A month? We’ve been quiet. Sorry. We’ve been busy. No lie. You deserve to know about things such as this:
We’re excited. VERY. You? SHOULD BE TOO. T-minus not-many-days to festival time. Feel it. We’ll be louder in April. It’s real, and real close.
We’re setting some schedule and figuring the artist lineup, but before we go on any farther with our lives we must stop and take a breath and think about what is to come.
Specifically, FELIX KUBIN to MEGAPOLIS in Baltimore this May 15th. Yes he’s coming (e)specially from Germany; Yes he is coming to us via the nice nice people at the Goethe-Institut in Boston and Washington D.C.; Yes he will rock our little Baltimore hizzouse. Felix has been a purveyor of sci-fi pop musics for some time, but at MegaFest he’ll be up for pleasin’ crowd with a classic German horspiel (radio play aw-yee-uh) translated into English.
In the spirit of bad timing we missed promoting Felix’s latest radio play that very recently aired Deutschlandradio, but to give you some more pump about Mr. Felix the Performer look no further than this visual action:
Stay tuned for more im por tant updates regarding MEGAPOLIS 2010 and you!
Thanks to all the proposers for proposing good things. Now we need to compile and crunch numbers, make spreadsheets and pie charts and venn diagrams, do jumping jacks and shoot off bottle rockets until the schedule is set. Until then, a message for you:
We will be in touch in all ways and shapes and formz.
Wednesday … look at your calendar you freak of awareness or lack thereof.
It is 10-SOMETHING DAYS until proposals are due for MEGAPOLIS BALTIMORE TAKEOVER MAY 14-16 2010. Submit like you’ve never submitted before via THE LINK OF FATE NOT DOOM. You have until midnight on Valentine’s Day the 14th indeed. What better way to say I-heart-you-like-a-supermodel than by submitting to MEGAFEST’10? I can think of none more better way of things.
A NOTE TO READ along those lines- we’re going to have to make some tough decisions regarding what proposals we can accommodate and what we have to wave a teary goodbye to, for 2010 anyways. That said we need to give preference to new MegaFest artists, AKA people who did not present at MEGAPOLIS in Boston/Cambridge in 2009. We’re sorry about this tremendously, but we know you do understand our desire to keep the festival fresh and funtastical with new peoples and sounds.
>! FRIED CHICKEN 4EVR !<
big harp thing
Kudos to this here guy for figuring out how to make a drone machine part of your daily life. If I had spent some brain power trying to create a device like this that was not battery powered, was 3000x bigger, and could blend in nicely in an outdoor mall … I probably would not have come up with anything like this, but that’s cool, I dig it anyway. It beats wearing headphones around or putting a boom box on your shoulder pumping out classic La Monte Young while you’re hobnobbing and making maxxing+relaxing at your corporate shmorporate thing or trip to Spa Castle or whatever you do with your free times.
Tomoko Sauvage Miyata makes beautiful sounds with water bowls and underwater microphones:
We’ve been nominated by the New England Journal for Aesthetic Research (it sounds important because it is) for a New England Art Award (also quite important) in the category of “Group show featuring local artists“. Naturally they be talking bouts the 2009 MEGAPOLIS AudioFestation in Cambridge MA USA that went down mere months ago, where magical happenings were the norm and where love was hitting people in da faces from ALL ANGLES! Why in the name of objects flying through space and striking the sun have we been nominated for such a thing such as this? Obviously because of YOU, who knows about us through the InterMcNetz and who used laserbeambrainwaves to insert us into this ballot.
So VOTEVOTEVOTE and tell your friends to VOTEVOTEVOTEVOTE and tell your Gma to VOTEVOTEVOTEVOTEVOTE and then we’ll leave you alone for a couple more minutes. Votes must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, to be counted. so make good things happen before it’s too late and then you have all sorts of regrets …
UPDATE: VOTING HAS CLOSED. THANKS, FRIEND - WE WINNED!
Check this bitch ass loopercontrollerbassoondrummachine. It goes by the alias… the Eigenharp Alpha. Made by Eigenlabs. Basically it’s this high quality future instrument with 120 highly sensitive keys, 12 percussion keys, 2 strip controllers, a breath pipe and numerous pedal inputs. You can record loops, process some beats, flip through different scale patterns, layer sounds, basically whatever you want to do all while playing the damn thing live like a bassoon. I personally think it looks like it belongs in the Tatoonie Cantina Band.
Now, it requires a trusty mac to run with. Meaning your patch bank for the instrument is basically endless. It looks like there are also vendors that sell libraries of samples and sounds for the instrument too.
I can’t see this being worth the price, but it’s a good sign for new instruments to come. I hope this inspires someone down in their dark basement to start working on something great.
Now go getcher sweetie an Eigenharp Alpha. It’ll only set you back 4,000 Euro.
Time to put away those braille erotic novels, boys and girls. In a bid to outdo the Gutenberg Audio Books Project, pornfortheblind.org is a volunteer-driven website aiming to introduce the blind into the magical world of 60-second internet porn video samples.
Via WFMU’s Beward the Blog.
Continuo has a review of a new book about legendary audio artist Max Neuhaus-whose death last year was only overshadowed by Michael Jackson’s.
For those of you reading this who work (or aspire to work) in public radio, you might have heard about the time NPR gave Neuhaus two hours or uninterrupted airtime to play with. Those were the days.
