Hi all,

This is my September monthly newsletter. I’m drinking fennel tea as I write this.

L5 developments and upcoming public jam

On Tuesday I will be speaking live online with Moon from Processing Foundation, via Discord. I think this may be the link for our convo on Sep 22 at noon eastern time. If that link doesn't work, here's the Processing Discord invite code.

I wrote a blog post about Why you should use L5 and when you shouldn’t. Thanks to Sam for feedback on this.

We will be leading a public workshop with L5 at the NYC Processing Community Day on Saturday October 4 at NYU. Link to tickets (free and donations accepted).

L5 Community Jam, September 25 - October 3

Leading up to the Processing Community Day event, we will be hosting an online L5 Community Jam on Itch from September 25 to October 3. Select submissions will be exhibited in the cyber cafe, a collection of older vintage machines that will be exhibited at Processing Community Day, all running L5 projects on these old machines.

Please sign up and participate in the jam! If you haven’t tried the L5 creative coding library yet, now is a great time to try it out!

new music

I create music on my modular synth and other instruments under the name ExquisiteCorp. I have a self-hosted music website that is built using the open source static site builder faircamp. I’ve been putting up my music here recorded at Flux Factory in Queens and in residency for the past 2 years at ZK/U in Berlin.

First up, an album of dark drone music, recorded at Flux Factory.

I also put up recordings from jam sessions with Zzzelin (artist Zelin Seah) where we’re performing using a no-input mixing board setup, along with microphones and tape.

I wrote a blog post about working with no-input mixing boards last spring.

Vape Synths at the next Permacomputing NYC

On October 13, 6pm at Ridgewood Commons David Rios and Kari Love will present Vape Synths, musical instruments made from discarded e-cigarettes. Created along with shuang cai, under the name Paper Bag Team, these projects aim to make electronic salvage parts more accessible to use and educate people how disposable vapes became an outsized source of e-waste. A shared ethos with global traditions of resourceful making, and local community-based projects helped inspire them, and they in turn want to encourage others to make experiments and creative adaptations for both vape components and synths. They'll also explain why the project evolved from strictly a novelty instrument to a reprogrammable MIDI tool. David will conclude the talk with a short performance (there will definitely be Hot Cross Buns).

More

• It’s fall, as can be seen in my annual Season clock. I coded this 8 years ago.

  

• I threw up a bookmarks page on my site so I can find old links I’ve saved.
• I interviewed Blake Andrews about their games for an upcoming profile on Rhizome and a new episode of the 2 year on hiatus Artists and Hackers
• I’m teaching Drawing, Moving and Seeing with Code as well as Programming Games. The first week we played with Apple LOGO. The rest of the semester is taught with L5 using the L5lua extension for VSCode/VSCodium built by Sam Heckle. We are also doing live coding with Strudel and Hydra

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