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Freakin' Catalytic! :: Chicago NYE 2012
presented by: Psymbolic hosted by: Catalyst Collective
stages curated by: The Freakeasy & The Chilluminati

Progressing & Evolving the tradition...
Psymbolic presents Freakin' Catalytic! a 2012 New Years Eve celebration in Chicago.

Featuring: 2 Stages curated by The Freakeasy & The Chilluminati, a catered Luminous Lounge, multiple rooms of Incredible Art & Installations, Turbosound System, Momentous Music, Immersive Visual Environments, Projection Mapping, Hacked Kinect Interactions, New Media Art, Circus Spectacle, Visionary Healing Arts, Live Painting, Performance Art + much more!

Celebrate the New Year at an incredible space with friends and amazing talent! Freakin' Catalytic provides environmental design in multiple rooms and brings together a wide spectrum of talents to create a Catalyst for positive activation, inspiration, and transformation. Sound stages are programmed to showcase contemporary & electronic music featuring: Global Bass, Dubstep, Experimental, House, IDM, Progressive, Psychedelic, Psytrance and Techno. Multimedia & Video installs are created to showcase cultural symbols, themes, ideas & inspiration in realtime while additionally being open to interactive audience participation through: motion tracking, live camera feeds, hacked gaming & midi devices, and smartphone sms txt to screen technology.

(performance times are posted next to each artist)

FREAKEASY MUSIC:
Gene Hunt -- (dj) - (Rush Hour Records) (3:00-4:00)
Striz -- (dj) - (illmeasures) (1:00-1:55)
Radiohiro -- (dj) - (Hookahdome BRC / The Freakeasy) (2:00-2:55)
Carla Starla -- (dj w/ live vocals) (11:00-11:50)
Justin Reed -- (dj) - (illmeasures) (12:00-12:50)
DJ Warp -- (dj) - (People Of Rhythm) (10:00-10:55)
Brad Miner -- (live) - (illmeasures) (4:00-4:45)
Mark Lerro / Uncharted Reality -- (live) - (Urban Lotus) (9:00-10:00)
Evol -- (dj) (4:45-5:30)
Good Evening -- (live) (5:30-6:00)

FREAKEASY PERFORMANCE:
Shorty -- (aerial acrobat) (1:55-2:00)
Peachfuzz -- (fire performance / countdown) (11:50-12:00)
Tatiana -- (bellydance) (12:55-1:00)
Feral Minette -- (burlesque) (12:50-12:55)
Prabvi Gualoa -- (world fusion dance) (10:55-11:00)
Ellie Sorokin & Kyle Ford -- (flag dance) (2:55-3:00)

FREAKEASY VISUALS, SOUND & LIGHTING:
Merkaba visuals -- (live vj / visual performance / countdown) - (Psymbolic) (all-night)
Nathan Peck / ROOKtv -- (live vj / visual performance / countdown) (all-night)
GravityMax -- (live vj / visual performance) (9:00-11:30)
Antoine Kattar -- (turbosound system) (all-night)
Steve Casica -- (intelligent lighting) (all-night)

CHILLUMINATI MUSIC:
The Flashbulb -- (live / countdown) - (Alphabasic / Psymbolic) (11:15-12:10)
Primordial Ooze -- (live) - (Chilluminati) (2:00-2:45)
The Abominable Twitch -- (dj) - (Alphabasic / Psymbolic) (10:30-11:15)
Derby -- (dj) - (Psymbolic / Chilluminati / Touch Samadhi) (12:10-1:00)
Lokua -- (live) - (Moment Sound / podval crew) (9:00-9:45)
Energon & Koru -- (dj) - (Chilluminati) (3:30-4:30)
Machi & ProPsyLes -- (dj) - (Chilluminati) (1:00-2:00)
Robyo -- (dj) - (Audiognomes) (5:30-6:00)
Scatter -- (dj) - (Chilluminati / Audiognomes) (4:30-5:00)
Psychohazzard - (dj) - (Chilluminati) (5:00-5:30)
Protman -- (live a/v) - (fakebeat) (2:45-3:30)
Polyfuse -- (live) (9:45-10:30)

CHILLUMINATI VISUALS, SOUND & DECOR:
The Machinist -- (live vj / visual performance) (all-night)
Midwest Visuals -- (live vj / visual performance) (all-night)
Sigi Mueller -- (live hackteractive a/v) - (fm2084) (all-night)
Energon & Koru -- (environmental stretch fabric decor) (all-night)

