Tim Devine and I made 4 improvisations for the radiospotting project in Linz, Austria which is taking place Sep 11 – Oct 31 2009.  Small radio transmitters tuned to 103Mhz are situated at multiple locations around the city and participants are encouraged to bicycle about the city with portable radios.

Writers and musicians collaborated on each space, with the writer’s text used as inspiration for locational compositions.

We developed and improvised 4 pieces for Pure Data, Roland drum pad, and electric guitar:

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Ok, I really need to clean this site up, reorganize and kill the cruft. It will happen soon enough …

In the meantime, I’ve been busy with robotcowboy:

• May 16 Altavoz Electronic Music Festival, Venice, IT
• Apr 25 Liwoli FLOSS Hacklab 09, Kunst Uni, Linz, AT
• Apr 04 STRP Media Arts Festival in Eindhoven, NL

Also, I’ve been invited to present and perform at the New Media Meeting in Norrköping Sweden, May 28-31 09.

This is Zachary Lieberman, Damian Stewart, and Joel Gethin Lewis visualizing Daito Manabe’s music on the new building I work in. How many people work at places like this!

How much does the new Ars Electronica Center cost?

AEC New Years facade show part 3

Some videos from the STEIM Micro Music Jamboree 2 in Dec 08, Amsterdam NL.

DJ Sniff on Turntable Night at the Smart Project Space, Amsterdam NL

Here is my visual take on turntablism …

Alex Nowitz on Concert 2 Night at The Smart Project Space, Amsterdam NL

I took part in the openFrameworks Lab at the Ars Electronica Festival 08:

Zachary Lieberman and Theo Watson, originators of openFrameworks, an open source, C++ toolkit for artists and creative technologists, are transforming the 1st floor of the Brucknerhaus into an experimental laboratory: OF lab. The idea is to build a space where a dozen or so hackers, tinkerers and researchers will hang out and experiment, make art, create guerrilla exhibitions around the festival and document their progress and discoveries. The”OF lab”will focus on creating new works that come directly out of suggestions from the festival audience members, and over the course of the event, create a feedback loop between suggestions, experimentation, making projects, exhibiting the results and most importantly, exposing the process.

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I am in Linz Austria now and have started my new job as a Creative Engineer at the Ars Electronica Futurelab … and just in time for the festival.

Interactivos? @ eyebeam: a 2 week workshop at Eyebeam in NYC June 26 – July 12 08

The project was part of the Double Take Exhibition at Eyebeam from Jul 12 – Aug 8 08

Check out the official project wiki

UPDATE Sept 08: soundMetal will be in Nick Collin’s Hand Made Electronic Music and the video on the accompanying dvd!

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robotcowboy will appear at the new media art/music Signal + Noise Festival 08 in Vancouver, CA April 17-19.  I do not yet have the date and time of my performance, but come see me if you are in the area.

I just returned from the 2 month Consoles Afire 08 tour with Laromlab.  This was a stress test of my robotcowboy  computronic music system and software, which worked quite reliably overall.  I will have a full synopsis soon.

As part of my application to the University of Washington’s DXARTS PhD program, I have written a proposal for the next phase of the robotcowboy project:

The paper proposes the Wearable Audio/Visual Unit project which
aims to provide a uniform embedded wearable computer platform for
live audio/visual performance. Targeted at the “do-it-yourself” per-
former with limited technical expertise and resources, this device will
be designed using commercially available hardware, utilize open source
software, and be made available as plans, software downloads, and
collaboration through an online community. It is hoped that such an
alternative to both the laptop computer and stacks of audio gear will
change the nature of future live performance.

The Wearable Audio/Visual Unit: A Platform for Embodied Computer Performance (pdf)