Breathe Cambridge Poetry Slam Event

Join us for our Back to School POETRY SLAM!! You are invited to share your own work, or listen to the work of others. If you have any questions, please contact Bo Lembo at 617-349-6277.

Breathe Artist Wilgens Metelus' First Film "I Am Who I Am"

http://vimeo.com/27012080

I had the pleasure of seeing this beautiful film by Wilgens Metelus one of the artists from Breathe who has continued exploring multimedia art by working with Cambridge Community Television this summer.  As part of the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP) he was able to learn the basic of filmmaking: writing, shooting and editing at CCTV.  This black-and-white film displays a keen eye for detail and a style that evokes visual elements from early 20th century film though it was shot entirely in digital.  Wilgens plans to follow this film with a documentary and is interested in exploring the themes of bullying, racial and age-based profiling and the struggles and triumphs he and his peers experience living in Cambridge.

Check us out on the Cambridge Somerville Resource Guide

It always feels good to be connected to our community and discover new resources to do just that.  While googling some keywords related to Breathe I discovered cambridgesomervilleresourceguide.org, a great place to get connected locally.  Check out their article on us here and all the other amazing events going on around town.

Gallery Opening : Images (photos courtesy of Mama Jupiter)

Putting the finishing touches on our installation...time to Breathe!

Today we spent a good 8 hours (going on 9 now) putting the finishing touches on the Breathe Cambridge sound art installation. To be accurate it is more of a multimedia installation; we've painted walls, sewed pillows, constructed tables, and edited video for the space. In a space with no direct windows to the outdoors we have somehow managed to let the sky inside, inching closer to the fantasy of lounging on a cloud without the bottom falling out from beneath. The youth from Breathe weren't present but the teaching artists that led them through the process were on hand to make sure everything came together harmoniously.  We have things (a surprise for those who come and visit the space!) hanging from the ceiling, wet words on the walls and I've got a (relatively) portable recording studio setup here to finish up the sound portion of this multimedia piece. Bo Lembo, Shea Pilsbury, Carly Inkpen, Chris, Karin and I all pitched in to make this space into the transcendent experience we aim for.  The spirit of the youth artists is all around us as we finalize the space for our opening reception this Tuesday.  Find the facebook invite here. - M.J.

In the Artist's Own Words (Mini-Doc)

See what the artists of BREATHE: Cambridge have to say about the project as you get a glimpse of their journey through poetry, technology and public art while gaining a definition of self and world in the process.  This short piece serves as a sample of what is to come in the upcoming installation opening this Tuesday.

Watch the video here

The Process of Installation

Check out this process video that shows us transforming the space of the CAC Gallery into an airy blue, grey and white cloud-type of environment perfect for relaxing with our sound art.  This was fun!  We hope that you'll join us for our opening this Tuesday from 6 - 8pm @ 344 Broadway in Cambridge!

watch on youtube

Celebrate the Summer Solstice @ the opening reception for our Sound Art installation!

We have some special surprises in store for the opening of our sound art installation @ CAC Gallery.
Join us this Tuesday night from 6pm -8pm for our opening reception.  Listen to our art, experience the space we've transformed, see what surprises we have in store and enjoy some light refreshment.

"BREATHE: Cambridge" will be open from 6.21.11 thru 8.13.11

N.E.R.D Out!

This past Wednesday, June 15, the artists from BREATHE:Cambridge as well as other Cambridge youth artists working in digital media gathered to present their projects at Microsoft's N.E.R.D (New England Research & Development) Center.  Each of our participants presented on one aspect of our project as the image of the flyer for our show @ CAC Gallery was projected behind us.  Our group closed out our portion of the presentation by inviting the audience to join us in our ritual, the sound creation cypher.  As Dora opened the floor up to the audience the room transformed into a living, breathing piece of sound art.  It was pretty surreal how much we could do as a group with no technology at all, ironically in the HQ of one of the world's largest technology companies.  The event proceeded with sharing at various tables where we presented a short film about BREATHE:Cambridge, our soundcloud pages with our sound art, and our blog.  The audience was asked to add their voice to the next phase of the project as well as their opinions on where we can go from here.  Mercedes Wallace closed out our presentation with the question, "What will you do to carry this project into the future?"

