Malcolm and Beka are awesome. Okay, they have me hooked. I want to see the rest of this.
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Burning Man art across the Bay Bridge!
Leo Villareal has created some of my favorite LED art from Burning Man and has been attending since 1994. The installation all burners know immediately is the Disorient sign.
Here’s an article from c|net on Leo’s work: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20017310-52.html?tag=mncol;1n
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The Bay Bridge, which links San Francisco and Oakland, celebrates its 75th Diamond Anniversary in 2012. To commemorate this auspicious occasion, Leo will create an installation that will turn the bridge into a light sculpture of epic proportions: The Bay Lights Project.
The plan is for Leo and his team to secure arrays of 25,000 energy-efficient white LED lights to the vertical cables of the west span of the bridge, and create elaborate computer-controlled light animations to delight visitors and locals alike.
-Jack Rabbit Speaks V16:#7:12.13.11
The Bay Lights from Words Pictures Ideas on Vimeo.
To learn more and see a video simulation of the project in action, visit www.thebaylights.org. To support the project, please visit www.causes.com/thebaylights.
I love seeing Burning Man art emerge into the main stream sphere! This will be an internationally prominent art installation emerging from our little subculture. Sweet.
Help Rising Appalachia record their 5th album!
God’s Robots
Janaka’s new project! J provided almost all the music for Hoop Technique.
The seamless blend of catchy English lyrics, classical Indian instrumentation and underground rhythms defines the unique Gods Robots sound. It is the sound of an infinitely interconnected world where borders are becoming increasing meaningless. Gods Robots exciting stage show highlights their dynamic blend of cross cultural songwriting, energetic and infectious performance using cutting edge technology and old school musicianship. Elements of drumstep, dubstep, hip hop, dub and even drum n bass shine as singer Taamara effortlessly moves from soulful and bluesy English lyrics to classical Indian vocal melodies. Their upcoming album especially produced for Bittorrent features virtuoso Sarod player Alam Khan in a rare non-classical Indian music context and Mike Pipes on flute and guitar.
Their radio release song STAY garnered the attention of BBC Radio 1 host Nihal who described the song as the “most exciting” pick out his top 5 songs, and that Gods Robots is the sound “to watch out for”. [Courtesy: BBC World Wide Service; The Strand]. They are also regularly featured on a number of BBC Radio 1 and Asian Network shows.
Championed by Rolling Stone India, Gods Robots is been featured 3 times in articles that discuss their 2010 India tour, their use of technology to create music whilst the two core band members reside on different continents and producer Janaka Selekta’s critically acclaimed album ‘Pushing Air’.
Check out Gods Robots here: http://www.facebook.com/godsrobots
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