The Eyebeam Roadshow is what you get when you mix a rock & roll tour with the talented fellows and resident artists of Eyebeam. It is an event organized by the artists as a way to bring their work to places where it would not otherwise be seen. The Roadshow consists of talks and workshops that are designed specifically to blow minds. So far, the Roadshow has traveled to over 20 locations in the U.S. and UK, spreading open source art and technology wherever it goes. The Roadshow has been invited to 01SJ as part of the Out of the Garage program – a week+ program where independent artists, designers, architects, engineers, programmers, and corporate and academic research programs will work in San Jose’s 80,000 square foot South Hall to create projects for exhibition, performance, provocation, and interaction. More info here: http://01sj.org/2010/exhibitions/out-of-the-garage/ + http://bit.ly/roadshow_01SJ

San Jose program highlights include:
- a workshop for collaboratively making a Rube Goldberg installation that will be featured at 01SJ in the Roadshow space,
- a stand-up comedy meets nerdy code workshop,
- making DIY personal power generators, and
- a walking tour of the Alviso salt flats harvesting pharmaceutical overflow.
- learning to make your own firefox plugins

We would love for the Livid Community to join us in this makefest! More info here: http://bit.ly/roadshow_01SJ

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Just jamming away here with a song I’m currently working on. Tried to make an appropriate intro for it by juggling some vocal samples and jungle loops on the Ohm’s 8×8 grid. I used a second instance of Renoise for all the beat juggling and then switched into the actual song by triggering its first pattern to play.

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At the stroke of midnight every night, Head Weirdo Jeremy X. Halpern switches on the live feed at www.weirdos.tv and spews out a stream of bizarre flowing words and visuals, accompanied by improvisational electronic musical creations and weirdos calling in from around the world. Each episode of the show is an adventure into the imaginary experiments of automatic creation. Livid software is utilized to its utmost potential in every aspect of this ground-breaking, frame-breaking, and mind-bending experience.

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I’m building my first controller, because I’m going to be showing our Builder stuff at Maker Faire this weekend (May 22 in San Mateo, CA). I’m not so great at soldering – I’d probably be fired by Travis if I worked on our hardware! I trashed my header, and needed an “undo” for my button breakout board. Consider the toaster oven the hardware equivalent of ctl-Z!
http://www.vimeo.com/11812178

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Steve at http://www.sjlighting.net/ contacted me because he wanted to control lighting software with the Ohm64. GrandMA on PC is odd, however, in that it doesn’t listen to MIDI CC messages, only notes. So I whipped up a simple CC-to-note converter so he could run the software with his Ohm64. He’s really happy now, and here’s his document that tells you how you can do it http://lividserver.com/dl/temp/GrandMA_Ohm64.pdf
(even though it is labled “confidential,” I have permission from Steve to post this!)

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