Some time ago I published this new, brief excerpt of the final version of the audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature. See the video below.

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The performance is based on the self-designed software C::NTR::L, developed in the Pure Data graphical environment and available for download here. Performance was recorded live at roBOT Festival September 2009 in Bologna, Italy, camera by Carlotta Piccinini - Visual_Lab.

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I C::ntr::l Nature v. 3 excerpts – augmented bass guitar improvisation 2009 from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

Just a quick note. If you landed on this website looking for my personal works or biography, you won’t find those pages here anymore. They have been updated and moved in my new on-line portfolio at http://marcodonnarumma.com.

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I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but readers of thesaddj.com blog has increased, thus I decided to create a separate website for my artistic research. Thesaddj.com will maintain only the blogging activity always focusing on free, open source culture, art works, events and news.

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Read more about it in my previous post.

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Thanks for your interest… if you found interesting articles here, please come back because I plan to write more often and more freely since now on.

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Please NOTE: this article is stick to the top of the blog. See below for recent contents.

When I started thesaddj.com – around 4 years ago – I thought I could show my work, music, thoughts and inspirations through a single blog thus I entered officially the world wide web community with this website.
Layouts, colors and ideas has changed often in this space and so did I.
Thesaddj.com is now for some people – at least – an interesting place where to find good readings or reports about happenings, culture and human experiences connected to the new media world and free open source community and I wish to say thanks to this people for reading more or less costantly my blog.

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That’s how I discovered that having a safe place where to share your thoughts and experience makes really feel good.
Today most of the people who visit this website think it is an on-line magazine or a net-label and although this made me somehow glad of an unexpected result, I felt the need to create a new virtual place for my personal research and works… namely a more boring place where I could exhibit an officially boring portfolio and other similar stuff.

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Now that I finally realized my wish, I will also manage a brand new layout for thesaddj.com, trying above all to improve the readers experience in order to make finally this website a REAL on-line magazine. I plan to slightly change the “editorial policy” and along with the usual reports I will begin to write more freely about art, music and technology and more in general what interest or inspire me of the real world surrounding us. Well, don’t forget to check my new personal homepage below!

Here you go:

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http://marcodonnarumma.com/

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Any feedback is welcome, enjoy your visit and expect more news soon.

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Just came back from a three days in-depth workshop at Pierluigi da Palestrina Conservatory in Cagliari, Italy. This time the course focused on dataflow practices for Live Media.
The course has been organized by Spaziomusica Association during the annual festival Music in Touch, which every year creates new connections among traditional musical composition and new technologies featuring concerts and installation projects by established composers and new media professionals.
The atmosphere in Cagliari was cozy and warm. We could enjoy an early spring, a shiny sun and almost 20 degrees.

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Participants were MA students of the Electronic Music, Music and New Technology and Electroacoustic Music courses. They were extremely interested in Pure Data and dataflow techniques, although for most of them it was the first direct approach with a graphical programming environment. After a brief audiovisual review of some interesting works ranging from live performances to experimental videos, we started with the basic of Pd, building simple processes in order to give a clear idea of real-time data processing.
Then I slightly forced them to get their hands dirty with some real-time video processing and few common idioms for audio synthesis and manipulation. I used the term “forced” because I did not give them any ready patch, but explaining step-by-step simple processes we built together useful examples.

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Their responsiveness was awesome and with my great satisfaction we went through the main topics of the course pretty fast. In the end we also had time to have a chat about network data exchange, i.e. OSC, wi-fi server and client communication protocols, and later on few participants were already having fun exchanging data through the conservatory network or talking to a Monome.

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In the end I made a brief talk explaining the most typical setup for live audiovisual performance and how to implement all the techniques we just learned into an actual audiovisual concert; single player with a musical instrument controlling MIDI and/or OSC hardware, two players exchanging audio and video data over a network and a quintet including different instruments, a server machine receiving and organizing data coming from few clients, creating feedback interactions among each player of the group.

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On the first night I also had the chance to attend to an amazing concert of a traditional choir from Sardinia. Apart from the breathtaking location – S. Saturnino’s church – the experience of listening to a live performance of this kind is something unbelievable. The strength of their five voices, the incredible harmony they were able to create was something I can’t describe. Perhaps I felt the same feelings when for the first time I had the chance to listen an organ playing in a cathedral. Your body physically “feels” the sound, the acoustic energy in all its force.

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I have to say I really enjoyed my time in Cagliari, probably I was missing a beautiful sky and a “normal” temperature, but for sure the wonderful hospitality of few friends played the most important role. Thus I have to say thank you to the Signorafranca guys and Riccardo, and Fabrizio Caglia for the excellent organization of the course. Hope to come back soon to Sardinia and maybe see some works of my students…

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LPM 2010 – LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING
LIVE VIDEO PERFORMERS, VISUAL ARTISTS AND VJ MEETING
27 28 29 30 May – Rome

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LPM – Live Performers Meeting: international meeting of live video performers, visual artists and vjs is back with a new 8th edition.

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Rome 2009 edition, registered the presence of 362 artists from Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Uruguay, Latvia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Greece, Denmark, United States, Austria, Australia, Turkey. During four days, 289 performances, workshops and showcases gave life to the 900 square meters of Brancaleone, setup with 15 projectors and screens.

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For the second consecutive year, LPM takes place in an exclusive location, the long-standing Brancaleone that with its structure, perfectly fit the growing needs of a meeting which year after year has definitely broadened its range of contents, artists and audience.

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The new edition is coming soon, and we only miss your contribution!

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For the LPM 2010 themes, along with further background infos, check the ‘concept’ page on the LPM homepage:

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http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2010/en/concept/

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LPM 2010 maintains the spirit of a meeting, which has been its main characteristic since the very first edition. It is conceived to be a place for comparison and exchange of informations and ideas, experimentation is one of the founding elements of its ideology. LPM is a non-profit organization, every gained fund is invested back to support the research and development of the live visual field.

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Subscription to join LPM is FREE and is open since now until the 10th of April, 2010. For further details about subscription, check the “participate” webpage:

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http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2010/en/participate/

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Please check out the LPM website for further informations about this edition and to surf through the archive of previous editions: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net

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The LPM team is ready to answer your questions, and hope you can come to Rome and contribute: its going to be the best edition ever!

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LPM is produced by Flyer Communication www.flyer.it, organized by www.flxer.net, www.linux-club.org, and FLV http://livevisuals.flyer.it, thanks to the corporation of our international partners.