Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

sorry dudes :(

http://dcist.com/2012/04/chuck_brown_postpones_may_shows.php

Chuck is still sick.

x-post- UHall is advertising that they are selling "Mama Nada's empanadas" tonight for the Nadastrom Moombaton thang

stoked about that arduino workshop linked upthread - somehow i've avoided drunkenly trying to solder it all together already

^ my man

you're going? awesome! i'm really excited about it, too.

goth-trad used to be on the u hall sched for may 30th but that event's been taken down?

visa issues - tour postponed

ilxor Geeta on a panel at the the Hirshhorn friday: A symposium inside the museum Friday will feature Aitken, David Allin, Aaron Betsky, Geeta Dayal, Sasha Frere-Jones, Dean Kuipers, and Zabet Patterson.

Outside will be: this Friday's "Happening"—for which the museum will turn off the soundtrack to the massive installation and allow a handful of Pitchfork and Wired-approved acts to perform—now has a full lineup. Geologist and the pair of Tim McAfee Lewis and Leo Gallo will perform along with High Places, No Age, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Nico Jaar.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2012/05/08/song-1-extended-at-the-hirshhorn-and-geologist-added-to-this-fridays-happening/

hmm what's the symposion on?

^ got tickets to the Hirshhorn live event, looks pretty great

x-post- I can't get the Hirshhorn's wacky side-scrolling and buggy new website to cooperate long enough for me to find out the details on the symposium

got it

http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/resource-centre/#detail=/bio/hirshhorn-announces-may-11-symposium-for-doug-aitken-song-1/&collection=resource-centre

“Art in the Expanded Field” Features Conversations about Art, Architecture, Music, Space, Landscape and Expanded Cinema

I reaaaally wanted to go to that (and my gf is going - grrrrrrrr, jealous) but I'll be out of town.

Meanwhile, I've been going to to the experimental media workshop series events at Artisphere, where I met govern yourself accordingly! I had big problems soldering my danger shield on Sunday, but I dropped in in the HacDC crew last night and got everything sorted out.

Lots of cool things happening!

oh wow i just realized artisphere is a permanent spot and not some random artomatic happening

mastodon + opeth at the fillmore tomorrow. $27.50 + $8.00 fees, ugh

awesome! it was really nice to meet you! i needed to resolder a couple things on sunday, but everything seems to work fine now - i've been figuring out how all the inputs work, how to map voltage to analogWrite, etc

what are you thinking of making? i've done some modul8 video manipulation in the past using a midi controller, and i think it'd be really interesting to use the sensor readings as control parameters for a video compositing app like that.

apparently you can just wire a big piece of aluminum foil to the cap sensor - maybe something along the lines of this 3d controller but mapped to luma/chrome/hue (or whatever)?

also i can guarantee that there is going to be some incredibly terrible conceptual art coming out of that class (admittedly, some of it mine)

x-post to fauxmarc-- yea, the fees at the Fillmore are the worst.

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most of my ideas revolve around the use of sensors to dynamically alter my animations. i kind of want to fuck around with arduino/processing for a while before settling on a project, but a few ideas i've been thinking about are:

- altering the frame rate of an animation using audio sensors. for example, a boy doing homework that scribbles more quickly (or when you yell at him (or slowly).
- altering the content of an animation using audio sensors. maybe the animation is a loop of someone sitting quietly, but when you make a noise she looks up at the viewer, startled. or maybe it's an animation using muted colors, but the colors shift to different hues based off of noise.
- ^^version that does the same thing but is based off of motion sensing (someone walks by and it startles the animated person and/or changes the colors in the image)
- using a webcam to insert the viewer into an animation. i'm trying to think of creative ways to do this that don't end up looking really cheesy.

So Chuck Brown has a bad case of pneumonia. He's been in the hospital for awhile now.

Meanwhile, I've been going to to the experimental media workshop series events at Artisphere, where I met govern yourself accordingly!

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i am jealous that yall are doing these! they look so rad

They mentioned that they're planning on doing a bunch more this fall, presumably free again. I'm not sure what the subject matter will be, of course, but I'm already reasonably pumped!

