[dorkbotatl-announce] thurs @ 7 pm: dorkbot art and technology forum (reminder)

[Jason Freeman]

[please forward]

The Atlanta chapter of Dorkbot, the international forum on art and  
technology dedicated to “people doing strange things with  
electricity,” will have its final meeting of the year this Thursday,  
May 3rd, at 7 pm in the Couch Building (room 207) at Georgia Tech.

Full details and directions are available at:

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/

The meeting will feature a hands-on demonstration of Flock, a work in  
progress being developed by Jason Freeman, Liubo Borissov, Frank  
Dellaert, Mark Godfrey, Dan Hou, Justin Berger, and Martin Robinson.  
Come and help create the music being performed by a live saxophone  
quartet, learn how everything works, and give us feedback on the  
experience as we continue to develop the piece.

Flock is a performance work for saxophone quartet, conceived to  
directly engage audiences in the composition of music by physically  
bringing them out of their seats and enfolding them into the creative  
process. During the performance, the four musicians and the audience  
members move freely around the performance space. A computer vision  
system determines the locations of the audience members and  
musicians, and it uses that data to generate performance instructions  
for the saxophonists, who view them on wireless handheld displays  
mounted on their instruments. The data is also artistically rendered  
and projected on multiple video screens to provide a visual  
experience of the score. More information about flock is available at:

http://www.jasonfreeman.net/flock/

As always, dorkbot, which is sponsored by the Georgia Tech Music  
Department, is free and open to the public.