Strange Angels: 2007 Guests - June

SA109: 16 Aug 07 - Fear & Boredom in Los Angeles

What with all the talk of Siggraph 07... and even 08... it seemed like long overdue time to reach into the how-did-we-manage-to-never-broadcast-this-one bag and pull out this truly inspiring Siggraph 2004 Los Angeles interview with Princeton University professor of computer science and of music, Perry Cook (who happened to be on a Guggenheim fellowship that year and working on his book about the history of technology and the expressive voice)

Computer music; new instruments; new controllers; expression; mapping; machines replacing bad musicians - machines enhancing great musicians; the famous story about his grad student who determined that he liked music that made him 60% bored and 40% afraid (boredom & fear to him... pattern & variation to you... an amazing contemplation about not only the structure of music, but also art and life to me...)

SA108: 09 Aug 07 - Siggraph 2007

Yet another trip to the San Diego Convention Center, this time for Siggraph 07 - the 34th annual meeting of the Special Interest Group on Graphics. I'm sure 34 years ago it may have been a "special interest group," but these days Siggraph is more like an ecology... a city... a way of life...

In San Diego Strange Angels visits with Jacquelyn Martino, the conference chair for next year's Siggraph 2008 in Los Angeles, and also with Amy & Jackie Morie - Jackie's at her 23rd straight Siggraph, and her daughter Amy who's been coming for about a dozen years has been a fixture at The Studio / Guerrilla Studio for the past 10 years.

SA107: 02 Aug 07 - Border Patrol "03"

In an archive interview originally recorded for Border Patrol, Martin Herman & Glenn Zucman interview singer, performance artist, composer, visual artist and writer Julie Adler.

SA106: 26 Jul 07 - Females on Fire

The 1st annual Los Angeles Women's Music Festival, also known as Females on Fire debuts on Saturday, August 25th. Strange Angels gets the scoop on women, music, festivals, sustainability, animal rescue and more, from event producers Gayle Day, Miria, Toni K & Gilli Moon.

SA105: 19 Jul 07 - Robocup 2007, Atlanta

SA105a - GT Aware Home - Julie Kientz, Tracy Westeyn, Shwetak Patel
SA105b - Craig McGray, NIST
SA105c - Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon
SA105d - Dan Goldman, Georgia Tech Crab Lab
SA105e - ETH Zurich Nanogram Team
SA105f - Peter Stone, UT Austin
SA105g - Tucker Balch, Georgia Tech
SA105h - Naomi Henderson & Rick Middleton, Newcastle, Australia
SA105i - Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech
SA105j - Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

SA104: 12 Jul 07 - Robocup 2001, Seattle

On the occasion of last week's Robocup 2007 in Atlanta, the 11th annual Robocup, we look back to Robocup's only other North American appearance, Robocup 5 in Seattle in 2001.

From a couple of years before there even was a Strange Angels here are interviews that led to my MFA Thesis, Blue Shift. I recorded conversations with event organizers Manuela Veloso, Tucker Balch, and Peter Stone, as well as a conversation with Manuela & Tucker together.

SA102/3: 28 Jun 07 - Catholic Guilt?

Strange Angels explores the world of BDSM (Bondage & Discipline, Domination & Submission, Sadism & Masochism) with Mistress Georgia and Domina Irene Boss

I don't say, "Can you stand more pain?"
I say, "Would you like more stimulation?"
-- Irene Boss

SA101: 21 Jun 07 - Pixelodeon 07