{"44026":{"#nid":"44026","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Dorkbot Art and Technology Forum","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta chapter of dorkbot, the international forum dedicated to art, technology, and \u0022people doing strange things with electricity,\u0022 holds its first meeting of 2008 on Wednesday, January 16th, at 7 pm, in the Couch Building (room 207) at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore information about dorkbot, including directions, is available at:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dorkbot.org\/dorkbotatl\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/dorkbot.org\/dorkbotatl\/\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis meeting features composer, guitarist, and software programmer \u003Cstrong\u003ENICK DIDKOVSKY \u003C\/strong\u003Epresenting  \u003Cstrong\u003EMetaSection Piece Generator\u003C\/strong\u003E, a program that composes music for live ensemble. Nick will discuss and demonstrate his unique approach to algorithmic composition, joining us via videoconference from New York.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and software programmer. In 1983, he founded the avant-rock septet Doctor Nerve. He presently resides in New York City, where he composes, creates music software, and teaches computer music composition. He is the principle author of the computer music language Java Music Specification Language and uses it to teach at New York University and Columbia University. He is director of bioinformatics for the Gensat project at The Rockefeller University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDidkovsky\u0027s work with Doctor Nerve joins the furious energy of rock with intricate composition, some of which finds its origins in rich software systems of his own design. His non-didactic approach to combining human and machine creativity is his unique fingerprint in a musical world that pushes the boundaries of rock music, algorithmic composition, and contemporary music.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDidkovsky has also composed music for Bang On A Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, California EAR Unit, New Century Players, Either\/Or, ARTE Quartett, Downtown Ensemble, and others. His works are available on CD and online; recent releases include \u0022Ice Cream Time\u0022 for ARTE Sax Quartett, Tom Dimuzio, and Didkovsky (New World Records 80667), \u0022Tube Mouth Bow String,\u0022 music for electric guitar, computer, live electronics, and string quartet (Pogus Productions 21042-2), and \u0022Swim This\u0022 Gerry Hemingway, Michael Lytle, and Nick Didkovsky, released on his own Punos Music label.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith Phil Burk, Didkovsky created JMSL (Java Music Specification Language), a language for computer music composition written in the Java programming language. JMSL was premiered at Circuits: The Governor\u0027s Conference on Arts and Technology, in Palisades, NY in March, 1998. In 2003, Minnesota Public Radio commissioned a JMSL version of Henry Cowell \u0026amp; Leon Theremin\u0027s historical electronic music instrument, the Rhythmicon (1930), which can be performed at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.musicmavericks.org\/rhythmicon\u0022\u003Ewww.musicmavericks.org\/rhythmicon\u003C\/a\u003E. Didkovsky recently premiered a new composition for four tabletop electric guitarists following a real-time score generated by JMSL, at the Music in the Global Village conference in Budapest, which featured Keith Rowe, Hans Tammen, Erhard Hirt, and Didkovsky.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHis online interactive musical works are available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.punosmusic.com\u0022\u003Ewww.punosmusic.com\u003C\/a\u003E. Pieces include \u0022Music for Hot Spots\u0022 where the user is instructed to \u0022Put on your headphones, turn on your laptop\u0027s mic, and listen. Music for Hotspots dramatically alters the sound of your environment.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn February 12th, Georgia Tech\u0027s ensemble-in-residence, Sonic Generator, will perform Didkovsky\u0027s Rain on a Frail Cutie. More information on that concert is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta chapter of Dorkbot is sponsored by the Music Department in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta chapter of dorkbot, an international forum, meets to discuss art, technology, and \u0022people doing strange things with electricity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dorkbot Art and Technology Forum"}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-08-03 17:05:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:48:07","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2008-01-16T18:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2008-01-16T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2008-01-16T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2008-01-16 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2008-01-17 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2008-01-17 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dorkbot.org\/dorkbotatl\/ Dorkbot-atl","title":"Dorkbot Art and Technology Forum"}],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1227","name":"School of Music"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"125","name":"art"},{"id":"5918","name":"art and technology"},{"id":"6138","name":"dorkbot"},{"id":"1346","name":"Jason Freeman"},{"id":"1309","name":"music technology"},{"id":"1956","name":"Performance"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Freeman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMusic\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jf242\u0022\u003EContact Jason Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-7257\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}