Cybernetics and Spare Parts: A Robotic Opera and Workshop in Ontario, Online
What if all the technology you loved, everything that ran on electricity, came to life and played one epic musical performance?
That’s about as best as I can sum up the “Emergence” event happening in Ontario and in an online stream. It’s a workshop. It’s a performance. It’s Commodore 64s and surplus parts. It’s cybernetic theory. There’s a robotic singer. It’s at a computer museum. Nerdtastic.
Rod Adlers describes his own setup: “3 Commodore 64’s running Cynthcart and MSSIAH, iPod Touch using Brian Eno’s ‘Bloom’ program, Korg MS2000 and M50, and Fruity Loops.” Nice – it’s like the radio station phrase, “the greatest hits of yesterday and today.”
Valentine’s Day, indeed — if you’re dating a robot / computer / nerd (or robotic computer nerd), you know how to celebrate. There’s an online stream, happily, for all of us too unlucky to be in Ontario this weekend. If you are there, “video, photography and interviews” are all “encouraged.” Please do share with us on planet CDM. Syd Bolton writes:
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http://pcmuseum.ca/media/ExposFeb2009EmergWeb.jpgThe show will be broadcast live the day of at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/emergent-behaviourOur page for it is at
http://www.pcmuseum.ca/emergence.asp









