The last 9 months have been preoccupied with the gestation and birth of a son.
Most of the work on that front was accomplished by my lovely wife – I tried not to spend too much time hepling.

In June King Ore orchestrated an evening of Doom Lounge as part of the In the House Festival. Excerpts from the performance will make their way online eventually. These things have a way of taking longer than it seems they should.
Thanks to Daniel Lunn, Mythical Man, Mr. Fire Man, Sascha Levin, Curtis Mathewson and Olo J. Milkman. (also to the Judies!)

June also provided an opportunity to do some live visuals and guest lecture at a Plasmatron Laboratories underground Art Party and Channeling.
Those Visuals were projected again as part of New Forms Festival 11.
Thanks to Olo, Atef, and Psimon for the bright lights.

And upcoming? Who knows.

Which led me back to the GRL Laser Tag installation in Rotterdam, which I’ve long admired (Though until now I hadn’t read the how-to. If anyone would like to help me procure a heap of pricey tech, this would be fun to do on the south wall of the sugar refinery.

Right now I am looking at learning vvvv, but here is a video about a book on Processing that makes a pretty compelling case for learning that environment.

While we were away we started up a new project  – site explorations, viewable when you click here.

Here are a couple of the videos:

There are also some fresh things from theatrical shows:

For more, See Hear.

Bill Wallace in the air,Curtis Mathewson in front

The whole lot of us

Bill Wallace and Dan Lunn on longstrings, that’s me on the drums

Dharma Plated Vehicle

Looks like fun, doesn’t it.

This weekend Swarm played the Mary Irwin theatre in Kelowna to an enthusiastic audience. We had a great time.

The video we used included some appropriated images that should be credited.

video for Spinfectious included a clip from the film Bodysong

video for 7of9 included a clip from At Land

video for Anung Un Rama contained a clip from Meditation on Violence

short clips from a plethora of public domain movies were used throughout, thanks mainly to publicdomaintorrents

More images and video clips to come in the next few days.

Fresh 20 minute video demo posted. The audio is from the ‘world’s heaviest dubstep’ compilation – provenance unknown but the mix of ‘wayfaring stranger’ that kicks it off is brilliant. It’s a live video recording and best viewed fullscreen.

Also a flyer has gone out for the upcoming 12 Minutes Max event at the Firehall arts centre in Vancouver. Swarm will be premiering KounterKlockWerk – a new kinetic drum piece with banging and spinning and bungee throws. Much fun. (click flyer image for a larger version)

at the hands of the lighta! crew

A remixable audio file is up for grabs at CCmixter and a video record of the performance can be viewed below.

The oratory was extemporaneous (with notes) based on the guiding principles of the A440hz electromagnetic explorations project.

The video background was responsive to the environmental audio and is built of photographs (taken by me) of the [human hearing] portion of the A440hz installation.