[dorkbotatl-announce] reminder: tomorrow @ 7:30 pm, dorkbot art and technology forum

[Jason Freeman]

[please forward]

The next dorkbot-atl meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 7th  
at 7:30 pm in the Couch Building (music department) at Georgia Tech,  
in the first floor rehearsal hall.

Full details are available at:

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/

This month's dorkbot will feature an informal presentation of my new  
work Flock (for saxophone quartet, dancers, electronic sound, video,  
and audience participation) in preparation for the piece's premiere  
at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami in December.  
I have developed Flock in collaboration with Mark Godfrey, Liubo  
Borissov, Frank Dellaert, Dan Hou, Justin Berger, and Martin Robinson.

Flock is a full evening 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  
up to one hundred 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  
also drives the real-time generation of a multi-screen video  
animation and an electronic soundtrack.

More information about Flock is available at:

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

Hope to see you there!