January Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Meetup Our January 10th Bay Area Computer Music Technology meetup will run from 7:30-9:30pm and will be hosted by Pyramind (www.pyramind.com) @ 832 Folsom St, San Francisco. You must RSVP for this event as we may need to verify names at the door. RSVP here: http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/6710904/ Our presentations this month: - Andrew Benson from Cycling 74 will present on the new features in Max 5! - Craig Latta will be presenting his Smalltalk based musical livecoding project called "quoth" that uses executable natural language. Craig presented an exciting preview of quoth at our December Stanford Meetup. - Lightning talk by Ge Wang on the upcoming ChucK workshop and an update on the forming Laptop Orchestras - A lightning talk by you? If you would like to do a lightning talk (5 minute presentation) come with your laptop. Let me know in advance or just come prepared and let me know when you see me that you would like to present. Also, let me mention that there are two other upcoming events in January: - January 13th (Sunday): Ge Wang will be teaching a workshop on ChucK programming at Stanford (more info at http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/6710874/) - January 24th (Thursday): Build Ruby Language Audio APIs Brainstorming session will meet in SF (Venue TBD; Learn more here: http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/6806947/ ) All the best, Noah Thorp Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS Cycling 74 ---------------- Cycling '74 creates software for the specialized needs of artists, educators, and researchers working with audio, visual media, and physical computing. Our visual programming tools Max/MSP and Jitter serve as the creative engine behind thousands of innovative projects. More information about Cycling '74 and its entire product line available at http://www.cycling74.com Craig Latta ----------------- Craig Latta is descended from a long line of itinerant researchers. Asking only for a fast network connection and an occasional glimpse at the sky, he explores the hinterlands of experimental music and computer science. Craig earned simultaneous bachelor degrees in music and computer science from UC Berkeley in 1991. Later that year, he discovered dynamic object programming with the Smalltalk system and realized that improvisational musical informatics was his thing. He enjoyed a variety of ambitious projects at ParcPlace Systems, Atari Games, Interval Research, the IBM Watson Research Center, and the Bootstrap Institute. In 2004, he fell in with the highly suspicious "livecoding" crowd (toplap.org), and two years after that joined the multimedia improv group "dud" (dudland.com). This afternoon he worked for the Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory. At twilight he went for a nice walk. Now, under cover of night, he pursues the NetJam project (netjam.org), a music improvisation network. Pyramind - Institute For Advanced Digital Audio Training (our host) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Designed for the professional and developing recording artist, Pyramind's certificate programs are the result of over fifty years of collective experience in: production, composition, sound design, engineering, mixing, mastering, studio design and installation. The curriculums are firmly based on the three foundations needed for success: technology, creativity and business. Pyramind's unique training programs include both Apple and Digidesign manufacture certificates. Website: http://www.pyramind.com/ Many thanks to Pyramind for hosting our January event!