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I've moved!

sintheta — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:25:29 -0500

This website is old news!

I've moved my news page here.

Please disregard anything you read here and head on over there. If I'm lucky, this will be like a time capsule and in ten years I'll dig it up and say to myself, "I was young and naïve once."

Grudge!

sintheta — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:17:24 -0400

Once again, a delayed post-mortem about an amazing event. We staged a Max/MSP vs. Pd grudge match last night at InterAccess. Yes, a performance of live programming. Surprisingly, a night of programming was fun!

There’s a writeup about it here, and see photos of it at the InterAccess Flickr pool.

Lights out!

sintheta — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:51:42 -0400

I was wrong when quoting the dates for the Yonge–Dundas square installation! It’s going down on Wednesday night. I’m not sure if that means it’s available then or not. But, go!

When it was first open to the public on Saturday afternoon I saw a sour-faced woman sit down on one of the concrete benches, examine the square, and say “well this is stupid.”

These people live among us!

Luminato installation mentioned in the Globe

sintheta — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:35:18 -0400

The Yonge–Dundas installation was mentioned in the Toronto section of last Saturday's Globe and Mail. It's probably behind a paywall by the time you read it, but a tasty quote from the article says:

Much like the searchlight installation that lent an icon to the festival last year, the installation will let people play with light on a grand scale. David Pecaut, Luminato's co-chair, says he sees it as a kind of home base for the festival this year - and one that intractably ties itself to the city's landscape.

Rad!

After much ado, the microphones are I think being installed today. The whole thing will be operational for testing on Thursday night, and officially running as of Friday.

Illuminatos!

sintheta — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:50:50 -0400

I'm working on interaction for the KPMB installation at the Yonge and Dundas slab for the Luminato festival in Toronto with Gabe Sawhney and Patrick Dinnen of new media scallywags Media Lab Toronto.

It'll be up for June 6-15 during the festival, so make sure you stop by to scream at it and make it blink funny. Fun!

Amass!

sintheta — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:46:23 -0400

I had a great time in Calgary and Edmonton in January. Albertans really are wonderful. I'm excited to return there in early May; I've been invited to the 2008 Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society's Media Arts Conference. We're still working out the details of what exactly I'm going to do, but I hope to get some hands-on electronics workshop action going. We'll see!

View on series

sintheta — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:40:32 -0400

As I mentioned before, the View on Canadian Art interview with Greg Smith's been republished in full on his blog, Serial Consign. Reading the full version I realise what a great job Greg did in editing it down for VoCA; he managed to capture the essence of what I was saying. I speak briefly about fetishizing technology in art, such as the absolute inanity that is Second Life. Read up here!

View on Canadian Art

sintheta — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:03:07 -0500

I recently discussed some of my work, challenges in creating interactive artwork, and the craft of new media with Vague Terrain's Greg Smith. The interview's been published in View on Canadian Art.

Expect a longer version of the interview to show up on Greg's site at some point in the future.

InterAccess Open Studio!

sintheta — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:57:42 -0500

InterAccess Open Studio: You never have to work alone again

Tuesday, February 26, 7-9pm in the Studio

Hosted by: Master David McCallum and Sir Dafydd Hughes

It’s BACK!! Come see what InterAccess members are playing with, and bring your own toys to work on. Every two weeks an InterAccess member will talk about what they’re working on, obsessing over, or failing to accomplish. Come hang out, share ideas, and maybe even make something that works. All are welcome, regardless of experience or knowledge.

Dafydd and David want to make the studio windows do their bidding! We’re going to refurbish some old computers and see if we can’t get some simple webcam video art showing.

So Dafydd and I get together every two weeks at IA to work on stuff anyway, so now we're opening it up and trying to make it a community thing.

Catch up

sintheta — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:05:17 -0500

Part of the function of this blog is to keep a record of things I've been up to, and sometimes that means telling you, um, a month late. January was busy!

Saturday, January 19, 2008
Yes u can has art Pd Workshop
Fava
Edmonton

Friday, January 18, 2008
Fava's Art's Birthday
The Artery
Edmonton

Performed an ABBA tribute with video artist Kelly Bolen.

Tuesday/Wednesday, January 15, 16, 2008
Yes u can has art Pd Workshop
Alberta College of Art and Design
Calgary

Saturday/Sunday, January 12, 13, 2008
Yes u can has art Pd Workshop
EMMEDIA
Calgary

Friday, January 11, 2008
Artist talk and performance
with Adam Tindale
EMMEDIA
Calgary

Friday, January 4, 2008
I/O Media with Zimoun
Interaccess
Toronto

Monday, December 31, 2007
New Year's Eve
The Tranzac
Toronto

Dafydd Hughes and I mounted Auld Lang Syne version two, a New Year's clock that never reached midnight.

Posted!

sintheta — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:34:33 -0500

Apparently I was mentioned in the National Post! Like, an almost whole-page picture of me on the bike! I wish someone had contacted me!

Move!

sintheta — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:20:38 -0400

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

Talk!

sintheta — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:16:21 -0400

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.

Make:'d!

sintheta — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:58:01 -0400

Made:!

Press and 1337ness!

sintheta — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:57:51 -0400

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.

Bicicles!

sintheta — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:27:48 -0400

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!

Pd Workshop coming up

sintheta — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:36:14 -0400

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)

Playing in Montreal tonight!

sintheta — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:26:06 -0400

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!

Alley Jaunt!

sintheta — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:09:51 -0400

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!

Electroacoustic Symposium

sintheta — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:05:09 -0400

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

Electric Eclectics this weekend!

sintheta — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:13:43 -0400

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

Upcoming, timing uncertain

sintheta — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:33:19 -0400

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.

While you were out

sintheta — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:28:51 -0400

Things gone unreported in the last four months:

Performances I did

Musicworks Bizarre Bazaar fundraiser at InterAccess on June 23, 2007 with Mike Trommer.

Musicworks' party for the Canada Council's 50th birthday at the Edward Day Gallery on March 23, 2007. Performed i swallow.

I/O Media Undergrounds at InterAccess: Friday, May 4, 2007 and Friday, June 15, 2007.

Other things of note

Did a soundtrack for the short video Asteroid B612 by my brother, Jonathan McCallum, based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le petit prince. Try to ignore the Sigur Rós music in the version provided online, I swear I did something.

Got my picture taken.

Knitted a few things.

Had an article written about me.

Went to Sweden in April and worked with Alex Berman on an installation for Klubb Koloni. Got too sick the night of, Alex put it up himself.

Musicworks issue 98 released early July. Featuring John Oswald's new permanent sound installation at the Royal Ontario Museum, and a whole bunch of other goodies.

my bruddha

sintheta — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:50:48 -0400

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.

Where am I? Vague Terrain Locative

sintheta — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:30:00 -0400

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.

I/O Aboveground at InterAccess this Friday

sintheta — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:26:52 -0400

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!

We're having a party!

sintheta — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:08:21 -0500

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

i swallow documentation online

sintheta — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:12:27 -0500

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:

The most awesomest Pd workshop… ever… again?

sintheta — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:42:08 -0500

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

Pleasure Dome: New Toronto Works

sintheta — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:52:17 -0500

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!