PROV i DANCE (Bryan Oczkowski) @ The Whistlestop // Makeout Weird // (JUNE 16, 2011)

Flier by Heather Brosche

Bryan Oczkowski of Batwings will be performing a live set as PROV i DANCE at this month's Makeout Weird, Thursday, June 16th.  Come out and party with him before he makes the big move next month to Providence, Rhode Island!

Event Info:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134387896639075

"Guitarist of Batwings, Bryan Oczakowski's new solo project titled 'Prov i Dance' hints at the news that hes leaving San Diego next month to be Project Manager of Alesis in Prodvidence RI. All effects, mixers, touch screen controllers, etc by Alesis will be managed by Bryan. Come hear him manage his own new project; think short set, Black Dice, Electronic Beat/Noise."

Bobby Bray + Bryan Oczkowski = Pure Data Machine

Bobby Bray of The Locust talks about his new band Innerds and the Pure Data machine that he and Batwings guitarist Bryan Oczkowski built:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/feb/23/blurt-innerds/

[“We decided we wanted something that doesn’t exist,” Bobby Bray (The Locust), a student of interdisciplinary computing and the arts at UCSD, says at the Camel’s Breath Inn in Mission Valley. “So we rolled up our sleeves and made it ourselves.”

The Pure Data Machine, a collaboration with Bryan Oczkowski of Batwings, is a customizable effects controller based on an open-source program called Pure Data. The box of knobs, switches, lights, photocells, and a joystick runs off of a thumb drive, so data is easily exchanged and modified. The apparatus was recently unveiled during the Experimental Guitar Show at Soda Bar.

“It can be argued that sound and timbre metaphorically symbolize thoughts and feelings that cannot be explained otherwise via language,” Bray says. “If you believe that to be true, then you are going to become reliant upon effect companies to define what you can communicate.”]

Read the rest of the article here

- Western Spaghettification by Chad Deal

Originally published in the San Diego Reader. February 23rd, 2011.

Photo by Dennis Bersales