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Pure Data for Live Media workshop Cagliari Conservatory

SAD — 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…

Live Performers Meeting 2010, Rome

SAD — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:13:30 +0000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MA Sound Design with Pure Data and more

SAD — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:20:00 +0000

Here I am, back in Italy for some time. Next week I’ll be teaching the first lesson of a course in Sound Design for sensitive environment at LABA, Brescia Academy of Fine Arts. The course is included in the study program of a Master of Art in New Media and New Technology for Art.
Along with the usual sound design techniques the course includes excursions in soundscape studies and sound art. Students use only free software for audio real-time processing and interactive sonification such as Pure Data graphical programming environment.
The LABA MA also includes courses held by Massimo Banzi (Tinker.it/Arduino), Otolab, Luca Carrubba.

When Davide Anni, department director at LABA, contacted me a while ago, I was positively surprised by his strong wish to bring free software inside the university program. His efforts did not start only recently, in fact the Academy already uses a free-software-based Wi-fi Internet connection, computers running Linux flavour are available to the students and events and workshop about FLOSS world take place on a regular basis, last event AgitMedia included a conference by Richard Stallman, Arduino and Pure Data workshop.

I imagine this is probably nothing new to my international readers, but I can confirm it represents a promising exception to the hyper-conservative rule of today Italian universities, especially in this time while Italy and its culture seems to be falling in an endless black hole.
I am looking forward to start this venture and I hope to publish patches, files and texts along the way, to document this experience… so watch this space.

Kuoyàh London mastering session

SAD — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:31:26 +0000

Two days ago I went to London to hook up with dj Oslek – owner at Frijsfo Beats, Uk – and Sully for the mastering session of my upcoming vinyl Ep. The work will be published under my second moniker “Kuoyàh”, kind of secret alterego producing futuristic bass music. Check some tunes here http://www.soundcloud.com/kuoyah.
Thus I had the chance to spend few hours in the excellent mastering studio at Air Studios, Hampstead.

Sound engineer Matt Colton made a brilliant job and you can imagine the great pleasure one feels while sitting in a professional studio surrounded by powerful analog machines, hyper quality – huge – studio monitors and good friends. I must say I still dream about this TAD studio monitors.

We were supposed to cut the vinyl right there, unfortunately due to a temporary issue we couldn’t, but I had the chance to take a closer look to the cutting equipment.

The release should be out in the records shop in March, so keep an eye on it. More infos will follow soon.
Tracklist:
A1_Angels Dub
A2_Asia
B1_Soldiers
B2_Angels Sully Remix

Take a listen to the unmastered tracks on my soundcloud profile http://soundcloud.com/kuoyah. You will also find some unreleased material. If you use soundcloud feel free to add me, I think it is a lovely network for musicians.

Other links:
http://frijsfo.com/
http://www.myspace.com/kuoyah
http://www.myspace.com/sullysg6

Pd workshop and Live performance @ AHAcktitude

SAD — 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.

Ferment at Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade

SAD — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:48:31 +0000

Me and Ioann Maria are about to fly to Belgrade to attend the 2009 edition of Alternative – Film/Video Festival taking place in Belgrade, Serbia, since 1982.

“The aim of the festival is to document and define in theory the trends, to point at the values and new creative possibilities in the fields of alternative film and video.
The Festival was held for the first time in 1982, as Alternative film, and intended to explore the domain of film production which is alternative to commercial film, all modes of alternative, experimental, art, short, radical film thinking…”

The short movie “Ferment” shooted and directed by Ioann Maria and sonificated by my track “Entering…” has been shortlisted for the festival screenings.
It will be a week of visions, balkans and plenty of stimulating ideas.

Live Media Updates Nov09

SAD — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:17:53 +0000

Here you are the second issue of my online newsletter: New Media/Open/Free/Software/Hardware/Culture/Audiovisual.
Read it here http://www.thesaddj.com/newsletter/nov09/

Report PureData workshop AgitMedia Italy

SAD — 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.

Piksel Festival 2009 Bergen

SAD — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:24:39 +0000

via Piksel mailing list:

Piksel09 :: f[re](e){op}[en]able

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Piksel09 :: festival
November 19-22 2009

Piksel09 :: exhibition
Nov. 20/09 – Jan. 10/10
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We are also changing the world!

