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<td>URGENT CALL for LAPTOP MUSICIANS Bring Your Own Laptop
Event in Montreal this Friday</td>
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<td>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:30:35 -0400</td>
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<td>Sandeep Bhagwati <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sandeep.bhagwati@gmail.com"><sandeep.bhagwati@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cec-conference@concordia.ca">cec-conference@concordia.ca</a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cec-conference@concordia.ca">cec-conference@concordia.ca</a></td>
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<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
id="internal-source-marker_0.04390195298083577"><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">手向け</span><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family:
Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> TAMUKE</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Offrandes pour le Japon / Offerings for Japan</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April
1, 2011 from 8PM to 3AM</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br
class="kix-line-break">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">SAT, 1201, Boulevard Saint-Laurent </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Open Call to all Laptop/iPhone Musicians in Montréal</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Bring Your Own Laptop Orchestra</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;"><br>
</span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">matra</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lab
(Hexagram Concordia) in collaboration with the </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SAT </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Société
des arts technologiques) <br>
is organizing an artistic response to the disasters in Japan
(see the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://matralab.hexagram.ca/tamuke/">website</a> for
more info).</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">The event will take place this Friday at the </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SAT</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,
1201, Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montréal.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Around midnight we would open the stage for all
Laptop/iPhone musicians to come together<br>
and create a collective sound work, led and inspired by Eldad
Tsabary, founder and director of the Concordia Laptop Orkestra
(CLOrk).</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Over the past weeks, <b>matra</b>lab (Concordia
University) has collected some news audio footage from the
disasters <br>
with the goal of creating an audiowave representing the mayhem
that occurred when the tsunami hit Japan.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">We invite you to bring your laptop/iPhone and your
own portable speakers/amplifiers ! </span><br>
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<p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Come
latest at 11pm.</span></p>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;"></span><br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">At the SAT, you will be able to download the audio
files of the disaster from a local server. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Everyone is welcome to interpret, mashup, remix,
livecode, or play back those materials with their software of
preference. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline;"><br>
We would prefer if you used MAINLY these materials.</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">At 11:45pm</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Eldad
Tsabary will give a short and simple intro into his laptop
conducting technique, <br>
so that the sounds coming from all of you can be coordinated in
some way by visual signs.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">At midnight</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, you will all
go to the stage and perform together for 30 min. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">Please feel free to forward this announcement to
anyone who may be interested. And come yourself, of course.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline;">And please sign-up by e-mail to </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:japan.vigil@gmail.com"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;
vertical-align: baseline;">japan.vigil@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> just
so we can estimate how large the BYOLaptop Orchestra will be.<br>
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Hoping to see you day after tomorrow !<br>
Sandeep Bhagwati and Michal Seta<br>
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