I've returned from ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) in New York, where I performed as Prisoner of Vampires, presenting a set of electropop songs mired in stochastic distortion.  While there I also got to check out some other really cool acts, including Robert Ratcliffe/Sarah Watts' "Wake Up Call" (electronica with bass clarinet!) and Joshua Fried's Radio Wonderland (live improvisations derived from FM radio!).

Back in California, on June 5 my concert series People Inside Electronics held its second concert, Vicious Circles and Deadly Elements.  We had a full hall at the Marjorie Branson Performance Space in the Boston Court Performing Arts Complex in Pasadena, also making this our second sold-out concert (2 for 2!).  This concert featured the concert debut of Alex Francois and Elaine Chew's MIMI (Multimodal Interaction for Musical Improvisation), software that recombines a performer's live improvisation to create new improvisations. Here you can see me in concert performing with MIMI on the Yamaha Disklavier:

MIMI is a really fascinating and challenging tool to work with -- not only does it magnify what is possible for me in a live improvisation, it also magnifies my mistakes!  I think that it has future applications as a teaching tool as well as an instrument for performance.  I'll be continuing to work with this software in the fall, so I'll keep this space updated with MIMI's activities...