Event Archive

Rich DDT & Moldover present:

Showcasing LIVE Electronic Musicianship

Monthly Collaborative Music Technology Party & Interactive Multimedia Art Salon

January 20th, 2012

LoveTech at Interface LA
Bootleg Theater 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles

• Mike Slott (NYC)
• Moldover (LoveTech SF)
• Peter Kirn (Berlin)
• Nonagon (LoveTech SF)
  
• Rich DDT (LoveTech SF)

Interface LA is looking to be the LoveTech of LA, with the same format of live electronic musicians and interactive art installations. This premier event has is proudly presented by Ableton, Controllerism.com, Create Digital Music, Novation and of course LoveTech.

Coupled with hordes of music visionaries from NAMM and also featuring performances by an ensemble of SmackTopists from LA, and Jeff Aaron Bryant's (con)textile, "a digital installation using the Kinect, stop-motion & digital noise, and interactive audio", there's no doubt this will be a music-tech megaclasym of Biblical proportions!

December 31st, 2011

LoveTech Interactive Artists at Sea of Dreams NYE
in the Fractal Forest

Featuring:
Rich DDT & Justyn Myers: The Time Machine
Tim Thompson: Space Palette
Drew Detweiler & Lyès Belhocine: Datasurf
Rich DDT & Mike Wagner: ReMatrix
Moldover: MiniMasher
Jen Cohen: Video Ocean
Toby Schachman: Infinite Sympathy Kaleidoscope
Pete Rademacher: Lumisketcher
Ted Vucurevich: iPhone U-Media App / Enconcert
Warren Stringer: Muse / Plaz
Andrew Johnstone: Burning Man Earth

Overview & Photos HERE

November 26th, 2011

LoveTech + Renegade Lights Release

• EDISON
• NONAGON
• WOLF INTERVAL
• BIOMIMICRANT
• JOEL DAVEL
  

We're joining forces with Renegade Lights for a monumental new album release feat. several LoveTech veterans! Body grooving textures from fluid and sophisticated to playful and organic, all eminently engaging & entirely original.

w/ CSTNG-SHDWS live integrated visuals & Interstitial DJ Moldover

PlayShops
JOEL DAVEL: wireless infrared Buchla Lightning drumstick/wands for spatial sound synthesis
ERIC BATEMAN: build your own Arduino MIDI controller (full RobotSpeak class on Dec 3rd)

Digital Jam Lounge
REMATRIX - Rich DDT
A four-player JamBox for seamlessly remixing Beats, Bass, Melody and Vocals - you can even AutoTune your own voice into the mix!

October 20th, 2011

LoveTech and TransportedSF present: LoveTech Transported!

• THE FLYING SKULLS
  
• ANON DAY
• COLFAX

Join us for a new adventure on TransportedSF’s solar/bio diesel powered bus, complete with couches lining the sides, a great sound system & a dance floor in the back, taking an intimate group of 40 to secret & beautiful outdoor locations throughout the Bay!

DIGITAL JAM LOUNGE: 7-8pm in the Million Fishes Gallery before the bus trip
REMATRIX - Rich DDT
A four-player JamBox for seamlessly remixing Beats, Bass, Melody and Vocals - you can even AutoTune your own voice into the mix!

SOLD OUT!
Next trip please be sure to buy yours extra early.

September 12th, 2011

LoveTech's Digital Jam Lounge at SF MusicTech Summit

Featuring:
REMATRIX - Rich DDT
A four-player JamBox for seamlessly remixing Beats, Bass, Melody and Vocals - you can even AutoTune your own voice into the mix!

September 2nd, 2011

LoveTech Friday night at Burning Man!
On the Esplanade at Monticello - 8:30 & Esplanade - 10pm-6am


MOLDOVER
HOPSCOTCH (aka Anahata Sound)
RICH DDT
NONAGON
THA FRUITBAT
ALTITUDE SICKNESS
FREEBASS BK
DR REK

We're delighted and honored to bring out so many talented next-level music makers to the Royal Society of the Powdered Wigs!
Come spend some quality time with us on the Playa!

