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Liz McLean Knight, the main human behind Fractalspin is featured on the cover of the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye free magazine for a feature about geek girls, and especially those in Chicago.

“Geek Chic: New generation of women embracing inner geek” [via the RedEye]

If dissassembling computers is geeky and making jewelry is girly, then Liz McLean Knight has found geek-girl nirvana. From her Wicker Park office, Knight, 30, runs a line of accessories make from computer components and sells the “fashionably-geek hipster gear” on a Web site she created, fractalspin.com.
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Gearwire’s Crosstalk returns from Los Angeles in its new audio podcast format. Bill Holland is joined by Owen O’Malley, and special guest Liz McLean Knight (Quantazelle, Createdigitalmusic.com, Liz Revision). Meet Liz and hear the Crosstalk picks for the best and worst things at Winter NAMM 2008.

Crosstalk 38: Bashing Something That Deserves It — Guitar Hero

Electronic and acoustic musicians and related visuals are projected on he Ice Max Theater. Tonight, Jonah Sharp and Ramp Chicago DJ residents Liz Revision and Emulsion perform withvisuals provided by Video Janitor. Recording extensively as Spacetime Continuum, Edinburgh, Scotland native Jonah Sharp is an ambient music innovator. He helped define the ’90s with his soon to be revived Reflective Records imprint and its original sound of global experimental ambient and techno scene fusion. Sharp has also worked ith many artists including writer and philosopher Terence McKenna, Pete Namlook, Ursula Rucker and Bill Laswell. At the ice bar, Chicago mixologists Adam Seger and Bridget Albert offer samples of their creation, an alcohol-free Blood Orange-Honey Caipirinha cocktail. Admission: FREE. Reservations required. Call 312.742.TIXS (8497).
Starting at about 6:30 they will start releasing any open seats to the rest of the public. People have until that time to claim their reserved seats.

Saturday, February 23, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Jonah Sharp (San Francisco, Spacetime Continuum, Reflective, Astralwerks)
Tycho (San Francisco, Ghostly International)
Visuals by ISO50 and Video Janitor
Ramp Chicago Laptop DJs between sets
$0 with RSVP to 312-742-TIXS (8497)

Call now to RSVP! There are a limited number of seats (240) and last I had heard was that the rest of the series was close to full too! The series is free and open to the public, but they must RSVP to guarantee a seat(s).

This Sunday come out to Rodan for a live performance by Silences Sumire and a DJ Set by Liz Revision (Quantazelle). Silences Sumire is the collaboration of Charles Gorczynski and Thomas Faulds who work with organic instrumentation and jazz sensibilities in the world of electronic music.

I will play a weirder electronic set in the beginning and then see where it goes from there. I’m scheduled to go on 10:00pm.

Silences Sumire Myspace page

Silences Sumire website with MP3 downloads

Liz Revision DJ Sets

Sunday Feb 10, 2008
Rodan: 1530 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60622
10pm

Multimedia artist Kero from Detroit, MI will launch Ramp Chicago’snew residency at Debonair, unleashing his hyper-technical brand of deconstructed genre-bending electro-IDM. Resident DJs Emulsion and Liz Revision support along with resident visualist Spiderback and guest Tesia K. In the same way Ramp has always focused on the dual representation of live video and live PA, Kero works sonically and visually as a musician, designer, and live video artist and provide the perfect introduction to Ramp’s new monthly home.
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Here is a set I played of all original Quantazelle tracks, most of them unreleased. It’s hosted over at my blog, Liz Revision.

Quantazelle Live at Subterranean

Quantazelle, Coyote DG, Drmlgcc, Garo, Lokua. Live Video by: Glen Stephani, The Machinist, Mason Dixon.

FREE!

Subterranean. 2011 North Ave., Chicago IL 60647.
21+ event. http://momentsound.com/

CDM contributors Liz McLean-Knight and Michael Una will be presenting at Dorkbot Chicago this month, which falls on Wednesday, November 28th.As always, it will take place at the excellent Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago.

Here’s what you’ll see:

A self-proclaimed “multi-hyphenate,” Liz McLean Knight–the sole woman behind Quantazelle–is thoroughly immersed in technology, fashion, music, and the often-surprising overlaps between. She will be demonstrating and discussing the art of “micro-sampling” and other swell digital music production techniques. Once she gets going, this whole thing might turn into a dance party.

Michael Una, an audiovisual artist whose work “investigates how vibrating waves of energy and human consciousness interact” will present simple-but-effective techniques for controlling audio software and hardware with inexpensive, commonly found devices like QWERTY Keyboards, video game joysticks, and bicycles.

In addition to the knowledge we’ll be droppin’, beer and pizza will be served. W3rd.

“With its multi-layered commingling of clanking beats and melancholy themes, [Cepia’s Dowry album] follows in the mechanical footsteps of Autechre [and] Funkstorung, … [and] the title track, where stately melodies stubbornly bleed through entangling tendrils of squawks, whirrs, and clicks, is the real stunner. A strong debut from Mr. Miller, ” gushes Textura magazine. Basking in the live-generated sounds of Cepia in Sonotheque’s top-notch Funktion One sound system will truly be a spine-tingling, moving experience.

We’re honored to have DJ Warp, AKA Brian Keigher as a fitting complement to Cepia. As one of Chicago’s premiere electronic music DJs he’s shared the bill with a veritable who’s-who of contemporary artists like Autechre, Luke Vibert, DR Alex Paterson (of The Orb), DJ Spooky, Prefuse 73, Jack Dangers (of Meat Beat Manifesto), Richard Devine, Scanner, and John Tejada.

• Tuesday, November 13th at Sonotheque
• 1444 W. Chicago Ave.
• $5
• 21+
• 9pm to 2am

Cepia (Minneapolis) supports his new album Natura Morta on Ghostly International, artfully combining an finely-tuned orchestra of clicks and whirrs with majestic melodies, and Chicago’s own DJ Warp provides corresponding support with a set of IDM, abstract electronica and ambient. Residents Emulsion and Liz Revision DJ IDM, ambient electro and glitchy techno throughout the night.

Check out this interview I did with Bill Holland / Mr. Automatic over at GearWire. It’s half super-technical gear talk and half about live performance. If you read closely you’ll learn the secret source of some of my “crunchier” sounding samples.“Native Instruments Absynth, Kontakt, Yamaha PSR-85 And Quantazelle’s Live PA Rig“