LUMINOUS LOUNGE:
JB -- (dj mashups) (9:00-11:00)
Noleian Reusse -- (dj / countdown) - (Black Tekno / Transamoeba / Mathematics) (11:00-12:00)
Dj Romance -- (dj) - (Dance Squad Next Level Galactivation and Ninja Training) (12:00-2:00)
Data FLOW -- (dj) (2:00-3:30)
The B.E.A.T -- (hip hop live band) (3:30-5:00)
ChipChop / Brobot -- (live) - (Cobra Cabaret) (5:00-6:00)

FREAKIN' CATALYTIC MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATIONS:
Global Village Productions -- (environmental stretch fabric & led decor) (all-night)
Gordon Kummel / mindfield -- (interactive new media portal) (all-night)
Chicago Art Department -- (live art documentation) (all-night)
beebop -- (environmental engineer) (all-night)
Shorty -- (lounge decor) (all-night)
Yva Neal -- (lounge decor) (all-night)

LIVE PAINTING:
Chris Berg (10:00-3:00)
Ian Bennett -- (anode design) (10:00-3:00)
Slang (10:00-3:00)
Misha Esterkin (10:00-3:00)
Patrick Miller (10:00-3:00)
Gary Reed (10:00-3:00)

BrilliantlyMad Magazine 2o11 edition releases (all-night)

Bar by Whiskey Alliance: mobile mixolgy featuring:
Select Beer & Specialty Cocktails
Complimentary New Year Champagne Toast

Happening @ Catalyst Collective Chicago in a beautiful artist loft around the North & Pulaski neighborhood. Complete event info will be emailed to ticket purchasers the week of the event.

Advanced Tickets are $50 online / $75 day of event (if available)
Luminary Tickets will increase upwards to $200 (includes 10 drinks, access to a catered Luminous Lounge, plus a music & media package from artists involved w/ Freakin' Catalytic)

Tickets have Sold Out Fast in previous years!
All Profits go towards supporting the Arts & Artists.

Event Info + Advanced Tickets >> http://www.Psymbolic.com/events

Realtime Visual Workshop + Sudden Sound Concert
Thursday, March 10, 2011 :: FREE
Krannert Art Museum - East Gallery
500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL

1-5pm :: Drop-In Workshops :: Realtime Visual Performance with Psymbolic

This interactive, hands-on workshop will provide a tour through the art of creating motion graphics for realtime performance using various timeline, code based and node based technology. Drop in to learn how to edit, composite, encode, and program visual content for concerts and live performances. Contact Psymbolic to receive relative software links and tutorials.

7:30-9:30pm :: Sudden Sound Concert w/ Rozanne Levine and Chakra Tuning plus Ferrocene3, featuring Live Interactive Visual Performances by Psymbolic & ROOKtv

Chakra Tuning is an East Coast-based extended clarinet ensemble led by Rozanne Levine (clarinets, bamboo flute), with acclaimed composers/bandleaders Mark Whitecage (saxophone, clarinet), Perry Robinson (clarinets), and Rosi Hertlein (violin, voice). Chakra Tuning will perform with custom collaborative visual environments by Psymbolic and in collaboration with Urbana-based improvising ensemble Ferrocene3.

PSYMBOLIC >> This catalytic duo (Julee & Troy) are Audio / Visual Event Engineers that create Live Interactive Visual Environments in which they project evolving expression through their video compositions and the realtime surrounding spectacles. Psymbolic always aims to provide a customized thematic performance with synchronous moments of meaning and inspiration.

Psymbolic's theme orientated visuals are composed of customized video modules, in which they have been personally creating and producing by means of animation, compositing and programming since 99. During a live performance they use customized code-based and node-based visual software along with hardware to synch video loops, camera inputs and effects to the mood of the momentous music.

Solar Maximum :: Chicago New Years Celebration @ Catalyst
NYE 2011 :: Friday, December 31st
http://www.Psymbolic.com/events

Celebrate the New Year at an incredible space with friends and amazing talent! Experience a full integration of music, vision and movement. Solar Maximum provides environmental design in multiple rooms and brings together a wide spectrum of talents to create a Catalyst for positive activation, inspiration, and transformation.

