Mightybytes’ seventh Lunch-n-Learn jammed together good old fashioned comfort food with songwriting on the side, and a dollop of guacamole on top.

Joy prepared Tomato Basil Toast as an open-faced grilled cheese and added a side of guacamole, while James continued his presentation on how to use the GarageBand digital music-making software to combine instrumental, rhythm and vocal tracks to make a complete song.

Mightybytes’ sixth Lunch-n-Learn fused Mexican street foods with songwriting. It brought color, taste, and sound to our weekly series.

Cesar prepared sopes, one of Mexico’s best known street foods. Filled with different ingredients and garnishes, sopes are easily eaten by hand. This time, Cesar prepared a guajillo and an ancho salsa, which you can learn how to make using the recipes at the end of this post. Conveniently, that allowed James to dive into some hands-on magic by showing our team how to use digital music-making software.

Now that we’ve had a preview of robot metadata transcribers in part one of this brief blog series, let’s grab some popcorn and enjoy the show!

When it came time for me to try out Adobe Soundbooth’s nifty transcribing technology, I launched the program and grabbed a clip of audio that I find entertaining. I happen to have a lot of short audio clips from the terrible-and-hilarious 1966 Sci-fi flop “Zontar, the Thing from Venus” all pre-clipped and ready to go for just this kind of thing. Doesn’t everybody?

As part of Chicago Artists Month, we are profiling Mightybytes folks on their artistic endeavors. Travis Chandler, James Johnston and Mightybytes alum Whit Nelson are all involved in Terrible Spaceship, an interactive band with live triggered cinematic shows behind them in a theater-esque performance, whose style is called ‘ambient synthetic horror pop.’ The next performance is Saturday, October 3rd at Martyrs on Lincoln Ave.

The simple need for holiday party music inspired the creation of Radio Free Mightybytes, our own Internet radio station.

A collective “Egads!” welled up from the Mightybytes conference room when, a mere day before the maiden mid-December tasting of our homemade Mightybrew, we realized that our holiday shindig would be without music, not because of a lack of tunes (we had plenty) but due to an inadequate delivery system.