I was interviewed by the Geneva radio station Frequency Bananae during the Mapping Festival in May:

Mapping Festival Interview, May 12 2010

Translation from the original page (from French):

For this, a remedy: Dan Wilcox and his project “Robot Cowboy” (http://www.myspace.com/robotcowboy) that frequency Banana also met earlier in the evening. A project where the computer totally insane, the focus of electronic music, is diverted from its original use. How could you not have thought rained earlier? Strum on the keyboard does not seem enough, just put a color monitor on his head and go crazy for one hour in the cinema of Sputnik. Guitar, joystick, and even futuristic part of the well. To see and hear absolutely. The concept is non-standard.

And my favorite translated quote:

The night will prove so eventful, totally separate aspects. Met nice people and good-natured mood. Not be remembered perhaps not on the side clubbing dances but the performance made up for it and what size Teletubbie Dan Wilcox dazzle.

This is a post 2 months overdue …

robotcowboy performed 3 times during the Ars Electronica Festival 2009:

Fri, Sep 4th: at the Brucknerhaus representing the Ars Futurelab during the v2: test_lab presentation

Sat, Sep 5th: at Roter Krebs

• 02__9-5-2009_16-34-16_StarBurst
• 06__9-5-2009_16-52-57_Dynamite
• 09__9-5-2009_17-1-52_BallOfLove
• go to the musicdump for entire live set

Mon, Sep 7th: Close Encounters of the Bit Kind on the Ars Electronica facade

I will clean this up and add details soon … a website redesign is needed anyway.

12 tracks fresh off the cpu during the SubOptimal Summer 09 tour.

Jun 21 – Jul 4, Paris – Rotterdam – Amsterdam – Gothenburg

These are the best live recordings of each song, a snapshot of the robotcowboy set at that time.

Download suboptimal live 09 (.zip)

Covers:

Examples:

04__6-27-2009_19-38-3_ArpeggiateNow_v2
07__6-21-2009_15-58-27_HoldMeGently_v2
10__6-26-2009_19-4-4_BallOfLove
12__6-21-2009_15-39-20_MartianPlain_v2

robotcowboy will be appearing at a few places in europe:

• Fete del la Musique street festival, Paris – June 21st
• Attent underground art bar, Rotterdam – June 26th
• Koloni Dress Rehearsal @ House of Win-Win, Gothenburg – July 4th

I’ve been invited to present and perform at the New Media Meeting May 28-31 09 in Norrköping Sweden.  I’ll play on Thursday the 28th and present on Sat the 30th.  See the program.

robotcowboy will be performing at the Altavoz Festival in Venice, Italy on May 16th 2009.

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On April 25th 09, I presented the robotcowboy project at the LiWoli FLOSS Hacklab 09 at the Kunst Uni in Linz.

Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to discover more about and participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source Software.

robotcowboy  performed  on Apr 4th 09 at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven, NL.

Starting with one festival weekend with a world-class programme presenting more than 150 acts, artists and artworks at one location. This edition STRP will expand the festival by extending the art exhibition for one more week, with special performances, films, interviews, masterclasses, workshops and more!

robotcowboy is playing at the STEIM Micromusic Jamboree 2 in Amsterdam NL.

STEIM is hosting it’s 2nd Micro Jamboree this December 8-11, 2008. Featuring 4 days of creativity and excellence in todays electronic music through a wealth of presentations, discussions, and performances. An intense 7 sessions of lectures, demos, and discussions held by the most innovative artists, musicians, and instrument designers in the field will be hosted in STEIM’s studios. An intellectual jam on creative musical software, modern sensor interfaces, alternative energy sources for electronic music, rhythm and sequencing for live performances, and more!

I will be playing Jamboree Concert 2 in the evening of Thr Dec 11th at the Smart Project Space.

See the Schedule for more details.

Hope to see you there!

Well, on a lighter note after the last 2 posts … I have a new demo and I’m working on a few more.  I’m also learning the automake and configure system so I can distribute my project source code so others can run their own version of robotcowboy.  Look forward to an ep in the near future with awesome, polished versions of my songs so far!

FloatingFarther (featuring my new carbon throat mic)