Goodbye, Toronto. Hej, Göteborg.

Darsha, taken from shareMTL's site.

The latest issue of Musicworks Magazine is now on the stands, and in it I interview the wonderful Darsha Hewitt. Until you get your hands on it, check out Darsha’s sketchbook in the Device Art issue of Vague Terrain.

In other news, it’s been exactly a year since I left my post as Editor of Musicworks, and Micheline’s doing an amazing job.

With body

Without body

Destruction

The project was recently unveiled to the world through a post on the fabulous Fashioning Technology blog. Read about it there, and at Angella’s main page for it. It’s a first-generation prototype, so we’re looking for input on how to make it better. Ultimately, it would best work with the snaps mounted directly onto the board (obviously requiring a new Lilypad board design).

I’ll be showing my latest project, the Wonder Bikes: pedal-powered, sound-art embarrassment machines. Bring a friend!

The bikes were made possible thanks to support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the genius of Rob Cruickshank.

ps. My final issue of Musicworks is soon to be on the stands! It’s been a busy month!
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Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M6H 1N7
416-913-0461
Hours: Wed-Fri. 11-5 and Saturday 12-6

Opening Reception on Thursday, July 2nd — 8pm to 1am
Exhibition runs from July 2 to July 31

Facebook event

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together you and i are like a thousand languages…

Curated by Anthea Foyer & Siobhan O’Flynn

technology + art + love = ? leads us into the spaces that explore what it is to love and to express love, longing, lust. New innovations in technology both enhance communication and some argue isolate us further, yet in the midst of our crazy, complicated, busy lives we still create room for communicating love and lust, for touching and being touched, for being present and together. The emotions that make us so strongly human drive the need for our connection and mutual recognition and new forms can amplify old emotions in surprising ways.

This is a love story….

Opening Night:
DJ TOM KUO & LEE LEE MISHI

ARTWORKS | ARTISTS

MY DOKI DOKI | James Milward, Jonathan Resnick and Trevor Shaikin
SMOKs |SMOKs, an XS Labs project by Joanna Berzowska, with Marcelo Coelho, Ali Gorji, Vahid Giahi, Hanna Söder, Sarah-Anne Fork, Shirley Kwok-Choon, Marguerite Bromley, and Shermine Sawalha.
FROM ME TO YOU | Matt Gorbet > Susan Gorbet > Rob Gorbet
WONDER BIKES | David McCallum
MAPPING NATURAL AND UNNATURAL DISASTERS | The Notary Public (Erika Hennebury and Laura Nanni)
I LOVE IT WHEN YOU… | Anthea Foyer > Rob King

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Toronto Free Gallery is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Trillium Foundation

“Life is too short for boring shit!” says init, the all-day, all-night interactive playground. Karlen Chang, Dafydd Hughes, and I (under the name Baby Steps) will be letting all of you play with a prototype for our installation upcoming in a big art festival.

As the site says, come for VISUALS MUSIC INSTALLATIONS DANCE PERFORMANCE THEATRE BBQ DRINKS FOOD FRIENDS SURPRISES CIRCUS STUFF GOOD TIMES.

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I’ve not been dormant, just busy: moving apartments, planning life after work, calming down.

What happened

I/O Media was involved in the SoundReach performance with Tanso at the UofT Art Lounge. It was a live jam with Zen Lu in Shenzhen, China.

It was, I must say, awesome. Zen is a great musician, Tanso is working on same amazing initiatives to promote contemporary Chinese art in Toronto, and the Art Lounge is a great little venue. There’s live video and audio of the event on the SoundReach page.

Thanks to Patrick Dinnen, Light Play (the Luminato balloons installation) now has a documentation video.

What’s happening

It looks like I’ll be having a piece at the fourth Electric Eclectics festival in Meaford, Ontario. If you live in Ontario, you really ought to check out this festival. I’ll be doing a bike–sound piece that I’ve been working on for the past few months. Think generator-powered Atari Punk Console tandem.

Also, I’m working on a piece with Dafydd Hughes and Karlen Chang for a large upcoming Toronto art festival. I’m not sure if information is public yet, but take a guess and there’s a 50% chance you’ve picked the right festival. It’ll be turning a downtown plaza into a huge music controller. It’ll also be awesome.