Jen Graves already posted about Goodiepal's free talk and performace this afternoon at the Lawrimore Project. I'm intrigued by his optically triggered mechanical bird on youtube but I'm wary of any artist who declares himself controversial. If you are, we already know. Even if it's a put-on, the lecture clip is witty: Equal parts manifesto, rant, and Kurt Schwittersesque glossolalia.

And despite a suspicious Wikipedia entry which wrongly (and kinda embarassingly) elevates him into the company of Stockhausen, Ligeti, and Xenakis, I'm intrigued by his championing of Radical Computer Music, which could cover databending, locative media, spectral inscription, software-based systems composition (think Max/MSP, CLP, PD et al.), various modes of data translation and much more.

Later tonight, the Northwest Film Forum hosts sound artist Pamela Z at 8 pm. THE NWFF description is spot on: "She will create texturally complex layers and loops by processing her voice using gesture-activated MIDI controllers to trigger samples and manipulate audio and video in real time." Pamela Z treats language symphonically, deflating common words of their usual meaning and piling 'em up into musical, and often extraordinary, entities.