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CALL: Workshop on Designing Musical Interactions for Mobile Systems

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:20:25 +0000

Friends and colleagues Koray Tahiroğlu and Atau Tanaka are organizing this interesting workshop at CultureLab Newcastle.
Highly recommended.
Here the former call.

Dear colleagues and friends,
We would like to thank everyone who responded to our survey on Mobile Music Interfaces, and we would like to inform you that one of the outcomes is a workshop we will organise at the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference 2012; a one day workshop on Designing Musical Interactions for Mobile Systems on Tuesday 12th June 2012 at Culture Lab, Newcastle University. This might be of interest to some of you.

We are inviting submissions for participation in the workshop, below. For further information on the workshop, including details on how to register, please see the workshop website: http://sopi.media.taik.fi/mobilemusic/ Please forward this call to people you think might be interested.

Workshop at Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference 2012:
Designing Musical Interactions for Mobile Systems
Tuesday 12 June 2012, Culture Lab Newcastle

Mobile music technology is a vast growth area, and has emerged as a field in which many of the specific design challenges and affordances of mobile technologies can be explored. The mobile is not just a smaller computer, and requires different tactics and strategies for user interaction. This workshop will discuss the specific interaction design challenges for building engaging and creative musical activities on mobile devices. Participants will share knowledge on interface design models that push the limits of what a mobile can offer for creating rich musical interactions. The workshop will culminate in an evening event, a public concert of mobile music.

SUBMISSION
Please download the position paper template from the workshop website,

http://sopi.media.taik.fi/mobilemusic

Email the 2-pager position papers submission in PDF format to: mobilemusic2012@gmail.com

Deadline for submissions is March 16, 2012.
Notification of acceptance by April 16, 2012.
** All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the main conference. For some early indication on prices, please see the last year’s workshop & conference pricing: http://www.dis2010.org/index.php?registration

Organizers:
Koray Tahiroglu, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI)
Atau Tanaka, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London (UK)
Adam Parkinson, Culture Lab, Newcastle University (UK)
Stephen Gibson, School of Design, Northumbria University (UK)

best,
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M.Koray Tahiroğlu

Free circuit-bending workshop, Manchester, UK

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:56:17 +0000

Rodrigo Costanzo, a Spanish-American avid performer based in Manchester is teaching a free circuit bending workshop. All you have to do is bring along what you want to hack!

“If you want to sign-up or drop in, check it out:

Title: Circuit Bending Workshop
Location: MadLab
Description: If you’ve ever wanted to get into circuit-bending or DIY electronics in general, this circuit-bending workshop, presented by The Noise Upstairs, will give you an introduction into the art of bending. Over the course of two sessions you will learn some basic electronics and soldering, and end up with your very own circuit-bent toy!
*You must provide the toy and components yourself.”

Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2011-11-26
End Time: 16:00

http://www.thenoiseupstairs.com/2011/11/circuit-bending-part-2/
http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com
http://www.madlab.org.uk

Xth Sense Biophysical Music Workshops: Winter Sessions in Mexico, UK, Spain

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:58:28 +0000

The Xth Sense (XS) is a free and open source based technology; as such, its free distribution is an integral aspect of the research.
In this workshop participants build their own XS biosensor and learn how to generate interactive music from the muscle sounds of their bodies.

Winter workshops schedule:

7o Simposio Internacional del Posgrado en Artes Visuales
3,4,5,7,10 November at the UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico City,
Info and registration;
CultureLab
21-25 November, Newcastle, UK;
Info and registration;
Matadac Festival
12-15 December, Madrid, ES.

Low Budget Hydrophone and Canoeing Workshop, nnnnn, London

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:48:10 +0000

Info:

In this workshop you will build your own low budget hydrophone with adjustable pre-amp. Ideal for beginners.
A hydrophone is a microphone designed to be used underwater for recording or listening to underwater sound.
Once the amp and hydrophone are complete we will then do some field recordings of near by canals, from a canoe. Participants take part in the canoeing at their own risk. No life jackets provided.

Date and Location:
Sunday 16th October 2011
1pm – 6pm
nnnnn, Unit73a, Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, Hackney, London. E8 4QN

Booking:
Workshop cost is £15 which covers all materials and participants take home their hydrophones at the end.

Register by sending an email to ryan@nnnnn.org.uk and pay online here http://nnnnn.org.uk/doku.php?id=low_budget_hydrophone_and_canoeing_workshop#booking

Workshop: Pd as your embeddable audio engine

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:05:14 +0000

Libpd Patch by Patrick Sébastien

http://www.nycresistor.com/2011/04/07/class-pd-as-your-embeddable-audio-engine/

“Pd as your embedded audio engine” will teach all about embedding libpd as the sound engine for your app, whether its iPhone, Android, Java, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. This workshop provides a broad spectrum of different ways of connecting Pd to other things. Having hardware isn’t a requirement either. The workshop will cover ways of interfacing with Pd from computer to computer. Bring your laptop and devices that you want to install libpd on (Android, iPhone, etc.)

HTML and/or programming knowledge will certainly help. The aim of this workshop is to give a broad spectrum of different ways to interface to Pd. So it will be dipping very slightly into Python, C, Java, Javascript, but this is usually “glue code” and all of the code will be fully provided. You do not need to be proficient in these languages at all, the workshop will also cover methods that also just use Pd with no code at all.

Here is an outline of topics:

* Introduction
* History of Pd as an engine
* Ways to interface with a Pd process
* Midi & OSC
* FUDI
* stdout
* Python + sockets
* pdsend/pdreceive
* Parsing patches in three languages
* libpd on Android and iOS
* PdWebKitDroid
* RjDj and ScenePlayer
* WebPd

Purchase a ticket here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1491957485

Workshop: Pd as your embedded audio engine
Taught by: Chris McCormick, http://mccormick.cx/chrism
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EDT)
Where: NYCResistor, 87 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, http://nycresistor.com

Picture by Patrick Sébastien.

