Hey, a little blurb about me in the Vancouver-based, all-things-cycling Momentum Magazine! Pick one up, or download the PDFage.

Talk20! 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, all Broderick.

The theme is interaction. I'll be discussing the Warbike, as usual. Come on out!

Thursday, November 1
Talk20
The Drake Underground
Toronto
19h00
Free?

The flyer is attached to this post.

Made:!

Hey, I was interviewed for the radio! Spark, a technology show of the venerable Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, took the bike for a ride. Listen to it in the flash player below, or have a look at their blog post about it.



In other news, Metafilter discusses the Warbike and the merits of undocumented projects.

The Warbike is showing at InterAccess!

If their exhibition, Sound Cycles, the Warbike and Jessica Thompson's Soundbike are available for your riding pleasure.

The bikes will be available until December 1, 2007. So go get that ride! And, the bikes, I must say, are really pretty.

There's going to be an opening at InterAccess on the night of Nuit Blanche, September 29, 2007. So come and give 'er a whirl!

Yes u can has art (lite) Pd workshop at the Linux Caffe this coming Saturday. As is now customary, there's a facebook group just for the occasion.

The particulars are

Saturday, September 8
Yes u can has art (lite) Pure Data Workshop
Linux Caffe
17h00 - 19h00 (probably some overtime)
Free!

Bring a laptop, and follow the instructions on the facebook group for making sure it's good to go.

See you there!

(image was stoled from loltrek)

Thursday, August 23
Pure Data Conference
mix session
La SAT
Montreal
23h00
$6

I'll be playing tonight with Patrick Valiquet, doing a mix of i swallow and assorted improv. come on out!

Yes, The Wireless Art in Toronto Squad (namely me, Dory Kornfeld, Edward Nixon, and Michael Pereira) of Wireless Toronto will be doing a garage for Alley Jaunt this weekend (August 11 and 12). Come and rprznt!

Two things for the elctroacoustic symposium currently going on at the Faculty of Music at UofT.

Thursday, August 9
Angelus Novus electro open mic
Interaccess
9 Ossington Ave.
21:00-midnight

I'll be either doing i swallow or playing with I/O Media.

... and I'll be chairing a paper session on instruments and installations on Friday

Friday, August 10
Instruments and Installations
with James Hearon, Akito Van Troyer, Eric Leonardson, and Micheline Roi
University of Toronto
Faculty of Music
Edward Johnson Building, Room 300
11:00-12:30

I/O Media will be playing at the Electric Eclectics festival this weekend, and it will be awesome.

Teaching a Pd workshop at the Linux Caffe in Toronto in mid-late August. This one will be FREE! Keep your eyes open.

Going to EMMEDIA in Calgary in the fall to teach a Pd workshop and maybe show off some of my art.

Things gone unreported in the last four months:


Performances I did

Other things of note

My older brother and I are in mutual-admiration mode (my younger brother's admiration will be coming in a month when he's done his computer animation programme at Sherdian).

Andrew (Mental Floss) recently released a remix of one of the most awesomest Aphex Twin tracks, from Ambient Works II. Follow the link to the original, because I'm not sure that I would have been able to make the connection on my own. What I love about this track is how unashamedly ravey it is, especially considering its origins.

And, since we're on the subject of my brother's music, you should listen to Earthtones, a trance track which somehow still manages to stand up, twelve years later.

I'm pleased to announce that my work on the latest issue of vague terrain has come to fruition. I was asked to guest-edit an issue on mobile technologies, which subsequently became locative technologies.

Check out the issue, and the fabulous projects. And by all means, let me know what you think.

The I/O Media Collective will be holding the next in their successful series of improv events this Friday, March 23 at InterAccess Media Arts Centre.

Come for a VJ'd, circuit bent, dance, and audio improv experience.

I/O Media Aboveground @ InterAccess
9 Ossington Avenue
Friday March 23
9PM - 11PM (sharp!)
pwyc

Live electronic Audio/Video and dance improv

Featuring:
Dafydd Hughes
Rob Cruickshank
Michael Trommer
Mandelbrut
David McCallum
Kristin Trethewey
Oliver Heinrich
Rob King
Julie Lassonde

And a belated notice,

I/O Underground happened two weeks ago. Surprise!

Musicworks Magazine Spring issue launch party!

The spring 2007 issue of Musicworks, Canada's experimental music and sound art magazine, is coming to newsstands soon. The issue features percussionist-composer Rick Sacks, filmmaker Peter Mettler, and installation artists Finnbogi Pétursson and O+A, as well as a collection of pieces honouring the late American composer James Tenney by Pauline Oliveros, Larry Polansky, and Chiyoko Szlavnics.

To celebrate, Musicworks is hosting a launch party on Sunday, March 11th at the Gladstone Hotel Artbar (1214 Queen St. West). Starting at 8pm, the night will feature performances by an ensemble of outstanding Toronto musicians, Rick Sacks, Anne Bourne, and Rob Clutton, and members of Autorickshaw: Suba Sankaran, Ed Hanley, and Dylan Bell (previously featured in Musicworks). Cover is $PWYC, $10 with a magazine, or $25 with a subscription. See you there!


Sunday, March 11 at 8 pm
Gladstone Artbar, 1214 Queen St. West
PWYC / $10 with magazine / $25 with subscription

Featuring Performances by:
- Rick Sacks, Anne Bourne, and Rob Clutton
- Suba Sankaran, Ed Hanley, and Dylan Bell (of Autorickshaw)



For more information, please contact the Musicworks office:

tel: 416 977-3546
e-mail: sound [at] musicworks.ca

www.musicworks.ca

Haven't I been a fast little documentation monkey. I've managed to get documentation of my Pleasure Dome Show online, and Youtube'd the performance. How's that for someone who normally forgets to bring a camera or press record?

