Most Saturdays from noon-3pm you can find me at Lizard’s Liquid Lounge, 3058 W. Irving Park Rd. in Chicago.  That’s the meeting point for an open, informal group of folks who like to tinker with music and electronics, called the eSymposium, which is the brainchild of Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot.

Lately, we’ve been setting up the PA every week and letting a loose open mic happen in parallel with the circuit-bending and shop talk that goes on.  This past Saturday, a kind gentleman from Columbia College set up and recorded the jams.  He happened to catch a particularly nice one from Tomer, Jason and myself:

Tomerica, Michael,OtherGuy by The Troglobite

Also, I’ve been working up my performance for the upcoming MCA show and I’ve built some new MIDI-controlled drumbots. Here’s a cameraphone photo of one of them, called “Ting.” It clinks together two tiny finger cymbals when it recieves a MIDI note: