The Festival of Mixology, Roulette's annual spring festival focuses on new and unusual uses of technology in music,  and has been organized by such currators as David Weinstein, "Gen" Ken Montgommery, and David Linton, as well as Roulette's ongoing program director, Jim Staley.

The work we present runs a wide gamut including work that builds upon the interactivity of sound and image made possible through such programs as MAX, JITTER, and LISA, and goes beyond the prescribed frameworks of the software to explore the possibilities of technical and artistic improvisation. Sound activates and morphs image; image transubstantiates sound; they manipulate, describe, and metaphorize each other. Some artists work with real time video processing creating and manipulating image and sound.  This is work that rests on a highly conceptual framework. Certain work appropriates or "misuses" music and media, and cannibalizes the materials of other disciplines. Other work investigates the new technologies to achieve a kind of deconstruction of projected image where artists, using digital cameras, transpose sound into image. High speed interfaces between computer and instrument or performer's gesture allow live improvisation between computer and performer, and the computer becomes a performer rather than merely a processor.

continue to Mixology 2008 Calendar....