Sound stage lineups are listed in order by performance showcasing contemporary & electronic music featuring: Global Bass, Dubstep, Experimental, Folk, House, IDM, Jazz, Progressive, Psychedelic, Psytrance and Techno.

Catalyst Sound Stage:
hosted by MC Zulu (Perception 2020 / Ninja Tune :: Chicago / Panama)
*) Matthew Santos -- [live acoustic set]
*) Carla Starla -- [dj w/ live instrumentation]
*) Bartel -- [live] - (Alphabasic :: Vancouver)
*) Environmental Encroachment -- [live] - (Magic Circus Band)
*) Maga Bo -- [live] - (Soot Records / Tru Thoughts :: Rio De Janiero)
*) Searchl1te -- [dj] - (Dubfront / WNUR / Part Time Suckers)
*) Jeekoos w/ Ammunition -- [dj] - (Dubfront / WNUR / Part Time Suckers)
*) The Flashbulb -- [dj] - (Alphabasic / Psymbolic)
*) Justin Reed -- [dj] - (Illmeasures / Freakeasy)
*) Chris Widman -- [dj] - (Abstract Science)

Chilluminati Stage:
*) Sin Nombre -- [dj]
*) Mark Lerro / Delerrio / Uncharted Reality - [live w/ Mateo + Stu Stizzle]
*) CarO -- [dj]
*) Noleian Reusse -- [dj] - (Black Tekno / Transamoeba / Mathematics)
*) Aktif -- [dj] - (Mindoutpsyde / Chilluminati)
*) Derby -- [dj] - (Psymbolic / Chilluminati / Touch Samadhi)
*) Klimax vs Machi -- [dj] - (Chilluminati)
*) S.O.T -- [dj] - (Chilluminati)
*) Kaiser Soze -- [dj] - (Chilluminati)
*) Scatter -- [dj] - (Audiognomes)

Featuring multiple rooms of visual art and performances including: hacked kinect interactions, immersive visual environments, projection mapping, live painting and fire performances.

Synchronistic Visual Art & Performance:
*) PakaPaka Lightshow -- [live vj / visual performance] - (Psymbolic)
*) VJ Mason Dixon presenting "Penchant Apotheosis" -- [live vj / visual performance] - (Psymbolic / MGFest)
*) Merkaba visuals -- [live vj / visual performance] - (Psymbolic)
*) Chicago Art Department - [live vj / visual performance]
*) Edyta Stepien -- [live vj / visual performance]
*) Midwest Visuals -- [live vj / visual performance]
*) The Machinist -- [live vj / visual performance]
*) Pyrotechniq -- [fire performance]
*) Chris Berg -- [live painting]
*) Zac Franzoni -- [live painting]

Multimedia Installations:
*) Galina Shevchenko -- [multimedia visual installations] - (Psymbolic)
*) Gordon Kummel / mindfield -- [interactive visual stations]
*) Chilluminati -- [environmental decor]
*) Chelsea Ross -- [environmental decor]

Reflection & Transformation:
*) John Sacelli -- [readings] - (angeLynx)

Bar by Whiskey Alliance: mobile mixolgy featuring:
Beer & Specialty Cocktails
Complimentary New Year Champagne Toast

Registration & advance ticketing for Solar Maximum has officially come to an end. This invite only, RSVP mandatory, private NYE Celebration has reached a comfortable capacity. We wish everyone a very positive, inspiring, and transformative transition from the past into the future!

Event Info >> http://www.Psymbolic.com/events

Austin Motion Graphics Festival 2010
October 18th through 24th
New Motion + New Sound + New Code = http://MGFest.com

Austin TX --- The Austin Motion Graphics Festival provides seven days of educational, entertainment and networking events featuring artists such as: Herzog & de Meuron, Lucas Arts, N.A.S.A. w/ Tom Waits and Kanye West, Basement Jaxx, Warp Records, Ninja Tune, Royksopp, The Crystal Method, Puma, The Flashbulb, Carl Burgess, The Mill, Dvein, Pleix, Psyop, Max Hattler and many more.

