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City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival, May 7-9, 2009 in Decatur, GA

The 2nd Annual City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival will be held in the Atlanta area on May 7-9, 2009.

Tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/52609?prod_id=10495

Discount tickets are available for buyers of multiple days or sessions.

Purchasers of the 3 day - 4 session ticket save $18 over buying at the door. Purchasers of the 2 day - 3 session ticket save $11 over buying at the door. And purchasers of the All day Saturday ticket save $6 over buying at the door.
Single session tickets saves $2 over buying at the door.

Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA (minutes away from Atlanta) is once again the venue for the Festival Event. Kavarna gives us a perfect vibe for the performances, with great sound and a nice selection of food and beverage for festival attendees. Kavarna is a non-smoking and all-ages venue.

The list of performers include some of the best electronic musicians from around the U.S. heard on radio stations like Music From the Hearts of Space, Echoes, Star's End, Soma FM, StillStream, Galactic Travels, and more, and are from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Musical styles range from ambient to downtempo chillout to Berlin school to IDM to space rock to experimental. This is not a DJ event.

Real electronic music performed live by humans!

Performers and tentative schedule for the three-day event are:

Thursday, May 7, 2009 7pm- Different Skies All-stars (John Rossi III, Jonathan Mills, Kevin Haller, Jim Combs plus guests)
8pm- citizenGreen 9pm- Broken Symmetry 10pm- Tony Gerber 11pm- Masik

Friday, May 8, 2009 7pm- Earthgirl 8pm- Kathy Raimey 9pm- aTHeNa BLue 10pm- Xeriod Entity (Howard Moscovitz, Greg Waltzer, Bill Fox) 11pm- Paul Vnuk, Jr & Klimchak

Saturday, May 9, 2009
Afternoon session 1pm- Don Hassler & Jason Butcher (The Buchla Twins) 2pm- Anonymi and Elbo Jones 3-5pm- Richard Lainhart workshop- Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance*

Evening session 7pm- Mark Mahoney 8pm- Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel 9pm- Richard Lainhart 10pm- Kevin Spears & Shane Morris 11pm- Richard Devine & Joshua Kay

For more information, ticketing, and performer bios and event schedule: http://www.cityskies.com All proceeds from ticket sales will go to performers for this event.

Tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/52609?prod_id=10495

Discount tickets are available for buyers of multiple days or sessions.

Purchasers of the 3 day - 4 session ticket save $18 over buying at the door. Purchasers of the 2 day - 3 session ticket save $11 over buying at the door. And purchasers of the All day Saturday ticket save $6 over buying at the door.
Single session tickets saves $2 over buying at the door.

Venue location - Kavarna, 707 East Lake Drive, Decatur, GA 30030

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*Details for Richard Lainhart workshop on Saturday afternoon May 9, 2009 Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance

The promise of electronic music has been, from the beginning, to provide the composer with the means to create his or her own unique sounds and musics without the need for intermediaries like performers and technicians.

And the problem with electronic music has been, from the beginning, to endow synthesized sound with the same organic expressivity found in acoustic instruments and natural sound while making synthesizers viable performance instruments in their own right.

The first electronic instruments intended for performance, such as the Theremin and the Ondes Martenot, while providing the performer with highly nuanced pitch control, had limited sound-shaping control and could only play one note at a time. The first modular analog synthesizers, while offering polyphony - the ability to play multiple notes simultaneously - and unlimited sonic control, had limited expressive performance control and were completely impractical for live use.

There have been many attempts since then to integrate the unlimited potential of modular analog synthesis with practical performance capabilities, and to provide the electronic music composer/performer with the kind of expressive musical control available in advanced acoustic instruments.

Among of the most successful and creative of these efforts are the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer and the Haken Continuum Fingerboard. Buchla's 200e is the first modular analog synth with patch memory and the ability to re-route patchcords on the fly, making it an ideal instrument for performance, capable of both the highest and lowest levels of control.

The Continuum is a unique multidimensional controller keyboard that senses direct finger movement in three dimensions (X, Y, and pressure) for each of up to 16 fingers, making it one of the most advanced performance controllers available today.

Together, the 200e and the Continuum make for an electronic music performance system of unparalleled expressivity and sensitivity.

In his workshop, Richard will demonstrate the synthesis and control functions of the Buchla 200e with an emphasis on patch programming for maximum expressivity under Continuum control. The workshop will include a live performance focusing on the Continuum/Buchla 200e system's expressive control capabilities. Time permitting, workshop attendees will also have the opportunity to play the system themselves. Read more!

Richard Lainhart films "One Year" and "drift" to be screened at L.A. International Festival of Cinema and Technology

Richard Lainhart, award-winning composer, filmmaker, and author, is pleased to announce that two of his short films, "One Year" and "drift", have been accepted for screening at the International Festival of Cinema and Technology's Visions of Movement, Art and Sound, Saturday February 7th in Los Angeles.

"One Year" is a year-long timescape of a maple tree in Lainhart's backyard, photographed daily with a digital still camera under computer control and assembled and processed in Adobe After Effects. The soundtrack is computer-processed bowed vibraphone, played and recorded live. 'drift' is an abstact HD film created entirely in Adobe After Effects. The soundtrack is an improvisation for lapsteel guitar processed with the Symbolic Sound Kyma System.

Richard Lainhart's "drift" and "One Year" will receive their L.A. premieres at the Festival's Visions of Movement, Art and Sound, Saturday February 7th. This showcase features cutting edge films with an intense focus on music and equally dynamic visuals. Along with Lainhart, presentations include 10 new and innovative music videos including Katy Davis' "Stay in My Memory" video for Bimm, SHTIL Music Video for Infectzia, and Hillside Music Video directed by Nir Ben Jacob for the band Sidewalk Fiction, among others. Other films in this screening sequence focusing on strong sounds and mesmerizing visuals include "Himalyanwalk" directed by Jeanet Snijders, "Motion" directed by John Osborne.

• For more information about Visions of Movement, Art and Sound http://www.ifct.org/ifctshortsdancemusicsound.html
• The festival website is http://www.ifct.org
• A schedule of festival screenings and directions to the venues can be found at http://www.ifct.org/ifctschedulelosangeles09.html
• For information on tickets or schedule contact admin@ifct.org.

For more about information about Richard Lainhart, visit http://www.otownmedia.com
The International Fest of Cinema and Technology (IFCT) takes place at the Downtown Independent Theatre at 251 S. Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. This festival will be screening films from filmmakers around the world. The IFCT, (www.ifct.org) now in its 6th year, specializes in screening new animation and experimental film. The festival line-up also includes an array of exceptional narrative and documentary features and shorts.

The IFCT is designed to give exposure to independent films, many of which previously had been underexposed to the public. The festival's motto is it seeks to "discover the undiscovered film." The "technology" in the festival's name occurs both in the content of the festival, which tends to focus on themes of technology or feature unique creation techniques, as well as in the method of showcasing content at the events. Read more!