From tedwards at gmail.com Fri Aug 7 00:33:05 2009 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:33:05 -0700 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] Hydrophone Recording Workshop @ Machine Project Message-ID: <2fd1fa350908062133s3a27d208gb5d63ff65674f58f@mail.gmail.com> Machine Project says: "A hydrophone is a microphone designed to be used underwater for recording or listening to underwater sound. Used in World War I, hydrophones were employed by convoy escorts to detect U-boats, greatly lessening the effectiveness of the submarine. From late in World War I until the introduction of active sonar, hydrophones were the sole method for submarines to detect targets while submerged, and remain useful today (source: wikipedia). Come and build your very own hydrophone in this two-day workshop! Clay Chaplin will lead you through the construction of your hydrophone using a kit we?ll provide, then test it out in the Silver Lake reservoir." Sunday August 16th, 2009, 2-4pm & Sunday August 23rd, 2009, 2-6pm http://machineproject.com/classworkshop/2009/08/16/hydrophone-workshop/ From torino.margolis at mac.com Sun Aug 23 10:33:42 2009 From: torino.margolis at mac.com (Torino:Margolis) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:33:42 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] Torino:Margolis LA Performance Message-ID: Hi All, The New York based performance art team Torino:Margolis in collaboration with Lee Azzarello, Dana Kotler and Analogous Projects will be making an appearance on Saturday, September 5th at 7:15 at the HIVE Gallery's September art opening in Downtown LA! We will be showing our work-in-progress, "Action Potential," a new media/dance work exploring the physiological and sonic difference between volitional and non-volitional movement. The performer?s muscle activity will be harvested and transformed into sound through Electromyography (EMG), a method of sensing electrical potentials generated during voluntary action. The electric potentials will then be sent to a wireless radio interface used to transmit the information to software for audio processing. A second performer physically manipulates the EMG connected dancer, such that the physiological difference between volitional and non-volitional movement is illustrated through sound and silence. In this way, "Action Potential" seeks to exemplify the performer?s free will. Please support us by mentioning at the door that you are there to see Torino:Margolis. Thanks, Ben and Jenny ************************************************************************** HIVE Gallery: 729 S. Spring Street, LA, CA 90014 8pm-12:30am, $8 September 2009 artists: Front stage bands: 7:15- 8pm: Torino Margolis (www.torinomargolis.com) 8pm - 9pm: Itom (myspace.com/itomlab) 9pm - 10pm - Michael Jost (www.myspace.com/michaeljost) 10pm - 11pm - Trinitron Meets The Mars People (www.myspace.com/tmtmp) 11pm - 12am - Clevis (www.clevisband.com) 12am - 12:30am - Totally Serious (www.myspace.com/totallyserioustheband) All night - video projections in middle room by Meats Meier Back Stage DJs: 8pm - 9pm - DJ Phillip 9pm - 10pm - DJ 1987 (www.myspace.com/dj1987music) 10pm - 11pm - DJ Toby 11pm - 12am - DJ N8 12am - 12:30am - iTom Lab (www.atomicconsciousness.com) BURLESQUE BY: Feminine Oddities { www.feminineoddities.com} **************************************** Torino:Margolis Performance Art Torino:Margolis is a New York based performance art team that smashes through physical and psychological barriers separating one body from another using electronics and biomedical tools. We explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive and modular by playing with the notion of control and free will. Our extraction of physiological processes concretizes these concepts and presents them as questions to the viewer -- not to illustrate the mechanism, but to explore the experience. http://www.torinomargolis.com Analogous Projects http://analogousprojects.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsocal-blabber/attachments/20090823/9f277102/attachment-0001.html From jp at jpixl.net Wed Aug 26 12:27:48 2009 From: jp at jpixl.net (John Edgar Park) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:27:48 -0700 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] Looking for Rube Goldberg builders for OK Go video Message-ID: <20090826092748.62a685f431360d5f7808c08f87ee8a48.6a2af478c9.wbe@email03.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsocal-blabber/attachments/20090826/8f805f15/attachment.html