Thanks to Katherine Docimo from Citizen Schools for all of her hard work putting together this event.  Also thanks to Microsoft and Cambridge Youth Programs.

Meet Morning Star aka Rawr.Wulf!

"Morning Star is an artist with tremendous talent and vision who often draws on the spirit animals for inspiration.  She is extremely aware, tuned in to emerging ideas and has a keen eye for detail that will continue to help her refine a style that is truly unique as time goes on." - Mars Jupiter

Find Morning Star's sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/rawrwulf

You can also hear Morning Star's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Susmit! (that rhymes!)

Being myself is my favorite thing to do.  My name is Susmit. I am an artist. I am not the perfect artist, but not being perfect is perfection to me. Detecting new discoveries and experimenting with new ideas is my life. This also gives my art its life. I wander around and play with my art, and that’s when unexpected things happen. I am playful and learn by playing. This gives me my sense of humor. I am eager to be excited by new and mysterious ideas. I ponder these ideas and buy my inspiration from them. Technology and art are my friends. The three of us roam around in the realm of imagination to make new creations. I’ve always loved listening to music, and have wanted to create it. However, I’ve never played any instruments or sang professionally. Breathe is my medium to get to that goal of mine and actually make my own original work.

Find Mercedes' sounds at his page http://soundcloud.com/spudasaini

You can also hear Susmit's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Mercedes Wallace, editor-in-chief of this blog!

When I was little my dad had a song for everything. His music surrounded my every day. I would hear him sing along to songs from when I woke up in the morning to when I went to sleep at night. Now, music is like my best friend because it has always been there for me. For every mood of mine there is a song. And for every song there is a lyric that describes my life. My background has brought me to a job working with sound. It has helped me to make audio that inspires other as more than a person. I want people to relate to my work, like how music relates to my life. When one listens to my audio I want them to go outside of their body and block out everything to focus on their mind, as if they were a monster. I want people to feel like a beautiful monster, like me.
-Mercedes Wallace

Find Mercedes' sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/mercedes-wallace

You can also hear Mercedes' work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

UNBK aka UnbrokenDan aka Wilgens Metelus!

One of the most important things about art to me is the process, but I won’t be satisfied until someone hears my work and tells me how it sounds to them.  I enjoy working in a group like when we creat a circle and do our sound cypher ritual.  Listening to music while I am working,  when I am in a bad mood,  or when I am sad creates more space in my head.  I find a paper and pencil to write and draw something about me at these times.   Art is something I really like, mostly drawing and creating things I never thought I could create. Right now my art is working on my breathe sound  poem.  I enjoy being  outside most of all because that’s where art is that’s where I get ideas to express art from mother nature.   

(((Wilgens received Cambridge's Teen Leadership Award 2011 this past weekend and will be continuing to record voices and sounds for the future of the BREATHE project on his trip to El Salvador this summer, along with his good friend and fellow BREATHE artist Cliff Boucicaut)))

Find Wilgens' sounds at his page http://soundcloud.com/unbrokendan93

You can also hear Wilgens' work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Brandi!

My name is Brandi Santiago. I love to sing. It’s one of my favorite things to do, but when I hear myself I don’t feel like it’s me singing. I feel awkward, but when I listen to one of my pieces I am proud to know that I have dedicated my hard work into the piece that came out amazing. I am confident in my work. I have no ifs, ands, or buts when it comes to deciding what I want in my piece. As the creator I don’t repeat my stuff but I do build on my successes. I might start on something soft then come out loud, you will never expect. I tend to keep things straight and realistic. Not all of my pieces will have the perfect type of style that everyone likes that’s why I like mixing up the beat. I don’t consider myself an artist, I think of myself more as a person. To me an artist more than a human they are larger than life, but I know that one day I will be an artist.


Find Brandi's sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/brandi1245

You can also hear Brandi's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

ducttapedheart aka Matilda

My name is Matilda Koegel Ostow. “Matilda” means mighty and powerful. These strengths are inside me, but I have yet to show these attributes to the fullest. I’m carefully biding my time. I am motivated by every beautiful word, phrase, image or story and am inspired by other’s lives to help this world. My might has not yet led me to the path where I can fix all that I want to, but I know that if I could I would make this earth & its people happy because when I’m happy I can do anything. My art rides on its own emotions; there is no perfectly structured plan as I work because I like it to unfold and form on its own. With this art project I want this community to hear our voices, his voices, her voices, their voices and realize that we are more connected than we’d ever dream. We are one and the only way we can succeed is together.

