For this second collaborative Salon event in Overlap’s ongoing team-up with the Bay Area Computer Music Technology group, we’re returning to the San Francisco digs of host extraordinaire Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

When - 28 October, 02009, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where - GAFFTA @ 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Admission - FREE, please RSVP to connect@overlap.org

It’s a performance oriented evening for a season of skeletons, ghosts and spooky sounds. We’ve lined up music and technology presentations by three edge-walking artists using modern controllers, Ableton Live and Max/MSP/Jitter from Cycling ‘74.

Jef Stott

Jef Stott is a producer/composer of tribal dub, ambient electronica and Eastern breaks on Six Degrees, Universal, EMI, Hearts of Space and others. With Mohammed Mohanna he’s developed the extensive and mesmerizing Subtle Body project, an interactive biofeedback musical system utilizing Max/MSP/Jitter and Live.

Edison

Edison is a backbone member of the Monome community. Widely recognized with his DIY Monome in a yellow lunchbox, Edison’s musical output combines elements of hip-hop, glitch and breakbeat to create a sound entirely his own. In addition to his Monome, Edison’s toolkit includes his custom Love Box, Nintendo DS, Where’s The Party At? 8-bit sampler kit, Max/MSP and Live.

Preshish Moments

Preshish Moments is a beatwrecker who developed his performance system from the ground up. Using a large, DIY wooden controller driving Shredder, the loop-mangling software he created and continuously refines in Max/MSP, Preshish Moments takes seemingly nice rhythms and turns them into something entirely otherwise. Hang on to your beats.

There will be a variety of milks and a plethora of cookies, as is now tradition at these collaborative events.

Join us for a night of modern sound and vision! Sign up on the Facebook event, BArCMuT’s Meetup page, 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 what kinds of ideas and issues are 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

July 22nd’s Overlap.org Max/MSP/Live/Jitter Salon was a roaring success.  Thanks to everyone who supports and participates in our active community.  We’re all Overlap, and it couldn’t happen without each and every one of us.

The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts proved to be a wonderful place for a meeting of this size.  We had 60+ attendees in their new space: sleek, modern and perfectly suited for a group of people focused on the cutting edge of technology and creation. Gray Area’s mission is “to support and facilitate the creation of challenging and contemporary artwork focusing on new work and new ideas,” which fits hand-in-hand with our own community.

Matt Ridenour (aka VJ Mattbot) started us off with a presentation on his new Max external: [mattbot.euclid].  Matt’s object spits out strings of on/off states for generating rhythmic sequences.  State spacing across a measure is determined by the Euclidean algorithm.  Matt demonstrated on-the-fly, algorithmic creation of oontz using only the [mattbot.euclid] package driving single hits in Ableton Live.  Feet were tapping, brains were rocking and we had a spontaneous moment of Max-enabled dance improv as the audience all wobbled together in their seats.
http://projects.mattbot.net/

Peter Nyboer of Livid Instruments showed off the excellent new Ohm64 controller after giving us a virtual tour of the Livid Instruments compound.  I could easily live in that space!  Peter walked us through various aspects of the software he created for the Ohm64, all in Max/MSP/Jitter, and freely downloadable.  His OhmSound FM synthesis patch created some seriously smooth and musical sonics, built to take full advantage of the deep, real-time control possibilities of the Ohm64’s multitude of buttons, knobs and sliders.
http://lividindustry.com/?p=173
http://www.lividindustry.com/culture/?tag=ohm64sw

Michael Zbyszynski strolled us through the Wonderland known as the CNMAT Max/MSP/Jitter Depot.  This sprawling collection of Max patches is a perfect and growing example of the rabbit-hole we’ve all gone down: additive and resononant synthesis with SDIF, Open Sound Control, computer assisted composition and the all-important morphing.  An extensive question and answer session generated even more sound for thought and wrapped the Salon in the best way possible with everyone ready for more.
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/library/max_msp_jitter_depot

Surprising development of the evening: the lemon-chocolate drizzle cookies were finished off well before the decadent double chocolate chips, and the almond milk beat out the vanilla soy *and* the whole milk for most in demand.

Check out the Overlap Flickr set from the Salon, you’re probably in it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/overlap_org/sets/72157621680928399/

Thanks and big sonic booms to Noah Thorp and BArCMuT (Bay Area Computer Music Technology Meetup group) for joining forces with us on this Salon, to GAFFTA (Gray Area Foundation for the Arts) for providing the incredible space, to Matt Ridenour, Peter Nyboer, Michael Zbyszynski for their terrific presentations and again to everyone attending and involved.

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Meetup group
http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
http://www.gaffta.org/

See you at August’s Overlap.org Max/MSP/Jitter/Live Salon.
Details soon.