- the 7th annual Piksel festival for
- Electronic Art and Technological Freedom is on!
- in Bergen, Norway

—> Get inspired by Exhibitions
—> Get amazed by LIVEart performances
—> Get wiser through Seminars
—> Get sustained by Workshops

Biohacking, DIY Electronics, open hardware, free software, circuit
bending, process art, computer vision, multitouch, noise,
alternative interfaces, live animation, sound art, light installation,
LED art, code poetry, VGA hacking

Programme:

EXHIBITIONS @ Galleri 3,14, Lydgalleriet –
http://piksel.no/p09/_exhibition

David Elliott, Pall Thayer, Paul Klotz, Andreas Muxel, Martin Hesselmeier,
Susanna Katharina Hertrich, Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Michael Day, Arjan
Scherpenisse, Ben Woodeson, Angie Atmadjaja, Gijs Gieskes, Carlos Tricas,
Wolfgang Spahn, Thomas Gerwin, Ricardo Oliveira Nascimento,Ebru Kurbak,
Fabiana Shizue, Dream Addictive, Carmen González, Leslie García, Arnfinn
Killingtveit, Wendy Ann Mansilla, Jordi Puig

PRESENTATIONS @ Bergen Kunstmuseum/Stenersen –
http://piksel.no/p09/Presentations

ToonLoop, Virtual Entity, REBUNTU, The Art of Seduction OR Practical Jedi
Mindtricks OR Escaping the Matrix, Microcodes, Re-ware, Milkymist, Noise &
Capitalism, Open Source Software Tools for creativity, Pure Data Rhythm & Bass
Machine, Gate peepin’, The Hijmans van den Bergh building installation, OHANDA
– Open Hardware and Design Alliance, Flock, _oneliner, Respirator, Py-Cessing,
APODIO, Multi-Touch 360, Open Artistic Production

LIVE PERFORMANCES @ Landmark, Tårnsalen & NøsteBoden –
http://piksel.no/p09/live-events

Action Potential, KUNST UND MUSIK MIT DEM TAGESLICHTPROJEKTOR, Noise invaders,
DC12V ::Teatrino Elettrico::, Paper Cut Tales, Colour Projections, Mouth(s)’
lecture(s), Mattin, d.R.e.G.S., noish_VS_automata, Souffles I, He boxed
regularly and was strong and very brave and always a perfect gentleman,
Psychoid, MSST, Andy Bolus, The DIY drone synthesizer, Respirator, [i/o],
THENOISER VS ZERO POINT ENERGY

WORKSHOPS @ Nøstegate 42 & PikselHut –
http://piksel.no/p09/Workshops

W.O.M. – Workshop Osc Machine, LP Atari Punk Console, The DIY drone
synthesizer, Qeve – Free your visuals, Hackteria | bioelectronix for artists,
Navalha – handcrafted hardware/software audio performance interface, CHAOSLAB,
ToonLoop Live Animation Workshop, Enhancing Pure Data Interactivity with
Computer Vision (Open CV), Building simple analogue light-controlled
theremins, VGA Signals: an introduction

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more info and complete programme:
http://piksel.no/p09
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Piksel09 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality,
Hordaland County Council, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Cultur Point, PNEK, BKK
and OCA.

OUTRO STREAM: FREE AS IN ART!
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with
Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice.
Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and
involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas,
coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances
and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art.
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BLOG www.piksel.no
TECH www.piksel.org
WIKI www.piksel.no/pwiki
IRC #piksel (irc.freenode.net)
LISTS www.piksel.no/pwiki/MailingLists

Netaudio Festival 2009 Report

SAD — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:05:12 +0000

All pictures by Joanna M. Stacewicz, thank you!

Berlin. Wonderful as always.

I visited again the city 3 weeks ago to play the audiovisual concert ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ - selected for the day program of Netaudio Festival.

I went there together with Joanna M. Stacewicz for few days and we had the chance to live one of the (probably) last days of full warm sun before the winter.

Our expectations about Netaudio Festival were pretty high… probably too high. Wait… i’m not talking about the organization but about the musical offer.
The event was really well organized and it was clear the amount of efforts the staff had to face in order to make everything work. I want to thank all the staff for making this happen. People were great and we all had nice times, but the only thing that i found unsatisfactory was the line-up policy of the event.

Probably i just wasn’t considering the complete spectrum of a “netaudio-only” event. The line-up was almost completely dedicated to dance live acts (or dj sets), dancy electronica, dancy idm, dancy dubstep, techno, and some live pop bands.

Don’t misunderstand me… i like to dance, but i largely prefer to discover new sounds, new approaches to music, innovative reflections of sounds and technology.

