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March 30, 1986 - Listen 1.0 software released.
February, 1987 - Listen 2.0 software released.
September 1, 1993 - Bliss Saver software released.
January 7, 1994 - Imaja shows Bliss Saver and performs with Bliss Paint at the Digital Art Be-In, San Francisco.
March 19, 1994 - Imaja shows products at BMUG MacFest, Berkeley, CA.
March 20, 1994 - Listen 2.2 released for PowerMac and AV models.
March 31, 1994 - BMUG demonstration of Bliss Saver and Bliss Paint, Berkeley, CA.
May 1, 1994 - Release of Bliss Paint.
Summer, 1994 - Custom Bliss paintings used in Grateful Dead summer tour.
Summer, 1994 - Bliss Paint and Bliss Saver used in interactive computer kiosks at Electric Carnival of Lollapalooza summer tour.
June 14, 1994 - Bliss Paint performance at IICS meeting, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco.
July 1994 - Bliss Paint performance at Crash Palace with Zippy Pronoia Tour, San Francisco.
August 1, 1994 - Listen 2.3 update released.
August 1, 1994 - Bliss Paint released.
September 1, 1994 - Bliss Gallery and Geometric Bliss released.
September 4, 1994 - Bliss Paint performance at D'Cuckoo techno-tribal dance, San Francisco.
October 12-13, 1994 - Bliss Paint shown at Multimedia Expo/Creativity Cafe, Moscone, San Francisco.
October 18, 1994 - Bliss Paint performance at ACM Multimedia '94, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco.
November 6, 1994 - Bliss Paint demonstration at San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival.
November 26, 1994 - Bliss performance at Tribal Funk rave at Cow Palace, San Francisco.
December 1, 1994 - Bliss performance at CreaTech, San Francisco.
December 2, 1994 - Bliss performance at Exploratorium Grinch Party, San Francisco.
December 8, 9, 11, 12, 1994 - Live video graphics performance with Bliss Paint at Grateful Dead concerts, Oakland Coliseum.
January 5, 1995 - Bliss Paint performance with D'Cuckoo techno-tribal dance band, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco.
January 6, 1995 - Bliss Paint performance and demonstrations at Digital Art Be-In, San Francisco.
Feb-Jun 1995 - Bliss Paint installation at The Tech Museum of Innovation, 145 West San Carlos St., San Jose, 95113. Interactive animated paintings. For information call (408) 279-7158.
February 15-April 15, 1995 - Art Exhibit: Watercolors, drawings, and computer generated video art at the Albany Community Center, Marin Avenue, Albany, California. Opening: 5pm-7pm, February 26, 1995.
June 2-3, 1995 - Grateful Dead uses Bliss Paint live for the Shoreline shows in Mountain View, CA, and for the rest of the summer tour.
June 3, 1995 - Bliss Paint and D'Cuckoo live at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco in a benefit for Computers and You, a non-profit, community access organization.
June 15-17, 1995 - Bliss Paint live installation at CyberStroika, a special multimedia exposition of queer visions for the future curated by Please Louise Productions and Museo Contempo in association with Frameline and Southern Exposure. Show time: 7:30pm-10:30pm. Location: Southern Exposure, 401 Alabama at 17th, San Francisco, CA. $7. CyberStroika is part of the 19th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
June 10-11 and 17-18, 1995 - Greg Jalbert/Open Studios in conjunction with Pro Arts. Works on paper in watercolor, gouache, and ink, computer animations, and video. 11am-6pm, 1008 Kains Ave., Albany, CA 94706. For information call (510) 526-4621. Visit the ProArts Web site at http://www.lanminds.com/local/proarts.html
July 20, 1995 - Bliss Paint demonstration by the author, Greg Jalbert, for the North Bay Multimedia Association. For information, call Mike Campos at 415-892-1573.
Summer 1995 - Grateful Dead uses Bliss Paint live for the Shoreline shows in Mountain View, CA, and for the rest of the summer tour.
Greg Jalbert and Serge Vladimiroff perform synthesizer/percussion/guitar music in collaboration with the light show artist Glenn McKay. Altered Statesman VI is at 431 Coloma, Sausalito, CA, Friday, August 25, 1995, 8:30pm. Call 415-332-4130 for more information. Glenn uses banks of slide projectors and an incredible variety of hand-made slides and oil dishes.