Workshop: Xth Sense biophysical generation and control of Music, NK Berlin

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:55:56 +0000

Marco Donnarumma | Xth Sense New Work Development Residency | Inspace, Edinburgh 2011

What
The workshop offers an hands-on experience and both theoretical and practical training in gestural control of music and bodily musical performance, deploying the brand-new biosensing technology Xth Sense.

Developed by the workshop teacher Marco Donnarumma within a research project at The University of Edinburgh, Xth Sense is a framework for the application of muscle sounds to the biophysical generation and control of music.
It consists of a low cost, DIY biosensing wearable device and an Open Source based software for capture, analysis and audio processing of biological sounds of the body (Pure Data-based).
Muscle sounds are captured in real time and used both as sonic source material and control values for sound effects, enabling the performer to control music simply with his body and kinetic energy.
Forget your mice, MIDI controllers, you will not even need to look at your laptop anymore.

The Xth Sense biosensor was designed to be easily implemented by anyone, no previous experience in electronics is required.
The applications of the Xth Sense technology are manifold: from complex gestural control of samples and audio synthesis, through biophysical generation of music and sounds, to kinetic control of real time digital processing of traditional musical instruments, and more.

Music for Flesh II – solo piece for Xth Sense biosensing wearable device from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

How
Firstly, participants will be introduced to the Xth Sense Technology by its author and led through the assembling of their own biosensing wearable hardware using the materials provided.
Next, they will become proficient with the Xth Sense software framework: all the features of the framework will be unleashed through practical exercises.
Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music and new musical instruments will be developed by means of an audiovisual review and participatory critical analysis of relevant projects selected by the instructor.
Eventually, participants will combine hardware and software to implement a solo or group performance to be presented during the closing event.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be free to keep the Xth Sense biosensors they built and the related software for their own use.

Perspective participants
The workshop is open to anyone passionate about sound and music. Musical background and education does not matter as long as you are ready to challenge your usual perspective on musical performance.
Composers, producers, sound designers, musicians, field recordists are all welcome to join our team for an innovative and highly creative experience.

No previous experience in electronics or programming is required, however participants should be familiar with digital music creation. Participation is limited to 10 candidates.

Register by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de

FULL PROGRAM available at http://www.nkprojekt.de/xth-sense…

Requirements and further info
Participants need to provide their own headphones, external soundcards and laptops with Pd-extended already installed.
Free download is available at http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/pd-extended

Musicians interested in augmenting their favourite musical instrument by means of body gestures are encouraged to bring their instrument along.

More information about the Xth Sense can be viewed on-line at
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii/

Dates
6-7-8 April, 11.00-19.00 daily (6 hours sessions + 1 hour break)

Fee
EUR 90 including materials (EUR 15).

Discos Invisibles :: Workshop March 2011

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:06:18 +0000

via microsound list announce

_discos invisibles :: workshop march 2011 / taller marzo 2011
1 Nuevo taller de ‘sonido organizado’ en Lima / New workshop of ‘organized sound’ in Lima.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - -
1 ruido = sonido = música [no tan] nuevas estratégias para el arte sonoro
1er taller intensivo de sonido organizado, arte sonoro, música electronica, y artes afines.

_historia de la música electrónica,
_arte sonoro
_sonido académico y electrónica popular
_máquinas > software y hardware
_ruido y sonido
_composición musical

cuándo >
22, 24, 26, 29, 31 de marzo
2 de abril
quién >
josé ignacio lópez ramírez gastón
discos invisibles ( d-i-net.org)
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA)
Universidad de California, San Diego
donde >
la casa ida, nicolas de pierola 767, tercer piso

INSCRIPCIONES
http://www.lacasaida.org/formacion

CHI2011 Workshop: The user in flux: bringing HCI and digital arts together to interrogate shifting roles in interactive media

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:23:49 +0000

Interactive wall at Te Papa Museum Interactive | Samuel Mann | 2008

CC licensed picture by Samuel Mann

CHI 2011 Workshop: The user in flux: bringing HCI and digital arts together to interrogate shifting roles in interactive media
http://side-creative.ncl.ac.uk/userflux/
Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada
7th and 8th May 2011

=== TOPIC ===

When interacting with digital media, people are no longer simply users. They actively shift between various roles: author, collaborator, and even performer. We coin the term “user in flux” to problematize static definitions of “the user” and highlight how roles and practices switch and evolve when people engage in such interactions.

The goal of this two-day workshop is to use interactive art as a platform to investigate how the concept of “user in flux” can be defined, considered, and targeted when designing for a participatory medium. To encourage a multi-perspective dialogue we invite submissions from:

a) HCI researchers (from the CHI design, and user experience communities)

b) performers and artists who craft participatory content

c) media theorists exploring the role of the user in the digital world

d) hardware and software engineers who develop the technologies that facilitate nuanced and intuitive interaction

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Approaches to understand the user in flux
- Concepts to articulate the practices and roles of a user in flux
- Technology design that could better support such users

=== SUBMISSIONS ===

The workshop is seeking two types of contribution. Applicants can submit one or more of the following:

1. Position papers: descriptions of approaches to understanding or designing for the user in flux.
2. Demos: demonstrations of technologies for participatory interaction addressing the idea of the user in flux. Demos are require to specify technical requirements and may include a video documentation.
Workshop submissions should be prepared according to the standard ACM HCI Archive format (http://chi2011.org/authors/format.html#archiveformat). At least one author of each accepted submission must register for the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.
3. In addition to the two days of workshop activity, we will also be running a separate performance and art installation event on the evening between the two workshop days. Creative practitioners are invited to perform at this event. For the event we are seeking works that engage the public in collaborative, participatory interaction. Submissions may be new work in progress or an existing work. Practitioners wishing to participate in this event are invited to submit documentation of the work, for example a video or audio recording of an existing performance event. The selected submissions for the evening event will be presented alongside invited works from the local Vancouver creative scene. The evening performances will be used as inspiration to frame the discussions on the 2nd day of the workshop and some performers will be invited to talk about their work at the workshop on the following day. Creative practitioners can take part in the evening event alone, in which case participation is free. Alternatively they can take part in the full workshop, in which case they will have to register.

