<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bf01cd95-2375-3fce-dd32-ec4ad800a62b"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Pleased to share a new project - <a href="http://sideman5000.org">sideman5000.org</a></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">--</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Video episodes use an obsolete music box to teach everything from voltage to tubes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In a new video series hosted by artist Darsha Hewitt, the electro-mechanical "Cadillac of drum machines" is a window into a world of glowing vacuum tubes and high-voltage oscillations. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">It's a 38 kg-behemoth from 1959. But the Side Man 5000 is also the world's first commercially-available drum machine. Take it apart, restore it to use, and you can learn a lot about the history of technology, as well as the fundamentals of electro-mechanical operation that's every bit as relevant today.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">A Side Man 5000 Adventure is a unique, long-form, episodic lesson both in media archeology and the basics of physics, electronics, and mechanical design. It's the first ever comprehensive technical documentation of a machine that made history. And it's a must-watch series for anyone interested in learning more about music, electronic history, or how things work.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Step inside Darsha Hewitt's studio and let the music move you -- with some robotic electro-mechanical ballroom beats.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The first episode drops on Tuesday October 6th at 18h - available on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0llWJmcw-0" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">YouTube</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/140511060" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Vimeo</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, and </span><a href="http://www.sideman5000.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">sideman5000.org</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Pre-Launch events:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">03.10.16 - Advanced Screening and Q&A hosted by </span><a href="http://sterneworks.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Jonathan Sterne</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> @ </span><a href="http://www.mutek.org/img/2015/program" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Mutek_IMG</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Montréal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">04.10.16 - Side Man 5000 Sample Salon Workshop @ </span><a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/mon/ver/de14764097v.htm" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Goethe-Institut Montréal</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Part of „Art and Civic Media“ - </span><a href="http://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-incubator-lueneburg/digital-media/art-and-civic-media.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Innovation Incubator</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> @ Leuphana University - Lüneburg.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Further support provided by </span><a href="http://www.fact.co.uk/about.aspx" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Foundation for Art and Creative Technology</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and </span><a href="https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/start/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Bauhaus-Universität Weimar</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Note to editors:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Find a complete press kit on Google Drive, with photos and videos:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8IJInesinaIYXlwUlo1VWdzSDA&usp=sharing" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8IJInesinaIYXlwUlo1VWdzSDA&usp=sharing</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For more information, please contact Peter Kirn at Create Digital Media:</span></p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">+49 17631175441 / <a href="mailto:peter@createdigitalmedia.net">peter@createdigitalmedia.net</a></span></span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Künstlerische Mitarbeiterin Darsha Hannah Hewitt<br>Bauhaus-Universität Weimar<br>Faculty of Media / Media Arts Environments<br>Marienstr 5 / 99423 Weimar<br>Tel.: +49 (0)3643 / 58 3871<br>Mobile: +49 (0)176 / 56 82 35 24<br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:darsha.hewitt@uni-weimar.de" target="_blank">darsha.hewitt@uni-weimar.de</a><br>Website: <a href="http://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu" target="_blank">www.uni-weimar.de/gmu</a><br>Portfolio: <a href="http://www.darsha.org" target="_blank">www.darsha.org</a></div>
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