!(left_img)http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43672/blog_static/music/images/TWR_10_11_12.jpg(twr101112)! A chuck of super cliche techno bangers! feel it! Thanks again to proc records for being amazing. "Download zip":http://proc-records.net/upload_music/%5Bproc355%5DThe_Wizard_Rises_-_10.11.12.zip from "proc records":http://proc-records.blogspot.com/2009/11/proc355.html

A new album release is linked to from the "music section":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43672/blog_static/music.html. I finished this way back in june, but I finally got around to contacting the amazing proc records to put it out. You should check out the "super hype up blog post":http://proc-records.blogspot.com/2009/11/proc355.html which says everything that I could say but better. I only want to add that it is part of the _the wizard rises_ project, which is intentially digging through cliche rich techno.

The first "Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival":http://pghvisionaryartsfestival.com/ is bringing together more than 50 local visionary artists and art innovators into a single venue. For three full days, these artists will share their work, vision and unique ideas in a friendly outdoors festival setting. I will have a booth at this event, as well as playing in the hiTec Orchestra all three nights.

This weekend I am participating in the "Visionary Arts Festival":http://pghvisionaryartsfestival.blogspot.com/ in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh. I am showing two new pieces here, a graphical programming language for iPhone called itch (named for the software of inspiration, "mit's scratch":http://scratch.mit.edu/), and a set of tunnels and soundtracks programmed for NDS, PSP and Arduino. I have posted a few demo videos of itch:

Itch Demo 1 from jonbro on Vimeo.

Itch Demo 2: Variables from jonbro on Vimeo.

"The source code to itch is available on github":http://github.com/jonbro/iphone_turtle, and I will be working on it, and adding features throughout the weekend. Also, I was informed this morning that "mujik has gone live on the app store":itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=324895775&mt=8&s=143441. What a weekend, I am going to melt into a puddle like the t-1000. !http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43672/blog_static/images/vaf_booth.jpg(My Booth)!

!http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43672/blog_static/software/images/mujik.jpg(mujik)! Hey! Its some iPhone software, how nice. Coming off a giant chunk of monome programming, it made perfect sense for me to port some monome style controls to the iphone. Also this soft sounds super great with just a bunch of amen breaks (sorry, dev version only). So, basically I ripped off an app called "flip":http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=app:flip and then with a ton of help from my friends at luckyframe, we put together a sweet toy for the iphone. This was the first time I actually sold something that I had wholley designed myself, and it was also the first time I ever did any c programming. Basically a super fun nightmare trainwreck daydream. "You can buy it by clicking this link.":http://itunes.apple.com/app/mujik/id324895775?mt=8