I reaaaally wanted to go to that (and my gf is going - grrrrrrrr, jealous) but I'll be out of town.
Meanwhile, I've been going to to the experimental media workshop series events at Artisphere, where I met govern yourself accordingly! I had big problems soldering my danger shield on Sunday, but I dropped in in the HacDC crew last night and got everything sorted out.
Lots of cool things happening!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow i just realized artisphere is a permanent spot and not some random artomatic happening
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
mastodon + opeth at the fillmore tomorrow. $27.50 + $8.00 fees, ugh
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
awesome! it was really nice to meet you! i needed to resolder a couple things on sunday, but everything seems to work fine now - i've been figuring out how all the inputs work, how to map voltage to analogWrite, etc
what are you thinking of making? i've done some modul8 video manipulation in the past using a midi controller, and i think it'd be really interesting to use the sensor readings as control parameters for a video compositing app like that.
apparently you can just wire a big piece of aluminum foil to the cap sensor - maybe something along the lines of this 3d controller but mapped to luma/chrome/hue (or whatever)?
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
also i can guarantee that there is going to be some incredibly terrible conceptual art coming out of that class (admittedly, some of it mine)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
x-post to fauxmarc-- yea, the fees at the Fillmore are the worst.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
most of my ideas revolve around the use of sensors to dynamically alter my animations. i kind of want to fuck around with arduino/processing for a while before settling on a project, but a few ideas i've been thinking about are:
- altering the frame rate of an animation using audio sensors. for example, a boy doing homework that scribbles more quickly (or when you yell at him (or slowly).- altering the content of an animation using audio sensors. maybe the animation is a loop of someone sitting quietly, but when you make a noise she looks up at the viewer, startled. or maybe it's an animation using muted colors, but the colors shift to different hues based off of noise.- ^^version that does the same thing but is based off of motion sensing (someone walks by and it startles the animated person and/or changes the colors in the image)- using a webcam to insert the viewer into an animation. i'm trying to think of creative ways to do this that don't end up looking really cheesy.
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
So Chuck Brown has a bad case of pneumonia. He's been in the hospital for awhile now.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile, I've been going to to the experimental media workshop series events at Artisphere, where I met govern yourself accordingly!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 3:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i am jealous that yall are doing these! they look so rad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
They mentioned that they're planning on doing a bunch more this fall, presumably free again. I'm not sure what the subject matter will be, of course, but I'm already reasonably pumped!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
How was the Hirshhorn thang? I skipped it and went to Cynthia Connolly's photo exhibit and then out to the Crossroads for soca and dancehall dj sounds. Cynthia's nice photos just take up one wall. The dj'ing was uneven with some sloppy mixing.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 May 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
the Song 1 live thing at the Hirshhorn was pretty great, but quite short - each act only did 5-10 minutes. But it was set up to flow seamlessly between acts and it worked really well. I dunno, I probably wouldn't have gone if I'd known the live portion was so brief.
― I DIED, Monday, 14 May 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
The Mal*tz review in the W. Post said it was a 45 minute long thang (for $25 plus service charge)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/song-1-a-happening-at-the-hirshhorn/2012/05/13/gIQAXheFNU_story.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 May 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
this upcoming May 19 Comet Ping Pong gig looks fun (Dc resident Kid was once in the Gun Club and the Cramps):
The Kid Congo Powers HourThe notorious Kid Congo Powers leads a band of wayward DC rebels (Mark Cisneros, Tom Bunnell & Brendan Canty) through a garage funk dance party. The Kid Congo Powers hour are doing all cover versions of 60's and 70's garage rock dance numbers. You bring the dancing shoes, we'll bring the party..
(as does the one the night before with the Iranian moved to Brooklyn power pop group Yellow Dogs):
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 May 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
r.i.p.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
gutted
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/05/16/d-c-reacts-to-chuck-browns-death/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
Big newsprint drawing of Chuck Brown on the front of this morning's Washington Post Style section, plus a front page item.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/05/23/chuck-browns-funeral-may-be-next-week/#more-72706
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
B.B. King at the Howard Theatre Nov. 24-25 ($150).
$$$$
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/05/24/chuck-browns-public-viewing-memorial-set-for-next-week/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 May 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/05/29/photos-chuck-browns-viewing/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
A friend's started a weekly art show happy hour Thursdays at Mova with DJs after, I'm on this Thursday the 31st from 9-1.