DIGITAL JAM LOUNGE @Nexus 10:00 & Engagement
REMATRIX - Rich DDT
A four-player JamBox for seamlessly remixing Beats, Bass, Melody and Vocals - you can even AutoTune your own voice into the mix!
Inspired by Moldover's Masher series of JamBoxes (OctaMasher, SyncoMasher, MiniMasher)

Facebook event Here

July 23rd, 2011

Controller Battle Victory Party with the Winners!
This will also serve as a FUNDRAISER to recoup costs from producing the Battle

• EDISON
  
• RICH DDT
  
• SABOTAGE
• DATAF1OW
  
• ALEXANDERNAUT
  w/ Top Secret Surprise Special Guest:
  HENRY STRANGE!!
  

And this will be a Birthday Party for Edison,
the West Coast Controllerist CHAMPION!!!

DIGITAL JAM LOUNGE
MiniMasher - Moldover
A three-player JamBox for seamlessly playing Beats, Bass, and Synth - now with Ill Gates & Amy Winehouse modes!

PLAYSHOP
9pm - Discussion-oriented LearnTech PlayShop
Sound Check Tools for Live Electronic Performance
by Moldover & Ryan DeBolt

June 25th, 2011

The West Coast Championship CONTROLLER BATTLE

Saturday June 25th
8pm-3am: 8pm Workshops, 10pm BATTLE
at Public Works 161 Erie St (near Mission & 14th) MAP

NEXT-LEVEL live music makers compete for GLORY & GEAR

Register to Battle HERE

Special exhibition performances by:
EAN GOLDEN (DJ Tech Tools)
MOLDOVER (Moldover.com)

Victory celebration with:
FUTURE MOUSE-PET
MOCHIPET (Daly City Records)
+ JOEY MOUSEPAD & FREDDIE FUTURE
w/ SLAYERS CLUB DJs

MCs:
ILL GATES (illgates.com, Muti Music)
SOULATI + INFINITE (Felonious)
ART DEKO (Concentrated Efforts Records)

Celebrity Judges:
ZACH HUNTTING AKA ZAPPAN (Laptop Battle)
J.TONAL (The Flying Skulls)
LAURA ESCUDE (Electronic Creatives)

Hands-On Digital Jam Lounge
Early evening workshops
Guest DJs
Live camera crew
and much, much more...

TICKETS:
$6 pre-sale HERE
$10 at the door, 21+

RSVP to our Facebook Event HERE

May 26th - 30th, 2011

LoveTech's Digital Jam Lounge in a brand-spanking new Dome at Lightning In A Bottle!

Featured Interactive Artists:
Tim Thompson - Space Palette
Moldover - MiniMasher
Rich DDT - ReMatrix
Fritz Obermeyer - Shadow Table & Light Drums
Kristin Neidlinger - Breathing Wall
Mike Thielvoldt - Orbitron
Clay Chollar - Digital Alchemy
Rich DDT - Theremins
Erik Johnson - Light Bright suit

May 21st & 22nd, 2011

***We Won 1 Blue Ribbon Maker Faire Editor's Choice Award for LoveTech!***

LoveTech at Maker Faire
San Mateo County Event Center
Inside the Digital Sound Space (adjacent to the Tesla Coils), Fiesta Hall

featuring Rich DDT's Digital Jam Lounge and performances on stage

Saturday May 21st:
11:30 Tha Fruitbat
12:15 Doctor Popular
1:00 STARPAUSE
1:00 Moldover on Tesla Coil stage
1:45 virt
2:30 The Glowing Stars
3:15 crashfaster
4:00 Mr. Spastic
4:45 Trustfund Killa
5:45 Moldover
6:30 Chelsea Faith
7:15 Rich DDT

Sunday May 22nd:
10:45 Rich DDT's ControlliTAR Workshop
11:30 Hyperwave
11:55 cris2600
12:35 Data Twins
1:15 Louis Gorenfeld
1:55 The Glowing Stars
2:00 Rich DDT on Tesla Coil stage
2:35 Eurostache
3:15 Kush Arora
4:00 CCRMA
4:45 Dubsworth

May 9th, 2011

LoveTech's Digital Jam Lounge at SF MusicTech Summit

Featuring:
Rich DDT's Proto-trolliTAR with vocoded autotune and our entire collection of handheld synths and theremins

April 30th, 2011

This is both a farewell party for the ECC (last show in SF!)
• EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE
  
• JANAKA SELEKTA
  
• SEVENTH SWAMI
• GOYOPOD
• RAJA The Resident Alien
  ...As well as a return from India Party for Janaka Selekta!
  

