Make an electronic musical instrument that a group can play together.
Archive for July, 2010
Weather Orb
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Make an orb that will glow blue when it is going to rain later in the day.
WHIRL
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Lets get together for a night of music, meeting, and visceral sonic electronic experiences. We want to create a space for people playing with drum machines, synthesizers, digital formats, mixing, and everything inbetween to share their work and engage the community. Something incredible is bubbling within electronic music–> the potential to engage a group to create an incredible collective experience. Musicians are creating uplifting music that you can’t help but get excited about.
[from musica elettronica viva]
We are making the first steps now toward an actively revolutionary music, a music which will not be an instrument of ruling-class “culture”… but rather a force in the hands of the people, a special language belonging to everybody. When this happens, the “concert” will come to resemble other liberated forms such as the party or the day off.
WHIRL is a multimedia event to quench our desire for beautiful works of art in any medium and ecstatic electronic experiences produced by local artists. Its something we can do together. Contactwhichlight(take this out) at gmail(and this) dot com if you have any questions or would like to help out. thanks <3!
Past WHIRLing
at FIGMENT June 4-5, 2011
Collaboration with Dorkbot Boston
6-9 pm Tuesday, May 17th 2011, at Middlesex Lounge in Central Square, FREE
April 22nd at the Lilypad in Inman Square.
Tentative artists and performers:
INTERACTIVE ART by Russell McClellan, Ben Lacker, Eric Rosenbaum, Jay Silver, Paul Feitzinger, Michael Dewberry, Will Whelan
LIVE ELECTRO PERFORMANCES by PC//MM, Ming Ming
PL: Rut Roh
DJs: Sleepyhead, Pajaritos
Performances by Pancake, Crista Galli, and plastic color// math magic on Saturday, September the 11th at the Lilypad in Inman Square after the art installation and opening by Bill Imbrogna.
A live set from the evening
Latest tracks by Crista Galli
Emergence: Fireflies
Saturday, July 17th, 2010One of the most intriguing phenomena within complexity science is that of emergence. It is a salient feature of complex systems, so much so that definitions of complex systems include the quality of exhibiting emergence. Many exciting solutions to the world’s bigger problems can be understood through collective dynamics and emergence.
Google’s search algorithm, to a heavy extent, depends on the nature of linking between websites. On the scale of the website and what links to it, Google is able to provide an answer the global problem of findability on the internet.
Muhammad Yunus developed a micro loan system that re-frames loans to take into account collective dynamics of a group. Through challenging the assumption of who one can give a successful loan to, and by tapping into group trust, he has created an effective method of alleviating poverty.