Greg Jalbert, Serge Vladimiroff and Rob Lonsdale perform synthesizer/percussion/guitar music in collaboration with the light show artist Glenn McKay. Altered Statesman VII is at 431 Coloma, Sausalito, CA, Friday, September 22, 1995, 8:00pm. Call 415-332-4130 for more information. Glenn uses banks of slide projectors and an incredible variety of hand-made slides and oil dishes.
Imaja will be demonstrating Bliss Paint, Bliss Saver, Listen and other software at The Electronic Picnic at College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, CA, Saturday, September 23, 1995, 9am - 5pm. Call 415-883-0792 for more information.
Greg Jalbert shows video at the Creativity Cafe in San Francisco. Come on over to share your art, video, live music and creativity. Saturday, September 30, 1995, 7pm. Call 415-776-0821 for more information.
Imaja will be demonstrating Bliss Paint, Bliss Saver, Listen and other software at North Coast Mac User Group MacDiscovery Day, CA, Saturday, October 14, 1995. Call 510-526-4621 for more information.
HPX Presents (Seattle) with special guest Greg Jalbert of Imaja do the light show for the Zero/Radiators shows on December 30 and 31, 1995, New Year's Eve.
Imaja/Greg Jalbert does the light show with Bliss Paint for the techno-tribal band D'Cuckoo at the NEC party during the MacWorld Exposition, San Francisco, January 10, 1995.
Imaja performs and demonstrates Bliss Paint and related products at the 8th Annual Digital Art Be-In in San Francisco, January 11, 1995.
Imaja is out and about showing Bliss Paint and other products at the MacWorld Exposition, San Francisco, January 9-12, 1995.
Prepare for a wonder flood of visual eye-candy when Family Dog presents Second Sight, Henry Kaiser and others at the Maritime Hall, San Francisco, on March 2, 1996. Candace Brightman (lighting director for the Grateful Dead) will be directing the visual feast, HPX Presents (Seattle) will be providing a smorgasbord of vintage video and tossed brain salad, with Terry Whitt and Greg Jalbert (Imaja) providing double-scoop Bliss Paint animations, some of which will be triggered by the band on stage. This feast will be projected on four projectors to the sides and above the main stage.
May 15, 1996, Greg Jalbert (Imaja) performs with Bliss Paint at the Apple Computer World Wide Developers Conference, Sprockets Rave in San Jose, with music provided by Freaky Chakra, Single Cell Orchestra, and Rob Johnson and friends. Additional visuals provided by Mark Johns.
June 8, 1996 - Brian Eno mentions Greg Jalbert and his generative art software Bliss Paint in his speech at the Imagination Convergence in San Franciso. The reclusive Jalbert was busy painting without a computer that day and stayed home.
July 19, 1996 - (Sorry, the visuals for this couldn't happen because HPX van broke down on the way from Seattle). HPX with Greg Jalbert and Bliss Paint perform lights and video for Reggae Sunsplash at the Maritime Hall in San Francisco.
Summer Olympics, Atlanta - Animated Architecture (Candace Brightman and company) has produced the video and animation for the AT&T; music stage, and they have included a selection of custom Bliss Paint animations created by Greg Jalbert. Look for the stage with four 72 foot high projection panels on either side.
July 31, 1996 - Greg Jalbert talks about generative art and Bliss Paint at the North Bay Multimedia Association ArtSIG. This meeting will be held at Autodesk in San Rafael, CA at 7pm. Grant Blaha will also be showing cellular automata software. See the NBMA web site http://www.nbma.com for directions and other details.
September 11, 1996 - The first Visual Music Forum will be held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco at 7:30pm, with demonstrations of visual music arts by Greg Jalbert of Imaja, Ron Pellegrino of Electronic Arts Productions, Steven Malinowski, and Michael Wanger. This forum is the beginning of a new group that is dedicated to exploring the closely intertwined forms of visual and audio arts. See Visual Music Forum and ToneColor for more information.
November 1 or 2, 1996 (Friday or Saturday) - Greg Jalbert performs Bliss Paint visuals with Eyetribe for Tom Koch electronic music performance at the Experimental Music Festival in Sacramento.
November 25, 1996 (Monday)- Greg Jalbert shows Bliss Paint, with Jonathan Luskin talking about another topic, at Sandy Cohen's Music Visualization class at San Francisco State University.
December 2-29, 1996 - Greg Jalbert travels to Madras and surrounding cities in Southern India.
January 9, 1997 (Thursday) - Imaja exhibits new version of Bliss Paint (2.0) and Fractal Garden (from Sara Frucht, the author of Geometric Bliss) at the Digital Art Be In, SOMAR Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco. Greg Jalbert will also be doing projection visuals with Bliss Paint and video. This is sure to be interesting as he will have just arrived back from India. Who knows what it will be like!? 7pm-2am.
