Spark Festival - Rock Music Paper

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:40:28 -0800

Steve Nalepa flew the redeye out from LA and arrived at the Holiday Inn around 07:00. Let him get an hour of sleep before we headed off to get breakfast at the Hard Times Cafe. Headed over to Ferguson Hall in time to catch the end of Megan England’s talk about Second Life. Duncan and I were up next with “Rock Music”. Started out with a brief intro and Rock Star. Continued along with the work of T. Townsend Brown with petrovoltaics and touched a bit on Cleve Backster’s work with plants before getting into Gordon Salisbury’s work at Duncan’s studio. The talk was well received and garnered some interesting questions afterwards.

Spark Festival - Found Sound

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:10:16 -0800

Up at the crack of dawn to bid Kim and Bryn goodbye and hit the road with Duncan. Made good time over to Bradley International in Hartford Connecticut. Had some fun finding the long-term parking but got right on a shuttle in the lot and were on our way. Good flight out to Chicago, but delayed on the Minneapolis leg. Finally got in and through the airport fun to find that the Holiday Inn Metrodome was best reached by Super Shuttle. Stopped at all the rest of the downtown hotels before making our way over beyond the Metrodome. Checked in to the hotel and freshened up before heading across the river the check out the Whole where Duncan and I would perform the following morning as part of the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts’ Concert of Found Sound/Audio Appropriation. The venue looked decent, with video screens flanking the stage.

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Spark Festival - Rock Music Paper

Spark Festival - Found Sound