From jet at allartburns.org  Tue Sep  8 13:56:20 2009
From: jet at allartburns.org (j. eric townsend)
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:56:20 -0400
Subject: [dorkbotpgh-announce] dorkbot pittsburgh is next Thursday
Message-ID: <4AA69AC4.7050304@allartburns.org>

Hey, everyone!

Our next dorkbot pittsburgh is at 7:30pm, Thursday, 17 September.  We 
meet upstairs at brillobox (Penn Ave @ Main), admission is free, 18 or 
over unless you're with a guardian.    Food and drink is available at 
brillobox, please consider having dinner there and support them 
supporting us.


Our speakers this month are:


Michael Johnsen. Michael is a music instrument builder and performer. He 
will give a mildly informative lecture-demonstration outlining his 
approach to electronic sound production and, not coincidentally, its 
audition. Working almost exclusively on the analog end of the 
hypothetical digital/analog spectrum, his work is characterized by a 
relative lack of ideas per se, and an intense focus on observation (it's 
only "discovery" when you're sure you saw it first), the way a shepherd 
watches sheep.

Melissa St. Pierre. Melissa is a pianist and composer who has toured the 
United States both solo and with ensembles several times over. 
Specializing in prepared piano work of John Cage, she has used those 
works as a jumping-off point into her own composing work utilizing piano 
hacking and live electronic manipulation. Melissa will talk about and 
demonstrate the Prepared Piano. Audience members are invited to bring 
their own preparations for the piano, and she will demonstrate 
appropriate ways to incorporate most, or all, of these implements in the 
process of finding your own piano sound.


-- 
J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA
Design, Fabrication, Hacking
design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net;  HF: KG6ZVQ
PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8

From jet at allartburns.org  Thu Sep 17 08:39:51 2009
From: jet at allartburns.org (j. eric townsend)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:39:51 -0400
Subject: [dorkbotpgh-announce] dorkbot pittsburgh is TONIGHT
Message-ID: <4AB22E17.6000001@allartburns.org>

Hey, everyone!

Join us tonight at 7:30pm for September's dorkbotpgh.  We will meet
upstairs at brillobox (Penn Ave @ Main), admission is free, 18 or over 
unless you're with a guardian.  The kitchen and upstairs bar will be 
open, please consider having dinner there and support brillobox as they 
support us.


Our speakers this month are:


Michael Johnsen. Michael is a music instrument builder and performer. He
will give a mildly informative lecture-demonstration outlining his
approach to electronic sound production and, not coincidentally, its
audition. Working almost exclusively on the analog end of the
hypothetical digital/analog spectrum, his work is characterized by a
relative lack of ideas per se, and an intense focus on observation (it's
only "discovery" when you're sure you saw it first), the way a shepherd
watches sheep.

Melissa St. Pierre. Melissa is a pianist and composer who has toured the
United States both solo and with ensembles several times over.
Specializing in prepared piano work of John Cage, she has used those
works as a jumping-off point into her own composing work utilizing piano
hacking and live electronic manipulation. Melissa will talk about and
demonstrate the Prepared Piano. Audience members are invited to bring
their own preparations for the piano, and she will demonstrate
appropriate ways to incorporate most, or all, of these implements in the
process of finding your own piano sound.


-- 
J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA
Design, Fabrication, Hacking
design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net;  HF: KG6ZVQ
PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8