Chris McNamara with Nospectacle are performing at the Mutek festival in Montreal, Quebec on Sunday, June 6th. The Mutek festival gathers international artists and audiences to celebrate digital creativity and electronic music. Chris and Nospectacle open Sunday off with an audio/visual set that will surely excite the crowd and is not to be missed. Check out Chris McNamara’s “Vague Cities” that was released by Overlap in 2009. Ticket and event info for Mutek can be found at here.

Patricide TV : 365 instrumental tracks by the UK band Patricide, uploaded one a day every day on youtube for 2010, often with videos.

Patricide : all day, every day. We do this. It’s nothin.

http://www.youtube.com/user/patricidetv

NAMM starts tomorrow in LA and it will, as usual, be a rip roaring ride.

Overlap folks should head over to Wham Bam Thank You Namm Afterhours, an event that Overlap.org is sponsoring at the Downtown Independent Theatre this Friday night. The event is also sponsored by Friendly Integration, Electronic Creatives and Droid Behavior.

Check it out..

Downtown Independent Theater
251 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Friday, January 15 2010
8:00pm – 4:00am | $10 – $20 | 21+

Performances by:
John Tejada, Richard Devine, Deru, Laura Escudé, Scott Pagano, CPU, DJ Kero, Acid Circus, Derek Michael, Baseck, Eezir, DJ Modesty, John von, Trifonic, DJ G Ov, Moldover, Henry Strange, Peter Kirn

Visuals by:
CPU, VJ Fader, Jay Smith, Peter Nyboer

:: INCLUDED IN THE NIGHT ::

8:00pm -10:00pm:
Special music technology discussion and panel with Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music

THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY:

Overlap.org
Dubspot
Create Digital Music
Livid Instruments
Propellerhead
Rob Papen

Giveaways from:
Fixed Noise, Livid Instruments, Native Instruments

More details here.

It was a night just like most others, except that this night was ALSO THE DIA DE LOS MAXOS.

This edition of the pseudo-monthly Overlap Salon brought three powerhouses of electronic sound once again to the Gray Area Foundation for a night of vicious edutainment.

First up was Jeff Stott and Mohammed Mohanna presenting their Subtle Body Project. Various guinea-pigs from our packed house donned the Subtle Body cap ‘o possibility to control video clip selection, hue, and composting in real time depending on their mood.

Jeff and Mohammed showed us their patch, which is the best evidence I have found yet of how much Cycling ‘74 cursed us with zoom capabilities in Max 5. The road to hell is paved with un-abstracted code, but at the bottom of this box of programming nightmares exists the hope of creativity catalyzed by postmodern visual metaphor. Viva la patchcords.

Next up was Monome mainstay Edison, who brought the proceedings back to Realidad with triggered samples from his yellow lunchbox-monome. Little did his ex-girlfriend know when she gave him that lunch box years ago that a vibrant torrent of creativity would be unleashed from the relic of their union. Truly our lives are sensitive to initial conditions.

The beat went on for the last set of the night, although the performance of the evening by Bay Area temporal mangler Preshish Moments was best represented by a broken mirror reflecting shards of musical culture into an asymmetrical light show on our soft fleshy consciousnesses. Cliche, hackneyed metaphors aside, Mr. Moments astounded as usual with a description of his integrated hardware/software system for real-time performance. He is one of the few electronic musicians that, were he to die on stage, the music would stop within 10 seconds; we should admire him for it.

We were also impressed with his new electronic technicolor dreamcoat, which triggers bands of LEDs based on musical mappings. It is indeed the 21st century.

More images of the Dia de los Maxos can be found in the full Flickr set.

Stay tuned to Overlap.org for information on the next episode of our Salon series next month. We have a LOT in store… its an exciting time to be a Max programmer.

Over at my blog, I posted up the slides and a quick recap of my travels to Melbourne. Of course, most notable for this blog is the kick-off of the Overlap Salon Melbourne.

A big thanks to Simon Hampson for setting up the event, and always doing what he does, which is symbiosis great! He set the event at the fabulous Loop Bar in downtown Melbourne. After about 10 people showed up, Simon started off by discussing what Overlap is, the evolution of Symbiosis and how he wants to see Overlap Melbourne move with the Salon and eventually doing Listen/Vision events in the future.

Then, I did my presentation thing (you can see my slides here), talked about my background, Fabricatorz, Vision Forum and the Laoban Speaker Workshop. I also updated the Overlap slidedeck, so that others in Overlap can use it to build future presentations.

Josh Batty gave my favorite presentation of the night by showing off his wonderful max patches, and talking in general about his direction as an artist, and how he hopes to grow the scene in Melbourne through the Overlap Salon Melbourne (You can see my photos of him speaking here).

We ended the night after some constructive discussion, a few pints, and then onto eating the most amazing noodle soup I’ve ever had at a nearby venue.

