Saturday, July 10, 2010, Shows start at 8pm

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MGFest Atlanta 2010 + City Skies

Imagination College :: Atlanta 2010 :: July 10-11

MGFest 2010 features small-group, hands-on, intensive workshops run 10am to 5pm.

Each student gets a fully-loaded Macintosh or Windows computer, or may use their laptops.

Workshop Instructors lead students in case studies and tutorials which clearly demonstrate tricks of the trade.

MGFest pass holders receive complimentary access to the City Skies event.

MGFest visual artists will provide visual accompaniment to the evening's performances.

MGFest information can be found here.

I see working with sound as mapping vibrations in air. By matching together different vibrational patterns, it is possible to create, in 3 dimensional space, the subtlety and atmosphere of a place that is reflected in your consciousness. When I hear a sound I can see its shape, color, texture, and movement in my head. So, for me, sound is a visual art that you see with your mind.

When I was 7 years old, I discovered sound manipulation through the medium of the cassette tape. I would make my own voice recordings (typically imitations of animals and weird vocal sounds), and I discovered that when I would tinker with the motor in the tape drive I could have my voice recorded to play back 2 times slower than normal. The result sounded as if I crept out into the woods in the middle of the night and made field recordings of the very monsters I would lie in bed fearing as I drifted off to sleep. It was like creating some sort of primitive sonic cave art, exercising the hyperactive recesses of my pre-adolescent imagination.

Over the years my approach to working with sound has become more involved and the result more fine tuned. But this same experimental approach and psychological resonance lives on. Our interaction with sound is such a unique and individual experience, its presence in our life is that of a phenomenon. The mechanics of it are explainable by science, but the reason behind its influence on our internal atmospheres remains a mystery.

http://www.johnvorus.com

http://www.myspace.com/johnvorusaudio

Johnny was born in rural Semmes, Alabama and spent most of his life in and around Mobile bay.. With prodigious musical talent not otherwise specified (NOS) he began to get nauseus partly due to his accute sensitivity to caffeine. After a long love affair with guitar and brass eventually fading and years of experimentation with computer software/synth making mad beats on computer became much more than just a hobby...

During the last 6 years Johnny has shared the stage in various locations across the north and south with the following lads:

Dark Party (Eliot Lipp/leo123) , Mux Mool , Xanopticon , Shigeto , Beautiful Bells , King Cannibal ,  Discuss , Abstract Artimus , Syphilis Sauna, Cheap Dinosaurs , Simon Slum , Subject Matters , Ruckus Robiticus, Black 13 , Aligning Minds and many more....

http://www.myspace.com/johnnyjitters

http://www.soundcloud.com/johnnyjitters

Born, raised, and currently entrenched just outside Detroit, Phylum Sinter is the working alias of 29-year-old Christopher Todd. 

Self-taught in piano and guitar from an early age, he began meddling with computers in a vaguely musical way in the mid 90s. After severe overexposure to Detroit Techno, raves, and Berlin’s take on electronic music, he began to drift toward musical structures that are less about moving bodies and more about moving minds. 

In 2001, both the creative direction and the name were chosen, and Todd’s focus was aimed at composing songs that are at once familiar and experimental. Phylum Sinter's music is innovative and original, and is certainly well in keeping with Detroit’s rich and revolutionary musical history.

http://www.myspace.com/phylumsinter

citizenGreen's rhythmic compositions have been evolving for 5 years and running. Fusing many modern styles of electronic music, citizenGreen's pulsing mechanical beats, cyclic melodies, bubbling organic basslines and delicately crafted textures and patterns make for a unique listen, and a sonic fingerprint all his own. Chris Amell is the man behind citizenGreen.

http://highgrademedia.com

http://soundcloud.com/citizengreen

http://www.myspace.com/citizengreen