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

[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 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 dorkbot meeting of the academic year features composer and  
sound artist Christopher Bailey, who joins us via live  
videoconference, and Andrew Beck, a masters candidate in music  
technology at Georgia Tech.

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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.

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Andrew Beck presents a trial run of Free Field, to be premiered at the  
2008 Listening MachinesConcert in the Eyedrum on April 24th:

The spaces we live in inform our experience. We project our view of  
the world into every room we live in, forming the silent backdrops to  
our everyday lives. Given modern technology, every action we make is  
recorded and archived somewhere, probably never to be seen by human
eyes again. We are gradually becoming accustomed to the data we  
generate and allow it to happen behind the scenes. What happens if we  
were able to hear the bits and pieces of information we leave behind?  
Free Field is a playful exploration of these themes, picking up pieces  
of people's conversation and noises to play back in unique ways. Every  
sound that happens within its walls is recorded and analyzed, allowing  
participants to interact with the system in unexpected ways.

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