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Saturday, Oct 4th 2008

BrokenBeat Night@ Kadan [LIVE SCRATCH GUITAR | BREAKS | DUBSTEP ]

We are very proud to bring to have special guest from SF- The Genie, bringing us a unique ‘scratch guitar’ performance involving live looping, slide guitar and beatboxing.

Peep out a feature on the Genie from Current TV which aired on national TV in the US and UK for a peek of what you are about to witness:
http://current.com/items/77206162_what_is_scratch_guitar

As an added bonus we will be celebrating our boy Gimiks B-Day! – griffinone.com so ya know whatsup !

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LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES

The Genie Scratch Guitar SF
http://www.myspace.com/thegenie

The Genie is an avant-garde guitarist, performer, and musical pioneer best known to audiences for his 'scratch guitar' shows involving live looping, slide guitar, and beatboxing. In 2002 he made his debut in Montreal Canada at the Montreal DMC Championships and later at the Canadian National DMC Championships.

He recorded The Genie-Rebel Music in 2002 and has since recorded two follow-up CD's, The Genie-Entropic (recorded live in Hawaii) and Aquadry. His music ranges various genres including electronic, hip hop, reggae, drum n bass, dubstep, middle eastern, bossa nova, and jazz.

Carlito Headset (BrokenBeat/ DTC / Imputor?) Live Electronic
http://www.elpoeta.org

Its a little known fact that Carlito aka El Poeta recently came within inches of
death. While on a recon mission for DTC, he became lost and fell into
an icy chasm deep in the arctic, for almost an entire year. Lucky
for us, rising global temperatures and a tenacity unparalleled by even
that of the most determined sherpa - he was able to thaw a small
porthole in the otherwise icy grave with pure dancefloor heat - only
to make it home for his brokenbeat set. Don't miss out on this one!

Melotronix (BatCountry/ Creatryx Project) AZ
http://www.melotronix.com/
Melotronix signature style blends trip-hop, downtempo, hip-hop, breaks, and just about any glitchy grimy groovy beat she can get her hands on. Her sets consist of a fusion of dope underground tracks mixed with her own original creations using KP3 sampler, a laptop and a microphone. She sings over her sets to add an ethereal vibe. You can catch her internet radio show every Sunday (5-7pm PST) on HipStepRadio.com.
Her journey thru music began while living below Kid Koala in 1998 and has progressed from Montreal to New York City to her most recent home of Phoenix AZ where she currently runs several nights and has performed at almost every venue. In 2008 she plans to start her own record label and release her first e.p.

The Messenger (BrokenBeat/ BatCountry)
http://www.visitbatcountry.org

The Messenger delivers dirty glitchy electro to keep you dancing straight to the after party at the Brown Lounge. The Messenger has rocked domes both literally and figuratively from Burningman to SD.
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VISUALS

Shikaku (BrokenBeat/LA-VA)
http://www.shikakufx.com

Visual artist Miguel Vega, originally from Argentina, brings a strong background in graphic design and electronic music production. He has been doing visuals for various live performances and installation since 2002. He is currently the resident vj at BrokenBeat Night

VJ Raster (MergeLife and Music)
http://www.origamimag.org

Katie Rast lives in San Diego and works professionally in the areas of art direction, design, marketing and community organizing. As a part of Merge Multimedia Collective, Katie works as a co-conspirator in the creation of custom visual content, video graphics and video mixing.

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SD, CA
Kadan in North Park,
4696 30th street,
(Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.)
21 + 2 PM - 2 AM

http://www.brokenbeat.com

See what you’ve been missin! Check out some pictures from previous
BrokenBeat nights

http://www.brokenbeat.com/pics/pics_main.html

Pecha Kucha: Design in 20 Slides for 20 Seconds Each

I was reading the San Francisco Bay Guardian and came across a posting for the a thing called Pecha Kucha. It got awarded the best 'Hyperintellectual Show and Tell' by the annual Best of the Bay awards that the publication puts on. After reading about it, it reminded me a bit about Share does, but in a slightly different (slide oriented) format. The text below is taken from the Pecha Kucha website:

"Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. (Admittedly, it was also a way to get
more people to visit SuperDeluxe - their then newly opened multimedia event space in Tokyo).

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you'll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global - as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 80 cities across the world."

A Digital Story From MACSD's Commmunity Voices Project

This is a story I helped a man create for the Media Art Center's Digital Storytelling Station. In it, a father attempts to articulate a vision for his son in spite of being estranged from him by the abuse he endured from his own father.

Not all the stories are as intense, passionate or poetic. Some are downright funny and humorous, others optimistic and hopeful...

For more information about this unique project visit the Community Voices page here. To set up an appointment to tell your story, sign up by clicking here.

Open Hack Night, the 3rd Wednesday of every month @ Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway in downtown san diego. Last month we had Grrrl Zines a Go-Go and an intro to video editing workshop. This month, we'll have Zine making and more workshops including this one:

Intro to the GNU/Linux command line with Debian

This workshop will introduce users to the basic commands that are useful for using a debian/ubuntu machine on a day-to-day basis. It will focus on using the bash shell well and a handful of essential commands. It is intended to make users who are new to linux, or just terrified of it, more comfortable with the command line. The command line interface can actually be very powerful, at times even more useful than a gui, and users should embrace it instead of being scared away from it.

We will also show some videos about last year's anti-g8 actions in Scotland including videos of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army!

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The open hack night is a space for HACKERS, ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS and MEDIA MAKERS to get together, share, teach and learn. It's much like http://dorkbot.org or http://barcamp.org, but with a focus on making technology accessible for people traditionally excluded from techno culture like women and people of color.

Want to do a workshop? Have a tech question? Email sdhacklab [at] lists d0t riseup d0t net .

More info about the borderlands hacklab at http://sdhacklab.org

CRCA is pleased to host the California Computer Music Exchange on Saturday, May 6, 2006, at 8pm in the ATKINSON HALL Auditorium (formerly Calit2).
A selection of new electronic works—from live electronics and multimedia to good, old-fashioned two-channel playback—from some of California’s fine graduate programs in electronic music. The line-up features (among other things) animated score interfaces, invented electronic instruments, interactive installations, Arabic classical music, saxophones, and the philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin. Guest artists will be in attendance for the concert program and a post show reception.
Featured artists will include Carolyn Chen (Stanford), Thea Farhadian (Mills), Juan-Pablo Caceres (Stanford), Justin Yang (Stanford), Cristyn Magnus and Rob Esler (UCSD), John Thompson and Dan Overholt (UCSB), Marc Nimoy (CalArts), Cooper Baker (CalArts), and Graham Wakefield (UCSB).
CRCA is an organized research unit of UCSD whose mission is to foster advanced research and production of digital technology and new art forms.

More info here.
 

This will be our 4th Share in San Diego!  More details about performers and players will be posted here, as well as any accompanying lectures, interludes and short films shown during the event.

Share 3 will be held at the Kava Lounge Gallery
 
   share is the place to : sing a new pop song you have written, preview
that video project you are working on, learn about cool new software
programs, join an open jam of electronic/digital artists, form an
impromptu collaboration, hear how your new songs sound on a big
system, meet co-conspirators for art projects, spin some mp3s, look for
new Max patches and Buzz machines, or relax and have an evening
drink with interesting people.