Ambient music pioneer Robert Rich is touring North America to support his new album, Ylang. Venues include planetariums, cathedrals, art museums and university recital halls. Drawing from decades of recorded work, his concerts blend composition and improvisation in a fluid continuum, creating a hypnotic atmosphere. Rich’s performances will include live electronics with analog modular synthesizer, keyboards and computer, along with his signature hand-made flutes and steel guitar. Visuals will include custom built laser projectors and deep saturated lighting.

In Chicago on Thursday, May 20th from 10ish-Midnight Central Time, Robert Rich will be performing a selection of live and unreleased music on Abstract Science Radio in the WLUW studios.

by radio: tune in to 88.7fm (chicago listeners)
by web: WLUW (listen live) Abstract Science
also airing on: Rabbit Hole Radio

& a Big Plus+ if you're in or around Chicago on Friday, May 21st... Robert Rich will be performing Live at a Beautiful South Loop Art Space in Downtown Chicago.

Advanced Tickets + Event Info >> http://www.Psymbolic.com/events

Music from Psymbolic--sounds artists is now featured at inSpiral the Music Store, Visionary Cafe and Multimedia Arts Venue located in London.

just added albums to the Psymbolic sound shop

Soundtrack to a Vacant Life by The Flashbulb

aRose by Random Rab

Welcome To Chicago - The Acid Anthology by Human Action Network

Pale Blue Dot - A Tribute To Carl Sagan by Benn Jordan

Bartel by Bartel

Experience Design (XD) is the practice of designing products, processes, services, events, and environments with a focus placed on the quality of the user experience and culturally relevant solutions, with less emphasis placed on increasing and improving functionality of the design.

Experience Design requires a cross-discipline perspective that considers multiple aspects of the brand/business/environment/experience and seeks to develop the experience of a product, service, or event along any or all of the following dimensions:

* Duration (Initiation, Immersion, Conclusion, and Continuation)
* Intensity (Reflex, Habit, Engagement)
* Breadth (Products, Services, Brands, Nomenclatures, Channels/Environment/Promotion, and Price)
* Interaction (Passive < > Active < > Interactive)
* Triggers (All Human Senses, Concepts, and Symbols)
* Significance (Meaning, Status, Emotion, Price, and Function)

The more in-depth and consistently an event is developed across
these dimensions, the more responsive an offering is to a
participants needs and desires.

just added new Panoramic Music from Ultimae Records to the Psymbolic sound shop

Leylines by Aes Dana

Substans by Circular

Ephemeris by H.U.V.A. Network

Movements by Solar Fields

Where Edges Meet by James Murray

The Core by I Awake

Motion Graphics Festival 2009
Austin, Texas :: May 11-22
http://www.MGFest.com

Austin is known for supporting Indy Artists and Alternative Cultures throughout the year, but specifically, this month the Austin Motion Graphics Festival brings independent culture creators to the big screen. From filmmakers to musicians, MGFest unites artists across the divides of genre and medium to celebrate the weird, imaginative and other-worldly visions that use the technology of sequential images and the illusion of motion.

The studies of motion design, sound design and interactivity, are featured during the weeks of May 11th through 22nd. The apex of festival activity takes place during May 14th through 17th with entertainment events across the city, including: an art showcase with the Austin Museum Of Digital Art (AMODA), studio tours at top Austin design companies, screenings of local and international motion artists, a full-day educational conference, an open collaboration summit, and two weeks of industry workshops on creative software by Microsoft, Maxon, Adobe, Ableton and the local innovative Livid Instruments.

This year's Austin Motion Graphics Festival begins May 11th, 2009 featuring internationally recognized artists including: Shepard Fairey, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Addictive TV, Digital Kitchen, The Mill, Passion Pictures, Animal Logic, Post Panic, Dvein, Post Modern Times, David Lobser, Ken Adams, Yoshi Sodeoka, Larry Carlson, Robert Rich, Jen Stark, Bob Sabiston, Sandy Stone, Dr. Bleep, Paul Baker, Entranced, Init String, Gift Culture, Artificial Life Preserver and more.

This festival in the fast moving field of design technology has opened it's Art & Entertainment events for only $7. Rather than charging the typical $500-$1500 conference fee, the Motion Graphics Festival encourages participants to stop complaining about the economy, and spend their money on something that will upgrade their tools, technique and aesthetics. Software, DVDs and music will be available at a discount rate throughout the festival week.

Austin MGFest presented by Microsoft Expression Studio 2 and thirteen23.

Additional MGFest Sponsors include: Maxon, Austin Museum of Digital Art, IdN, Livid Instruments, Lumenbrite Training, Lumen Eclipse, SXSW Interactive, Stash DVD Magazine, Create Digital Motion, All City Technology, Future Media Concepts, DigiEffects, VidVox, Sterling Ledet, Boris FX, Resolume, Toolfarm, UnScene, GarageCUBE, Lift Motion Design, Monstrous, RE:Vision Effects, Ableton, Bleep Labs, Wondertouch & Clif Bar.

Silent Auction for over $30,000 in software, DVDs and training materials.

.: MGFest Schedule + Registration :: http://www.MGFest.com

MGFest09 Cambridge / Boston events :: View Photo Stream

MGFest was featured on MIT campus radio along with music by Bob Trahpek aka Robot in the Forest, of whom was showcased during the MGFest Cambridge :: Realtime Performance Showcase

Broadcasted live on Saturday, March 7th 2009 via DarkBOT radio - WMBR 88.1 FM - MIT campus - Cambridge.

Much Respect to electronic Max

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Psymbolic--sounds is now distributing music to over 300 international digital music services including: download stores, mobile services, kiosks, and promotional networks.

just added albums to the Psymbolic sound shop

2 amazing new releases by Interchill

Back To Earth by Eat Static
&
And So It Goes by Kaya Project

+ a classic out of print album by Robert Rich entitled Trances/Drones