January 10, 1997 (Friday) - Greg Jalbert demos Listen, Chronos, and Bliss Paint at the CA Music Educators Association conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. 50 minute demo starting at 1pm or so.
Jan-Mar 1997 - Greg Jalbert is producing the music for Glenn McKay's recent light art work, a full length video. This will be the first commercial release of McKay's light art on video. Glenn McKay has a long history of doing light art to music, including work with Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. Greg Jalbert is the author of Bliss Paint, a musician and painter.
February 13, 1997 - MSNBC's show on cable television, The Site, features an interview with Imaja founder, Greg Jalbert, speaking on his work in the area of 'generative art', with scenes from Imaja's Bliss Paint interactive animation software.
March 13, 1997 - MSNBC's show on cable television, The Site, features an interview with Imaja founder, Greg Jalbert, speaking on his work in the area of 'generative art', with scenes from Imaja's Bliss Paint interactive animation software.
August 20, 1997 - Greg Jalbert is a guest musician with Terra Nova performing at the O'Reilly and Associates Perl Conference in the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. Terry Whitt will be doing live computer animation projection for the music with Imaja's Bliss Paint software.
October 3, 1997 - Omnimedia Feedback Garden Location: Cellspace, 2050 Bryant Street (at 18th Street), San Francisco 415.648.7462 $5-$10 Sliding scale donation. 9:00 pm - 2:00 am Audio-visual experiments with "Trickle down electronics." Sound and musical performances by Univac, Modrn, Citizen Band and The Helen Lundy Trio. Visual accompaniment by EyeTribe and Bliss Paint's Greg Jalbert. This show is part of the San Francisco Computer Museum's (http://www.fog.com) CoMA '97.
THE ALGORHYTHMICS (the al-go-rith'-miks) n. A band of humans and machines making beautiful, funky music together. Seen shaking, slapping, and squeezing a variety of exotic electronic controllers, including the EMG-to-MIDI BodySynth and the Shaker MIDI percussion sticks. Known for breaking down the barriers between performer and audience. Members include
- DEAN JACOBS Chief Technical Walloon: programming, keyboards, composition
- GALEN BRANDT Chief Humanist: vocals, composition, talking to actual people plus Greg Jalbert's amazing BlissPaint graphics engine. Original interactive music for your head, hands and heart!
Wednesday, October 22 at the Center For the Arts Theater in Yerba Buena Gardens. It is at the reception for a panel discussion on "Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds" given by the SFSU Multimedia Studies Program.

Body and Soul conference October 31 through November 2 at the St. Francis Hotel.
Ambient Music at the New Age Renaissance Fair, San Jose, California. Ambient electronic musicians Kim Cascone and Charles Uzzell-Edwards will be performing at the New Age Renaissance Fair in San Jose on Saturday, November 15, from 11-5pm. Computer animation (Bliss Paint, etc.) and video by Greg Jalbert of Imaja.
Omnimedia V.03 Experimental Music & Technology Extravaganza
Sat Jan 24th @ 9pm. Featuring various electronic exhibits and musicians pushing the envelope backwards into retro-trickle-down technology. Musicians include: BranFlakes (Seattle), Wetgate, Gustavo and his MetaGraph, Wobbly, Space Mesa, and univac+modrn. Visuals and mayhem by EyeTribe, Greg Jalbert (with Bliss Paint software), and OptikalNutraSweet. cell, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco. Tel: 415-648-7562.
Omnimedia V.04 Experimental Music & Technology Extravaganza
Friday, July 10th, 1998 @ 6pm (or 8pm)-2am. Featuring various electronic exhibits and musicians pushing the envelope backwards into retro-trickle-down technology. Visuals and mayhem by EyeTribe, Greg Jalbert (with Bliss Paint software), and David Tristram. cell, 2050 Bryant Street, between 18th and 19th streets in the Mission District of San Francisco. Tel: 415-648-7562.
Imaja performs live visuals at the Holistic Arts Fair with musicians Tom Aragon and David Hayden on Saturday November 21, 1998, San Jose City College, in San Jose, California.
Electronic Musician magazine publishes an article about electronic music and multimedia performance at CELL in San Francisco, mentioning Greg Jalbert and Imaja's animation software Bliss Paint and co-visualizers David Tristram and Peter King. December 1998 issue, page 104.