A full week of entertainment events kick off Monday with the Austin Film Meet, a networking event for those passionate about creating films, movies, and new media projects. Tuesday night, MGFest premiers a Screening Series featuring the best of international call for entry submissions as well as selections from Stash's DVD Magazine and Lumen Eclipse's video art exhibits in Boston's Harvard Square. Curated from international talent, the screenings set the tone for MGFest's focus of showcasing innovative local and global artists. Wednesday night, Android meets free beer at the Austin Flash Group Meetup, a short speaker series including Ryan Stewart, a special guest from Adobe, covering AIR for Android, a Flash framework review, with free pizza and beer. Thursday night's installation art showcase, "The Digital Made Analog," takes place at the US Art Authority and features Austin-local installation, interactive, and projection artists in a buffet of media mayhem.

As the week transitions into weekend, The Austin Motion Graphics Festival culminates into Art Outside, a 3-Day camping festival at the beautiful Apache Pass festival grounds near Rockdale, Texas. The site features hundreds of acres of grassy camping areas and lush pecan trees scattered throughout. Over the weekend, festival participants experience the creations of over 300 Artists including: Random Rab, Gift Culture, Artificial Life Preserver, The Wave Farmers, Psymbolic--visuals, Win Win Creative, VJ Mason Dixon, Paul Baker, Michael Christian, Art of Such-N-Such, Life-Size Mousetrap, Ricochet, Elemental Uprising, 999 Eyes Freakshow, Agent Red, Blockhead, God-des and She, Spoonfed Tribe, Community Art Makers, The Art Department, George Krause, Minor Mishap, Gyronauts, T-Bird and the Breaks, Heyoka, Brownout!, Govinda, Anahata Sound, plus many more!

MGFest's educational program consists of daytime, hands-on workshops Monday through Thursday at LumenBrite Training in the Design Center of Austin. Workshop topics include: Maxon's Cinema 4D with Mograph, programming-based animation with Adobe Flash ActionScript, and creative motion design with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop.

The Motion Graphics Festival is the premier creative conference for motion design, visual effects, sound design and interface technology - presenting a wide array of events including: art showcases, workshops, studio tours, theater screenings, industry mixers, and audio visual showcases.

MGFest Austin is sponsored by: Adobe, Maxon, Stash, United States Art Authority, Art Seen Alliance, LumenBrite, VidVox, IdN, Netdiver, Gen Arts, Resolume, Boris FX, Livid Instruments, Red Giant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Digieffects, Lumen Eclipse, Toolfarm, Noise Industries, lynda.com, Total Training + more!

Full Event Information + Registration

Advance Ticket Links:

$25 MGFest Austin Weekday Arts and Entertainment

$7 MGFest Austin Thursday Digital Made Analog Pass

(All Arts & Workshop Passes below include the Art Outside weekend)

$85 MGFest Austin All Arts Access Pass (Midweek Special)

$119 MGFest Austin Monday Animating w/ Actionscript 3 Workshop

$119 MGFest Austin Tuesday Interactive 3D in Actionscript 3 Workshop

$119 MGFest Austin Wednesday Creative Techniques w/ After Effects & Photoshop Workshop

$119 MGFest Austin Thursday Cinema 4D Essentials Workshop

$155 MGFest Austin All Arts Access Pass w/ Art Outside RV

MGFest Austin is sponsored by: Adobe, Maxon, Stash, United States Art Authority, Art Seen Alliance, LumenBrite, VidVox, IdN, Netdiver, Gen Arts, Resolume, Boris FX, Livid Instruments, Red Giant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Digieffects, Lumen Eclipse, Toolfarm, Noise Industries, lynda.com, Total Training + more!

** Join the Motion **
Year-long Call for Entry Guidelines + Entry Form

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Organized by Psymbolic

Written by John Patterson
President at Hollywood Farms, Owner at Influence Ecology, Founder & President at Chicago Convergence

Seeking "Idea Sponsors," is how Mason Dixon, co-director of the Motion Graphics Festival differentiated the 2010 event. In it's fifth year, MGFest is known nationally as the "premier creative conference for motion design, visual effects, sound design and interface technology."

Chicagoans Mason Dixon and MGFest Directors Julee Wood and Troy Milstead (thru their Audio/Video event engineering company Psymbolic) have been a major source of creativity, not only here, but have produced the festival in Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Orlando, Washington DC and this year, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

What is so unique about the festival is that, although it's focus is motion design, the experience is about discovery, interactivity, education and creativity. "Creativity happens, not in the convention centers and hotel ballrooms, but in the little nooks and dark spaces," says Mason. This art is "not about presenting something, the way television talks to you, but it is very interactive, more of a dialog; a way that people can engage motion design... and the way motion design engages people."