Please send your submission (and inquiries) to: userinflux (at) gmail (dot) com
For videos and recordings, you can either email us a URL or send a hard copy (to be received by the deadline) to:

Tuck Wah Leong
Culture Lab Newcastle
Grand Assembly Rooms, King’s Walk
NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

Submission Deadline: 14th January 2011
Author Notification: 11th February 2011
Workshop Dates: 7th-8th May 2011

=== Organisers ===

Tuck Wah Leong (Culture Lab, Newcastle University)
Lalya Gaye (Culture Lab, Newcastle University)
Atau Tanaka (Culture Lab, Newcastle University)
Robyn Taylor (Advanced Man-Machine Interface Laboratory, University of Alberta)
Peter Wright (Culture Lab, Newcastle University)

Openlab Workshops: Arduino, Interactive Lighting, 3D Processing, and more for 2011

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:37:30 +0000

Via Openlab List

Openlab Workshop | Make some noise | Ryan Jordan | 2010

(You can find the most current information online here: http://openlabworkshops.org/january-march-2011-schedule/)

We’re very pleased to announce our new schedule of workshops for early 2011! For starters, we’re offering three multi-week workshops on the ever-popular topic of Interactive Lighting, a new foray into 3D Animation, and an update on the classic introduction to Processing & Arduino. All workshops will take place form 7-9:30PM at SPACE STUDIOS, 129—131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH. More details and a payment like is below, or if you’d like more information, would like a concession rate, or would rther pay via bank transfer or some other method, please email us at reserve@openlabworkshops.org.

Also, we’ll soon be announcing a weekend of workshops at London’s premiere digital art fair, the Kinetica Art Fair, coming up February 4-6, 2011! Keep up to date with us via the email list (link above) , Twitter feed, or right here on the blog.
Workshops for January to March 2011:

1) Make your own Interactive Lighting Artwork with Daniel Hirschmann (using Arduino and DMX).

Hands-on strategies for controlling lighting in art, architecture, and beyond.

There has been an explosion of LED lighting installations and interactive technologies in the art world recently. This is inspiring artists and designers to use interactive elements in their own light-based works. If you’re equally inspired, this course is for you.

By demonstrating methods and technologies for using existing interactive systems, this course will help you create your own responsive light art works. Using the open source Arduino as our platform, we will:

* Cover the DMX lighting control standard in depth
* Offer strategies for building responsive lighting systems
* Use off-the-shelf controllable DMX fixtures
* Explore a variety of sensors

By the end of the course, you will produce your own interactive lighting project.

Level: Mixed beginner. Very basic familiarity with any kind of programming is recommended.
Cost: 165 (includes most required equipment)
Schedule: 5 x 2.5 hr sessions on Wednesdays starting January 19th, with a one-week break for Kinetica

2) 3D Animation using Processing with Olivier Ruellet and Evan Raskob

The basic concepts and techniques of 3D animation, presented in Processing.

This course is for people wishing to push their animation practice using free, open source software. During the course, we will:

* Cover the practical aspects of handling 3D data and transformations
* Explore procedural methods of animation
* Get to grips with 3D-related concepts and methods (3D coordinates, cameras, lights, shapes, movement)
* Apply all of this to a project of your choice

Level: Intermediate. Basic experience of Processing necessary.
Cost: 85
Schedule: 4 x 2.5 hrs sessions on Tuesdays starting February 8th

3) Introduction to Processing and Arduino with Evan Raskob

Hands-on starter kit for anyone interested in interactive art

This course is for complete beginners who have an interest in the possibilities of interactive art. We will introduce how to create interactive art using both computers (screens and projection) and hardware (sensors, motors, servos, LEDs).

We will use the free, open source software Processing for computer graphics, the open source hardware platform Arduino and the Firmata library to create our own physical devices that control light, sound, and video. By the end of the course, the goal is to create a device that interacts with the physical world.

Level: Beginner. No experience necessary.
Cost: 85
Schedule: 4 x 2.5 hrs sessions on Tuesdays starting March 1st
Reserve a Space!
You can reserve a space by emailing us at reserve@openlabworkshops.org or by following the “pay now” link at the bottom of the event page on our website:
http://openlabworkshops.org/january-march-2011-schedule/

Free Pure Data Workshop, Metalab Vienna

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:39:13 +0000

solenoid concert, by Roman Häfeli

made with pd, an arduino and a selfmade relayboard

as an illustrating example, appetizer

Pure Data (Pd) is a universal, Open Source software environment for real-time generation and processing of audio, graphics, video and sensor data. It’s a visual programming language which allows to program in an easy and intuitive way, and is therefore widespread in the artistic community.

Date: Sat+Sun 27+28.11.2010, from 12:00 to 18:00 (with break)
Costs: free
Where: Metalab, Library
Language: German or English
Lecturer: grh

Workshop Contents

General introduction to Pure Data
Audio and Signal Processing
Video and 3D Graphics (OpenGL)
Special topics suggested by the audience

Find more info here.

Taller de Algoritmia – Pure Data, Bioelectronics, OpenCV, OSC, Microcontroller, Chile

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:50:24 +0000

via Pd announce list

The second year of activities of “Taller de Algoritmia” include new modules and applied knowledge in art aesthetic as well as a more direct relationship with innovation in relation to the new environment that welcomes us in 2010. We are pleased to report that with support from the government’s institution for promotion on production, CORFO, through its new archives and library area, practical modules on innovation and aesthetics will be held in by this new premises in Moneda Street 921, Santiago (Chile), second floor, in its Patrimonial Room, from about the second week of November of this year.

