Circuit Bending Media Blitz

So a couple weeks ago I did a workshop on circuit bending at the Bridge. You probably heard about it already, seeing as it got a lot of press. C-ville printed a nice photograph (above), the same week they screwed up their crossword, don't get me started on that). Megan Lovett also made a great slideshow with audio for the Daily Progress. Well, Chris also made a video of the performance part of the evening, which was a group jam on (mostly) circuit-bent instruments, accompanied by an interactive video feedback setup. I have that posted online now, as you can see below (thanks Mom for the camera used to make the video).

So here it is on the Internet Archive (higher quality):
http://www.archive.org/details/Circuit-Bending_Video_Feedback_Jam
And here's the Youtube clips (two parts):
Part One:


And Part Two:


Credits are up on the Archive & Youtube, and you can post comments on either of those site--thanks to everyone who came out and participated. Vijith is making a podcast about the event for Monkeyclaus, so I'll link to that when it's available. And of course, I'll update you all once I get back to my bending projects as well. I have a video mixer, a drum machine, and a Casio SK-1 all waiting for me in the lab. For now, though, back to the library school applications--looks like this (two a week) is about the pace this blog will be moving.

Just remembered--Wendy posted some photos she took that evening as well. Here's one below:

Starting Out

Okay y'all, I'm gonna ride this hype from the circuit-bending workshop right into the 2.0 future realm. So here is my blog which will feature updates from my circuit-bending and video projects, children's (and some adult) books, the best of the best music i'm listening to, the occasional link to YouTube, commentary on life in charlottesville, links to what my friends are doing, and more.

So i hope you subscribe, read, and comment. Try out google reader, it's a good way to subscribe: very easy to use, and you'll forget how you ever lived without it.

And if you're wondering where the hell the name for my blog came from, it's a reference to the character Odo, from The Dispossessed by science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, which I read recently and really enjoyed. I'll write more on this later, but for now take this one quote:

"It is useless work that darkens the heart."

Talk to you soon,
Adam

PS. Credits to Mikey B. for the photograph, taken at Bagby Hot Springs in Oregon last November. Oh, and Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to you all. (That reminds me, there will be a lot of talk of Democracy Now on here, too.)