This actually made me think a lot about Netaudio scene and how I relate myself to it. Why do i listen to free music? Because it’s free – free as in beer? Because i don’t want to spend my money for music?
No, i don’t think so. Probably i listen to free music ’cause i seek for an added value that can somehow guarantee a different approach to music composition, and hearing experience.
Probably i would like to see a Netaudio festival dedicated to music free as in freedom. The freedom to create music and sounds that are going beyond my everyday perception of techno-glitch, pop-kraut-rock, hip-top raggae dance-hall. Music is much more than this, music is not only something to have fun with, but i believe it is a relevant aspect of our everyday learning process, so that it doesn’t have to be undervalued.

Anyway, excluding my personal complains, I happily performed the 3rd version of the audiovisual concert for augmented bass guitar and butterfly and introduced the free software C::NTR::L. Thanks Georg – from Pure Data mailing list – for dropping by!

We had the pleasure to meet many old friends after quite a time. The almighty Dr.Nojoke was there (thanks for hosting us and being our light in Berlin!) – he played a really interesting live set under the moniker Trioon together with the common friend Servando Barreiro and JLab - and the omnipresent Visual Berlin collective was contributing to the event with quality live visual shows by Flux, Fred, Oigovisiones, E-Gruppe, Pixelnoizz, Yagama.

We had also the chance to get to know Fernando Fonseca (Public Spaces) who played one of the most interesting acts in whole the festival. A weird coincidence made me play exactly before his set, thus we met and found out many common ideas. Finally we had also the time to go out for dinner altogether and release our minds from too high thoughts hanging around Kreuzberg for 40′ looking for a place where to eat.
Actually i’m forgetting about another interesting project developed by Netaudio organization: The Berlin Wall of Sound. People were invited to record field sounds around the Berlin Wall to create a Berlin Wall sound map. The map was physically available as touch screen installation inside the main room of the venue ( http://www.netaudioberlin.de/berlin-wall-of-sound/ ).

All in all i’m glad to have participated and contributed to this event. All critics and doubts expressed in this article don’t have to be perceived as a provocation, not at all. I only try to stimulate constructive discussions and thoughts, since this is what we are here for…
Should i sit all the day long mesmerizing myself thinking how beautiful is life?

Nahh… that’s not for me. Please, feel free to write few lines about your idea of free music and whatever could be related to it. I definitely wish to know your opinion and keep on the conversation.

Vague Terrain 15: .microsound

SAD — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:30:32 +0000

Ant Scott - Repetitive Beats (detail) - 2008

I gladly announce the publication of Vague Terrain 15: .microsound, including my piece Sand Horyzon – a composition excerpt of live improvisational computing in Pd using an augmented electric bass guitar.
The whole release brings you two compilations of fine experimental music, text and videos created by the community behind .microsound list (which has just celebrated its ten years) and selected by american composer Kim Cascone.
As Kim states in his article:

“The .microsound community, drawing from areas as discontinuous as Gilles Deleuze, Curtis Roads and the Aphex Twin, is a ‘body without organs’ in Deleuzian parlance; an amorphous object, a fluid changing shape as its poured into different containers…”
“…In order to bracket the various styles of sound art and music I used the Deleuzian concepts of ’smooth space’ and ’striated space.’ Striated space is where I put all the pieces that made use of gesture and beats while ’smooth space’ is where I put pieces that made use of texture and internal movement. But within those two categories what constitutes a .microsound-sounding piece becomes blurred…”

About .microsound: “.microsound is not a “genre” mailing list, since this proliferation has occurred largely without regard for stylistic boundary. instead, .microsound presents itself as a forum for the discussion and exploration of a more general “digital aesthetic” manifesting across a wide variety of styles and disciplines — from academic computer music to post-industrial noise to experimental ambient and post-techno.”

“Vague Terrain is a web based digital arts publication that showcases the creative practice of a variety of artists, musicians and scholars. The project aspires to apply the focus and methodologies of academic and art journals and the tenacity and specificity of independent record labels to examine contemporary digital culture in an immediate and accessible manner. Content consists of curated visual, audio and written works, and now a companion blog. For better and worse this project is neither peer reviewed nor funded.
All work on this site is published under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons License unless otherwise noted.”
From http://vagueterrain.net/about

Read the whole article about the publication and get your free copy of the work: http://vagueterrain.net/journal15
You’re also warmly invited to check the .microsound mailing list and its numerous not-only sound art projects here http://www.microsound.org/

Featuring text & video contributions by Ben Neill, Charles Turner, Dextro, Joanna Demers, Pere Villez, Thanos Chrysakis, Thomas Bey William Bailey and William L. Ashline.

