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here's some video from the BrokenBeat night @ Kadan. EXCELLENT live electronic music from our man Disrupter. Check out more of his music @ http://www.disruptermusic.com

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.

Dr Morgan, ladies and gentlemen...

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Hello Everyone,
Share 6 is upon us! So why not RSVP? Bring yer laptops, drum machines, synthesizers and what ever other instruments you please to come and JAM with us. We will be having FEATURED SETS for this Share AND we will be being PODCASTED. Get there early for choice performance slots. Feel free to promote yourself performing too! Flyer can be downloaded here.  Print and copy and distribute as you please!

Press Play ++++++++++++++++++++++ Featuring: Alias & Tariser (Anticon) Telephone Jim Jesus (Anticon) Dj Kechup (Tomato Labz, Edukation Athletics) Vj Shikaku (La-Va, Shikakufx.com) Dj Pain (Sun Dialect Recs) Dj Pound (Live Turntablist Set) Dj Dstro & Dj Clean-Cut ++++++++++++++++++++++ The Honey Beehive 1409 C Street, Downtown San Diego 21+ & UP

Friday May 26 Ninja Tune VS Warp! Featuring sounds from these two prolific UK labels, and exclusive unreleased tracks you can't hear anywhere else! Givaways courtesy of RE:UP, Ninja Tune & Warp. Main Room: Eddie turbo, Atom MAtter, @Large, with Live visuals by Shikaku (LA-VA/Shikakufx.com) Downstairs: Teeger & Bunny

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.
 

Jimmy Edgar and Jamie Lidell (both on Warps records) will be playing at the Casbah. 

Jamie Lidell:
His genre-blending live experience is both captivating and passionate – building tracks by expertly sampling and layering loops of his voice and shifting effortlessly from deranged beat boxing to soulful funk.
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Those who have witnessed his skills can attest to the exhilarating and anarchic abandon of his risk-taking, daredevil vocal endeavours. To watch is to be privy to Lidell harnessing the essence of pure spontaneous creativity.

Be mindful that no Jamie Lidell live performance is complete without visuals maestro Pablo Fiasco, a scion of the film underground. Using an array of samplers, cameras, electronic gizmos, costumes, masks, and film and video projectors, they cut up sounds and images in a pandemonious whirlwind, with Lidell manipulating and sparring with his own vocals, dressed in a range of "media suits" – costumes made of video tape, CDs, and even 16mm film. Each goading the other on to new and wilder heights, theirs is a true multimedia happening without parallel.

Some may also know Lidell from his previous work in Super_Collider, the tricksy techno-funk outfit he helmed with Cristian Vogel. A good few will recall his smokey crooner vocals on Matthew Herbert's Big Band project, where he took centre stage with the Big Band supporting Bjork, which included dates at Madison Square Gardens, and the Hollywood Bowl. And hardy warehouse rave survivors will have happy memories of his role in underground techno assaults in London.

Jimmy Edgar:
Street-smart and wise-beyond-his-years, Jimmy Edgar wanders the desolated streets of junky occupied steaming sewers, an urban ghost town under deconstruction. Reeling through a jungle of industrious landscapes, abandoned buildings, isolated alley ways and homeless people. In the midst of which lies intense feelings of jadedness and despair that makes the city all the more musical in its thriving evolving decay, and being the inspiration to a unique style which critics rant as being: Songs with "a richly textured character –softly softly blending a hazy arrangement of static with an engrossing nighttime beat. Scratches galore and moody electronic pulses… via some glorious Detroit Neon," Boomkat 2002. Poster child of sound couture Jimmy Edgar, who dropped studies in fashion and design to concentrate on making music, has a background of art production and style which reads much like an urban landscape dissertation. Snatching all kinds of influences from his Detroit dwelling: the city's decay, urban fashion, and the city's eclectic music scene, Edgar manufactures unique and provocative ultra modern sound environments.