The modules called for this year are:

ISA:: Introduction to Analog Sensors for Interactive Interfaces
ICG:: Introduction to Computer Graphics
IPD:: Introduction to Pure Data (Pd)
ISM:: Introduction to Microcontrollers Sensors
IBE:: Instrumentation Bioelectronics
ISS:: Introduction to Sound Synthesis with Pd
IMMVP:: Introduction to Method in Music and Video-Performance with Pd
IOSC:: Introduction to Open Sound Control (OSC)
SSII:: Wireless Sensors
CCDD: Digital Controllers
IMMEPD:: Introduction to Methods in Electronic Music with Pd
IOCV:: Introduction to Open Computer Vision (OpenCV)
IEM:: Electronic Musical Instruments

I also want to welcome Hector and Marco Capossiello Colasso, comprising this year’s workshop. From their areas of expertise, will guide the new modules proposed; Computer Graphics and Sound Synthesis respectively. I remember the true commitment that the workshop had have from a beginning, with the use of free license logic for multiple platforms, as an effective way of disseminating details that make useful algorithmic methods participate in the common domain, while maintaining the original appropriation and intellectual industrial processes involved.

Diego Correa T.
Coordinator
Taller de Algoritmia 2010

Further information at http://labormedia.cl/algoritmia

Workshop “Peer to peer design strategies” 3, 4 and 5 Nov – Poitiers – FR

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:40:32 +0000

via nfo list

forthcoming ‘make art’ workshop announced!
more about make art 2010 festival very soon!

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Call for participation
Workshop “Peer to peer design strategies”
by Emanuele Bonetti (Italy)
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3, 4 and 5 November 2010, 9:30-12:30 14:00-18:00
Poitiers, France | make art 2010 | “In-between design”
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max 6 participants

During the workshop participants will be asked to complete a design commission using an alternative peer-to-peer collaboration method.

The aim of the workshop is to complete one finished work of graphic design that all the participants find satisfying. This workshop serves as a test case and experiment to show that peer-to-peer design methodologies can serve as a serious alternative to traditional, hierarchical design project work flow.

The workshop is open to everyone with a maximum of six participants.
Participation is recommended for all the three days but participants can also choose to attend only one or two days.
The work produced during the first day will be carried on by the participants of the second say and so on.

During the workshop participants can use the graphic design software which they are the more familiar with as long as they are free/open source software, together with a set of self-written Internet applications developed for this project.

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1st day – Wednesday November 3rd
9h30-12h30 | 14h-18h*
Introduction to the tools and installation.
Discussion about the design brief.
Gathering of ideas and inspirational material.
Definition of the main idea to be communicated with the final design.

2nd day – Thursday November 4th
9h30-12h30 | 14h-18h*
Introduction to the tools and installation.
Individual research on possible visual languages for the final design.
Collective discussion over the individual proposals.
Definition of the visual guidelines – Colors, typefaces and visual language: How the final product will look like

3dd day – Friday November 5th
9h30-12h30 | 14h-18h**
Introduction to the tools and installation.
Individual implementations of the given guidelines.
Collective discussion over the individual proposals.
Practical realization of the final product.

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Required hardware: bring your laptop
Entrance fee: 45€ / 3 days (or 20€ / day)
Meals: +6€ / meal
Language: English
Location: GOTO10, 22 rue Thibaudeau, 86000 Poitiers, France
Registrations: Please send before *26 October* at workshop-makeart2010@goto10.org a few lines to explain your motivations to attend the workshop, specify which day(s) you would like to attend and your operating system.
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http://p2pdesignstrategies.parcodiyellowstone.it
http://pickpic.parcodiyellowstone.it

more on http://makeart.goto10.org soon…

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* The time will be divided in two phases:
- an individual phase where the participants will work on the project on their own
- and a group phase where the participants will find a common line to move on.

** The time will be divided in individual and collective phases but it might not follow the same structure of the two days before.

Workshop: Starting with Sensors and Interaction @ ACADIA conference

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:12:32 +0000

via Pd-announce list

http://www.acadia.org/acadia2010/workshops

Starting with Sensors and Interaction
Instructor: Hans-Christoph Steiner (hans[at]eds.org), Interaction Designer and Artist; Pd, Arduino, and Firmata Developer
Duration: 1 Day
Date: Wednesday, 20th (10am-5pm) of October of 2010
Theme: Using Pd and Arduino to create real-time interaction

The combination of sensors and computers provide myriad opportunities for creating interactions. This workshop will introduce how to use computers and sensors to generate real-time interaction in the physical world with light and movement. Pd (aka Pure Data) will be introduced as a simple programming enviroment for real-time interaction. Arduinos running Firmata software will be used to interface to the sensors, electronics, servos, etc. This workshop will be a combination of short lectures, hands-on instruction, and unstructured time to work on learning and exploring with support of the instructor. While Pd is fairly easy to learn and designed for artists, familiarity with basic computer programming will be very beneficial. You will be able to apply the concepts learned in this course to a wide range of programming environments where Arduino / Firmata is supported, including Flash, Processing, and more.

We have the required electronics tools at the venue but your encouraged to make arrangements for purchasing the following kit: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17&products_id=170Â. Students are also encouraged to bring additional hardware and/or tools they are interested in working with. Bring DMX lighting, LEDs, projectors, etc. to experiment with real-time lighting control. Bring servos or motor controllers to experiment with motion. Bring accelerometers, rotary sensors; flex sensors, etc. to experiment with sensing motion. Bring basic architecture model making supplies to build a model to work with. We also recommend that you bring any electronics equipment you may have including a soldering iron and solder, wire strippers, helping hands, digital multimeter, etc.
Materials required: Bring your own laptop.

Software: Pd-extended (http://puredata.info/downloads) and Arduino (http://arduino.cc), both free software, download and install before arriving, we can help troubleshoot any problems that arise.
Available Seats: 12 students/ Cost: $150
Location: NYC Resistor, 87 3rd Ave, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, nycresistor.com

http://puredata.info/docs/workshops/AcadiaSensorsInteraction

SoundFjord Educational and experimental workshops

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:54:02 +0000

via SoundFjord list

Listening/Drawing

Workshop leader: Helen Frosi
Thursday 30 September | Drop in – 2-5pm
Wednesday 06 October | Drop In – 2-5pm
Free – Just drop in!

