Dave King came and delivered last Wednesday night. He and JG Everest had a wide-ranging conversation that went well past our original expectations. We heard all about Dave's creative process, his musical references and influences, and his relationships with a wide range of collaborators (from Mike Lewis to Dead Prez.) We're going to try to post some audio from the evening here, so check back every once in a while if you didn't get to catch it the first time.

Big time rock show from our friends Since By Man, Clarity Process, and Cue the Doves. I only got photos of Clarity Process, so if you have shots of the other bands, email them and I'll post them!

Missing media: 809I was waiting all year for this evening, where we could join forces with the Spark Festival and show some amazing electronic music. Base8 started and had an amazing performance. Chris Baker and Anne Resele collaborated on this very complicated piece that included two video projectors, a video camera, and a laptop with fancy software (Cycling '74's Max/MSP I think.) It is pretty difficult to describe, but check out the videos. They set one piece to Satie and the next to Bjork. Abinadi Meza played a piece from his laptop that was comprised of field recordings. Airplanes, cameras, and birds floated and intermingled through the room. Alex Lubet, Doug Geers and Ying Zhang collaborated on a long, ambient droning piece. Ying...

For this Bits Variety Show, we brought back the outstanding performers from the Fall 2004 semester. 7Days made an appearance, too, but I didn't get any photos of their set. The other people that appeared were: Badger Hotel, Ari Herstand, Greg Froehle, and Ty Stafford. Ty did a great version of "Like a Virgin". It seemed to be the night of the looping device, as three of our performers had them and used them to create layers and layers that they sang and played trumpet over.