With official plans to be unveiled this month (unique sessions, labs, imagination college, receptions, community pavilion, networking and press opportunities, entertainment & art parties, art directors features, meet-the-team discussions and unconference discussions), MGFest, which used an invented currency (designed by Shepard Fairey the OBEY Giant) for their 2009 circuit, are always experimenting; not just with content - but with the event's very structural nature.

For example, 2010 will see "Artists as Curators," says Dixon, "Chicago has many internationally renown artists... not always known or celebrated here; hidden talents that will provide their unique vision," Dixon claims. The intent is that Artists as Curators will allow the entire experience to unfold organically by all those that participate; in essence every participant becomes an artistic collaborateur. A shorter event than in previous years, MGFest Chicago 2010 is five days packed with potency and promises "an unprecedented degree of event integration."

As with anything cutting edge, "most larger brands don't understand how to plug into the festival because it doesn't fit the traditional model," says Milstead. "We definitely have a menu of ways for large sponsors to benefit from the event, but we also seek their own ingenuity." With participation online and through live events, MGFest connects artists, participants, curators and sponsors not just locally, but across screening events in over 30 cities nationwide; most large-scale metropolitan areas are included providing an artistic experience that falls somewhere between Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Chat Roulette. The festival audience is immense and provides the rich creative soup that fosters the evolution of artistic expression in a digital age.

Psymbolic, also a multimedia label "represents a select roster of audio, visual and multimedia artists available for bookings and commissions worldwide." Julee, Troy and Mason are not only intellects of artistic merit (their experimentation likened to a digital/graphic Bauhaus), but have woven their business into a ever-expanding artist, client, and brand fusion that tests the limits of motion design and artistic experience.

MGFest 2010 Chicago :: September 15-19

For more information on MGFest 2010
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The Flashbulb has released a new album entitled Arboreal which contains 17 tracks of cinematic electronica. Pre-order Arboreal CDs are available now via the Psymbolic sound shop and digital album downloads will be active starting June 8th, 2010.

Benn Jordan, the man behind the project, combines real instruments and electronic programming to create rich soundscapes. His last album, Soundtrack to a Vacant Life, was a masterpiece covering many diverse genres including: IDM, post-rock, metal, and even flamenco.

The Flashbulb will be touring throughout the summer to support his new album, Arboreal. Performances will include live electronics created with computers, keyboards, various MIDI controllers, and a MIDI guitar complete with an immersive realtime visual show. For those interested in hosting the Arboreal tour, submit a booking request or simply contact Psymbolic.

The official video for the new song "Undiscovered Colors" is an astonishing orchestration of time-lapsed landscapes shot primarily in the badlands (Pine Ridge region) of South Dakota.

Undiscovered Colors from The Flashbulb

Ambient music pioneer Robert Rich is touring North America to support his new album, Ylang. Venues include planetariums, cathedrals, art museums and university recital halls. Drawing from decades of recorded work, his concerts blend composition and improvisation in a fluid continuum, creating a hypnotic atmosphere. Rich’s performances will include live electronics with analog modular synthesizer, keyboards and computer, along with his signature hand-made flutes and steel guitar. Visuals will include custom built laser projectors and deep saturated lighting.

In Chicago on Thursday, May 20th from 10ish-Midnight Central Time, Robert Rich will be performing a selection of live and unreleased music on Abstract Science Radio in the WLUW studios.

by radio: tune in to 88.7fm (chicago listeners)
by web: WLUW (listen live) Abstract Science
also airing on: Rabbit Hole Radio

& a Big Plus+ if you're in or around Chicago on Friday, May 21st... Robert Rich will be performing Live at a Beautiful South Loop Art Space in Downtown Chicago.

Advanced Tickets + Event Info >> http://www.Psymbolic.com/events

Organic Records & Triskele Management have teamed up with a plethora of music labels including Psymbolic to put together an amazing set of music to support the people of Haiti.

Featured on this CD is a release of my new Resonant Dawn project, of which an album is due for release on Psymbolic--sounds very soon! The Haiti Appeal CD also features music from excellent artists including: KiloWatts and The Wave Farmers a new project from Gift Culture & Artificial Life Preserver.

Please check out the Haiti Appeal Project... it's for a good cause and a real collector's item!