Imaja releases Bliss Paint 2.0, a major upgrade to the live performance animation software for Mac OS computers. January 1, 1999.
Imaja showcases Bliss Paint 2.0, Space Garden Meditations, Rainwater, and the classic Bliss Saver for Mac OS computers at the 11th Annual Digital Be-In. Saturday, January 9, 1999, 7pm-2am. SomArts Cultural Center, 929 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA.
Glenn McKay's light art exhibit, Altered States, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 4-June 1, 1999, includes a segment of electronic music by Greg Jalbert for the 1990's movement, which explores in sound the organic textures and space vistas of McKay's hand-painted slides.
Omnimicro: a series of electronic/experimental music/media performances, Thursday, April 22, 1999, an evening of sound design, audio environments, ambience, and drone. Close your eyes and go there. Performing: Wobbly, Involution, Brain Science, Crustasions, Visuals: Greg Jalbert, Optikal NutraSweet(tm). ATW: Artists Theatre Workshop, 1932 Telegraph Ave, between 19th & 20th in downtown Oakland, California. For a complete calendar of the Omnimicro series see Tonecolor.
YLEM, Artists Using Science and Technology Cyber-Happy-Hour, Sunday, March 11, 2001, 4-7pm, 111 Minna St. Gallery, 111 Minna St. at 2nd St., San Francisco, food, fun, art, memories, no host bar. See you there! DJ imaja plays background music and shows video/animation, mixed from 2 decades of work.
YLEM, Artists Using Science and Technology, will present a video by Glenn McKay with music by Greg Jalbert of Imaja, at the Exploratorium, San Francisco. Wednesday September 20, 2000, 7pm.
WebZine 2000, a multimedia event at CELL, 2050 Bryant (at 18th St.), San Francisco. DJs and video projection, two rooms, Saturday, July 22, 2000, Talks starting at 4pm, Music and visuals 10pm-2am. Visuals by Imaja and others.
Omnimedia v.06, Sunday, July 23, 2000. 4pm - 8pm: Demonstrations and Expositions of Techniques and Technology: Individual artists available for questions, presentations and solo performances. 8pm - Midnight: Group Improvisations: All artists participate in live electronic exploration of sound and video space. At The Creamery, 2517 San Pablo, Oakland, California. See Omnicetera: the journal of the Omnimedia artists for details on past performances. This is an event with complex experimental electronic music and video generation and interaction. Some of it is quite abstract while other material works with cultural references.
Imaja's Bliss Paint animation software is used in the Jamodrum at SIGGraph, New Orleans, July 24-29, 2000. The Jamodrum is a round table with embedded MIDI drum pads that trigger computer animations that are projected onto the drum table. The Bliss Paint Tide Pools animations are a psychedelic treat of colors and patterns, with colors triggered by the three drum pads, one of three animations that will be displayed. The others are HexDrum, an educational call-and-response style drumming experience, and HexaPong, a visual and musical echoing of player rhythms. The animation software is by Greg Jalbert and Tim Perkis, with music sequencing and sound design by Tina Blaine (Bean).
Health and Harmony Festival - Techno-Tribal Dance, June 10, 2000 at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Auditorium will feature two bands, Trance Mission, Lost at Last and several DJs and will feature visuals by Greg Jalbert (Imaja, Bliss Paint, video and other visual experiments), David Tristram of Tristram Visual, Laura DuBois slides and video, and videographer Beth Lenholt. This promises to be a show with good energy.
Jeffrey Burns, renowned virtuoso pianist, will be presenting The Piano of Light, Generation II: (Podewil Theater, Berlin, December 1999 - January 2000; Aspekte Festival, Salzburg, May 2000; International Music Festival Höfgen-Kaditzsch, September 2000; Rheinsberg Castle, November 2000). The program includes:
- Charles Valentin Alkan: Le Festin díÉsope (film material by Oskar Fischinger)
- Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 10 (computer animation by Greg Jalbert)
- Frank Zappa: Ruth is Sleeping (film material by Oskar Fischinger)
- Josef Tal: Essay II (choreography by Susanne Kirchner)
Trans-Cinema: Electronic musicians and visualizers collaborate at Blasthaus, 41 Freelon Street (near 4th and Brannan) in San Francisco. Saturday, December 4th, 1999, doors open at 8:30pm. Artists include: Wobbly, fluorescent grey, God's Grandparents, Big City Orchestra, Wetgate, Brain Science, Imaja, Tristram Visual.
World's Collide: November 19, 1999. Imaja performs visuals with univac and Brain Science creating sound with a wide array of old and new devices for the chill room.
