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Frequency Mutineers [Resident DJs] and Chaos Unit [Street Team] present the weekly edition of Rewired Wednesdays [Underground Music Bringing People Together]. Broken, Thanatos, Stretch, Widget, and Knife will DJ Industrial, Gothic, and Electro. Sniper will VJ Psychedelic Images, Special Messages, and Track Details. Widget will provide Brain Candies, Compact Discs, and T-Shirts. But the focus is always on you and your requests. So please meet us at Rewired this Wednesday (01.14.09). See www.rewiredbg.com for more data.

In addition to performing at Rewired Wednesdays, we are also recording our live sets there. These archives (recordings and playlists) are available on request, and they are re-played on our weekly radio shows especially Equalizer which is every Friday Night / Saturday Morning.

Valentine is now the official photographer for Frequency Mutineers. His recent recent work is available in the photo section of this (www.frequencymutineers.org) site. We look forward to working with him at our many events.

Do you want to be part of our Rewired club night? Then join our street team! It's called Chaos Unit and it's run by Knife and Forensics. They promote our activities and decorate our events. There's further details at www.myspace.com/chaosunitbg.

We are continuing to offer our free classes on Advanced DJ Training. We call this course "Turntablism" as the core skill is manipulating analog and digital turntables to produce interesting DJ mixes. If you are interested in learning Turntable Performance Art or if you want to join our Turntablism Club, please contact us for details. You can learn to DJ and VJ, plus you can perform at our club gigs and on our radio shows. We have a formal 10-week course [see the training section of this (www.frequencymutineers.org) site], but we can also teach you a considerable amount in a single session.

DJ Forensics has initiated an exciting series of live audio experiments inspired by Alvin Lucier's "I am Sitting in a Room". With that recording, Lucier was able to show the "sound of a room" by recording tapes of spoken words over and over until the words become music. We have extended this seminal work using a delay unit thereby showing the "sound of a circuit". The aural results of our experiments will be posted here soon.

Our mashup work has led us to the concept of "nonlinear" or "perpendicular" DJing. Most DJ sets are simply a repeated parallel movement from Track A to Track B; that is, the DJ segues the two tracks in order to keep the dance floor "moving". With perpendicular DJing, additional layers are added atop these parallel movements creating interesting (and more cerebral) nuances. For example, tracks "echo off" vertically as the mix moves forward horizontally.

In order to complete Eclectic mixes using various genres, we've developed a DJ technique called "Harmonic Overlay". This skill allows us to easily move from slow (e.g., Trip Hop) tracks running at 85 BPM to fast (e.g., Hard Core) tracks running at 170 BPM. Whisper Friend has extended these simple Overlays using idea behind the "triplet" pattern of drummers. Thus tracks whose tempos are mathematically related can now be interestingly "beatmatched" with Harmonic Overlay. For example, since tracks running at 100 BPM and 150 BPM will converge at when played at 300 BPM, it is possible to produce unique "beatmatches" with the tracks running at their normal speed. Such Harmonic Overlay mixes can be heard weekly on our radio shows.

Thanks to Nixphonic, The Frequency Mutineers now have a music video and it's available on YouTube. The video begins with graphic work by SteveO and features live performances by members of our crew (Dr. Thanatos, Psysix, Shadowcast, Whisper Friend, and Nixphonic) at the Common Grounds Music Fest in Bluffton, Ohio. That fine event was assembled by Nixphonic and Electronic Enlightenment last Summer (07.13.07).

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