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Saturday, Oct 4th 2008

BrokenBeat Night@ Kadan [LIVE SCRATCH GUITAR | BREAKS | DUBSTEP ]

We are very proud to bring to have special guest from SF- The Genie, bringing us a unique ‘scratch guitar’ performance involving live looping, slide guitar and beatboxing.

Peep out a feature on the Genie from Current TV which aired on national TV in the US and UK for a peek of what you are about to witness:
http://current.com/items/77206162_what_is_scratch_guitar

As an added bonus we will be celebrating our boy Gimiks B-Day! – griffinone.com so ya know whatsup !

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LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES

The Genie Scratch Guitar SF
http://www.myspace.com/thegenie

The Genie is an avant-garde guitarist, performer, and musical pioneer best known to audiences for his 'scratch guitar' shows involving live looping, slide guitar, and beatboxing. In 2002 he made his debut in Montreal Canada at the Montreal DMC Championships and later at the Canadian National DMC Championships.

He recorded The Genie-Rebel Music in 2002 and has since recorded two follow-up CD's, The Genie-Entropic (recorded live in Hawaii) and Aquadry. His music ranges various genres including electronic, hip hop, reggae, drum n bass, dubstep, middle eastern, bossa nova, and jazz.

Carlito Headset (BrokenBeat/ DTC / Imputor?) Live Electronic
http://www.elpoeta.org

Its a little known fact that Carlito aka El Poeta recently came within inches of
death. While on a recon mission for DTC, he became lost and fell into
an icy chasm deep in the arctic, for almost an entire year. Lucky
for us, rising global temperatures and a tenacity unparalleled by even
that of the most determined sherpa - he was able to thaw a small
porthole in the otherwise icy grave with pure dancefloor heat - only
to make it home for his brokenbeat set. Don't miss out on this one!

Melotronix (BatCountry/ Creatryx Project) AZ
http://www.melotronix.com/
Melotronix signature style blends trip-hop, downtempo, hip-hop, breaks, and just about any glitchy grimy groovy beat she can get her hands on. Her sets consist of a fusion of dope underground tracks mixed with her own original creations using KP3 sampler, a laptop and a microphone. She sings over her sets to add an ethereal vibe. You can catch her internet radio show every Sunday (5-7pm PST) on HipStepRadio.com.
Her journey thru music began while living below Kid Koala in 1998 and has progressed from Montreal to New York City to her most recent home of Phoenix AZ where she currently runs several nights and has performed at almost every venue. In 2008 she plans to start her own record label and release her first e.p.

The Messenger (BrokenBeat/ BatCountry)
http://www.visitbatcountry.org

The Messenger delivers dirty glitchy electro to keep you dancing straight to the after party at the Brown Lounge. The Messenger has rocked domes both literally and figuratively from Burningman to SD.
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VISUALS

Shikaku (BrokenBeat/LA-VA)
http://www.shikakufx.com

Visual artist Miguel Vega, originally from Argentina, brings a strong background in graphic design and electronic music production. He has been doing visuals for various live performances and installation since 2002. He is currently the resident vj at BrokenBeat Night

VJ Raster (MergeLife and Music)
http://www.origamimag.org

Katie Rast lives in San Diego and works professionally in the areas of art direction, design, marketing and community organizing. As a part of Merge Multimedia Collective, Katie works as a co-conspirator in the creation of custom visual content, video graphics and video mixing.

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SD, CA
Kadan in North Park,
4696 30th street,
(Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.)
21 + 2 PM - 2 AM

http://www.brokenbeat.com

See what you’ve been missin! Check out some pictures from previous
BrokenBeat nights

http://www.brokenbeat.com/pics/pics_main.html

these folks are amazing. an orchestra. made completely of hand crafted vegetables. all of their instruments that they play they make wit instruments. the only thing electronic are the mics.

Pecha Kucha: Design in 20 Slides for 20 Seconds Each

I was reading the San Francisco Bay Guardian and came across a posting for the a thing called Pecha Kucha. It got awarded the best 'Hyperintellectual Show and Tell' by the annual Best of the Bay awards that the publication puts on. After reading about it, it reminded me a bit about Share does, but in a slightly different (slide oriented) format. The text below is taken from the Pecha Kucha website:

"Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. (Admittedly, it was also a way to get
more people to visit SuperDeluxe - their then newly opened multimedia event space in Tokyo).

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you'll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global - as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 80 cities across the world."

Yes it did. I had an amazing time playing alongside Tom Burbank and Jega. I have never seen Kadan so PACKED.

People were writing about it up on the Planet Mu website too. A fellow named teknowiz wrote:

Just wanted to say I was really impressed with the sets at the last share. Darryl and Daniel were totally solid and Morgan's feedback
virtuosity is inspirational.
We really should get some kind of recorder lined up as the ambient jam
was quite smokin too, you never know when things will really click.

I've found a pretty good way to make Koan Pro generative software truly portable: it's the Audigy 2ZS sound card from Creative Labs.

Here's how it works: Koan Pro is a very user-friendly, powerful generative music (aka algorithmic music) program from SSEYO in the UK that generates a multichannel midi stream from random numbers in a variety of ways. Most laptops (perhaps all of them) have frankly lousy soundcards with cheap, tinny sounds. The Audigy 2ZS is a tiny (2 x 4") card that fits in the PCMCIA slot, and connects to female 1/8" stereo audio jacks. No additional power source is required beyond the laptop's power. With the associated software, and included "soundfonts", it can carry out respectable midi rendering into good general midi sounds, and provides additional effects (pitch shifting, various reverb, distortion, etc.) on top of this. By downloading other "soundfont banks" and adding them to the soundfont bank library, the midi output can be rendered into a wide variety of other instrumental and synthetic sounds beyond the general midi sounds provided with the card. The card costs ~ $100, and many soundfonts are available free on the internet. You can also make your own soundfonts from samples.

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.

One of my favorite VSTs for the Mac (there's also a PC version) has got to be InstaJungle. I love this thing. I can grab and chop up beats like a skilled Tom Jenkinson sushi chef. I freakin LOVE it. It's addictive.

Check it out here .

This was a great Share event to start off the new year. I had a ton of fun meeting new people, setting up (a slightly different config this time around that made the space a little more intimate) and of course JAMMING. We went right into it and were visitied by Marcos and Robert from the Trummerflora Collective. We were quite honored to have them and the other jammers come down and participate.

A big thanks to Chris for taking and uploading pictures to our gallery! Share LOVES content! Keep posting team!

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