Hats off once more to Simon and Josh for great event. I look forward to seeing how the Overlap Salon Melbourne grows. If you want to start an Overlap Salon in your city, start contributing to Overlap.org, drop us a line, and lets overlap.

Following on the heels of last week’s successful Overlap Salon in Berkeley, come and be a part of the inception of Overlap events in Australia with the first Overlap Salon Melbourne!

Loop, 6-8.30pm
23 Meyers Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000, (03) 9654 0500

Overlap.org is an online platform for experimental media releases and events. Overlap releases experimental music and videos, produces unique events, and provides a free blog to share your media with others.

Make your way down to Loop to hear Overlap’s Simon Hampson and Jon Phillips speak about the Overlap vision of artistic publishing online, linking online and offline communities, and Jon’s Laoban Speaker Workshop, part of the Vision Forum Melbourne set of art shows and interventions.

This is the launch pad for Melbourne’s very own Overlap Salon Melbourne, focusing on MAX/MSP users, with a very special MAX patch presentation by Josh Batty. You can read a recap about the last Overlap Salon in San Francisco.

Come down for drinks from 6pm. The presentation/workshop will run from 6.30-8.30pm.

About the presenters

Simon Hampson produces Symbiosis on Overlap, a weekly podcast featuring a wide mix of sound textures and experimentation. He is an expert in bridging online and offline communities, and providing marketing platforms for niche interests. Simon is based in Melbourne and is the main point of contact for Overlap events in Australia/Asia.

http://www.symbiosis.com.au/
http://www.myspace.com/symbiosisradio/

Jon Phillips is an artist and developer living in San Francisco and Beijing while growing Fabricatorz.com and “new” media projects. His notable involvements include Open Source and Free Culture movements, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, and building community + bizdev for Creative Commons.

http://www.rejon.org/

Jon is in Melbourne to speak and run a workshop at the Vision Forum Melbourne about his project Fabricatorz & his work on the Laoban Soundsystem project with Matt Hope and others:

http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090606_Laoban_Speaker_Workshop
http://fabricatorz.com/laoban

Melbourne artist Josh Batty operates Buffer Music Production, rocks a mean Live set and concocts a sharp Max patch. He also has music technology teaching and presentation skills in plenty and is interested in creating a community for Max/Live users in Melbourne.

http://www.buffermusicproduction.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bufferstroker

For more information

Overlap

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 11 August 2009 – San Francisco

1. OVERLAP.ORG RELEASES RASTER-NOTON LIVE AT LISTEN/VISION
2. SYMBIOSIS PODCAST: EPISODE 20 – Dev79

1 – OVERLAP.ORG RELEASES RASTER-NOTON LIVE AT LISTEN/VISION

We’re very happy to announce a rare live recording from the Overlap event series LISTEN/VISION. Three sound artists from the German record label Raster-Noton – Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender – reach through pop culture and science in a funky, minimal electronic set. The release also features a very unique performance from Signal, a collaboration between all three Raster-Noton artists. This is deep-listening techno for your body.

Raster-Noton Live at LISTEN/VISION: http://ur1.ca/8uhe

Album Image: http://ur1.ca/84l6

Shop: http://ur1.ca/8uhg

2 – SYMBIOSIS PODCAST: EPISODE 20 – Dev79

Dev79 is a street bass DJ / Producer hellbent on controlling your body. Reppin’ Philly and holdin’ it down for the Seclusiasis and Slit Jockey camps, this man is brash, unadulterated, and in ya face with that heat hot fire. And you will love every second of it.

DEV79 Podcas: http://ur1.ca/8uhu

Simon Hampson hosts the Symbiosis podcast featuring weekly artist mixes. Open your ears and listen to the world around you!

Symbiosis Podcast: http://overlap.org/tag/symbiosis

ABOUT OVERLAP.ORG

Overlap.org is an online platform for experimental media releases and events.

Overlap releases experimental music and videos, produces unique events, and provides a free blog to share your media with others. Overlap.org is based in San Francisco and New York City, and our mission is to grow and support experimental culture in our surrounding areas, and throughout the world. 15 exclusive Overlap releases have featured a vast diversity of audio and visual artists experimenting with the overlap of different genres. 13 different Overlap events have brought people and experimentation together in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and London (see below, OVERLAP and LISTEN/VISION series).

Overlap was founded by musican/artist Christopher Willits and came to life with the help of Jon Phillips and Kenric McDowell, Louis Rawlins, Lucky BK, Barry threw, Vlad Spears, Simon Hampson, Ryan Kleeman, and other devoted artists.

For more information, please visit: http://overlap.org

PRESS CONTACT

* Sponsoring Organization: Overlap.org
* Contact: Jon Phillips
* Contact email: info@overlap.org
* Phone (USA): +1 510-499-0894
* Website: http://overlap.org
* Press Kit: http://overlap.org/about

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