How was the Hirshhorn thang? I skipped it and went to Cynthia Connolly's photo exhibit and then out to the Crossroads for soca and dancehall dj sounds. Cynthia's nice photos just take up one wall. The dj'ing was uneven with some sloppy mixing.

the Song 1 live thing at the Hirshhorn was pretty great, but quite short - each act only did 5-10 minutes. But it was set up to flow seamlessly between acts and it worked really well. I dunno, I probably wouldn't have gone if I'd known the live portion was so brief.

The Mal*tz review in the W. Post said it was a 45 minute long thang (for $25 plus service charge)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/song-1-a-happening-at-the-hirshhorn/2012/05/13/gIQAXheFNU_story.html

this upcoming May 19 Comet Ping Pong gig looks fun (Dc resident Kid was once in the Gun Club and the Cramps):

The Kid Congo Powers Hour
The notorious Kid Congo Powers leads a band of wayward DC rebels (Mark Cisneros, Tom Bunnell & Brendan Canty) through a garage funk dance party. The Kid Congo Powers hour are doing all cover versions of 60's and 70's garage rock dance numbers. You bring the dancing shoes, we'll bring the party..

(as does the one the night before with the Iranian moved to Brooklyn power pop group Yellow Dogs):

So Chuck Brown has a bad case of pneumonia. He's been in the hospital for awhile now.

r.i.p.

gutted

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/05/16/d-c-reacts-to-chuck-browns-death/

Big newsprint drawing of Chuck Brown on the front of this morning's Washington Post Style section, plus a front page item.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/05/23/chuck-browns-funeral-may-be-next-week/#more-72706

B.B. King at the Howard Theatre Nov. 24-25 ($150).

$$$$

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/05/24/chuck-browns-public-viewing-memorial-set-for-next-week/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/05/29/photos-chuck-browns-viewing/

A friend's started a weekly art show happy hour Thursdays at Mova with DJs after, I'm on this Thursday the 31st from 9-1.

It's free, 21+, at 2004 14th Street at W Street - FB event details at http://www.facebook.com/events/113664472105280/

Preview of the kinds of stuff I'll be playing (bmore + jrz club, tropical bass, uk funky, etc) at https://soundcloud.com/pushingit/the202atmova

nice

Busy with family stuff, I'm gonna have to miss Faux Marc; Afrobeat for ya Soul with DJ underdog at Boss; and Jon langford at Iota tonight. Not that I could do 'em all.

CP is liveblogging the Chuck Brown memorial service (that includes his band and gospel go-go and celebs and politicians) and it is streaming online and on DC public tv

Bossa not Boss

The Washington Post has video of the service too

and WPFW and WPGC are airing it on the radio

friends kingdom + bok bok playing u hall tonight, only thing i've been looking forward to in the area for a long while ; caught them at santos party house in nyc a couple of weeks ago and everything was still on point

Busy night also for decent old fart music--The Clean (80s era New Zealand guitar pop) with Times New Viking at RnR Hotel; plus:

Alvin Youngblood Hart (blues) at Jammin Java

Jimmy Cliff at the 930 Club (reggae

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Free entry before 10pm for 21+.

I guess I am not the only one out of the loop on bass/grime/garage club whatever, if folks can go for free on a Thursday night.

The Clean - worth seeing?

I guess I am not the only one out of the loop on bass/grime/garage club whatever, if folks can go for free on a Thursday night.

DC isn't into this in general yet, it's still very much stuck in a 90's stick-to-your-homogeneous-edm-genre state of mind

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I think so (have always somehow missed them and missed singer Kilgour solo with band tours), and I see that an ilxer who saw them the other night, posted on the Clean thread that he liked them. Like New Zealand's Chills and Verlaines, they have that jangly guitar-pop thing going, but with touches of punk and now apparently, Neu-style motorik krautrock.

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while it may be due to space reasons, I see that the CP club listings for tonight only list the 7 pm early show at Uhall.

it's in the online version