Matthew Supert

Just a reminder that Geologic is coming up 7 days. I will be performing on the Chillout/IDM stage from 9am-10am Sunday July 17th.

It is located at
Shawnee Saltpetre Cave Natural Amphitheater
3747 Highway 127Murphysboro, IL 62966
GPS coordinates: Latitude 37.652625 degrees N Longitude -89.321541 degrees W

Details can be found at .:http://chilluminati.org:.

Tickets are only $30 up until July 13th, and then are $55 at the gate.
Pictures of the venue can be found here: http://touchsamadhi.com/gallery/Shawnee-cave

Hope to see you there.

Well thank goodness everything is back to normal. Blogger has been on their toes and actually fixed a problem in a timely fashion!!! Who would have known that was possible?

In case anyone is curious what the problem was in regards to how many blogs were being messed up, or if you need to fix your own blog, the Blogger staff has posted information at the following links:

http://status.blogger.com/

http://buzz.blogger.com/2005/06/layout-solutions.html

As you can see there are some formatting issues with my blog. Blogger has suddenly changed its API coding, and this has messed things up significantly for my blog.

I have thrown in a temporary fix, which now centers the posts, they were about 4 feet down the page before, so at least everything is readable.

I will try to find out what the problem is as soon as I can.

UPDATE: Blogger has stated that they recognize the problem and they are working on it. Status.Blogger.com I am going to temporarily refrain from making any adjustments or postings until the problem is resolved by blogger. I dont want to screw up my templete anymore then it is, and I have to wait to see how blogger responds.

Thanks for being patient.

I have updated my sequencer and software studio list. I have added several new programs to the list and all links are now hyperlinks.

visit my software blog link to the left, or go directly to the archive of the list via this link:
.:Studio/Sequencer List:.

If you find any broken links, and I am sure there are some, please email me or IM me to let me know.

Well the MEMS festival is done and over with. I had a really great time and loved meeting all of the other artists. The jam session went great and I think people had a great time trying out new gear and experimenting with hardware if they never had before. I know I enjoyed playing with an Elektron Monomachine.

All of the artists were great. Each brought a unique and different sound, as well as playing style.
Big props goes out to Scott Kellogg aka. Glaive for actually walking the walk and setting up this LivePA meet up.

I have just posted some photos of the event in my photoblog to the right. Video clips and audio recordings of the event will be up shortly. So stick around.

.:Chilluminati.org:Geologic/Aestival:.

The Chilluminati present GeoLogic An Aestival Festival July 15-17 2005 @ Shawnee Cave Amphitheatre, southern Illinois

An open air camping festival brought to life with consciousness, harmony and mind-expanding music & visuals...A celebration of summer spirit

Over forty Goa, Psychedelic trance and IDM acts and DJs, playing at Shawnee Saltpetre Cave, "Nature's Own Amphitheatre" Illinois' largest bluff shelter with strange rock formations, a roaring waterfall & nature trails.

Three Days and two nights of psychedelic sound, visuals, art, fire dancing

PSY Stage
LIVE P.A.

Neuromotor/ESXS - Mechanik Sound Records [Barcelona, Spain] Note: Neuromotor is playing Friday night July 15th

Initialization String - [Dallas, TX]

Bastard & Lost Baba - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]

Jetlux - Divine Balance Records [Los Angeles, CA]

Artificial Life Preserver - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]

Bob Traphek - Sonic Beating, Changmian, Zia-Trance [Boston, MA]

Binary - Sonic Beating, Changmian [Boston, MA]

Blue Spectral Monkey - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]

DJ

Derby - TOUCH Samadhi [Chicago, IL]

Jeto - Divine Balance [Los Angeles, CA]

Konflux - Divine Balance [Los Angeles, CA]

Kaiser Soze - PTLF [Milwaukee, WI]

Kri - TOUCH Samadhi [Asheville, NC]

Pituko - Nepol Records/Amandas Dreamscape [St. Louis, MO]

Shai - Divine Balance [Chicago, IL]

S.O.T. - TOUCH Samadhi [Chicago, IL]

Underfoot - Audiognomes [Madison, WI]

IDM / Downtempo Stage

LIVE P.A.

Atomly - Atomiq [Chicago]

Curtis Chip - Zod, Schematic [Milwaukee, WI] -

Dennis Rodgers - 112 Crew, Robots [New York, NY]

Dewey Decimal - Zod, 37h3r [Milwaukee, WI]

Dynamic Interplay [Bloomington, IN]

Emotional Joystick - Zod [Minneapolis, MN]

Gift Culture [Dallas, TX]

James Patrick - Vital Vinyl [Minneapolis, MN]

John Alan [Milwaukee, WI]

Kero - Det.Und, BPitch, Shitkatapult, Ghostly, Low Res [Detroit, MI]

KiloWatts [Philadelphia, PA]

Miles Tilmann - Consumer's Research, Toytronic, sub:marine [Chicago]

Samonik - The Shell Studios [Milwaukee, WI, New York, NY]

Signal Drift - Wobblyhead [Milwaukee, WI]

Turing Test - Wobblyhead [Milwaukee, WI]

Unit - Caipirinha, Co.Ad.Audio [New York, NY]

DJ

Alex - TOUCH Samadhi [TN]

Andrew Rasse aka Butane - Alphahouse, FoundSound [St. Louis, MO]

Dan Mnookin - Proton Radio [Chicago]

Destro - Zod [Milwaukee, WI]

Rick S - Interlobate Milwaukee, WI]

Screendoor - Niche [Milwaukee, WI]

Sean O'Neal / Someone Else - Tuning Spork, FoundSound, Musik Krause [Philadelphia, PA]

T-Nek and Redshift - Megablastffresh [Milwaukee, WI]

Viberaider - Zod - [Milwaukee]

psyoptic mindstimuli decor by The Devotee TOUCH Samadhi
interactive projected visuals by Psymbolic
Fire performance by SPUNN
Magazines by Brilliantly Mad Magazine
Sound by Nuclear Subs
Thanks to Psymbolic.com for help with registrations and promotion

Time & Location
When:Noon Friday, July 15th - 10 a.m. Sunday, July 17th, RAIN or SHINE
Where: Shawnee Saltpetre Cave, "Nature's Own Amphitheatre"
Illinois' largest bluff shelter with strange rock formations, a roaring waterfall & nature trails, located 6 miles south of Murphysboro, on Illinois Route 127.

