{"id":467,"date":"2007-11-15T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/15\/bach-with-a-cellular-automata-lightshow\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T19:25:37","slug":"bach-with-a-cellular-automata-lightshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/15\/bach-with-a-cellular-automata-lightshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bach with a Cellular Automata Lightshow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems to be Renaissance Man week in Ruckerland.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night (tomorrow), I\u2019m doing a never-to-be-repeated real-time live computer graphics <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/capow\/download.html \">Capow <\/a>light show for a<a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/multum-in-parvo-the-music-of-bach-gnarly-computation\/ \"> Bach concert <\/a>by the the Galax Quartet, with triple harp by Cheryl Ann Fulton, featuring a new Bach-based composition by Roy Whelden, \u201cLoose Canons.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/capowlifeisgnarly.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m renting a honkin\u2019 big 3000 lumen projector. <\/p>\n<p>Time: Friday, November 16, 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Place (with map link): <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=l&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;time=&#038;date=&#038;ttype=&#038;q=college+avenue+presbyterian+church&#038;near=5951+College+Avenue&#038;sll=37.848028,-122.252147&#038;sspn=0.007879,0.007296&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=17&#038;om=1\">College Avenue Presbyterian Church, <\/a>5951 College Avenue at Claremont Avenue, Oakland, CA.  <\/p>\n<p>(<em>Note that this is not the same as the Presbyterian Church up the street in Berkeley!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Our church is right down the block from one of my favorite restaurants,<em> Noodle Theory<\/em>, at Claremont and College.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to be able to put some video of this event online, so if you have a digital video camera and plan to attend and film it, please let me have a copy of the mpg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/bopeeklight.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Years ago I did some spoken word for a great album by Roy Whelden, &#8220;Like a Passing River.&#8221;<\/a>  You can buy it in CD or MP3 online, like at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QZY4VA\/ref=dm_sp_alb\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to it again the other day, in particular a piece called &#8220;Rucker Songs,&#8221; with Roy playing and Karen Clark singing words from my memoir, <em>All the Visions<\/em>. I&#8217;m going to temporarily post this song as a free sample.<\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/mp3\/whelden_ruckersongs.mp3\" target=\"blank\">Roy Whelden and Karen Clark, &#8220;Rucker Songs.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, she&#8217;s really saying, &#8220;Oh man, we are in heaven.  For sure, for sure.&#8221;   And then, a little later, &#8220;Give us this daily rush, on the nod as thou art in heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love this fusion of slangy beat prose with high classical music form&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems to be Renaissance Man week in Ruckerland. 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