Find Matilda's sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/ducttapedheart

You can also hear Matilda's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Cliff, a Breathe: Cambridge artist extraordinaire.

I’m Cliff Boucicaut and I’m Haitian. Love, life, my family, my friends, and natural disaster all inspire me. They make me think about one word, writing. When I think I write.  Sometimes art make us sad, other time we laugh or smile. Voltaire, master of the French language, made me enjoy reading with his poems. His writing makes me want to improve my language and use words economically.  Haitian food, television, math, and my family are a big part of my life. Respirer, to breathe, is to take a break and listen to nature, to care about other people and not only yourself.

Find Cliff's sounds @ http://soundcloud.com/sweet-boy-cliff

You can also hear Cliff's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Meet Iona aka IonaX

 
Breathe:
Inhale-not like a rush of tasks and expectations,
nor too slow either; pace yourself, don’t get dizzy.
Exhale- verbal bile, anxiety, stress, the weight of the day.
Here, enclosed in my own little world I piece together my emotions letting them flow freely through the sounds and voices combined, creating audio representations of my mood and self. There are few, if any, words to describe a person truly. Sure there are accessible words and phrases that depict a person to others- “energetic, withdrawn, selfish, works well with others”- all relatively general. So it was a surprise to me when I discovered that I saw myself in my sound pieces. My creations, like Victor Frankenstein’s, are experiments that turned out to mirror myself more accurately than I have and would ever see myself. Some things I already knew about myself- quirky, somewhat repetitive, earthy, somewhat repetitive, and a little bit silly. The pieces also gave me a new spin on myself that I can’t put into words. Lend me your ear and I hope you’ll see me.
~Iona.

Hear Iona's sounds @ http://soundcloud.com/ionax

You can also hear Iona's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Re-Introducing Alex aka Aldaren_Syreth

Alex Sender aka Aldaren_Syreth
When I began working this position, I wasn’t certain as to how I would edit sound.  It seems as if I picked up my own style: logic.  From my experience in studying the technical world of computers, everything, from my vantage point, has some form of logic and reasoning, whatever that logic or reason may be.  In my music mixing experience, I have learned that I have a preference for fluidity and logic; were everything comes together and makes sense to the audience. 

Hear Alex's sounds @ http://soundcloud.com/aldaren_syreth

You can also hear Alex's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

Dora aka theexploraa (Artist Bio)

Dora Cronin
Artist Biography

    Before this Breathe Project, I had never considered a sound scape as part of an art installation or as art, and to be honest, I never really found the idea of it appealing. To me, art was something you could see, like a painting, or a sculpture, but not something audio, which is ironic because I am a musician. Yes they both require a creative mind, and each are creating a piece for entertainment or inspiration. But audio pieces are a modern invention. The closest thing our ancestors had to a sound scape was music. Music is beautiful, soft, and natural, it takes you back to a more primitive part of you, deep within our soul that makes us feel a connection to the world around us. A sound scape, I thought, couldn’t be like that. It seemed so computerized, and technological, heavy and fake, nothing that I wanted to be a part of. Not me. It wasn’t until I joined this project and started to create my own audio piece, that I realized that my sound didn’t have to be sharp and futuristic, and in fact I could do something much more beautiful and powerful with my hour of audio that I could never have done with a paintbrush or pencil, I could tell a story. And that is just what I have tried to do, with my musical background and personal taste, in my piece. Every one has a story, and within 23 lines, we asked the people of Cambridge to share theirs.

Find Dora's sounds at her page http://soundcloud.com/theexploraa

You can also hear Dora's work as part of the BREATHE: Cambridge artist collective in our multimedia installation featuring sound art, poetry, painting and interactive self-expression. On display this summer @ CAC Gallery, City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us on 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm for our reception @ CAC Gallery!

We presented our project at Microsoft's NERD Center yesterday in Cambridge.  Now we're gearing up for our show @ CAC Gallery.  Check the flyer above and info below.  Join us for our opening 6.21.11 from 6 - 8pm!  It's gonna be super duper FRESH!

http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CAC/Exhibitions/current.cfm?minor

Submit Your Own Breathe Poem!