Shawnee Saltpetre Cave Natural Amphitheater
3747 Highway 127
Murphysboro, IL 62966

Ticket Prices
18+ (unless accompanied by parent)
Children under 12 (accompanied by parent) FREE
Camping, parking included in admission fee

Until June 1st (limited availability) $30
June 1 (or when $30 tickets run out) - July 14 $45
@ Gate: $55

Please Visit the Event page >>HERE<< To Purchase Tickets.
(The Paypal recipient for registration will show as troy (AT) psymbolic (DOT) com.)

Directions
Google
Mapquest
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Camping, lodging
You don't have to camp to attend the event. Here is a list of motels in nearby Carbondale.

Campers, prepare for rugged camping. Tents only - no RVs, trailers or campers allowed.

LEAVE NO TRACE. All participants are required to clean their own campsite and place all trash and garbage in provided dumpster. Participants who do not keep their campsite clean or caught littering may be asked to leave.

Water, ice and food can be purchased from Shawnee Cave Amphitheatre.

Ground fires are permitted only at six designated fire circles within the campground. Firewood is available for purchase.

Glass bottles are completely forbidden within the park. Bringing glass bottles into the park can be grounds for removal of participants. We reserve the right to search the vehicles of attendees for the presence of glass containers.

Nothing illegal is allowed in the park.

No ins and outs from the park after midnight.

The organizers of this event, and the owner of Shawnee Cave, can remove attendees for any reason.

No independent sound stages allowed.

No pets allowed.

Portapotties are provided.

Wander around the property, especially at night, at your own risk. There are many dangerous trails. Be careful.

Vending
Vending is encouraged at this event. The fee for vending is $50, on top of your admission fee. Please contact us at crew (AT) chilluminati (DOT) org with your vending proposal. Vending proposals must be submitted to us by July 1, 2005 to be considered.

.:Chilluminati.org:Geologic/Aestival:.

Yes that is the correct spelling....

Anyways I have promised that I would be putting up a music section and links to some media files. I have not done that. Yes I know, I am a terrible blogger, person, musician, promoter.....Whatever.

Anyways to appease some people I have decided to post a couple of links tracks online from my Dynamic Interplay Project. I hope you enjoy them.

Retrograde
A quasi 8bit sounding song using non-8bit gear.

The Space Between our Minds
A simple ambient piece featuring some chopped and looped spoken vocals and feedback effects. The sounds at the beginning might remind you of star trek.

For the Good Old Days
A song written reflecting elements of the classic rave scene from the nineteen nineties, mixed with smooth and sad atmospherics. The purpose is reminisce about how good the music scene was in those days, and how so much has happened to dilute the music to its present state today.

Saturday May 21st 12pm-12am

http://themems.com/
Cost: FREE, All Ages Event

Rhino's All-Ages Club
325 S. Walnut St. in Bloomington, IN

>>Yahoo
Directions<<

Featuring live performances by artists playing music machines, MEMS
brings together the Midwest's finest practitioners of spontaneous
electronic
sound production. But MEMS is more than a concert, it is a community
gathering. When the doors open at noon, we will have an open electronic
jam.
Bring your drum machine, synth, sampler, or laptop and mix it up with
the
performing artists! Learn new tricks, teach old ones, make new friends,
and
join in the glorious cacophony.

Featuring:

Battery
Collection -
Kent, OH (8-bit melodic pop)

Dubathonic - Lafayette, IN
(downtempo/ambient)

Dynamic Interplay -
Crystal
Lake, IL (ambient techno)

Glaive - Bloomington, IN
(electro/IDM/abstract)

Nick Maxwell- Valparaiso, IN (dark
ambient/techno)

Actuel - Indianapolis, IN (IDM/hip-hop/avant-garde)

Decimal - Portage, IN (techno)

Decrepitude - Bloomington, IN (breaksDnB)

Well as you can see I have not gotten around to the update of adding the project section yet. I simply have not had time due to school and the common cold.

Fear not I will eventually get to it. I will also add some site feeds as well for those of you into that sort of thing. I am debating if I plan to use only the blogger xml feed known as atom, or if I want to expand and bring rss feeds as well.

If you have an opinion let me know. Send me a message or give me a reply.

Today while watching some fantastic animated movies online, namely >>NINJAI<<, I have had a spur of creativity to again begin my process of writing and animation creation.

Several years ago I experimented in writing a story based around the diary of soldier in an apocolyctic war on Earth. I wrote several entries/episodes at the time but the development of the animation and characters fell through. The episodes that I have written have long since vanished.

I hope over the course of the next year, after the completion of my cds, to re-start the process of developing this story and turning it into a mini-series of sorts.

I don't want to get ahead of myself yet, so just stay tuned while I develop scripts and storylines.

As an update to the site over the next few days I will be adding a "Projects" section to allow all visitors to follow the progresss of my writings, music and animation ventures.