INTERACTIVE ART & MUSIC
INTEROPTIX - TROY SHEETS
Live Lighting Design

Special Guest:
ALTITUDE SICKNESS
Full A/V performance triggered from custom tupperware Monomes

March 26th, 2011

• THE SPIT BROTHERS
  - (DUBSWORTH Live Set)
• PHONE SEX OPERATORS
  - New Single Release!
• THA FRUITBAT
• NOEL VAUGHN
  - w/ 4rest (nxt lvl guitar synth)

INTERACTIVE ART & MUSIC
THE HEARTBEAT AMPLIFIER
Synaesthetically unleash your pulse in light and sound

February 26th, 2011

Rich DDT's Birthday Edition:

• RICH DDT
  w/ TranzMorpher (guitar+kaossilator)
• ENERGY ALCHEMIST
• STARPAUSE
• WILLIAM S BRAINTREE
• FIREBERG

INTERACTIVE ART & MUSIC
The LoveTech Arcade
Featuring:
Bass Invaders - JOSH McMANUS
VJ Hero - JON FERRAN

January 28th, 2011

LoveTech + Slayers Club
2 Year Anniversary!!

Fresh PHOTOS & UStreamVideo Now Up!

Friday January 28th, 2011
9pm-3am
at Public Works 161 Erie St (near Mission & 14th) MAP

2 GROUND-BREAKING CREWS
2 ROOMS OF CHEST-BUMPING BASS
celebrating 2 YEARS OF EPIC EVENTS

• The Flying Skulls
• Mochipet
• Moldover & The SyncoMasher Quintet
• Nonagon + CSTNG-SHDWS
• The Spit Brothers
• Slayers Club DJs
• Manitous · Lokae · Professor Bang · Freddie Future
  · Matt Haze w/ Joe Mousepad
• The Human Experience
• Edison
• Anon Day
• Rich DDT
• Colfax
• Lippe

2 Interactive Art Zones
featuring works by:
BILL HSU
FRITZ OBERMEYER
JON FERRAN
JUSTYN MYERS
KRISTIN NEIDLINGER
LYÉS BELHO & DREW DETWEILER
MOLDOVER
MZO
SID GABRIEL
TED VUCUREVICH

2 Rooms of Visuals by:
CSTNG-SHDWS
MZO
VJ-K4
ALLOFITNOW!

The DIGITAL JAM LOUNGE (Drum Circle of THE FUTURE):
Bring your laptop, synth, or any electronic instrument, plug in and play! A collaborative jamming space with new music hardware and software
Sign Up HERE and Bring Your Instruments

LEARNTECH
Discussion-oriented LearnTech PlayShops
Our performers and interactive artists unveil their hardware & inspirations

DANCETECH EXTRAVAGANZA

$6 Advance available HERE
$10 Doors

RSVP to our Facebook Event HERE

December 18th, 2010

Our performers hand build their instruments & music software from scratch, And throw down so hard they detonate dat ass:

• MOLDOVER
• HENRY STRANGE (LA)
• RIBOTTO
• WILLIAM LIGHT
• EXILLON

INTERACTIVE ART & MUSIC
-Featured Artist-
Mzo's CinemaJockey:
A piece allowing everyone to experience the fun of using movie clips to provide improvised visuals for music performances using an innovative controller!

Justyn Myers' Vocal Chaos Lab:
Come transform your voice into complete analog visual chaos!

December 6th, 2010

LoveTech at SF MusicTech Summit!

