people doing strange things with electricity

the fourth dorkbotnyc meeting was held on march 7th, 2001. we started the meeting off with the brand new dorkbotnyc theme song by christopher bailey. it was a big hit!

presenters were:

• Tom Ritchford gets loopy:
  Live loops of MIDI wind, voices and more result in a very personal sound that has variously been described as "a celestial glee club" and "a beautiful electronic haze".

  http://extremeNY.com
  tom@swirly.com

• Dean Snell: The Grid: Phase one Amoeba
  An exploration of the use of generative techniques to create an emergent work combining Video, Graphics and Music. A simple cellular automata controls both video and music in a 16 celled grid made within the Max environment with Nato controlled video.

  http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~das287
  das287@nyu.edu

• Noah Vawter: How to short-circuit the subliminal matrix:
  Presenting his scrabbled hacking of the Analog Devices DSP Evaluation Kit in a how-to forum, he will teach you how to create torrentially-evolving, unique electronic sounds (on a budget).

  http://gweep.net/~shifty/death
  shifty@gweep.net

• Joshua Goldberg's Talking Popcorn:
  A Max-based morse-code/popcorn interpreter commissioned by the artist Nina Katchadourian.

  Sadly, the machine Joshua was using kept crashing, so we didn't actually get to see his piece working. We're going to try it again at the next dorkbotnyc meeting.

  http://www.goldbergs.com
  josh@goldbergs.com

some images from the meeting are here.

the next dorkbotnyc meeting is on wednesday, april 4th, 2001. see you there!