It seems an exciting time for our Pure Data community, with few books coming out, unique projects gathering world recognition and a new Pd-extended 0.43 version that adds lots of implementation we have been wishing for long time, like customizable plugins and even new GUI methods.
Well, soon there will be more info about all this, but by now check this out:

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Making Musical Apps
Real-time audio synthesis on Android and iOS
by Peter Brinkmann
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022503.do
“Want to turn your mobile device into a musical instrument? Or equip your game with interactive audio, rather than canned samples? You can do it with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual programming environment that lets you manipulate digital audio in real time. This concise book shows you how to use Pd—with help from the libpd library—as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.”

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I’m glad to see this archive available on-line again.
Here’s a forwarded message by Derek Holzer.

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“After a 10 month hiatus, the Soundtransit project is back thanks to the generous hosting support of Turbulence.org.

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SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Phonography is the art of recording sounds from the environment around us, with an emphasis on the unintentional sounds which often go unnoticed in our daily lives. An international community of phonographers collect and share their recordings, with interests ranging from recordings of natural or urban environments to improvised situations or soundwalks to the resonance of solid objects or the Earth’s atmosphere

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In the BOOK section of this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world. In the SEARCH section, you can search the database for specific sounds by member artists from many different places. If you are a member of SoundTransit, you can also CONTRIBUTE your recordings for others to enjoy. The Creative Commons Attribution license encourages the sharing and reuse of all sounds on this website.

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During 2010, our previous host in the Netherlands quadrupled the rent for our server, forcing us to move or consider closing. Turbulence.org graciously offered their support, and during 2011 we’ve been working together with them, getting everything up and running again.

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Please visit us at

http://turbulence.org/soundtransit

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to hear our collection of over 2000 recordings from 471 artists around the world, experience our unique way of traveling via sound and find out how you can help the SoundTransit project.

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Huge thanks go out to Helen Thorington, Jo-Anne Green and Jesse Gilbert of Turbulence for their kindness and patience!”

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Derek Holzer
Marc Boon
SoundTransit

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expr~ from 0xA is GOSUB10′s fourth release.

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0xA is a band made not out of people, but objects and patches. Snippets of codes that bleep and blink are added and modified in the online repository, where it all began. As the repository grows, 0xA evolves with it. Aymeric Mansoux, Chun Lee and Olivier Laruelle are the current active contributors. They have performed 0xA across Europe, North America and Asia in galleries, clubs and festivals.

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expr~ is the first music release of 0xA, consists of retro sounding tracks made almost entirely with the [expr~] object in Pure Data. No tweaking of number boxes and sliders, no clever generative algorithms, just switch the audio on and listen.

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The source code for this release (implemented in Pure-data) is free software distributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3 or greater). For repository, see: http://gitorious.org/0xa

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Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License.

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Released on 10th October 2010.

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== TRACKLISTING ==

01 0xA – Winter_Solstice
02 0xA – 0903-4
03 0xA – Nandsynth
04 0xA – Moving_Souf
05 0xA – Cafe_Kuroshio
06 0xA – Family_Mart

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== WHATIS GOSUB10 ==

Dedicated to innovative music and audio/visuals, the GOSUB10 label will feature an eclectic group of musicians drawn together by their shared use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS).
Freely distributed by stream, download and special DVD releases, and made available through an open license, GOSUB10 is run by the GOTO10 collective – an international group of artists, musicians and programmers, dedicated to FLOSS and digital arts. Brought to life in a intensive four day work sprint but years in the making, the GOSUB10 netlabel is a natural extension of GOTO10′s activities supporting and promoting digital art alongside FLOSS tools through workshops, festivals, exhibitions, writing, and more.

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== URL ==

http://gosub10.org

Piksel team just released a full video of my recent presentation in Norway for Piksel 2010.
The talk focused on the current state of IT censorship technologies and a related sonification work titled Golden Shield Music.

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Piksel team published other videos related to the exhibition, performances and presentations hosted at Piksel 2010.
You’ll find many interesting projects on the Piksel blip.tv channel.

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Among the other projects you will also find the full video of UKI – a viral performance by Shu Lea Cheang with Martin Howse.

Sonicscape with participation of Piksel10 artists Oscar Martin Correa, Marco Donnarumma, Joachim Montessuis, Alejandra Perez, Eleonora Oreggia, Julien Ottavi.

