I must confess, my day up unti lthe end had gone completely belly up. I felt a headache creeping up on me, and was very exhausted. All in all, I wasn’t too enthuistic. Though, my mood began to take a new direction as we set out of the school building and towards Eyebeam. The short trip was entertaining, with Erica riding her shiny red bike and the three of us tagging along behind her.
At Eyebeam, we continued to follow Erica until she found Liz shortly after, who then led us into a seperate room with a table, chairs and a projector. I claimed my seat, and soon Liz was briefing us on who we’d be meeting, and who would be teaching the class. His name was Cory and as Liz informed us, he had done various projects in which he mixed and transformed video game music.
After Cory arrived and we got the projector working, with his laptop set-up, I was able to settle back in my chair and observe some of the many pieces of his work, as did the remainder of the group. It turned out to be an extremely fun, amusing experience as he guided us through wacky, crazy and industrial-like music he and friends had composed out of video games’ background music and others, including a seperate website that hacked into Domino’s and ordered you pizza using commands, straight from your computer! Not to mention, we received some history of the earliest computers and how they evolved since.
After, we dropped by the gallery across the street where one of Erica’s friends worked and explored the exhibit; a number of conceptual art by two different artists, one of which a structure of how some artists were able to imitate a bird simply by using a glove.
Eh, I couldn’t possibly do the evening justice with my ramblings. You simply had to be there for yourself to witness what we did. I enjoyed it a lot. I’m looking forward to Friday.
– SM