HAMMER AIR // The Little William Theater Festival of New Music: week 4

HAMMER AIR // Works for objects in the Little William Theater!

Machine Project presents a Pinhole Camera workshop taught by j.frede in conjunction with the Camera Obscura installation.

Sunday August 15th, 1pm Join us for an informal presentation from Rachel Schmeidler, who has a good deal of knowledge to share on the subject of 3D photography. She’ll be showing examples of her work, and answering questions you may have about the reality of composing such images in your own creative practice. Free

HAMMER AIR // The Little William Theater Festival of New Music: week 2.

Joshuah Bearman tells us about the life and crimes of Gerard Blanchard, a mastermind thief.

Bike repair workshop for parents & kids. BYO busted bikes!

A book launch event and talk about beekeeping, guitar and amp making, and spoon carving.

For two weeks in August 2010, Machine Project will be transformed into a Camera Obscura by Los Angeles artist j.frede.

HAMMER AIR // Our Coatroom New Music Festival kicks off with works by 97 composers from 7 countries. come check it out!

Learn how to make contact microphones. Party down afterwards with the fruits of your labor: an AMPLIFIED PARTY. A feast for the ears. And your tummy. But mostly your ears.

HAMMER AIR // Come check out Kim Free in the Little William Theater.

The Hammer invites you to give your houseplant a vacation during our August Cultural Retreat for Plants. Throughout the entire month participants plants will be installed in the light flooded linbrook terrace, and presented with a series of readings, performances and musical events for plants. Plant portraiture provided by Lisa Anne Auerbach. We will provide [...]

A class in information design.

Intro to Processing, taught by Chandler McWilliams. 4 classes.

HAMMER AIR // Tommy Santee Klaws attempts to fit a five piece band in the Little William (coatroom) Theater. Come check it out!

A visual effects workshop for beginners on shooting using a green screen, with Chad Goei.

HAMMER AIR // Come hang at the Hammer, wear a bell, eat some ice cream, and listen.

A parent-child Processing class.

A typography class.

HAMMER AIR // Solo bass for solo audience in the Little William Theater.

Wireless Wearables is a 2-day e-textile workshop for anyone curious about creating interactive garments that can communicate to each other wirelessly. POSTPONED TO LATER DATE! Email machine@machineproject.com to get on the waiting list.

A Fourth of July Sing-along concert with Emily Lacy, Laura Steenberge, and more friends than we even know about yet.

Matt Sargent and Chris Kallmyer are returning from the desert with a forty-minute piece for trumpet, guitar, and electronics/field recordings, which was created during their experiences living and working as artists-in-residence in Rhyolite, NV in June 2010.

Heather Lockie brings banjo, viola, or both to the Hammer Museum coat room.

Monthly meeting of the SoCal Max/MSP/Jitter Users Group (S.M.U.G.).

Yelena Zhelezov will be performing a short 1 minute and 30 second puppet show devoted to monumental sculpture, and one very short 30 second puppet show that considers unusual units of measurement.

Laura Steenberge and her father, Bob Steenberge, talk about the visualization of the cosmos from the ancient Greeks to the Hubble Telescope, with a special emphasis on infrared sensor technology.

Visitors to the Hammer Museum this weekend will find themselves stumbling onto a serious jackpot.

This two-part workshop will discuss the aesthetics of field recording and compare the results of practical work (in the field, of course).

Daniel Brummel will play material inspired by strands of tradition, as well as experiment, in folk music practices. Emily Lacy sits in.

In the past working with advanced technology was solely the playground of large research labs and institutions. Open EEG technology is the focal point of this course. This system makes accessible technology to explore neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, and biometric feedback. Each participant will walk away with their own Arduino powered EEG.

In conjunction with the Ring Cycle Festival happening in Los Angeles this summer, we’re hosting a series of Wagneriffic events and installations in June.

HAMMER AIR// MicroScores in our MicroTheater. Come hear tiny music.

HAMMER AIR // The Singing by Numbers Experimental Women’s Choir invites participation in workshops and concerts at the Hammer.

Learn how to get a computer to respond to your speech! A 4-session class with Joe Tepperman.

A meeting of the SoCal Max/MSP/Jitter Users Group (S.M.U.G.).

HAMMER AIR // Emily Lacy performs in the Little William Theater.

HAMMER AIR // The Singing by Numbers Experimental Women’s Choir invites participation in workshops and concerts at the Hammer.

HAMMER AIR // HELICOPTER will be performing incidental music in the courtyard, lobby, and terraces of the Hammer Museum.

A semi-monthly meeting of people doing strange things with electricity.

HAMMER AIR // Andrew McIntosh performs Rational Melodies at the Hammer Museum on Saturday, May 22. Twice!

HAMMER AIR // The Singing by Numbers Experimental Women’s Choir invites participation in workshops and concerts at the Hammer.

Join us to taste, and listen to a cheese-based collaboration between Sue Conley, cheese-maker and founder of the Cowgirl Creamery and sound artist Chris Kallmyer. $5 fee to cover cheese-eating costs.

The CAVE is a speleological sonic scenic exploration of human resonant cavities; for solo voice, objects and electronics. Join us for this special performance by singer Carmina Escobar.

A four-session intermediate metalworking class held in a professional metal fabrication studio.

A lecture by Vin de Silva on the topic of topology.

Come out with CRITTER Salon and learn about growing plants from cuttings. No experience or green-thumb required.

HAMMER A.I.R. // The Rats play two minute concerts in the Little William Theater, a coatroom under the stairs in the lobby at the Hammer Museum.

A lecture on the evolutionary paradox of screams, as illustrated by marmots.

THE DREAM-IN IS SOLD OUT!

Please join us at the Hammer during the museum’s regular hours on Sunday, May 2nd for an afternoon of Dream-In related workshops and events.

Full schedule to be announced soon: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/496

This class will present the theoretical fundamentals of sound synthesis with a view towards musical applications. Students will use Pure Data and Ovid’s Patch.

A reading and musical performance, just as you’d think.

DIYbio is an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. Join them at Machine on Tuesday, April 27th at 8pm for a hands-on introduction and presentation on what they do.

A last-minute show and tell of a homemade satellite by visiting artist/engineer, Song Hojun.

In this short five-hour class, we will cover the basics of welding using MIG welders.

Join Jennifer Jackson in this non-fiction tale of descending into the depths of Earth using experimental and geophysical observations as guide posts.

Please join us at Machine Project on Sunday April 18, 2010 from 4pm-7:30pm for the Tablacentric Closing Party. Featuring Sadubas (www.astralaudio.com/sadubas) and TJ Troy (tabla artist).

a Musical Trip to the Dentist with Machine Project’s Emily Lacy

Paul Morgan designed and hand silkscreened a wallpaper pattern which was then installed in the Front Room gallery in the Contemporary Museum of Art St Louis Additionally, the museum gift shop will sell a limited-edition poster designed specifically for this exhibition and signed by Machine Project artist Paul Morgan. Posters are priced at $15 each. [...]

Learn to make nets the paleolithic way with Mike Metzger. One-day workshop.

A book release event for our favorite peculiar visiting Austrians, monochrom.

Learn how to make your own sauerkraut and kimchi according to traditional German and Korean recipes, led by chef John Judy, from St. Louis’ own L’Ecole Culinaire.