Fill out your own Breathe Poem using this convenient template.   https://sites.google.com/site/breathecambridge/breathe-poem-form
Poems will be re-read and recorded for use in our sound art installation!

Also, consider downloading Audacity, the free open-source audio editing software that we use for BREATHE:Cambridge.  That way, after you write your poem, you can record your own voice and submit it for use in our project!  We'd love to hear from you.

you can download the latest version of Audacity here http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Cafe Luna: Voice Collecting and Community Connecting

The Breathe: Cambridge teens love to create their  own art, but it is always exciting to view other work as well. Especially if it is the art and words of fellow Cantabridgians! As a semi field trip and sound gathering experience the Breathe kids packed up and took the van to Café Luna in Central Square. There they were warmly welcomed by Jean-Dany Baptiste who was running the poetry readings of that night. The space was tight but  everyone squeezed in, giving the experience a more intimate and personal touch. With recorders in hand and two musicians forming the soundtrack of the night, the artists were able to witness local poets read their work aloud to open ears. One woman after reading her words, conducted a song which called for all the people in the venue to participate and sing along. Overall the night was fun and an exciting welcome into the artist community of Cambridge.  

- Matilda aka ducttapedheart

Breathe Art by Iona

Iona, a 'BREATHE' artist, created this amazing image this weekend at Cambridge Open Studios in between collecting voices.  It's a new version of one of her recent visual concepts.  Breathe is expanding into the visual realm in more ways than one as we move towards our Summer installation @ CAC Gallery.  - MJ

A Breathe Poem

This poem was collected at Cambridge Open Studios this past weekend.  We recorded about 100 community voices!  This poem in particular speaks to me.  - Mars Jupiter

Space Transformed: BREATHE's Final Voice Collection Outing

Transformation through communication is today's theme.  A culture of freedom was promoted through art at the former Blockbuster video space (above Pier 1 Imports in the above picture) in the Porter Square Galleria today during the final day of Cambridge Arts Council's 3-weekend-long Open Studios.  BREATHE: Cambridge was set up at the entrance to the space welcoming art appreciators to participate in our sound project as they entered a space occupied by photographers, painters, artisans, sculptors and more.  "Would you like to help us create some art?"  This questioned proved irresistible to visitors entering a space filled with inspiring works.  The first words collected today were read by a giggly little girl following a creative process of  pure bliss as her mother transcribed her responses to the prompts of the Breathe form poem.  We had our second beatbox cypher in two days, heard Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese languages, recorded infants and elders.  The afternoon opened into a collaborative process that I've honestly never imagined possible.  People, technology, time and space harmoniously converged in this relic of a dying (if not already post-mortem) era of media consumption.  A bankrupted Blockbuster and converted Jennifer Convertibles opened space up for a higher level of human interaction through art and conversation.  Destruction leads to rebuilding as the exhale opens space for the inhale.  BREATHE!
- MJ

Mars Jupiter offers a breath of fresh air with "Breathe To Lead"

                                                           "Breathe To Lead" Mars Jupiter
Mars Jupiter has debuted his first offering from his contribution to the Breathe: Sound Poetry project entitled "Breathe To Lead" available here ---> http://soundcloud.com/marsjupiter/breathe-to-lead  On his soundcloud page he says, "My tape recorder listened as the community spoke. I listened as the tape recorder played. My computer recorded my keystrokes as I played with recorded reality to create this sound scape. I hope it inspires you to realize your complete potential, have consistent motivation and to lead!"  This track was created with two Panasonic tape recorders, one Sony digital voice recorder, one Magnavox turntable, a condenser microphone, an Akai MPC-2000xl sampler, and Pro Tools, a potent combination of analog and digital.  It contains elements of 70's Jazz, musique concrete, cloudsourced voices and various handclaps and organic percussion sounds to create a rhythmic journey through self-definition.  Self: meaning one alone and many together, as the space for each individual's voice was created by a community that values self-expression.  Elements of Fhanillia, Manny, Shea and countless others find a solid ground in Mars Jupiter's beatwork to breathe their truth.  Leading the way towards a more transparent tomorrow through today's age of electrified information, love battles fear in a fight over reality and it's perception.  Addressing the fear with poetry and music seems to transform it's vibration from it's slow and low rumble into a higher vibratory frequency that charges us ahead into the loving bliss of self-knowledge.  Take a breath and take the lead!

