Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Oh yeah, I forgot

record store day at joint-custody-below-the-pharmacy-bar-which-i've-never-heard-of this saturday
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http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/04/18/no-age-high-places-to-perform-at-song-1-happening-at-the-hirshhorn/#more-70610

$25 to see rock bands at Pitchfork sponsored event. I do like No Age.

Busy weekend w/ electronic dance, indie-rock, Rare Essence mixtape release, and more including various Latin genre gigs

88's forward festival starts wednesday, it's a pretty big event for (future) bass music, which dc is generally behind the times on

http://www.forwarddc.com/

Ouch, lots of negative comments about HR (but not the rest of the Bad Brains) live in NY on the 80s hardcore DC scene kids group on Facebook.

yeah he's not the awesomest live frontman lately ime

heard he was in pretty poor shape last night, people worrying about his health

yeah, i didn't go but a good friend of mine who's a major bad brains fan said, "All the shit people talk about HR being a weirdo space cadet is true. The rest of Bad Brains is on their 1982 game, though."

so i mean yeesh

Chairlift was amazing on Saturday.

When I saw Bad Brains a couple of years ago in London, HR was walking around outside the venue with a big bag of sliced bread, handing pieces out to people along with religious blessings. He was definitely pretty kooky.

I've heard it said that HR needs to be on medication (bi-polar and more) but does not necessarily do so. Sad.

x-post-the W. Post had a Chairlift review (with 80s Human League and Fleedwood Mac comparisons.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/concert-review-chairlift-at-u-street-music-hall/2012/04/22/gIQALdrYaT_story.html

I saw (and danced to) old-school Cubans Sierra Maestra on Friday at Artisphere, and sat and watched flamboyant funky New Orleans pianist & organ player Davell Crawford (with a bassist & drummer) at his Saturday night late show at Bohemian Caverns.

pretty lazy summation of their sound but I suppose if you have 1 paragraph's worth of space to describe their music to a mainstream audience it's justifiable...

I hope Chuck Brown's gonna be ok. He had a Facebook post over the weekend thanking folks for well wishes. He's currently hospitalized but there are no details.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2012/04/23/no-more-pho-dogs-at-u-street-music-hall/

Awww man.

i really, really liked those

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.

xpost

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/