, and has been a resident fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of California, Berkeley, studied at the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland, on a Fulbright Grant, contributes to Make Magazine, and can be heard on the ARTSHIP recording label.

In addition we will have some other surprises in store as the Salon crew always has interesting projects to demonstrate. We will be also be starting to develop group project drawing on all the talents pooled in the Salon, so don’t miss this meeting so that you can get in on the ground stages of idea development. We are also the official Ableton Live users group for the Bay, so expect to see some Live action…maybe even some control from the Ohm 64.

Also, bring the things you are working on. The purpose of this event is not only to network and learn from some of the best Max programmers around, but also to share ideas…because everyone has a new perspective on programming or music creation to teach.

Last but not least: While you have to RSVP for our meeting location, you’ll have to trust me that it is a new exciting location that will be of interest to anyone that is fond of media art or live audio visual performance.

Some refreshments will be provided, but bring your laptop, code, questions, curiosity and thinking caps. We all look forwarding to seeing you.

About Overlap.org:

Overlap is an online platform for experimental media, releases, and events. Through innovative special events and exclusive online releases, Overlap shares new independent music, video and experimental art via its website Overlap.org, and provides anyone with a blog to share their media with the world.

CHRISTOPHER WILLITS EUROPE DATES

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – JUNE 5th
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set
@ iMal.org – 30 Quai des Charbonnages/Koolmijnenkaai 30 1080
http://imal.org/index.php?sub=venue_EN

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – JUNE 11th
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set
@ Fluc – Neubaugasse 52/37 A-1070 Vienna, Austria
http://www.fluc.at/contacte/contact.htm

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – JUNE 12
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set
+ TSB
@ Palac Akropolis
http://www.palacakropolis.cz/program/2009-06-12

DRESDEN, GERMANY – JUNE 14
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set – 9pm
@ Thalia – Görlitzer Strasse 6, 01099 Dresden
http://www.thalia-dresden.de/kontakt.html

BERLIN, GERMANY – JUNE 19
Ableton Presents :
Christopher Willits – audiovisual performance + Max/MSP/Jitter/Ableton Live Workshop
Workshop at 7pm, Performance at 9pm – 10 Euros
@ eNKa – Elsenstr.52/ 2HH, 2 Etage 12059 Berlin
http://www.myspace.com/enka52

http://www.christopherwillits.com
http://itunes.com/christopherwillits
http://myspace.com/christopherwillits
http://twitter.com/willits
http://www.overlap.org

santa fe was beautiful and i’m really excited for these events in boulder. !

BOULDER, CO – APRIL 18th 2009
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set – 7:00PM
@ The Old Main Chapel -1600 Pleasant St. Boulder, Co 80302
Communikey Festival 1.0

+ i’ll be leading a workshop / talking about a new writing that first i presented in LA two weeks ago. it’s called “Designing Process” and the focus is centered on structure generating patterns within real-time digital signal processing.
4/18/09 – 11AM – 1909 Broadway, Boulder, Co.

Last night saw the most recent incarnation of our Max/MSP/Jitter/Live Salon for Overlap. While we’re still allowing the event to mutate, Barry did an excellent job fielding basic and advanced requests from the crowd (including calculating ticks per second — remember: use [rtin] and [sync~] to get MIDI tempo from Live to Max). It was a good time, and nice to see new faces. Thanks to all who attended.

Among demonstrations, it deserves mentioning that Cycling ‘74 will be putting on a rather large demo for all things related to their software at Expo ‘74 from 22 April – 24 April 2009. You will hear a great deal more about as this date nears. Sooner, however, are the events at swissnex, in the San Francisco Financial District. Of particular interest to me is an event on media facades, covering advances in LED technology, projection surfaces, and the integration of media with our everyday world.

Finally, a topic unrelated aside from involving the Swiss, Giovanni Arrighi has an interview in the latest issue of New Left Review. He helped develop world-systems analysis which has given a broad overview on the nature of our lives in a global capitalist society and how these political and economic theories fit in with very old theories on the cycles of the universe. Though this kind of abstraction may not provide much comfort in times of financial instability, it’s nice to know people still have their sights on the larger picture of what we do today, and how it will be important long after we are gone.

I will see you around.