[dorkbotatl-announce] wed 4/16 @ 7 pm: dorkbot art and technology forum

[Jason Freeman]

The Atlanta chapter of Dorkbot, the international forum on art and  
technology dedicated to “people doing strange things with  
electricity,” will have its next meeting on Wednesday, April 16th, at  
7 pm in the Couch Building (room 207) at Georgia Tech.

Full information and details are available at:

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/

This final meeting of the academic year features composer and sound  
artist Christopher Bailey, who joins us via live videoconference.

Born outside of Philadelphia, PA, Christopher Bailey turned to music  
composition in his late teens, and to electroacoustic composition  
during his studies at the Eastman School of Music, and later at  
Columbia University. Recent performances of his music occurred in  
Taiwan, Germany, Montreal, New York, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans,  
Houston, Minneapolis, and in Seoul, Korea, where he was a 2nd-Prize  
recipient in the International Composers Competition. Other awards  
include prizes from BMI and ASCAP, and the Bearns Prize. He has  
recently released a CD of piano music with electronics.

As part of a recent residency at Harvestworks in New York, Bailey  
created a database system for organizing musique concrete. The  
database system allows one to catalogue sounds according to a number  
of musical parameters. Imagining abstract musical gestures, one can  
then use the system to realize the gestures with different  
combinations of found sounds.


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