Here are pictures from our Cantocore - Export. The space was totally changed from the first Import part of the show, with new group of artists. More photos are on Cantocore Photo Album

Huangpu Village Project Group (Wang Ge, Deer Fang and more), video installation, 2008
黄埔村录像计划小组（王铬和方鹿等） 黄埔村录像计划 录像装置 2008

Kathrine Worel， Domestic Bliss, single channel video and photos, 2008
Kathrine Worel 家庭福佑 单频道录像和照片 2008

David Johnson, Made In China, Installation, 2008
David Johnson 中国制造 装置 2008

Lin Fangsuo, Exploitation, video Installation, 2007
林芳所 剥削 录像装置 2007

Zhou Tao, One Day, single channel video and photos, 2007
周滔 某一天 单频道录像和照片 2007

Originally from Cantocore - Export

I gave presentation last connecting up my artistic/creative trajectory, involvements with Open Source, Open Content, Creative Commons, on into new projects, exemplified through Cantocore (at present). Thanks to all who came out, watched some of the pixellated videos I presented, and laughed at a few of my bad jokes

A big super thanks to Pat and Gwen for having me speak at the well-respected Electromediascope program. Also, please check out Mark Daggett’s work. He presented the week prior and his presentation sounded much more high-level and put together than my open diatribes. He held me accountable on a few topics I’ve become lazy about differentiating like the diffs between Free Software and Open Source, and Open Content.

Here is the slide show:

Opening Remix Networks at Nelson-Atkins Museum for Electromediascope

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: art media)

While in SF and BoCoMo (Boone County, Columbia, Missouri), I have been mulling many ideas and plans over deeply. After I get back to Guangzhou in time for the Cantocore Export Opening (and then onto Beijing), I am going to be doing some internal code review, drop some files on the floor, and churn out more writing. I’ve been spending massive time in the applied arts, and not so much in more theoretical and pure research. Don’t worry, I’m not going to spin out in “prep” mode or anything. It is just a good time to clean house

Oh, and I forgot to give a summary of my talk last night: I build remix communities which make systems for producing objects. Currently, I’m making cultural remixes.

Originally from Opening Remix Networks at Electromediascope

The Cantocore Import Opening went quite well as Lu blogged about on the Cantocore site, primarily in Chinese.

Her photos also unveiled my installation, Artonomics #11: Special Economic Zone, which uses 24, 7 meter pieces of bamboo, constructed into a tower to hold a 1.6 meter by 1 meter LED sign, as often found in Chinese hospitals and government buildings, which displays common economic data that reigns down upon Chinese (and global) citizens about the direction of the new superpower.

Artonomics #11, Special Economic Zone by Jon Phillips

I’m not sure if the installation I made is more interesting than the process of constructing it, as shown below. This involved finding bamboo, trying to get it far across the massive city of Guangzhou (which this fella did by three-wheeled bicycle), hire carpenters to construct it, re-do it to make it stronger, and then put the big LED sign atop the solid structure. Getting the LED screen happened to be the simplest part.

Misako Inaoka, who had a detailed installation with a zen garden, and her hybrid toy creations from Chinese toys (not the poisonous kind!), has also posted her photos up showing off the space and some great highlights of the installation (I’m waiting on the go ahed to post her photos up after she CC licenses them

Above are a couple of my good friends, Hu Xiangqian and Lu Jun, from Guangzhou who are both Lang Zai (pretty boyyyyz).

I’m still pulling together my thoughts from the show right now. I really needed to do something completely different than my gig at Creative Commons, and spending a good solid month on making this show happen successfully really took tons of energy. All the hard work paid off IMO, and I’m hopeful to get some other reviews of the show here shortly to highlight the work.

UPDATE: I just wrote an post on the cantocore.com website about the Cantocore Export opening and updated text on the website. And, Justin just posted a bunch of his photos as well. Here is a sampling:

Originally from Cantocore Opening Recap and Cantocore Export Opening

来自硬核广州 from Cantocore

开幕那天，倾盆大雨，结果还是很多相识和不相识的朋友湿淋淋地赶来了。我们也终于在开展的前一秒钟完成了布展。

几翻讨论，我们最后把黄小鹏的横额挂在了一入门的地方，像一块巨大的幕布，又有点像展览前言。

Jon （方力中）的“经济特区”。

Misako的禅花园，石头能被遥控滚动。

观众参与和Misako一起重组玩具。

我（方鹿）的“新闻重演”装置。

Justin Hoover 当晚的行为表演。

Guy Overfelt 的 “无题 （充气汽车烟雾）”

Originally from 硬核广州－进口

Bamboo scaffolding is a low resolution grid used to produce a higher resolution structure. Living in Guangzhou is inspirational because of the scale of buildings, real imaginations constructed, and accessibility to cheap materials and constant laborers.

The above is a view from outside Lu’s parents house in the midst of a city under construction.

The first version of the Bamboo structure being constructed. It has received a second revision now to make it much much stronger, all from 24 pieces of 7 meter bamboo.

For Cantocore, opening on friday here in Guangzhou from 8-10 PM, I’ve built, with the assistance of Chinese carpenters, a large 7 meter structure of bamboo which might be likened to Big Ben, hence, its a Chinese Big Ben.

I’ll have more notes about my project tomorrow at the unveiling Plus, have some code to write still (at the top of a 7 meter bamboo structure).

Originally from Cantocore Guangzhou Opening Friday