Foley Performance
Workshop Leader: Andrew Riley
Weekend 02-03 October 2010 | 11am – 5pm
Tickets: £30 (by advanced ticket)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/94084

Interactive Media Sound Design
Lecturer: Andrew Riley
Tuesday 05 October 2010 | 8-9pm
Tickets: £3 (by advanced ticket)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/94085

Recording in the Field
Workshop leader: Andrew Riley/Helen Frosi
Saturday 09 October 2010 | 10am – noon
Tickets: Free but booking is essential: info[at]soundfjord.org

Hydrophone Construction
Workshop leader: David Chapman
Saturday 09 October 2010 | 1pm – 5pm (approx)
Tickets: £15 (by advanced ticket)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/94241

Further informationhttp://www.soundfjord.org/workshops.htm

Artvertising Brussels: call for participation: workshop+public walks, MFF2010

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:00:57 +0000

Workshop by Julian Oliver and Damian Stewart
30 September – 2 October 2010
The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held “Improved Reality” project that re-purposes street advertisements as the surface for exhibiting art.
During this 3-days workshop, participating artists will have the opportunity to create visual works to replace urban advertisement in the city. They will be able to experiment and analyse real time computer vision techniques developed by Julian Oliver and his team.
The results of the workshop will be presented for the Media Facades Festival Finissage during “augmented” walks in Brussels on Saturday afternoon October 2, where the audience will be able to watch the results through specially built binoculars (or Billboard Intercept Units).

- Max participants: 15
- Spoken language: English
- Participation fee: 30€ (lunches included)
- Registration deadline: 22 Sept 2010

More info & registration: imal.org

Sonic Pointillism – a hands-on seminar on Granular Synthesis

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:46:33 +0000

via microsound announce list

Granular Synthesis | Gurdonark | 2010

Sonic Pointillism – a hands-on seminar on Granular Synthesis with SuperCollider (taught by Fredrik Olofsson).

Granular synthesis is a synthesis technique based on the same principles as sampling. It utilizes tiny fragments of sound to construct a sound structure consisting of hundreds or thousands of these sonic particles or “grains”.

During this hands-on seminar we will learn how to buld different kinds of grains and the systems to generate, shape and control groups or “clouds” of these units in real time. We will also add interactive control to our granulator programs in order to be able to use them live as instruments. We will be using the free and open-source programming environment SuperCollider.

The first session will include a lightning-fast introduction to this synthesis environment.

8, 9 and 10 october 2010 at Hangar, Barcelona.

+info: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1264 ]

Fredrik Olofsson was formally trained as a composer at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm. Besides music he works with video and and has traveled the world with the audiovisual duo klipp av. As a programmer he is known as a frequent contributor in the SuperCollider open source community and, additionally, he is one of the founding members of TOPLAP, an informal organization which in the past decade popularized the use of MusicalFieldsForever he has exhibited interactive art at museums and galleries in England, Germany, Japan and in the Scandinavian countries. He was artist-in-residence at IAMAS in 2008, plays the trumpet and likes the colour red.

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Live Media and FLOSS Seminary @ FAD Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:59:44 +0000

FAD Festival de Arte Digital presents:

Live Media and FLOSS Extended Production Seminary with Marco Donnarumma – UK
03-04 September – FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
@ Multiespaço – Oi Futuro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
11h to 17h

Cost: *** FREE – with prior registration

Information:
(31) 3229.3131 / (31) 9694.35.45

simposio [at] festivaldeartedigital.com.br
http://www.festivaldeartedigital.com.br
On-line program: http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/live-media-and-floss/

[scroll down for english version]

Dia 03 e 04/09 – SEXTA E SÁBADO * necessário inglês | ministrado em Língua Inglesa

Live Media and FLOSS Extended Production Seminary – Marco Donnarumma - Reino Unido

Descritivo do workshop: Durante a apresentação, os participantes aprendem teoria básica sobre o Live Media e são apresentados ao conceito de FLOSS (Software de natureza livre). Na segunda parte, aprendem o significado de “processamento de dados de audiovisual em tempo real”. Na terceira parte, constroem estruturas básica de processamento e ainda descobrem truques e dicas para criarem sua própria ferramenta de desempenho. Na última parte, os participantes são incentivados a construírem novas ideias com seus laptops, instrumentos musicais, câmeras, máquinas fotográficas, webcam, microfones, sensores de dispositivos MIDI.

Biografia do artista: Marco Donnarumma (Itália, 1984) é um artista independente que trabalha com novas mídias. Professor, compositor, músico e baixista, mora em Edimburgo, Reino Unido. Sua pesquisa é focada em performances audiovisuais em tempo real, sistemas de computação sensível, instalações interativas e composições eletroacústicas. Suas obras, especialmente os projetos de performance ao vivo, são regularmente apresentadas internacionalmente. Donnarumma já expôs e apresentou em 19 países na América do Sul, Europa e Ásia.

Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
Personal Blog: http://www.thesaddj.com

[English Version]

Live Media and FLOSS Extended Production Seminary – Marco Donnarumma - UK

Brief description: Firstly participants acquire a basic theoretical knowledge about Live Media and are introduced to the concept of FLOSS (Free Open Source Software).
During the second part, they learn the meaning of “real-time audio-video data processing” through practical excercises illustrating different level of complexity in dataflow programming.
In the third part they build basic audio visual processing structures and find tricks and tips to create their own performance tool.
Eventually participants are encouraged to develop new ideas making use of their own musical instruments, cameras, photo cameras, webcam, microphones and MIDI device or sensors.

Bio: Marco Donnarumma (Italy, 1984) is an independent new media artist, teacher, composer, performer and bass player based in Edinburgh, UK. His research takes life in multiple forms such as audiovisual real-time performances, responsive computing systems, interactive installations and electro acoustic compositions. His works, especially the live performance projects, are regularly presented internationally. Donnarumma has exhibited and performed in 19 countries across South America, Europe and Asia.

Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
Personal Blog: http://www.thesaddj.com

Live Media and FLOSS summer workshop at Flussi festival, Avellino, Italy

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:55:50 +0000

Flussi Festival presents:

Live Media and FLOSS* Workshop with Marco Donnarumma

Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS.
Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

*Free/Libre Open Source Software

Wednesday 25th – Saturday 28th August – 14 hours
@ Teatro comunale Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino, Italy

Cost: 50 euro

The workshop is limited to 15 participants.
Accommodation available for participants.
Please register or ask for further info by sending an email to luca [at] flussi [dot] eu

Download here detailed program in pdf format.
Info in the document above are only in Italian, please write us to request comprehensive info in english.

Aim

The seminary seeks to give the participants who don’t have previous experience in programming and Live Media practice the needed theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to feel comfortable within the FLOSS creation environment. The classes’ aim is to make the participants able to understand and assimilate the diverse passages of the creation process of software ad-hoc in order to be independent during the planning and development of a FLOSS project (musical, audiovisual, multi-media or theatre pieces) using the audiovisual language.

The workshop will be preparatory to the implementation of Live Media performances realized by participants and presented in November 2010 at the “80 seconds” International Contest.

A10Lab – Live Media and FLOSS Workshop, London

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:01:31 +0000

A10 Lab presents

Live Media and FLOSS* Extended Production Seminary
with Marco Donnarumma

*Free/Libre Open Source Software

Monday 26th – Friday 30th July
17:30-22:30 daily

@ C4CC, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG

80 pp
The workshop is limited to 20 participants.
Please register by sending an email to info [at] a10lab [dot] com with the subject heading “Live Media and FLOSS workshop”.

Full information here http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=393

In-depth Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance seminary using FLOSS.
Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

Description

The seminary consists of four parts. During the introduction the participants acquire a basic theoretical knowledge about Live Media. The introduction is extended through a review of selected audiovisual
works in order to explore and analyse the potential of the audiovisual research.

Therefore participants are introduced to the concept of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software), they familiarize with few FLOSS software as they understand its practical and theoretical keystones.

In the second part participants learn the meaning of real-time audio-video data processing reviewing the most common production tools. Eventually they deal with the process of an audiovisual performance pre-production using FLOSS: from brainstorming and concept design, through planning of the audiovisual
format, to the collection of support materials such as texts, tutorials, and the drawing of sketches representing the logic structure of data processing.

The third part focus on Pure Data graphical programming environment.
Participants learn to communicate with Pd and how to surf through the audio and visual processing libraries. They build basic processing structures and discover tricks and tips to create their own
performance tool.

For the last part the work group is split in smaller groups. Through practical individual exercises participants acquire the technical know-how about the creation/collection of moving images and sonic
events within the Pure Data graphical programming environment, thus they develop an original software, following the standard realisation steps: beta-testing; analysis of errors and its correction; and final testing during a collective jam performance.

Aim

The seminary seeks to give the participants who don’t have previous experience in programming and Live Media practice the needed theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to feel comfortable
within the FLOSS creation environment. The classes’ aim is to make the participants able to understand and assimilate the diverse passages of the creation process of software ad-hoc in order to be independent during the planning and development of a FLOSS project (musical, audiovisual, multi-media or theatre pieces) using the audiovisual language.

Who’s it for

Musicians, producers, live visualists, film-makers, programmers, sound designers or passionates of digital arts or electronic music and experimentation who want to enhance and extend their skills and tools will find this seminary inspirational and fundamental for the further development of their works and creative ideas, free from the limitations of user-friendly and proprietary software.

No previous programming experience is needed.

What to bring

Participants are invited to bring their laptops and encouraged to bring musical instruments, cameras, photo cameras, webcam, microphones, sensors, MIDI devices and fresh, unusual ideas!

Primary personal website and portfolio:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/

Personal blog dedicated to new media art, digital freedom and music:
http://www.thesaddj.com/

C::NTR::L
Interactive environment for audiovisual performance with physical computing:

http://cntrl.sourceforge.net/

Pure Data Intro Workshop, 15-16th July, Electron Club, Glasgow

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:34:42 +0000

__PURE DATA WORKSHOP__

Thursday 15th and Friday 16th July 2010, 3pm-7pm

Electron Club
CCA – Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

Electron Club presents an introduction to Pure Data, a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.

Pure Data is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. Pd is free multi-platform software.

This two day workshop will bring participants through the basic idioms of dataflow, real-time audio and visual processing and networking. It is lead by Edinburgh based new media artists Marco Donnarumma and Ioann Maria.

What:

Participants will learn how to communicate with Pd and surf through the audio and visual processing objects libraries. Together we’ll build basic processing audio and video structures and discover tricks and tips to create our own performance tool.

No previous programming experience is needed.

A sample of the workshop program can be viewed online at:

http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/pd-aka-pure-data-intro/

Who for:

Musicians, producers, live visualists, film-makers, programmers, sound designers or passionates of digital arts or electronic music and experimentation who wants to enhance and extend their skills and tools will find this workshop inspirational for the further development of their works and creative ideas, free from the limitations of user-friendly and proprietary software.

When & Where:

Thursday 15th and Friday 16th July 2010, 3pm-7pm
Electron Club
CCA – Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

How:

The workshops are free, but participation is limited to 20 people. To register a place, please send an email giving some info on your interests and current knowledge of Pure Data to:

pd [at] electronclub [dot] org

Participants should bring their laptops with Pure Data installed.
The most recent Pure Data stable release can be found online at:

http://puredata.info/downloads

We also encourage people to bring sensors, USB game controllers, cameras, photo cameras, webcams, microphones, sensors, MIDI Devices.
We’ll learn by experimenting!

