Month: February 2008
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February 25th, 2008
 Dorkbot DC
Next Meeting:
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
7 PM - 9 PM (ET)
ALWAYS FREE!
Katie Bechtold: The MESSENGER Project
Katie, a spacecraft flight software developer and controller, will discuss MESSENGER, the first mission to visit Mercury in over 30 years. Now on its way to orbit Mercury starting in 2011, it flew close by the planet last month, offering some tantalizing images. Along with the scientific goals of the mission and an overview of the probe's onboard sensors, Katie will present a few of the engineering challenges in exploring the innermost planet of our solar system.
Justin Sabe: MIDI Control - How to make expressive digital instruments
Justin broke all his toys as a kid and has spent the rest of his life putting them back together in new and interesting ways. He has toured playing keytar with the goth industrial rock band Ego Likeness taking him around the United States, Germany and to Shiney Z's, the finest fetish club in Luxembourg. He also plays accordion and has performed at the Kennedy Center in an all tuba christmas concert. Last year he got a Technician class amateur radio license but has yet to key up because he can just call his ham friends on a cell phone any time he wants. He produces a podcast of cats purring.
Justin uses low-cost components to create fun MIDI controllers. He'll have a show and tell and expand a bit about how to use MIDI for control and how to make expressive digital instruments.
Alberto Gaitán: Remembrancer - (Part 2 of 2: The Software)
Alberto is a composer/programmer/artist who creates a wide range of new media work. His net-aware piece, Remembrancer, deals with transformation, memory, and the spacial, temporal and cultural resonance of events through automated robotic painters responding in real-time to RSS data flowing in over the Internet.
Alberto will be talking a bit about the applications he integrated to create Remembrancer including Max/MSP, Yahoo! Pipes, and RS485 commands.
Location:
Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
George Washington University
801 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037
Welcome to the Games!
February 11th, 2008
All Star Roller Derby - Charm City vs. Ohio
Roller derby comes back to Baltimore City! Live women's roller derby at the Fith Regiment Armory, Sunday, February 17. Doors open at 3PM!
GUITAR HERO COMPETITION - February 19th
9PM. All ages. The Ottobar. 2549 North Howard Street. Remington, Baltimore.
To sign up visit http://www.myspace.com/ottobarguitarhero
Charm City Noises
February 1st, 2008
Several fun things are going on this weekend. First up - there is now NO SMOKING in Baltimore bars, to the delight of many and the chagrin of some. For the delighted, there is a happy hour at Brewer's Art in the basement - formerly one of the most smoky spaces encountered during a traditional Friday night pub crawl. Help celebrate the new era!
 Secondly, Trixie Little brings her new show to the Ottobar tomorrow night (see forward below). Trixie and the Evil Hate Monkey have spent the last six months at circus camp in New Hampshire, working on new material. Check out the results!
Saturday night is also the Baltimore Architecture Foundation's annual Groundhog Day Party, usually one of the coolest events in the year.
If you are a True Fan of Counting Crows, join Jason Coleman, Michael Dawe, and myself for tonight's Very Special Solo Acoustic performance by Adam Duritz at Ram's Head Live. It's a fundraiser for Johns Hopkins Hospital, so much of the ticket is tax deductible! I believe at least Lindsey McQueeney will be kicking it at Fletcher's later on as well, with Blind Rhetoric ("the best band in Baltimore" by some accounts) taking the stage.
Trio M @ An Die Musik
Saturday, February 2, 8pm $15
An Die Musik, 409 North Charles St., Baltimore
This is the Ground Hog's Day I wouldn't mind reliving over and over...
Trio M was the group that made the 900 mile drive to Guelph last September so completely worthwhile. An all-star trio and one of the best I've ever heard. Features:
Myra Melford: piano. My all time favorite pianist. She drops into a whole other spiritual realm when she plays, and with this group she applies a steady dose of the blues to her sound.
Mark Dresser: bass. Dresser has been experimenting with different ways to mic his instrument, particularly with small contact mics up on the neck that bring out some fresh timbres. And he happens to be one of the great bass players of all time.
Matt Wilson: drums. Many of the jazz blogs have taken to publishing platonic love letters to Matt Wilson as he has become THE drummer everyone wants to play with. It’s not hard to figure out why when you hear him play.
-Tim
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