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Live Electronic Musicianship
John Brian Kirby - Nonagon, Producer / Performer 
Carson Day - Anon Day, Electronic Musician
Brian Trifon - Trifonic, Head Composer / Sound Designer
Alice Stands - Electronic Musician
Moderator: Rich DDT - LoveTech, Lead Organizer
Moderator: Moldover - Controllerist

November 27th, 2010

Bringing you home to traditional musicianship roots with an organic fusion of past and future inflectones, we present
multi-instrumentalists and vocalists that will swoon you with their skills

• ANAHATA SOUND
• JANAKA SELEKTA
w/ Shabi Farooq (tabla) & Papa Roads (vocals)
• THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
• CELESTE LEAR
• BILL B TRIPP from Sonic Valium

Featured Artist SEXYVISUALS
Realtime 3D visuals reactive to music and your Cellphone!

Sid Gabriel's Light Nucleus
A projection screen that responds to both your movement & sound with vividly dynamic colorforms, surrounding your body with exciting kinetic flow patterns

October 23rd, 2010

▪▪▪▪8BIT Animals!▪▪▪▪
Amid throbbing chiptune chaos we awaken the animal within and unleash its pixellated lo-fi soul

ALICE STANDS
STARPAUSE
A_RIVAL
HAIR_LOSS

▪secret guest▪
RICH DDT - 8bit videogame remix set!

DanceTech Animal Invasion
Animal Costumes Encouraged for All!!!

▪▪▪INTERACTIVE ART & MUSIC▪▪▪
Featured Art: Jon Ferran's VJ HERO!
Unlock this freeform 3D audio-reactive adventure to power up to the next level!

September 25th, 2010

Next level dubstep deliciousness served live & fresh from gourmet beat choppin crunk-master chefs:

ENERGY ALCHEMIST
MAD ZACH & R2 THE SPECIALIST
THE FLYING SKULLS
THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE - Multi-keyboardist A/V Set

••••INTERACTIVE ART & MUSIC••••
Featured Artist SID GABRIEL - Light Nucleus
11:45pm Showcase w/ Talented & Sexy Dancers
A projection screen that responds to both your movement & sound with vividly dynamic colorforms, surrounding your body with exciting kinetic flow patterns.
http://www.youtube.com/ardevmob

COME EARLY
for a Very Special
•••LEARNTECH•••
9pm: Special Ableton Live PlayShop by Timo
Become the music! Audience voice and music samples will be integrated into a new Ableton music composition!

Attending LoveTech gives you a 25% discount on the full class the next day:
Electronic Creatives Master Class: Immersive Audio Production Training by Certified Ableton Instructor Timo Preece
http://electroniccreatives.com/san-francisco/

August 26th, 2010

LoveTech @ CA Academy of Sciences NIGHTLIFE
55 Music Concourse Dr, Golden Gate Park

Moldover
Anon Day
The Spit Brothers
The Evolution Control Committee
Edison
Seventh Swami
Outersect
Scuzzy

Hands-on Digital Jam Lounge and Interactive Art Zone, feat. Justyn's Fractal Playground, Tim's 3D Claymation Zootrope, Clay's MindAltar, Walter's Hologlyphics, Moldover's MiniMasher!

Augmented reality projections on an 87-foot Blue Whale Skeleton by CSTNG SHDWS
Planetarium Dome projections by Devin, Kai & Luisa

August 14th, 2010

LoveTech @ DIYbca Big Idea Night!
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St, SF
FREE w/ RSVP at http://ybcafree.org/

Featuring:
Party Effects - Laser touting beat machine bashing trio of uber party demigods rapidly destroying dancefloors with a special blend of freestyle acid electrobass

Rich DDT - Neo-Galactic Whomp Warrior wielding his custom keytar to hurl wobbly ravestep, hyper dub & dirty fidget house infused with techy tribal dance-hop

Visuals by MZO

with:
Moldover's MiniMasher - Three player instrument for endless hours of seamless music making merriment

Tim Anderson's Zootrope - Make your own animated 3D creatures out of clay

Justyn's Laser Feedback Lab - Lose yourself in this brilliantly colorful vortex of endlessly looping light-play

