The world first Japanese Pure Data book for sound programming will be published from BNN (Bug News Network) Inc. on 23rd Feb. 2012 in Japan. The title is “Pd Recipe Book – Sound Programming with Pure Data”. This book is written for the programming newbies with the step by step type tutorials. If you know anybody who can read Japanese and hope to jump into the Pd world, please recommend this book.
Visit the Web site (Japanese) for further information.

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Seiichiro Matsumura, Ph.D.

Tokyo University of Technology
School of Design
Associate Professor

http://low-tech-ism.com/

From http://giss.tv/wiki/index.php/Android_Streamer_:_Giss_Mp3 :
GISS Mp3 v 1.0.0

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This is the first GISS Audio Streamer application in .mp3 format as this is the format supported on any version of Android.

You should enter your stream parameters and type ‘Start’ to start your stream.

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Synopsis

Enter the stream server parameters in the main screen, than go to ‘Stream quality’ screen and enter the parameters you request :

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Audio bitrate : the bitrate of your stream.
Audio channels : the number of requested channels ( usually mono is enough with a phone ).
Mp3 quality : the quality of encoding from 1 to 9.
Audio rate : the rate of the recording, on small models this should be put to a lower value of 8000 Hz, as a higher rate requires more processing power.
Finally, enter your stream metadata in the ‘Meta Data’ screen :

Name : name of the stream
Description : description of the stream
Genre : genre
More info : an url that describes more your project.
Then, click the ‘Start’ button and the stream should start.

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Notes

On small android models, use a low value for recording ( 8000 Hz ), it has been tested with this value on an HTC Tattoo and was working fine.

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License

To use this aplication, you need to respect the Terms Of Use of giss.tv.

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The code published here can be studied, modified, used by anyone that provides all the original credits and sources in derivative projects.

There are restrictions on its use, it cannot be used for :
military and/or repressive use
commercial installations and products
any project that promotes : racism, nationalism, xenophobia, sexism,
homophobia, religious hatred or missionarism .. ( expandable list)

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This is not a standard license.
Download
Download version 1.0.0 : Giss Mp3

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Source code
The source code can be downloaded from our CVS :

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@giss.tv:/home/cvs
cvs co GissMp3

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have fun!
sevy@GISS team

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I’m glad to see this publication out there. From the press release:
“The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry have co-published “New Art/Science Affinities,” a 190-page book on contemporary artists that was written and designed in one week by four authors (Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans and Pablo Garcia) and two designers (Luke Bulman and Jessica Young of Thumb).

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“New Art/Science Affinities,” which focuses on artists working at the intersection of art, science and technology, was produced by a collaborative authoring process known as a “book sprint.” Derived from “code sprinting,” a method in which software developers gather in a single room to work intensely on an open source project for a certain period of time, the term book sprint describes the quick, collective writing of a topical book.

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The book includes meditations, interviews, diagrams, letters and manifestos on maker culture, hacking, artist research, distributed creativity, and technological and speculative design. Chapters include Program Art or Be Programmed, Subvert! Citizen Science, Artists in White Coats and Latex Gloves, The Maker Moment and The Overview Effect.”

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Book can be purchased or downloaded as a free PDF.

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Along with ideas and critical analysis, the book includes 60 international artists among which Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Atelier Van Lieshout, Brandon Ballengée, Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, The Institute for Figuring, Aaron Koblin, Machine Project, Openframeworks, C.E.B. Reas, Philip Ross, Tomás Saraceno, SymbioticA, Jer Thorp, Marius Watz and myself (with the work Golden Shield Music).

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Thanks to the “sprint” contributors: Régine Debatty, Claire L. Evans, Andrea Grover, Pablo R. Garcia, Thumb.

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The work has been published by The Studio for Creative Enquiry and The Miller Gallery is Carnegie Mellon University’s contemporary art gallery.
Learn more at the Miller Gallery website.

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I’m quite excited about this new release of Gem, one of the most used video library for Pure Data aka Pd.
Check the highlights below to get a glimpse of new features and fixed issues.
Follows the original message from Gem mantainer IOhannes Zmoelnig:

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“After long years of waiting (foir you) and hard labour (for me), Gem 0.93 has been released today.
large parts of the underlying engine have been re-written to give you a better experience!
binaries are available for w32 (installer & zip), for the brave and adventurous there is the source code.
binaries for OSX and not available yet, but we hope to get them online soonish.

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grab it while it’s hot: http://gem.iem.at/releases/0.93.0

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alternatively you can get the files from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem

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highlights
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Objects
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frei0r video plugins support

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- [mesh], [surface3d],…
- [separator] now takes arguments to define which stacks to push/pop

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documentation
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- numerous bigfixes and improvements

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extra
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- [pix_fiducialtrack] is no more part of Gem (but comes bundled with Gem)
- [pix_artoolkit] fiducial tracking using ARToolKit
- [pix_drum], [pix_mano]: Jaime Olivier’s analysis objects!