Instructors:

Marco Donnarumma is an independent new media artist, teacher, composer and performer. The understanding and the deconstruction of the semantic relation models among nature, man and technology is the main focus in his artistic research. The aim of his work is to highlight the communicativeness of human action through the use of self-designed responsive systems and physical computing technologies. His audiovisual real-time performances, interactive participative installations and electroacoustic compositions have been exhibited and performed in 19 countries across South America, Europe and Asia. He is a MA Professor of Sound Design for Sensitive Environment with FLOSS at LABA – Brescia Academy of Fine Arts, Italy. He is a researcher at FLxER.net and member of the board of directors of Live Performers Meeting, an international gathering of new media artists.

http://marcodonnarumma.com

Ioann Maria – new media artist, instructor, filmmaker, live video performer.
An active member of FLxER team and Dorkbot Alba -people doing strange things of electricity-, an organizer of LPM Live Performers Meeting – the world’s biggest annual meeting dedicated to live video performance. With her wide background in multimedia arts, she now works with new media technologies and interactive arts, exploring new possibilities in creative artistic-scientific demonstration. In her recent solo and collaborative projects she investigates the issues of physical computing and human-computer interaction. Being passionate about numbers, she’s particularly interested in linking the pure mathematical understanding with the beautiful sensation of experiencing sound and image in the new coherent audio-visual artistic expression.

http://ioannmaria.com

__ELECTRON CLUB__

The Electron Club is a voluntary run space where people interested in things like free open source software, circuit bending, hardware hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and video editing, green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use equipment, and share and disseminate their skills and ideas.
All are welcome.

http://www.electronclub.org

Pure Data for Live Media workshop Cagliari Conservatory

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:32:24 +0000

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Pd workshop and Live performance @ AHAcktitude

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:28:08 +0000

I have been away from the blog for a while now, my apologies. January became definitely busy since its first day and I didn’t have time to proper dedicate myself to writing. Let’s also say I deserved few holidays…

Then let’s start where we left.

It’s December 2009 and I’m flying to Milan to participate to “AHAcktitude ’09, the second collective meeting of the aha@ecn.org mailing list community, one of the lists hosted by the historical independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in the Net), and funding element of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism.
By adopting the same strategy as Hackmeetings, AHAcktitude is organised and managed directly by the participants who can propose and share seminars or projects via the aha@lists.ecn.org list. AHAcktitude began as a space for dialogue and sharing, with the purpose of learning and spreading practices and knowledge in a free environment.” via AHA website.
I contributed to the event holding a Pd workshop at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts together with Luca Carrubba – Husk and Eleonora Oreggia – xname – we presented our self-designed sofware for audiovideo processing ans streaming (C::NTR::L, Qeve and Virtual Entity) and I also had the chance to perform the latest version of ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ alongside with Otolab and MSST (Glerm Soares, Ricardo Brazileiro and Husk).

The programme of the event was full of contents and activities, panels and workshops, you can get a glimpse here.

Report PureData workshop AgitMedia Italy

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:01:01 +0000

I just came back from Brescia where I held a two-days PureData workshop. Our class featured 16 students from North Italy and for almost all of them was the first time they get their hands dirty with a graphical programming environment.
I introduced the Pd language, therefore we went through an introduction to sound creation with sonic dataflow processes.

The most interesting aspect of the workshop has been to open up the student’s minds to the unknown field of free creation. Some of them were already doing music and few experiments in sound with proprietary softwares, but none of them was actually aware of the potential of a free environment for sound design and music production and the completely different approach it requires.

Their reactions has been diverse, but in general most of them were pretty excited about the idea to be – so unexpectedly – free to practically draw on a canvas the ideas they had in their mind. One becomes aware that he doesn’t have to do what Ableton or Reason tell one can do, instead one can take over these closed paths and re-think from scratch his own concept of “creation”.

These two days were only the first half of the whole workshop we planned together with Husk (Italian Pd developer and hacktivist). On 5 and 6 December he’s going to introduce the Pd video libraries, i.e. GEM, PDP and Gridflow. In the end of the four days participants should have a basic, solid knowledge about Pd environment and hopefully some of them will bring forward the project they started during the course.

Special thanks to Davide Anni and Anna Guzzi (Ualuba Association and LABA) for their awesome hospitality and their great efforts in making this workshop happen. Unfortunately most of the italian educational institutions still seems to be allarmingly blind towards open/free tools for artistic creation, even though they are nowadays commonly used by many artists in different fields of research. I hope someone “up there” will finally open his eyes from now on, setting italian students free to learn.

Agit Media – Pure Data workshop real time audiovisual processing

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:03:39 +0000

original img by noisybox.net

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.

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).

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.

Program:

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

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!

Report Pure Data Workshop, Gotland University, Sweden

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:16:29 +0000

Here you are the photo report from the Pure Data workshop i held with Deftoo at Gotland University, Institute for Technology, Art and New Media in Sweden.

It has been an intensive experience, 10 participants, 2 days, 16 hours and a lot of lab sessions.

I had the pleasure to show the potential and the basic dataflow strategies of Pure Data to the professors of the wellknown swedish Game Development & Design department, infact the workshop was focused on real-time audiovisual processing for Game Development and Narrative Media.

Special thanks to Iwona Hrynczenko for organization and to UlfBen for additional pictures

Click here to see the photo gallery: http://www.thesaddj.com/pics/

PureData Workshop July Sweden

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:00:43 +0000

I’m finally going to the North, can’t wait!
I will be holding a Pure Data Workshop together with Deftoo at the Gotland University – Institute for Technology, Art and New Media – in Sweden.

It will be an intensive workshop (mostly for who doesn’t have any previous experience in graphical programming) and it foresees a theoric introduction and much, much laboratory work.

The workshop will be focused on GEM (the most used Pd video library), Sonic Art, Audiovisualism, Human-Computer Interaction.
The aim will be to create intermediate knowledge about the production of contents and tools exploiting audiovisual real-time processing in an open-source enviroment, in order to apply this techniques and/or contents to Game Design, Narrative and Time-based Media.

Unfortunately, subscriptions for this workshop are reserved to the University’s professors, anyway i hope to get you involved soon posting some tasty pictures.

