Some stuff just sounds a little too cool to pass up. When a gallery-owner friend of mine recently mentioned that he was involved in facilitating "this really cool sound project with blimps," I envisioned something like multiple Hindenburgs and passengers screaming out of their compartments with megaphones.

Project Condor isn't quite that, but cool nonetheless. Electronic Musician and Northwestern University doctoral candidate Casey Farina is a percussionist, composer, sound designer, music educator, and new media artist working in Chicago. His current work focuses on nonlinear and iterative processes as applied to music composition and multimedia art. He's the guy in charge of "The Blimp Thing," as my friend and I and a lot of us started calling it.

Project CONDOR explores the presentation of spatial audio via miniature robotic airships. Blimps. With Speakers.

The whole thing took quite a bit of prep, and we'll explore it over several videos at Gearwire. Check out this first installment and get a feel for Casey and his Blimps.