Thanks to everyone who showed up for our April meeting.

Jazz in the Digital Age
Tom N. had mentioned “Jazz and the Digital Age”. You can read more about it here:

Sunday April 19 2009, 3:00 pm
Carnegie Library Music Hall, Homestead
510 E 10th Ave Homestead
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Carnegie Mellon School of Music presents “Jazz and the Digital Age”

Hear one of Carnegie Mellon’s Jazz Ensembles, directed by David Pellow, perform a new arrangement by Dr. John Wilson for jazz band, soloists and digital string orchestra.
The “orchestra” is five Carnegie Mellon music students recorded onto 20 digital tracks that will be
time-stretched to synchronize with the live band. The performance will also feature a high-end 8-channel sound system. This is the result of Professor Roger Dannenberg’s project, which is sponsored by Microsoft through the Computational Thinking Center.

There will be additional “digital jazz” with electronic performances by Tomas Henriques on digital valve instrument controller, and Dannenberg on trumpet with computer processing.
Herniques is a visiting scientist in the School of Computer Science.

David Pellow, music director

This performance is sponsored by WDUQ FM 90.5. Research for this concert’s technology made possible by Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and Microsoft.

Free Admission

Ben’s Presentations
You can download Ben’s Presentation slides (including links) here.
Want to try out Fractal 4D? You can download the AIR installer here.

Val’s Presentations
You can learn more about using the Color Picker Component over at Val’s blog:
http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/03/25/quick-bit-of-code-using-colorpicker-component-as3/

Stay tuned to her blog for updates showing you how to work with Flash as a background element in your HTML as well!