I’m spending these last days preparing the material for the upcoming workshop in Brescia, Italy on 21-22  / 5-6 November.
Together with the dear friend Husk we conceived a intensive workshop about real-time audiovisual processing in Pure Data to be held during the event Agit Media – organized by Ualuba.org. Agit Media is promoted by Centro A&T (Arte & Tecnologie) with partnership of LABA Academy of Fine Arts, Brescia and curated by Davide Anni.

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The event is structured with multiple happenings focused on digital creation with free and softwares: speech with Richard Stallman, Davide Tanzj, Melih Bilgil, Dvasgamerteam, an interactive intervention by Sapolab, plus our Pure Data and Arduino workshops (with Massimo Banzi).

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The Pure Data class is dedicated to professional musicians, videomakers or passionate with no previous experience in programming includes a 4-days in-depth exploration of the audio and video dataflow and processing for the creation of live media works.
On 21-22 November I will talk about Pd and its community, later I’ll introduce the audio objects and the most common idioms for sonic processing. Therefore together with the participants we will build up a collaborative sonic laboratory, creating simple processes ( i.e. real-time audio synthesis, custom processing strctures, sequencers and sample players) which will be then implemented in the structure of a couple of more complex softwares.

The second part of the workshop held by Husk on 4-5 November will follow a similar structure focused on the video libraries of Pd and the manipulation of video streams.

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Program:

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21-22 November (Audio – Marco Donnarumma)

• Pd and its Community
• Pd works review
• Pd Language
• Audio objects and idioms
• Sonic Laboratory
• Principles of audio video interaction 1
• Collective briefing
• Collaborative software development

5-6 November (Video – Luca Carrubba)

• Video Libraries introduction
• Video Review
• Video reproduction and basic manipulations
• Video Effects
• Generating visuals and advanced processing
• Principles of audio video interaction 2
• Collective Briefing
• Communication protocols
• Sofware production Laboratory

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The feedback to the call for the workshop has been really great – we had to increase the number of participants to 20 – and at the moment only 8 places are still available. Subscription costs 30 euro for students and 60 euro for professionals, if you wish to catch the last positions available please write to info at ualuba.org.
More infos: Ualuba.org

Looking forward to meet some of you there!