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plugins
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image acquisition is now factored out into “plugins” this means that you can e.g. easily add new image acquisition methods to the existing [pix_video], [pix_film] and [pix_image] objects

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- still image loading/saving now uses plugins on all platforms on w32 you can now use ImageMagick and/or QuickTime for loading/saving images, which greatly increases the number of supported formats. you now get programmatic feedback on image loading success…
- video acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms uniform way to get or set properties/attributes/controls, like hue, saturation, shutter-speed, pan,… working DV support (on linux)
V4L also works with newer kernels (that dropped v4l)
support for IIDC
support for industrial grade GigE cameras using 3rd party libraries such as PYLON, Halcon or AVT’s PvAPI experimental UNICAP support
- film acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms (you could use gmerlin on w32 or osx…)
- recording (film output) now uses plugins on all platforms support for V4L2 (and V4L) loopback devices, in order to generate a fake live video from your Gem window – use it for recording, streaming,…

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settings
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global & local settings files to modify the overall behaviour of Gem you don’t like Gem’s default framerate, windowsize, font, texture mode,…? change it once and for all

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internals
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- API: this is the first Gem with a “public” API: a selection of headers that you can use to write your own Gem-plugins build-system
- build system: completely switched to a proper autotools
- openGL: updated bundled GLEW
- source organization: re-organized the entire source tree for hopefully better maintainability

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lowlights
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i need an OSX developer willing to spend some time in getting image acquisition and windowing to work on OSX>=10.6 (x86_64)”

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This is absolutely brilliant, if you are a fan of noise synths you can’t miss this one.

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From the website (by Martin Howse and others the creators of Blackdeath):

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“Inspired in part by Leif Elggren’s Virulent Images/Virulent Sound (if images can be virulent, can sound be virulent too?), blackdeath is the first open hardware/free software noise synthesiser with the plague inside.
Embedding epidemic and plague simulations amongst other data generation algorithms for granular re-synthesis of incoming audio signals or self-generated feedback, blackdeath represents a virulent yet highly controllable noise/audio engine with built-in, switchable distortion.”

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Further info at http://1010.co.uk/org/blackdeath.html

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Make sure to check out the other works of the Berlin/London group, you will find some inspiring insights on software, metasoftware and data aesthetics.
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/

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I’ve been working on a very special track for this release produced by the almighty experimental label Sinewaves.
Sinewaves have been spreading for 10 years now the most interesting music by new and old italian experimental generation of musicians, improvisers and sound designers. And all the music has always been released for free!

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This album is something quite special. Grab it until 1st May or order one of the 100 limited CD-R copies.

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Sixteen tracks dedicated to the 10th Sinewaves’ anniversary; sixteen artists worked to a track which was modified and remixed by another artist. Each track is the remix of the previous one.
This process allowed every musician to add or delete sounds, noises and effects, “misreading” or “misinterpreting” the previous track, just like the children’s game “broken telephone”.

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FREE DOWNLOAD FROM 25TH APRIL TILL 1ST MAY!
THIS ALBUM WILL BE AVAILABLE IN A 100 COPIES CD-R LIMITED EDITION.

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FREE DOWNLOAD:http://www.sinewaves.it/s3p.html

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Genere: Experimental, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Abstract

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Artists involved:
Christian Di Vito
Mop Cortex
Deison
Eg0
Dithernoise
Marco Donnarumma
Alessio Ballerini
Davide Valecchi
Francesco Giannico
Fabio Orsi
Connection Unstable
Claudio Rocchetti
Matter
Andrea Gabriele
Szvaszo
Klaaro

Message from Miller Puckette.

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Pd version 0.43-0 is available on http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.htm
or via git from sourceforge:
git clone git://pure-data.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pure-data/pure-data

via Piksel list

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Following the positive feedback of all developers involved, a new frei0r-plugins release is out with git repository tag v1.3
Original tarball available on ftp://ftp.dyne.org/frei0r/releases

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ChangeLog entry:

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This release adds more plugins, better documentation and better examples for writing code that makes use of thed opencv library. It also fixes a few outstanding bugs.
New filters (4): tutorial, sharpness, denoise, lightgraffiti
New generator: test_pat (broadcast test patterns)
New mixer: addition_alpha

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Debian 6.0 (GNU/Linux) packages available, add to software sources:
deb http://apt.dyne.org/debian stable main
deb-src http://apt.dyne.org/debian stable main

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Ubuntu 10 packages available in preview from ‘ppa:jaromil/frei0r’

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M$/Win and Apple/O$X binary ports of frei0r plugins also available.

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Please note the official website is progressively migrating to http://frei0r.dyne.org – for more than a year now it was impossible to update the wiki pages where it was previously hosted on piksel; frei0r’s website is now included in git and accessible for modification to all developers and is written in a markup format that can be rendered automatically as README on github website clones.

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happy hacking from the frei0r developer union ;^D