Upcoming shows Hey everyone. Next Wednesday, April 30th I'll I’ll be performing a live looping audio set as part of the Butterfly Social Club’s Re:Vivify Wednesday series. There will be live video, artmaking, bodywork, fortunetelling, and probably a whole lot of hip urban hippies.

9pm, 722 W. Grand, next to the Funky Buddha Lounge.

Be there or be a hippy-hating Republican.



The next day I'll be driving up to Minneapolis for the Midwest leg of BENT Festival. It'll be three days of circuit-tweaking excitement.



I'll be exhibiting my Beat/Bleep bikes, giving a workshop on building your own Drum Robot Friday, and playing a live set on Saturday with my band Memory Selector.

Local Minneapolis blog l'etoile has an interview with Memory Selector as one of their weekend event picks, which can be viewed here (at the bottom).



If you're in Minneapolis or Wisconsin, I highly recommend you check it out.

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  Robot Drummer In preparation for my upcoming workshop at BENT Fest Minneapolis, I've been assembling and implementing the HighlyLiquid MSA-R MIDI decoder kit.

A preview of the results:


Robot drummer from Michael Una on Vimeo.  ¶ 7:32 AM 1 Comments

  Zigzags
Zigzag_v1 from Michael Una on Vimeo.  ¶ 12:30 PM 0 Comments

  Excerpt from live show, 4/5 at Happy Dog Gallery
Michael Una at Bigger Than Your Life from Michael Una on Vimeo.  ¶ 8:41 AM 0 Comments

  Grid Transformatiions A sketch of a little idea I'm working on for BENT Fest video projection.


Grid interference patterns from Michael Una on Vimeo.  ¶ 10:43 AM 2 Comments

  Electromechanical sound generation

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  Jejunum Last night when most sane people were asleep, I was drawing this diagram of the small intestines for my clients here in LA. It turned out so pretty I thought I'd share it:

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  Show this Saturday For its first anniversary, arts collective Deadline Projects presents this multi-media exhibition of works tackling big issues, like space, time, religion and debt. Plus, the opening is sponsored by Goose Island!

I will have one interactive piece in the show, and I'll be playing a live musical set starting at 7:30pm. More live electronic music will follow, by Moment Sound.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5th, 2008 7PM-MIDNIGHT HAPPY DOG GALLERY 1542 N. MILWAUKEE CHICAGO, IL 60622

One night only.

Bigger Than Your Life A one-night art event not to be missed: Deadline Projects's one-year anniversary show! Deadline Projects is proud to present Bigger than Your Life, a multi-media one-night art exhibition. This time around, Deadline Projects attempts to grapple with ideas that are bigger than our brains can handle and make sense of them using installation, print, painting, photography and sculpture. We're all surrounded by things and concepts that are huge and unknowable in their entirety. The Iraq war is one example- it's so much bigger than any one person at this point, and as a single human we can have difficulty approaching the subject in a workable way. Or, technological progression- it moves so fast and touches so many parts of our lives, but the average person has very little input to direct and control it. We get caught up in these events and ideas without comprehending fully their true meaning, and the most common course of action is to ignore large parts of the problem and simply deal with what's in front of us. Michael Una is building a radio transmitter to beam voices into space, ensuring that some part of the show's audience lives on forever in the vast heart of the universe. Sarah Perez takes on Debt – something that usually falls outside of our understanding in its ever expanding and seemingly unconquerable nature by making a sculpture that uses her own money -literally. Gretel Garcia and Una will be collaborating to create an installation made out of multiple digital clocks that will be programmed to flash 12:00 simultaneously – reminding us that time is always at our back. Painter nikki hollander puts pop culture under her scope and uses the forum of the art gallery to confront the public with the unavoidable eye of paparazzi. Others like Shawn Stucky and Marc Salha will be tackling issues of politics and religion in prints and paintings. * Image credit, Clockwise from upper left: Postcard design by Stephen Shapiro, screenprint by Shawn Stucky, illustration by Damien James, sculpture by Sarah Perez.

Participating Artists:

Arielle Bielak Gretel Garcia nikki hollander Damien James Blake Parish Lewis Sarah Perez Holly Sabin Marc Salha Stephen Shapiro Shawn Stucky Kyra Termini Michael Una

Musical performances by www.momentsound.com

Deadline Projects is proud to announce that its anniversary show is sponsored by Chicago's own Goose Island Beer Company! We thank them for their support of the local arts community.

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  Seven-pointed star I drew this shape to guide the layout of some LEDs for a sound-reactive wearable visual display, and the shapes looked nice all by themselves:



More in-progress shots to come.  ¶ 12:14 PM 1 Comments

  Cyclical AC on/off device I just completed this little device and it's working pretty well.

It switches incoming AC power on and off in a cyclical pattern, about 1.5 times per second.



A battery powers a small worm-gear motor, which pushes a levered switch with its' eccentric cylinder. The switch completes the AC circuit.

Simple, I know, but I get kind of nervous when working with AC and I wanted this to be safe and effective. The whole thing is contained in a plastic box, so no chance of accidental contact. This will be a key part in a project for the upcoming Deadline Projects show, Bigger Than Your Life.  ¶ 2:19 PM 2 Comments