You can see the performance here:



And a little documentation of a study I did, camera's-eye view, here:

I'll be doing a Pd Workshop at Video Pool in Winnipeg next week! I've been told that it's free, so, holy crap, what are you waiting for?!

I'll go through the basic syntax of Pd, and basic video mixing skills, and maybe a little bit of audio, if they're nice.

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007
7pm-10pm

Friday, Feb. 9, 2007
7pm-9pm (maybe it'll start at 6)

at Video Pool
# 300 - 100 ARTHUR ST. in Winnipeg

Saturday, February 24, 2007
Pleasure Dome's New Toronto Works screening
Latvian House
419 College St, Toronto
2000h
cover?

I'll be starting off Pleasure Dome's New Toronto Works show with a performance of i swallow, this thing that I've done several times and shown to friends but not yet documented on my site. There's a screenshot to the right—yes, that's my mouth.

Come on out and support local Toronto artists!

Friday, January 19, 2006
I/O Media Aboveground with special guests Smash and Teeny
at Interacess
Queen and Ossington, Toronto
2100h sharp!
pwyc

I've just put a new net art piece online that I've been sitting on for a while. Arse Feck is a greasemonkey script to correct euphemisms for cursing in dove.org film reviews. For an idea of what it does, see this pic. To try it out for yourself, check out its documentation page.

Hark! I'm doing an installation at the Tranzac with Dafydd Hughes for New Year's Eve in Toronto! Wish I had the time for more information, but I'm working on it.

Drumheller will be playing. $10 pwyc. uh… we've just wired up a turntable to play at whatever speed we want in whatever direction. Be prepared!

My netart piece, Dear Diary, Dear World is online again, for now. Consult the oracle.

So I apparently lost track of time, and Making Room is this weekend! I'll be giving a talk about the Warbike for the Dorkbot presentations. Have I mentioned how grateful we all are to Kristin Trethewey for running Dorkbot?

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Making Room
Dorkbot Talk
224 Wallace Ave., 2nd Floor
Toronto
1330h
Free?!

Friday, December 1, 2006
I/O Media
at Interacess
Queen and Ossington, Toronto
2000h
Free!

The theme this time is solo. So come to make some effin' noise.

My article about the Warbike, Geeks don't know it's psychogeography, is up in the latest issue of Glowlab's online magazine.

Friday, November 17, 2006
I/O Media Aboveground
at Interacess
Queen and Ossington, Toronto
2100h

Friday, November 3, 2006
I/O Media
at Interacess
Queen and Ossington, Toronto
1930h
Free!

The theme is "found speech samples," as Rob Cruickshank brings a reel-to-reel tape with someone practicing as a flight attendant, and I bring a recording of my neighbours acting like fucking children and screaming at each other.

And… what's that…? they're doing it again. Time to get my recorder!

It's out!

vague terrain 06: locative
Call for work
http://www.vagueterrain.net
guest curated by David McCallum

Not only are our lives being interwoven with technology, but technology that has an understanding of where it is. Locative technology can be described as the connection of information to geography. It is evident in microphones, cameras, RFID, GPS, wireless communications protocols, and a host of other sensors and technologies that are allowing devices to understand their places among people, within space, and among other devices. This technology, as proxy, allows us to better understand our place within, and our relationships to the spaces which we inhabit. This issue of vague terrain will allow us to better understand these technologies.   more »

The illustrious Dafydd Hughes and I will be conducting a workshop on Pure Data, the absolutely amazing do-everything programming environment for making music, video, physical computing, and whatever else you could possibly think of (it's true!).

We'll do our best to try to tailor the content of the workshop towards the needs of the participants (you!).

Information can be found at Interaccess' workshop page.

This is in Toronto at the end of November, by the way.

One of the things that my site has been sorely lacking is any documentation of my work. (If an undocumented work is made in the forest, is it art? No!)

I'd had a nifty dynamic documenting page going about a year ago, and then differing versions of PHP and server problems killed that. But after much headscratching, and rewriting in Python, it's back!

I'm still working out the kinks and filling in current information, but take a gander at my body of work thus far.

Friday, October 13, 2006
I/O Media
at Interacess
Queen and Ossington, Toronto
1930h
Free!

Same kinda deal as last week. Leslie Spit samples, etc.

The added bonus is that my birthday is the 14th, so maybe we have an obligation to get hammered.

Friday, September 22, 2006
I/O Media
at Interacess
Queen and Ossington, Toronto
1930h
Free!

We'll be using the samples from the Leslie Spit that we recorded last weekend. Remix TO!

I recently did a little e-mail interview with Australian body-themed artist Stelarc for the fourth installment of Vague Terrain, the quarterly online media arts journal by Greg Smith and Neil Wiernik. Mr. Stelarc was incredible receptive and I was very grateful to pick his brain. Take some time to check out this great resource.

Cancelled!

Well, the event's not cancelled, I just got too sick to travel to New York. But you can still go see the show; Nim is awesome!

Sunday, August 27, 2006
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway - Bushwick, Brooklyn
9 p.m.
cover?

Playing with nim (Alex Berman), on the same bill as Brian House, both old Flexing Swine band mates.

Will you be in New York City? Come see me in New York City! I'll be playing in New York City, the city that loves to be New York City!