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Piksel Festival: http://piksel.no

While here in Edinburgh we are drowning in the snow, I thought I’d post a brief note about few reviews published in these days after my appearance at Piksel Festival (hopefully soon you’ll get also a report of the festival).
A fantastic and accurate review of my talk at Piksel “Golden Shield Music: sonification of IT censorhip technologies” has just been published by Regine Debatty at the awesome We Make Money Not Art blog.
Besides, the work has been reviewed on Wired.com and Wired.co.uk, check it here.

via Pd announce list

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Claudius Maximus’s latest work made with Pure-data is available, including the source code so you can make your own generative fractal music:

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http://gosub10.org/GOSUB10-003.html

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The Mandelbrot set is possibly the world’s most famous fractal. z→z²+c is a series of sonifications, focussing on the periodic attractors found almost everywhere within the Mandelbrot set. Given just two real numbers (forming one point in the complex plane), dynamic patterns can emerge as the one simple equation governing the system is repeated over and over: z→z²+c

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The source code for this release (implemented in Pure-data using GridFlow and zexy) is free software distributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3 or greater).

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Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License.

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Released on 17th October 2010.

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Track listing:

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1. ClaudiusMaximus – The Military-Industrial Complex
2. ClaudiusMaximus – After The Despoilment
3. ClaudiusMaximus – Race Against Time
4. ClaudiusMaximus – Before Civilisation

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Dedicated to innovative music and audio/visuals, the GOSUB10 label will feature an eclectic group of musicians drawn together by their shared use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). Freely distributed by stream, download and special DVD releases, and made available through an open license, GOSUB10 is run by the GOTO10 collective – an international group of artists, musicians and programmers, dedicated to FLOSS and digital arts. Brought to life in a intensive four day work sprint but years in the making, the GOSUB10 netlabel is a natural extension of GOTO10’s activities supporting and promoting digital art alongside FLOSS tools through workshops, festivals, exhibitions, writing, and more.

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http://gosub10.org
http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org

via AHA list

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Concept Store Journal

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#3: Art, Activism and Recuperation

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The latest issue of Arnolfini’s Concept Store journal, themed Art, Activism and Recuperation is out now.

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This third edition examines the wider contemporary relationship between art and politics. What are the power relations between art, activists and cultural institutions? Who ultimately benefits from these relationships? What critical role can art and/or activism really have in a situation where radicalism is absorbed by the mainstream? And under such conditions what are effective strategies of opposition? But, above all, the question asked by Concept Store #3 is, what is to be done (with art?)

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Contributors: Glenn Adamson, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Franco Berardi (Bifo), Thomas Hirschhorn, Brian Holmes, Ele Carpenter, Freee, Esther Leslie, Geoff Cox, James Panton, Institute for the Art&Practice of Dissent at Home, Platform, Lars Bang Larsen, Sarat Maharaj, Nav Haq, Sevphen Shukaitis, Tom Trevor, Mark Wallinger. Designed by Message & Meaning.

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Concept Store is a journal published twice-yearly by Arnolfini, focusing on critical issues of contemporary art and their relationship to wider cultural, social and political contexts. While Concept Store reflects upon ideas explored within Arnolfini’s artistic programme, it is intended to be a critical platform in its own right, operating as a discursive space for commissioned texts, artists’ contributions, interviews and other experimental forms. Each issue guest-designed by a different practitioner.

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Alongside the latest edition, previous issues, #1 Art, Consumerism and
the Experience Economy&  #2 Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures,
are also available from Arnolfini bookshop priced £5.95.

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FFI about Concept Store
Journal and other Arnolfini publications

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Editors: Geoff Cox, Nav Haq and Tom Trevor
Advisory Group: Shumon Basar, Binna Choi, Neil Cummings, Maria Lind, Carol Yinghua Lu

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Stockists include: Arnolfini; Artwords; Walther Koenig Books; ICA Bookshop; Design Museum; Tate Modern; Pro QM, Berlin; Architectural Association Bookshop
Concept Store in distributed by Cornerhouse.

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www.arnolfini.org.uk

I’m really glad to share with you the live recording of my most recent audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature at Pure Data Convention 2009, Sao Paulo, Brasil. The only sonic source is my bass guitar augmented by the self-designed software C::NTR::L v.1.3.

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Many thanks to Henrique Iwao for his efforts during the convention and for being so patient to record and order (all?) the performances at Pd Con.

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You can listen to the concert with the player below. If you want to download it for free check my download page.

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TheSAD – I C::ntr::l Nature Live @ Pure Data Convention 23-07-09 by TheSAD

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Besides you may be interested in visiting the unofficial archive of Pd Convention performances at this address http://sussurro.musica.ufrj.br/pdcon09/material.html.
All the material is kindly hosted by sussurro.musica.ufrj.br – Biblioteca Musical Digital do Laboratório de Música e Tecnologia da Escola de Música da UFRJ.

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