Hi all,

Tomorrow, there will be the first public showing of my pinball machine project.

venue : Tent, CBK (visual arts center for Rotterdam) adress: Witte de Withstraat 50 Rotterdam, Netherlands time : 20:30 starting time http://www.tentplaza.nl is their official site, warning: this is a very artistic flash site (and not up to date) taking over your entire screen. The presentation is part of an evening with various Berlin Artists, and a beerstube with bratwurst.

ABOUT: A slightly modified and repainted pinball machine (a 1992 DataEast) is hooked up to a computer running linux, effectively replacing the soundcard of the pinball machine.

In this first presentation, the sounds are generated by csound and the composition controlled by pd interpreting the many codes it receives from the pinball machine in sometimes surprising ways. A play costs a Euro, and for that price you get your very own interactive concert of contemporary electronic music and a chance to win another round, or to enter your initials or to play the fabulous multiball mode.

FUTURE: I would like to invite other composers to write pieces for pinball machine. Stay tuned for further announcements about this.

ciao

gerard