Cambridge Open Studios

"I am rain, I wash away the day. I bellow thunder. I am part of this world. I travel without boundaries..."  These words were gifted to the Breathe:Cambridge project while we were setup at Cambridge Open Studios' North Cambridge edition earlier today.  Through our open venue for community voices we were able to capture a multi-hued spectrum of accents, languages and cadences from our community here in Cambridge.  From Eriko the photographer who plays in a dub-metal band to a distressed post-dentist 9-year-old named Nyela and Cambridge's Poet Populist Toni B. there was no shortage of powerful, unique voices in Porter Square this afternoon.  The latter voice was found at a COS poetry event at Porter Sq. Books, offering her words as well as those of Bob Marley's "Rastaman Vibration" to the rhythm of my beatbox which I had the pleasure of offering in a spontaneous collaboration.  It echoed the open artistic comraderie of an earlier beatbox duet that happened after I caught a unique voice attempting to pass our booth without contributing his apparent skill.  As I heard him manipulating his breath into a beat as he walked past I had to say something.  "Would you like to contribute your voice?"

Stay tuned to hear all the voices!  Hear some of our sounds @ http://soundcloud.com/breathe-soundpoetry "BREATHE:Cambridge" on display July - August 2010 @ CAC Gallery 343 Broadway Cambridge MA

-MJ

Susmit Pudasaini releases his first sound piece, "Do You Mind?"

"Travel in my mind, your mind, do you mind?"  The words reverberate like the yelps of endless tourists passing through the Grand Canyon.  The echo makes you wonder where the rest of this soundscape will go.  Knowing Susmit's work on a personal level I understand the strong rhythms that shape the art of this young man from Nepal.  Understanding this steady beat that pulses through Susmit's life and work I begin to wonder why he decided to release a beat-less piece as his first public offering.  While it lacks percussion, or any sort of drums for that matter, there is a clear sense of rhythm as evidenced by the syncopated echoes and vocal repetitions.  Susmit has chosen to catch the listener's ear with something familiar to all of us hear on earth, the human voice.  Before any of us hear the monotonous beat of our industrialized urban landscape we hear the voice of our mother as we expand slowly in her womb. "Do you mind?" is a piece that removes external noise so that we can focus on the rhythm inherent in all of our voices.  Space to breathe is provided to prepare us for a long journey ahead.  At least that's what I got from it.  - Mars Jupiter

Rawr.Wulf is releasing her sound art to the public this weekend!

Breathe:Cambridge artist Rawr.Wulf (real name withheld) is finally releasing some of her brand-new sound art this weekend to the public through soundcloud -  http://www.soundcloud.com/rawrwulf   Rawr.Wulf is one of only two sound artists of the Breathe: Cambridge artist collective yet to share her work with the public, Susmit Pudasaini being the other  http://soundcloud.com/spudasaini .  As a member of the collective I have had a rare chance to hear some previews of the art she is creating and I must say it is full of surprises.  I would characterize the few tracks I have heard as dense, humorous, and playful.  There is an attention to detail and making clear connections that gives the listener's imagination room to travel while staying grounded in her world.  Stay in tune with us through the blog and our http://soundcloud.com/breathe-soundpoetry page to hear contributions from all of the participants! - Mars Jupiter

How to access a mac computer when you don't know the password.

How to access a mac computer when you don't know the password.

At the Gately Youth Center, there was one lonely Mac computer which nobody could access.
Years and years ago, the tech teacher of that time had packed up and left, forgetting to tell the Gately staff the password. Nobody could get in. Poor lonely little currently-outdated Mac.

Until tonight.

With the help of trusty... well... resourceful Google, one young worker of the Breathe Cambridge: Spoken Poetry project managed to trick the computer into creating a new admin account, as if the computer had never made an account before.