Omnimedia Reigns! Showing Off the Umbrella: New Media Integration of the Visual Arts, Music and Science - a lecture/demonstration by Dr. Ron Pellegrino, visual artist, musician, technician, performer, explorer, innovator, scientist, teacher. See full article by Joe Zizzi at the North Bay Multimedia Association web site. Thursday, November 18, 1999, AUTODESK, 111 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, California, networking at 6:00 p.m., program at 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 26th, 2001, 8:00PM: Premiere of a new work - Marguerite Duras here, now and in Space by John Yi. Featuring: Don Hopkins, Greg Jalbert, Alex Potts - live video synthesis; John Bischoff - computer synthesis; Andrew Borger, Ches Smith - drums; Gary Glickman, Devin Hoff - bass; Tom Yoder, Toyoji Tomita - trombone; Jonathan Segel, Jorge Boehringer, Ben Piekut - strings; Mills College Concert Hall, 500 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California, USA. Miguel Galperin's Elevator Music for Spaces is first on the program, and Marguerite Duras here, now and in Space will start at 9:00PM.
Imaja does video and computer graphics projection with DJ Goz and Mobius at the CyberArts X/YLEM Party at Somarts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th), San Francisco, California from 8-12pm, Saturday, September 15, 2001.
The Digital Be-In, Saturday, January 12, 2002, showcases many of San Francisco Bay Area's most luminous visionaries in culture, music, the arts and technology. A full evening of speakers, panel discussions, live music performances, DJs and video artists will provide a new twist in the developments of revolutionary new media ideas. The Digital Be-In will be at Studio-Z, 314 11th Street, San Francisco, CA, from 7pm-4am. Imaja co-sponsored this event and provided web support for the live netcast.
tranZENdance visuals by Luminous Laura and Greg Jalbert (imaja), Friday May 3, doors 8pm, show 9pm, $12, with Lumin. San Francisco World Electronica ensemble LUMIN brings the gorgeous melodies of the Middle East and Balkans together with progressive breaks and spellbinding ambience for a night of dance and celebration in an intimate East Bay setting. The Black Box, 1928 Telegraph Ave., Oakland CA 94612, between 19 & 20 St., Downtown Oakland, 1 block from 19 St BART, 510-451-1932, wheelchair accessible, http://www.blackboxoakland.com
Painted Ragas: Music & Light Show by Michael Robinson, Friday, November 8 at 7:30 pm, Borders Westwood, Los Angeles. Composer Michael Robinson 'mixes the organic virtues of raga with the synthetic ability of MIDI' to create music which has been termed both 'a spiritual journey of sound' and 'a truly cerebral, challenging listen' with 'heart and intelligence.' Together with his Omega-performed music, Robinson plays the Bliss Paint computer animation color synthesizer to create stunning and mesmerizing animations. 'Making use of alternative tunings, and blending tradition and technology, Robinson is able to transcend cultural and spiritual boundaries.'
September 17-October 26, 2003, Opening: Wednesday, September 24, 6pm
Art Exhibit at Oakland Box Theater and Gallery : paintings and drawings by Greg Jalbert (imaja). Vernon Bush and VSoul, Mingus Amungus bands will be performing at 8pm. 1932 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, California. Dramatic and colorful organic forms cascade through these abstract landscapes in acrylic, watercolor, and pen and ink. Portions of the sales will be contributed to the Oakland Box Theater and the OpenPermaculture.org web project.
Greg Jalbert, founder of Imaja, recently participated in the PlaNetwork: Networking a Sustainable Future conference in San Francisco, a new conference on cross-discipline sustainable practices. Stay tuned for an article detailing experiences and thoughts.
Digital Be-In, The Transparent Network, San Francisco’s original socially-conscious cyberculture happening! May 29, 2004, 7pm-4am, SOMARTS, 934 Brannan, San Francisco, California. More info: http://www.be-in.com/
Art Exhibit : The Art of Protest: Photographs, drawings, protest signs. La Peña Cultural Center (in the performance stage room), 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 USA, 510-849-2568. Through mid-June 2006 or so. Call ahead to get gallery hours.
January 6-9, 2009 — Imaja - Greg Jalbert will be attending MacWorld Expo, in San Francisco. Contact Imaja if you are interested in a report. Imaja is considering various new platforms such as Cocoa, iPhone and others, for new software development and upgrading of legacy applications.
December 24, 2008 — New drawings and paintings have been added to the gallery.

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