[dorkbotatl-announce] reminder: tomorrow @ 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 Monday, March 10th, at 7  
pm in the Couch Building (room 207) at Georgia Tech.


Full information and details are available at:

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/


This month’s meeting features composer and software developer Michael  
Klingbeil, lecturer in the Music Department at Yale University, who  
joins us from New Haven via live video link.

Michael Klingbeil holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory of Music  
(TIMARA program), a BA in Computer Science from Oberlin College, and  
an MM in composition from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.  
He is currently completing a DMA in composition at Columbia  
University. His principal teachers are Tristan Murail, Heinrich Taube,  
Gary Lee Nelson, P.Q. Phan and James Beauchamp. His works have been  
played in both the U.S. and Europe by ensembles including the Columbia  
Composers Ensemble, University of Illinois New Music Ensemble, the  
Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon-Provence, the Aspen Contemporary  
Ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Argento Chamber Ensemble.  
Recent awards include a First Music chamber music commission from the  
New York Youth Symphony, finalist recognition from the Concorso  
Internazionale “Luigi Russolo,” and an ASCAP Morton Gould Composer  
Award. His work is recorded on the ICMC label. In addition to musical  
activities, he was a computer science research fellow at the  
University of Iowa, and has earned industry awards for computer  
software development. He is actively involved in computer music  
research in both the academic and commercial fields and has developed  
novel software for audio analysis and resynthesis.

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