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Hey gang,
I'm posting this even though many of you live outside of SF. But one of the tracks of my opera about Emperor Norton features the Noise Ring and other Wiard modules heavily (a rough version is on the opera's myspace page). In fact, the entire structure of the excerpt was created using an intricate patch where the Noise Ring determined both the meter and rhythmic hits in the piece in real time. The CD is arriving today, and if anyone on the list wants one, you get a special friend-of=Wiardgroup discount ($10 ppd in US; $15 ppd globally). Just let me know off-list.

(Grant, you get one gratis, of course...)

Here's the blurb for my San Francisco Electronic Music Festival performance of the opera this week:

Greetings!
Today marks the sesquicentennial of Joshua Norton's first decree, in which he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States.

Please help us celebrate by attending our performance at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Saturday, September 19th, 8 pm. Also on the bill are Pamela Z and [ruidobello]. Details at http://www.sfemf.org.

This version of the opera features Tom Duff as Norton I. His voice will be the only source material  and it will be sampled and processed by none other than Chris Brown, Kristin Miltner, and Wobbly. Tim Thompson will be processing video images of the score in real time using his custom controller and software --- it's an event you won't want to miss. 

AND, the long-awaited CD release of "I, Norton" will be on sale for the very first time. (It arrives this afternoon on my doorstep). 

Please join us for an evening of musical adventure this Saturday. And check out this interesting piece in today's SF Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/17/MNA019NGBL.DTL

Best regards,
Gino Robair