Dorkbot people are a lot like ‘us’, I’ve always been impressed whenever I’ve been to one of their sessions.
They are having an exhibition starting on Tuesday the 22nd of February at the Sydney Artist Run Innitiative Serial Space.
I’m certainly going to check it out!
For those of you who’ve never heard of dorkbot, go along to their February session on the 19th:
DORKBOT : SYD MONDAY 19th FEBRAURY 19:30 till 22:00
NOTICE: Dorkbot has moved to every THIRD MONDAY OF THE MONTH!!!!
We are pleased to have three artists who do strange things with electricity to make sound! Please come along to Lanfranchis at 7.30 for a mingle, talks will start at 8pm sharp. Bring drinks and nibblies.
Jodi Rose is a conceptual sound artist who makes music from bridges in
collaboration with electronic artists, composers, musicians, vj’s and
more.
http://www.singingbridges.net
http://www.myspace.com/play_vj
http://www.toydeath.com
http://www.myspace.com/globalbridgesymphony

John Jacobs will demonstrate his circuit bent, home brew, simple D.I.Y. touch patched sound generating circuits based on the work of Peter Blasser http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/paper/index.html.
John is aiming to convene a broken bent and built ElectroMutant Arkestra through the Dorkbot/Electrofinge interface and is keen to contact potential collaborators.
He has started a blog at http://www.jj.chaos.org.au documenting this work.

Nick Mariette will talk about his experiences building and using his own ambisonic microphone for capturing 3d field recordings that he uses for live surround sound performances.
http://soundsorange.net