From dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org Mon Apr 23 04:18:04 2007 From: dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org (Alex Beim) Date: Mon Apr 23 04:46:30 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] We are going on a filed-trip Message-ID: <0EA3A2ED-5C12-4316-956F-BF32B7CF5C75@dorkbot.org> Yes this time we are having our meeting at IE Creative. They have a shop in Granville Island It will be on Thursday May 10th at 7:00 PM IE Creative 1399 Railspur Alley Granville Island Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6H 4G9 Here is a little background about the speakers and their presentations: Michael Vandermeer (IE Creative) Occupation/Passion: Sculptor Experience and previews work: Physics background, studied art at Emily Carr Institute, Full time sculptor for 14 years, pictures of my work can be found on our website www.iecreative.ca The Presentation: Will give tour of latest sculpture (ball machine) located on Granville Island, will talk about, and demo some processes used in our art practice. Brett Forsyth Occupation/Passion: Instructor Vancouver Film School, Sailing and Photography Experience and previews work: Graduated in 2001 from Capilano College's Applied Information Technology program. Spent the next 3 years as an web developer and freelance developer The Presentation: Connecting physical interfaces to flash A short presentation on the increasing proliferation of cheap hardware interfaces that allow people to experiment with tactile interfaces. Demonstrations of the Teleo device connected to flash will be given. Chris Graham Occupation/Passion: Self employed in product design, electronics, software. Music especially electronic, 20th century classical, experimental and jazz; Music technology; Astronomy Experience and previews work: Software design/development for Synex, then Symantec,then Microsoft. Most recently, ten years with Microsoft as lead designer for Excel and Office. Retired to pursue other interests. I've long been into electronic music, first electronic, now softsynths. I've played and hacked all sorts of wind controllers, although not as a performer. The Presentation: The state of the art in electronic wind instruments has stalled and the the research I will describe has been to achieve breakthroughs that are long overdue, and make them available as products at affordable prices. I will show a prototype of "The Photon Wind Instrument" which is a modular, soft configurable wind instrument with a multidimensional optical embouchure and oral cavity sensor. Uses include as a multidimensional breath controller for keyboard or guitar, and also as an instrument playable with a range of techniques including harmonica, trombone, trumpet, theremin, whistling, four pad percussion controller, and others not resembling any existing instrument. Feel free to forward this email Hope to see you all there Cheers Alex Beim 604 7103091 Dorkbot Vancouver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're getting CCed or forwarded this email, you can subscribe to the mailing list by clicking here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotvan-announce/attachments/20070423/50489f17/attachment.html