Rich DDT's Digital Jam Lounge - A collaborative jamming space where anyone can jam together cohesively with new music technology

August 5th, 2010

LoveTech @ CA Academy of Sciences NIGHTLIFE
55 Music Concourse Dr, Golden Gate Park

LoveTech: Live Electronic Music performances in the Aquarium:

6pm: Preshish Moments
Preshish Moments delivers deliciously bassy synths, seismic beats, and enlivened rhymes with an instrument he built from wood, crossfaders, and buttons from old submarines. He makes music, builds electronics, sews light suits, and writes computer programs for himself and other musicians. Performing a special ambient groove set for the CA Academy Aquarium!

7pm: Colfax
Colfax will swoon you into your subconscious with his musical mastery. This virtuosic sound sorcerer stirs analog electronics expressively alive. Unearthing styles and musical sentiments long forgotten, Colfax is interested in the soul embedded in the tape, the mystery in the circuitry, the ghost in the machine.

8pm: Nonagon
A calm and collected musical genius, effortlessly melding genres from ambient drum'n'bass to downtempo IDM, Nonagon will linger longingly in your subconscious, with gorgeous productions that surge and flow. His intricate melodic beatscapes are both stirring and alive, as he recreates them seamlessly with his glowing Monome.

9pm: Moldover
If technology and music are your life, brace yourself - Moldover is about to reformat your soul. Hailed by 700,000 YouTube viewers as "The Godfather of Controllerism", Moldover is a new breed of music icon. Combining the charisma of a rock star, the mad genius of a basement inventor, and the radical inclusiveness of the DIY internet generation, Moldover is "literally throwing away the rule book and reinventing the wheel" (Remix Magazine). Performing a chilling midtempo set for the CA Academy Aquarium!

LoveTech presents LearnTech PlayShops in the African Hall:

6:30pm: Ben Lewry - Visionary Instruments and the Video Guitar

7:00pm: Barry Threw - K-Bow, the world’s first wireless sensor bow for string instruments

7:30pm: Moldover's MOJO - Custom controller for tactile musical mastery

8:00pm: Mad Zach - Making Waves: A resourceful approach to creating the phattest waveforms you've never heard

8:30pm: Preshish Moments - LED lightsuit synced with a custom instrument built from wood & submarine parts

9:00pm: Craig Dorety - Perceptual Resonators - sound syncing color pyramids that amaze

9:30pm: Edison - Smashing beats on a handmade lunchbox, filled with Monome guts

Hosted by LoveTech's Rich DDT

July 31st, 2010

LoveTech + MGFest present

Farewell Preshish Moments!

PRESHISH MOMENTS
MOLDOVER
EDISON
MALDIVES (Cullen Miller Septet)
ANON DAY

Tim Thompson's New LoopyCam and Justyn's Laser Feedback Lab!

June 27th, 2010

RICH DDT
VAPOR MACHE (LA)
PARTY EFFECTS
THA FRUITBAT + 2 PLAYA GAME
WILLIAM S. BRAINTREE

Featured Multimedia Artists
THE FIFTH V
It's analog chaos vs. digital discord!
Jon and Justyn mash old and new visual technology for your interactive viewing pleasure

Featured DanceTech Dancers
THE BLISS AGENTS
Get ready for stunning ladies w/ full body projections on white feathery wing-suits - shooting LASERS into geometric patterns!

ALL LIVE BEAT BLASTED DUBSTEP BREAK HOP BADASSEDNESS
......:::::from talents beyond your bounciest dreams:::::......