These two websites were used:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40500/New-Admin-Setup-Mac-OS-X-How-to
http://www.macyourself.com/2009/08/03/how-to-reset-your-mac-os-x-password-without-an-installer-disc/

The steps I'd suggest following are as follows:

1. Power on or restart your Mac (should work for any Mac OS X system).
2. At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command(Apple button)+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode. (http://www.macyourself.com/2009/08/03/how-to-reset-your-mac-os-x-password-without-an-installer-disc/)
3. The screen will be black with white text
   Type the following (include all the spaces or else it won't work):
   /sbin/mount -uw /
4. Hit the return/Enter key
5. Type:
   rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
6. Hit the return/Enter key
7. Type:
   reboot
8. Hit the return/Enter key (http://www.scribd.com/doc/40500/New-Admin-Setup-Mac-OS-X-How-to)
9. Go through the registration process. Voila! A new account!
10. Log into the new account.
11. Go to System Preferences
12. Go to Accounts, and click on the old account (the one you forgot the password to)
    You may need to click on the lock in the corner to be able to change the settings.
13. Uncheck the option “Allow user to administer this computer” and change the password of that old account.
14. Now recheck the option “Allow user to administer this computer."
15. Log out.
16. Log back in to the old account with the changed password.
17. Go to System Preferences
18. Go to Accounts, and click on the new account you had just made (again, you may need to click on the lock in the corner to be able to change the settings).
19. Delete the newer account. Click "Delete Immediately"
20. Voila! Now all you have is the original account with the old files and everything.

Of course, you could have skipped steps 13-20 by just deleting the older account, and keeping the new one, but then you would have deleted the old files you may have needed.

Well, we're done. Good Job!

~Morning Star. 5/16/11

Tips:
-Remember, type ALL the spaces, or it won't work (steps 3 and 5)
-If you cannot change the system preferences, make sure the lock in the corner looks unlocked. If it doesn't, click it to unlock it. (steps 13, 14, and 19)

Key Words (if you are unfamiliar with the terms, look them up, or find someone who is):
-Admin/Administrator
-root
-command prompt

...Random pictures MJ insisted on taking:

 Ooh! A hand~ And part of my face.

 OMG a computer... it's a MAC

 OH NO! It's still a MAC!~

The computer is still there. Creepy.

"I always feel like, somebody's watching me~" The computer is watching me. I swear.

 Haha... no.

~Goodnight!

Animation Inspiration

I found this animation while looking for images for the promotional flyer for our Sound Art Installation at the CAC Gallery http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CAC/Exhibitions/gallery.cfm that will be on display throughout the summer.  It's an exciting time as we are drawing this phase of the project to a close while exploring how to catch people's eyes in order to catch their ears.  As a sound artist, getting into graphic design always excites me as it challenges my creativity in a new way. I can't wait to share the images I produce to represent the project.  The graphic campaign will be integrated fully with our online existence on http://www.Soundcloud.com/breathe-soundpoetry (find the youth participants on our followers / following lists - and create your own soundcloud to submit your voice to our project!), our blog and beyond using QR code technology!  Here's our first QR Code for some raw audio of my train ride from North Cambridge to East Cambridge on the Red Line train, ending at Kendall/MIT station where I played with the Pythagoras sound installation that uses a crank to hit tubular bells that have a melodic and soothing sound.
 
Stay in tune with us as we move towards our gallery show, opening mid-June 2011!
-Mars Jupiter

Breathe Workshops

Breathe Cambridge

Breathe Cambridge has started up again with a new group of artists.We are in the middle of the third stage of the project which is focused on audio production. In this stage we are working toward a 24-hour-long audio installation, recording new voices and working with those previously recorded to create sound art.  Every member of the group is responsible for making at least one hour of audio. We use an audio editing program called Audacity to put together a piece with the recorded voices. In this process we do a lot of independent work on our pieces but come together as a supportive group.

In my process I have found it really easy to produce a lot of material in the short amount of time I have to work on my piece. I start with the piano as my background and add voices over it that sound really good with the piano. But some of my sound is not from the recorded videos. I get poems from You Tube, which fit with the theme of my piece, and convert them into audio so that I can use them. I want my piece to relate to everybody, teens, kids, even adults. My ending goal is to have my piece be inspiring and not to have my audience feel happy, but touched. I think if I work really hard from now to the end of this stage I will succeed with my goal and get many compliments.

-Mercedes Wallace

Sound Collecting Outing in Porter Square

Creating sound at Gourmet Express in Porter

Breathe Team On The Move

Collecting Sounds

Walking to Porter

Collecting Playground Sounds