• Becoming Dragon is subject of article in the San Diego Reader.
• posted on: March 30, 2009
• Check out these links for more information on the Scalable City installation at FILE in Rio.

  Rolling Stone
  MTV
  UOL
  O Globo
  The second most important newspaper in Brazil
  Yahoo
  Diário do Rio de Janeiro
  IG
  OutraCoisa
  Oi Futuro
  Friends from UIC/EVL showing their artwork at FILE too
  

• posted on: March 17, 2009
• UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds IBM has awarded a System z10 mainframe computer and related equipment to a team led by Calit2's Artist-in-Residence Sheldon Brown. The computer will be used to innovate new virtual worlds (including one based on Brown's Scalable City), multi-player online games and high-fidelity digital cinema.
• posted on: March 17, 2009
• Jaime Oliver's Silent Drum won first place in the first Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology announced. The competition - supported by the philanthropic family of Tech alum Richard Guthman - showcased new uses of technology to enhance participation in music performance and music creation. Nearly 30 inventors from seven countries performed on Georgia Tech's campus in the competition for more than $15,000 in prizes. Read more at: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29595999/ or at http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS127889+09-Mar-2009+PRN20090309
• posted on: March 10, 2009
• Rio de Janeiro is the latest stop for the Scalable City. Stop by the OI Futuro museum between March 10 and April 19, 2009.
• posted on: March 09, 2009

• Saturday, July 11, 2009
  Tower Sounds: Ancient Voices and Electronics
  Tower Sounds: Ancient Voices and Electronics
  by Shahrokh Yadegari
  Saturday, July 11 @ 1pm
  
  featuring performances by:
  
  Siamak Shajarian, Vocals
  Kate St-Pierre, Vocals
  Keyavash Nourai, Violin
  Dmitri Mahlis, Oud
  Satnam Ramgotra, Tabla and Percussion
  
  
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• Saturday, June 13, 2009
  Opening Reception at the Escondido Municipal Gallery
  Join us at the Gallery this Saturday for a day of interesting conversations and art! Invite a friend and enjoy the day. The evening will pulse with live fractal projections, sound and seismic installations.
  
  Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:30pm-8:00pm
  2nd Saturday ArtWalk
  
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• Monday, June 08, 2009
  Recombinant Serendipity
  Please join the graduating class of Interdisciplinary Computing and Arts Majors (ICAM) from the Music and Visual Arts Departments at a week long event showcasing 28 artists at any of four different receptions. Events occur throughout the week of June 8 through 12 in three different locations. View installations, presentations, performances and keynote speakers on 4 different nights. Light snacks and drinks provided at each reception.
  
  
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• Saturday, May 16, 2009
  Music department's Annual Spring Festival
  UCSD DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS FESTIVAL MAY 16-23 ‘Soundisfaction’ to Take Place in the New Conrad Prebys Music Center April 27, 2009
  
  Need a sound fix? Come get a heaping dose of cutting edge high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech art music by internationally renowned young performers and composers around UCSD including the new Conrad Prebys Music Center during the UCSD Festival of New Music ‘Soundisfaction’. Taking place May 16-23, this student run festival kicks off with a jam-packed weekend full of world premiere performances, and continues into the week with nightly showcases of work by current UCSD graduate students. All events are free and open to the public.
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• Wednesday, May 13, 2009
  UPGRADE! Tijuana Event
  7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location/Ubicacion:Calle Jose Maria Larroque 273, 2nd Floor, Int. 6 Colonia Federal Tijuana, Baja California 22300
  
  

  UPGRADE! Tijuana is a monthly meeting with visual artist, musicians, programmers and involved people interested in the development and promotion of electronic culture.
  

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Shahrokh Yadegari
Shahrokh's website

Shahrokh Yadegari is Producer of Performances for the SIGGRAPH @ UCSD activities being held in Atkinson Hall on August 3-6, 2007. Yadegari (Ph.D. UCSD) is a composer and sound designer who has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars, Hossein Omoumi, Steven Schick, Siamak Shajarian, Yolande Snaith, and Vibeke Sorensen. Yadegari's music has been played internationally, in various venues such as the Japan America Theatre in Los Angeles, several of International Computer Music Conferences (ICMC), the Institut fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt, and Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego. He is one of the founders of Persian Arts Society and Kereshmeh Records. Yadegari is currently head of sound design at the Theatre and Dance department at UCSD.