SPIT BROTHERS: DUBSWORTH [Dubsalive, Surefire]
EDISON
SECRET SIDEWALK
BLACKHEART [MalLabel]
BAYST aka Lone Star Dub

Featured Multimedia Artists
AAU VFX Mograph

MOLDOVER: The MiniMasher

May 22nd & 23rd, 2010

***We Won 2 Blue Ribbon Maker Faire Editor's Choice Awards for LoveTech DigitalJamLounge & Moldover's MiniMasher!***

LoveTech at Maker Faire!
San Mateo County Event Center
Inside the Experimental Music & Art Zone (adjacent to the Tesla Coils & FishBug), Fiesta Hall

featuring Rich DDT's Digital Jam Lounge, Moldover's MiniMasher, Jean Rintoul's Bone Conductor

Saturday May 22nd:
12-1 Tristan Shone
1-2 Ed Christensen
2-3 Starpause / Chiptunes
3-4 Mad Zach / Moldover
4-5 Moldover / Mad Zach
5-6 ad-hoc demos
6-7 Haptic Synapses
7-8 Rich DDT

Sunday May 23rd:
12-1 Dan Mcanulty
1-2 Nonagon+CSTNG SHDWS
2-3 Edison
3-4 Rick Walker
4-5 Lucid Mechanism
5-6 Alice Stands

April 24th, 2010

LoveTech+ElectronicCreatives present
Moldover's Birthday Hootenanny Armada!

Lucid Mechanism - http://gravityterminal.com
Laura Escudé - http://lauraescude.com
Moldover - http://moldover.com
Trifonic - http://trifonic.com
Henry Strange - http://henrystrange.com

April 9th & 10th, 2010

LoveTech at Yuri's Night!
NASA Ames Research Center
Inside the HUGE Hangar, on the Right

Presentations
12-1 Mitch Altman + Tim Thompson
1-2 Moldover / Rich DDT: MOJO & Controllerism
2-3 Colfax+BumblePup: Live A/V Performance
3-3:30 Mitch Altman + Eric Bateman: Interactive LED Art
3:30-4 Devin Becker: iPad OSC Touch for VJing

Performances
4-5 Nisus
5-6 Preshish Moments
6-6:30 Laura Escudé
6:30-7 Mad Zach
7-8 Seventh Swami
8-9 Nonagon + CSTNG SHDWS
9-10 Evolution Control Committee
10-11 Moldover
11-12 Rich DDT

Janaka Selekta
Borderless ecstasy fused with shards of dubstep, breaks, hip-hop & drum & bass thru an APC40

Mycho Pan Cocoa [Mallabel]
Delivering uppercuts from his new album "Low Frequency High Life" with a unique instrument & ferocious style

Edison
Crunked up beats blasted via buttons on homemade ghetto electronics

Al Kal
One man groove production powerhouse using keyboards, melodica, and a menagerie of knobs and sliders

Educational PlayShop!
9-10pm: Crunkology 101
An upper-division Glitch Sciences and Chaos Control Course with
Jarvez and J-Tonal, robot gangsterz of The Flying Skulls

Featured Multimedia Artists
Tim Anderson - ZOOTROPE
Hundred year old technology for creating a 3D full-motion visual display.
Make your own pieces for it with modeling clay

Interactive Art Salon by Jean Rintoul:
HOLOGLYPHICS - 3D Stereoscopic moving imagery, viewed without 3D glasses, along with live electronic music - Walter Funk
MONOLITH 2.0 - loopy fun with extreme controllers - Tim Thompson
PERSISTANCE OF VISION POI - Jean Rintoul
BRAIN MACHINE - trippy glasses (Mitch Altman's kit from Noisebridge!) - Jean Rintoul

Moldover
Triumphantly returning from his East Coast tour!

Outersect
Crafting compelling ethnofusion dance music worth listening to

Chelsea Faith
Skillfully sequencing sexy beats

Ribotto [Symbiosis/LowPro]
Digital funk technician of The Flying Skulls

Arrive early for our discussion oriented Presentation!
9-10pm: Mad Zach: "Building Your Own Controller & the Fattest Waveform Ever Created"

Interactive Art Salon:
Persistence of Vision Poi
Empath.. and Beyond!
curated by Jean Rintoul

All night VJ Mashup:
Larry Sheradon
MZO
Mediapathic
TikiTV
Jesse Hammons and Samuel Stoller will be demonstrating TikiTV,
their free VJ tool for OSX that simultaneously mixes 6 DVD-quality video streams at 60fps