It's free, 21+, at 2004 14th Street at W Street - FB event details at http://www.facebook.com/events/113664472105280/
Preview of the kinds of stuff I'll be playing (bmore + jrz club, tropical bass, uk funky, etc) at https://soundcloud.com/pushingit/the202atmova
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
nice
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
Busy with family stuff, I'm gonna have to miss Faux Marc; Afrobeat for ya Soul with DJ underdog at Boss; and Jon langford at Iota tonight. Not that I could do 'em all.
CP is liveblogging the Chuck Brown memorial service (that includes his band and gospel go-go and celebs and politicians) and it is streaming online and on DC public tv
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Bossa not Boss
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
The Washington Post has video of the service too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
and WPFW and WPGC are airing it on the radio
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
friends kingdom + bok bok playing u hall tonight, only thing i've been looking forward to in the area for a long while ; caught them at santos party house in nyc a couple of weeks ago and everything was still on point
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Busy night also for decent old fart music--The Clean (80s era New Zealand guitar pop) with Times New Viking at RnR Hotel; plus:
Alvin Youngblood Hart (blues) at Jammin Java
Jimmy Cliff at the 930 Club (reggae
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
Free entry before 10pm for 21+.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I am not the only one out of the loop on bass/grime/garage club whatever, if folks can go for free on a Thursday night.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
The Clean - worth seeing?
― skip, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
DC isn't into this in general yet, it's still very much stuck in a 90's stick-to-your-homogeneous-edm-genre state of mind
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I think so (have always somehow missed them and missed singer Kilgour solo with band tours), and I see that an ilxer who saw them the other night, posted on the Clean thread that he liked them. Like New Zealand's Chills and Verlaines, they have that jangly guitar-pop thing going, but with touches of punk and now apparently, Neu-style motorik krautrock.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
x-post-
while it may be due to space reasons, I see that the CP club listings for tonight only list the 7 pm early show at Uhall.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
it's in the online version
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
SO EXCITED for Kingdom/Bok Bok tonight - Kingdom's really one of my favorite DJs. Also $2 natty boh and $5 jameson all night!
― I DIED, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
How was UHall? I thought the Clean were great at RnR Hotel. Although I had forgotten till I got there how that can be a miserable place to see a band when its packed, as it was last night (unless you manage to get up front). The stage is not that high and the room is narrow, so if you're far back it can impossible to see. The sound was not mized that well either. In the crowd: various Slumberland musicians, a guy who used to book some shows at the old 930 way back when; a Pitchfork writer or 2 or 3...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, definitely important to get up front at RNR.
― skip, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
I was sorta one of those rude folks. Once opener Times New Viking finished, I quickly followed my gf, who was following another woman in moving towards the front.
My Arlington tax dollars at work:
Live Music Performance byBLUES LEGEND RITA CHIARELLI +Award-Winning Documentary MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSESun June 10 / 2pm / $10 / Dome Theatre
Myabe it will be a good show at Artisphere, but I have never heard of this Canadian singer or the film
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
uhall was great, not a huge crowd but the music was on point. mike q and vijuan allure came down for the show too
― fauxmarc, Friday, 8 June 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
afghan whigs coming to the 930 on september 28th. presale tomorrow, general public on thursday. i am freaking out about this.
― fauxmarc, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Grimes/Elite Gymnastics at U Hall in Sept. has got me jazzed.
Seeing Laura Marling tomorrow night. Looking forward to it.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Grimes/Elite Gymnastics at U Hal
Nice!
― skip, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Bob Mould at 9:30 on September 8 as well, doing Copper Blue + "an additional set and encores mixing the new Silver Age material with Husker Du, Sugar and Mould solo classics"
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 11 June 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
that Grimes show is an early one and the late show that night is Classixx, looking forward to it. I'll be opening for Classixx and possibly spinning between bands earlier as well.
― I DIED, Monday, 11 June 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
wow that's a night.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 11 June 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
Hey Fauxmarc,
tribal guarachero(Mexican and African sounds mixed with cumbia basslines) crew 3Ball MTY from Mexico will be at the Sunday June 24 El Zol 107.9 fm Fest with Los Tigres de Norte (great norteno), Carlos y Alejandra, Plan B, Eddy Herrera, K-risma Band, Los Adolecentesy mucho mas! At Montgomery Fairgrounds, 16 Chestnut Street Gaithersburg, MD 20877$15
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i saw that, i don't really get out into moco though and am trying to be in nyc for pride. 3 ball's also doing a remezcla party up in nyc at some point though if i recall
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link