Infos
Pure Data Workshops: ../workshops-training-courses-youth-projects/#live_av

Gotland University: http://mainweb.hgo.se/adm/about_en.nsf/

Pure Data: http://puredata.info/

LPM 2009 PureData, VVVV, Mapping Workshops

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Here we are… almost ready with the seventh edition of Live Performers Meeting. Unexpectedely this year we had an incredible amount of contents from 26 countries: 374 artists from Italy, Spain, Uruguay, Germany, Turkey, France, United Kingdom, Argentina, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, Poland, Deutschland, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Greece, Denmark, United States, Austria, Australia, Macedonia, Bulgaria playing 287 performances, workshops and showcases.

This is our personal record!

Apart from all the performances ( check it here ) partecipating to the meeting i would like to highlight the workshops:

PureData | 40 euro
Workshop
husk
Italy – Rome/Barcellona

Mapping Video – Immaterial Spaces | 50 euro
Workshop
n1ente
Italy – Genova

VVVV beginners | 50 euro
Workshop
defetto
United Kingdom – London

Quartz Composer | 40 euro
Workshop
shakinda
United Kingdom – belfast

Resolume Avenue 3 Workshop
Workshop
Edwin
Netherlands – Den Haag

Creazione dal basso e P2P
Workshop
jaromil
Netherlands – Amsterdam

if you’re around Rome from 28th to 31st of May come and join us! it’s gonna be fun…

Presentation at CeC09 India

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:36:39 +0000

Kenneth Newby and Martin Gotfrit, CeC '08

I’ve been invited in New Delhi, India to take part in the annual festival “Carnival of e-Creativity” to present C::NTR::L 1.0 beta – free, open-source software for audiovisual live improvisation w/ phisycal computing i developed in PureData.

Unfortunately due to some technical delays i won’t be able to attend phisically to the event, but the friend Shankar Barua – artist and Trustee Manager of the event – will be so kind to present in my place C::NTR::L to the indian audience.

Among the interesting performances and presentations which will take place during the event i feel to underline the project of Shankar Barua [Amateur-Slot] (Guitar & Live Audio-Video Processing), in experimental collaboration with Aparna Panshikar (vocals) & Ashim Ghosh (Percussion), powered by C::NTR::L 1.0 Beta.

infos:

http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec09/index.htm

http://www.thesaddj.com/cntrl

Klab_03

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:22:42 +0000

via: www.klabbing.net

“The new technologies are not anymore an exclusive domain of a close elite, its are already present in all the aspects of our life.

Klab_03 offers the chance to get closer to some of this applications used in the world of music and images…”

PROGRAM – Pamplona, Navarra Spain. 14/15 November 2008:

Workshop CUSTOM MADE HARDWARE: create your own audiovideo controller.
Servando Barreiro, Whiteemotion, The !S.A.D!
Multimedia space where you can build your customized hardwares for the audiovideo creation.
Friday and Saturday, from 22.00 to 02.00 at La Salita. Subscription is necessary, submit here
Demonstration, concert and meeting REACTABLE.
Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger, Marcos Alonso
Talk about the creation and diffusion of the Reactable. Concert by Carlos Lopez Campmany. All day long live demonstration of the tool.
Demonstration: Friday and Saturday, from 21.00 to 02.00 | Concert and meeting: Friday at 23.00 at La Nave.
Theremin demonstration and concert.
Javier Díaz Ena. Well-experienced theremist will show the great possibility of this music instrument.
Demonstration all day long: Friday and Saturday from 21.00 to 02.00 | Concert: Friday at 22.00 at La Nave.

and more…
Final party: Saturday from 22.00 to 02.00 at La Nave.

Summercamp at Laboral, Gijón

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:12:34 +0000

I translate this post from the original spanish version posted on VjSpain by Whiteemotion.

“This year we appeared in the last days of Summercamp at Laboral in Gijón. We arrived there on friday, the day before the last day of the one week meeting. We subscribed the performance of Marco Donnarumma aka The S.A.D “I C::ntr::l Nature” created with PureData.
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature/

Summercamp, Laboral Gijon

I keep on with my thesis about the multimedia creation and new A/V formats which will be ready for the nest year. Now, after a world overview, i’m working on the spanish live visual scene.

At Laboral we met some good friends as Mia Makela – Solu and Jay, of Sin Antena:

http://www.sinantena.net

It was a pleasure to know Yves Degoyon, great contributor of the PD Community, who’s currently living in Barcellona. Toghether with Lluis Gomez they created a performance for the Summercamp.
More info about this project here:

http://www.hangar.org/wikis/lab/doku.php?id=start:puredata_opencv

I didn’t know people from the Hangar in Barcellona and many of the partecipants to the summercamp, which is a great chance to know each other and share. Here we are in a big empty building, fullfilled of tables where everybody is working, alone or in groups.

We find working areas for the creation of hardware, the puredata community, video maker, and streaming set of the talks and many performers, everything inside this new museum of contemporary art hosting exhibitions of national and international artists.

I write here some links regarding the Free Audio working group of the Barcellona community:
http://www.hangar.org/wikis/lab/doku.php?id=start:audiyolab

I add also some personal pages, suggested by Xavi aka Daax, about Free Audio and software, more others activities/festivals regarding the free culture:

http://www.pitchvolley.com/nvisible.taz/

http://pitchvolley.com/nvisible.taz/segmentationfault.html

http://costellam.net/

http://delcorp.org/distorsionfest/?page_id=18

Yesterday took place presentation of projects and today, the last day, from 17.00 performance will starts. To follow the evolution of the program on the wiki of Summercamp:

http://www.hangar.org/wikis/summercamp

The program of today foresees 15 performances of 15′ each. Yesterday when we arrived we quickly take out our laptops and started to work.
The streaming is online everyday and it’s possible to enter using the Interface_summercampTV:

http://giss.tv/interface/?mp=summercampTV.ogg

or opening this link http://giss.tv:8000/summercampTV.ogg in your VLC player.
Also the videos of what has happened in these days are available here:”

http://summerlab.blip.tv

For more informations about this enconunter and many of the partecipants:

http://www.hangar.org/drupal/?q=content/summer-camp-para-creadores-digitales-laboral