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<div><b>LEMUR News at a Glance</b></div>
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<div><b>* GamelaTron @ Make Music New York,</b> June 21st</div>
<div><b>* Special<i> Ballet Mécanique</i> performance</b>, June
22nd</div>
<div><b>* LEMURtron exhibit rocks Pittsburgh Kids</b></div>
<div><b>* ReSiDeNt returns in</b> XJXuXlXyX<b> August,</b> excuses
below</div>
<div><b>* Summer classes begin soon,</b> really</div>
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<div><b>LEMUR and Harvestworks present Zemi17 and GamelaTron</b></div>
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<div>As part of Make Music New York, this weekend's free outdoor music
festival, Zemi17 (Taylor Kuffner) will perform on the GamelaTron, the
first fully-robotic gamelan orchestra. Imagine 17 Indonesian gamelan
musicians condensed into the brain of one Zemi17!</div>
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<div>Zemi17 will be conducting the GamelaTron via laptop and through
three suites of new music totaling about 45 minutes. The presentation
will be a mix of traditional Indonesian music, transposing classic
modal structures, fused with techno rhythmic sensibility and a unique
melodic combination of three different tonal scales (Javenese 7 note
Pelog, Balinese 5 note Pelog and Balinese five-note selendro).</div>
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<div>Forecast is for sun over lower Manhattan, torrential rainstorms
everywhere else, so come enjoy the weather and check out the
show.</div>
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<div><b>GamelaTron @ Make Music New York</b></div>
<div><b>Saturday, June 21, 1 pm</b></div>
<div><b>Petrosino Square (at Kenmare and Lafayette Streets)</b></div>
<div><b>followed by Joshua Fried's Radio Wonderland +
Val-Inc</b></div>
<div><b>See http://gamelatron.com for more info</b></div>
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<div><b>Ballet Mécanique at Frequency Hopping</b></div>
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<div>Follow a special evening performance this Sunday of the Hourglass
Group's new play<i> Frequency Hopping</i>, Paul Lehrman and LEMUR will
present<i> Ballet Mécanique</i>, George Antheil's mind-breaking 1924
work for sychronized player pianos and lots and lots of percussion. It
will be performed by eight Yamaha Disklaver player pianos and an array
of LEMUR percussion robots including two xylophones, four bass drums,
a gong, a siren, seven doorbells and three "airplane
propellors". It will also be accompanied by the collaborative
film of the same title by Fernand Lèger.</div>
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<div>This will be your last chance to see this amazing piece in New
York City until you hire us to do it at your museum, gallery or
performance space.</div>
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<div><b>Frequency Hopping</b>/<b>Ballet Mécanique</b></div>
<div><b>Sunday, June 22</b></div>
<div><b>3LD Art & Technology Center</b></div>
<div><b>80 Greenwich St, NYC</b></div>
<div><b>For info and tickets, visit
http://www.hourglassgroup.org/frequency.html</b></div>
<div>and scroll down to<b> "Performances May 29 - June
29"</b></div>
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<div><b>LEMURtron at Children's Museum of Pittsburgh</b></div>
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<div>LEMURtron, our
musical-robot-live-video-interactive-video-tracking installation, is
now running through September 7th. And it's pretty amazing, if we say
so ourselves...and we do. LEMURtron features over 20 musical robots,
very cool interactive video projections by Luke DuBois, and a
top-secret video tracking camera that lets you kick the video around
and play the robots.</div>
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<div>If you live in Pittsburgh, check it out and bring your kids, your
friends and your friends' kids. Guaranteed to be fun for adults too.
If you don't, why not make a trip of it and grab a Primante's sandwich
and some O's fries while you're there.</div>
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<div><b>LEMURtron</b></div>
<div><b>Pittsburgh Children's Museum</b></div>
<div><b>Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA</b></div>
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>http://www.pittsburghkids.org/Templates/CMP_ExhibitsDetail.aspx?CID=<span
></span>887&SECID=5&MENUID=301</b></div>
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<div><b>ReSiDeNt Returns in August...Really</b></div>
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<div>After a XtXwXoX three-month hiatus, ReSiDeNt, LEMUR's monthly
creator-in-residence program returns in August. Why not July? Two
reasons:</div>
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<div>1) ReSiDeNt is now funded, thanks to a Greenwall grant! Each
participating artist will receive an artist fee. Info on this will be
posted soon on LEMUR's site. Since money talks, we want to give more
time for submissions for the next round.</div>
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<div>2) OK, the real reason - we're fresh out of robots, having sent
them to the two aforementioned shows. But fear not: we're fastly and
furiously building a whole *new* set of robots, which will be ready by
August.</div>
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<div>One more thing: Since four out of five NYC residents surveyed
said they'll be at Burning Man on the last Friday in August, we'll be
moving the August ReSiDeNt show to the next Friday, September
5th</div>
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<div>Applications for this and future ReSiDeNt months are now open.
Submissions for August are open through July 15th. Artists from all
performing and installation disciplines are encouraged to apply to
ReSiDeNt, including musicians, composers, dancers, choreographers,
video artists, interactive installation artists, performance artists,
multimedia artists and others. To learn about applying to ReSiDeNt,
visit http://lemurbots.org/resident.html. Deadlines are rolling, and
decisions are made shortly after the 15th of each month for the
following month's residencies.</div>
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<div><b>Summer Classes</b></div>
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<div>Summer classes will be announced XnXeXxXt XwXeXeXkX<b> really
soon</b> and will begin later in June (or maybe July). LEMUR will be
running a full complement of classes in sensors, robotics,
microprocessors, interfacing and more. If you're not already on it,
please sign on to our email list at http://lemurbots.org to receive
the class announcement and future LEMUR news.</div>
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