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(Photo by Duygu Abak)

An audiovisual event hosted by Create Digital Media within the HOPE conference at Hotel Pennsylvania.

"8-bit and robots and odd Max and Reaktor patches and custom visual software and visualizations of data packets and sound made from plants and mutant trumpets and gloves for DJing and laptop music..."

Synesthete performed an audiovisual set using two houseplants wired up with electrodes. Input from the plants was acquired with an Arduino based electronics project that sonified the signal as well as transfering it to the computer where it was converted to MIDI.

Live Audio (Excerpt)

Also performing were: Ben Neill, Michael Una, Joshue Ott (superDraw), Ezekiel Honig, Paris Treantafeles, Don Miller (No Carrier), Joey Mariano (AnimalStyle), Anton Marini (vade), Mary Ann Benedetto, Peter Kirn, Bill Jones, and Roger Tsai.

The last hurray for Mind Meld III. Synesthete, Nalepa, Robotkid, Peter Kirn and Brian Kane played at Beat Research in Boston. Peter opened up the evening with a Kore driven set and Nalepa brought it home with monstrous dub step. Robotkid and Synesthete shared the screens while Brian Kane provided a DVJ interlude.

with Peter Kirn (Photo by ArrowOne)

The audio and video artists assembled at Duncan Laurie's studio for the 3rd installment of Mind Meld, descended en masse on the Pell-Chafee Center in Providence, RI for We'll Do It Live.

Performances by: Aerostatic, Brian Kane, David Lublin, Duncan Laurie, Jeswa, Nalepa, Ooah, Peter Kirn, Richard Devine, RNDM & Robotkid, Synesthete and Unkle Thirsty.

Synesthete joined Bijan Rezvani and Joe Caputo to provide visuals for a Droid Behavior + Friendly Integration event featuring Jimmy Edgar, Derek Michael, Baseck, Daedalus, and Ian Hind. All of the visual artists were using hand-rolled Max patches. Joe, a modified version of Randy Jones' sudden rabbit guest patch and Bijan, a built-from-scratch video mixer.

Synesthete performed alongside Trace Element and Laura Escudé at the second of SKYY90 DESIGN COLLECTIVE's Crosswired series at the A+D Museum.

Two days of discovery at Duncan Laurie's studio in Jamestown, RI. A hand-picked collection of audio and video artists were invited to interpret electrical signals from plants and rocks. The weekend culminated with a free-form 4 hour jam by Steve Nalepa, Synesthete, David Lublin, David Last, Michelle Darling and Terry Golob of Aerostatic, Robotkid. Benton-C Bainbridge relaxed the weekend away on the Purr Generator.

More info about this and subsequent gatherings are at Mind Meld.

Another Burning Man warm-up with elm | pax | designed disorder.

Synesthete and Nalepa on visuals. Audio by [a]pendics.shuffle (adjunct / planet mu), andrew kelly (dirty lancing), deru (m3rck), r.d. (dD/ e.l.m.), t.l. smith (e.l.m.)

Synesthete performed at the Native Instruments launch event for KORE in San Francisco. Audio by John von Seggern, Richard Devine and Dan the Automator.

Digital graffiti artist VJ Synesthete + electronic musician Steve Nalepa present Kure Kure, built on custom OpenGL software and pastoral ambient glitch.  They foreground the nexi of a networked globe, informed by Synesthete’s nighttime digitally projected raids on urban advertising space monopolized by the corporate sector. Similarly irreverent composer Steve Nalepa has collaborated with Bill Laswell, George Clinton and Pharoah Sanders.

Part of the 3 night live cinema program curated by Michael Lew at ISEA 2006 + 01 San Jose.

Also performing: Sue Costabile and Laetitia Sonami, Jarryd Lowder, Cenk Ergün + Group A, Ran Slavin, solu, meta, Joshua Kit Clayton, Scott Arford, RyBN / EOL, Tim Jaeger + Alex Dragulescu, O Samuli A, Guillermo Galindo + Gustavo Vazquez, Brian Ziffer, Lustre + Uchronia, VJ Pata de Perro, and VJ Nuutti Koskinen.

Purple Circle Salon (go visit Liz) re-opening party in Los Feliz. Lots of high contrast material to go with the omnipresent glowing night sky in LA.