Feature audio contributions from Mike Rooke, Lubrication, Ronnie Cramer, [ruidobello], Richard Lainhart, sound art, TomDjll, Brett Ian Balogh, Scant Intone, Yota Morimoto, Jorge Castro, Joaquin Gutierrez Hadid, Francesco Rosati, Asferico, Water Falls, Yann Novak, John Hanes, Epoch_Collapse, Jhenner Gayap Benadrilled, SkjÃ¸lbrot, Markus Jones, Jon Hawken, Adern X Fades 4:38, Julien Ottavi, Vanessa Rossetto, Kim Cascone, Larnie Fox, eddie135, Di.J Crisis, shg, Cheryl E. Leonard, Noe Cuellar, Gary R. Weisberg, Osvaldo Cibils, Kotra, Gintas K, John Kannenberg, Ricky Pannowitz, ocp, TheSAD, Margaret Schedel, Pereshaped, so/on, Eric Miller, Nux Vomica, v4w.enko, UmanoidSomeday, Epoch Collapse, Umanoid and Noe Cuellar.

Agit Media – Pure Data workshop real time audiovisual processing

SAD — 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!

New Kuoyah Remix on Eight:FX Records

SAD — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:05 +0000

Finally out the latest remix i made under the side moniker ‘Kuoyah’. It’s a future garage version of a downtempo-dubstep experimental tune produced by the almighty Forensics.

The EP includes 4 remixes by Kuoyah, Wrexile, Grooky and Lexxus. An interesting release exploring different nuances of dub and garage… out now on the fertile ‘Eight:FX Records’.

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Eight:FX Records present….

FORENSICS – Reinventions EP [AR038]

01 : Endless (Wrexile remix)
02 : Headful of cloud (Kuoyah remix)
03 : Midnight sky (Grooki remix)
04 : Shelter (Tommy Lexxus remix)

“I’ll give them a spin on my new 1xtra show” – MRK1

http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/reinventions_ep
http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1475987-02.htm

Due to be available from Amazon, iTunes, Boomkat, Beatport, DJDownload, Addictech, Trackitdown ETC soon too.
Forensics blog: http://forensicdubstep.blogspot.com/

Interview on Linux Audio Italy

SAD — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:08:06 +0000

I just released an interview for Linux Audio Italy podcast. I had a pleasant conversation with Becks – the mind behind the GNU blog and podcast - about my work and Pure Data, recent projects and the Pd Convention in Brasil. The interview will be broadcasted today at 21.00 (repeated on 13 Oct at 00.00), but you can download the whole podcast here http://gnufunk.org/node/44.

Unfortunately dialogues are only in italian, but you can always listen to some excellent open source music. For my italian readers… be sure to browse the numerous contents of the blog, you will find many interesting news about open source production and techniques.

Live at Netaudio Berlin 2009

SAD — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:26:32 +0000

For those of you who hang around Berlin, I’ll be participating to the almighty Netaudio Festival – day program – with a showcase of my audiovisual performance for augmented bass guitar ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ (check the project here) entirely made and performed with PureData.
I’ll be performing on Friday from 14.15 to 14.45h and for the remaining 30 minutes I’ll be explaining the functionality of ‘C::NTR::L’, the free software I developed for the performance . The software allows you to transform your standard musical instrument in an augmented audiovisual controller, it’s published under GPL license so free to be used and modified. If you’re interested you’re very welcome to drop by.
The festival will take place from 8th to 11th October at the wellknown Maria am Ostbahnhof (Mao).

I was really glad to get to know about my selection since Netaudio festival is the bulwark of free CC-licensed music, so it represents kind of _must_ for me.
Here you are the statement of this Berliner edition – via Netaudio website:

From the 8th to the 11th of October 2009, Netaudio Berlin will be gathering the international netaudio community for a four-day music and conference festival in Berlin, under the title “East meets West”. 2009 will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. We recall pictures of hands reaching out to pull people from both sides up onto the Berlin wall. The event will take place at Maria, a venue situated immediately on the former Berlin ‘death strip’ once dividing the city and the world into eastern and western hemispheres.

In recent years a netaudio landscape has emerged in the countries of Eastern Europe. Speakers, artists and netlabel managers from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from the USA are invited to find out more about the needs and possibilities, challenges and chances of netaudio under the various cultural frameworks and to discuss new opportunities for networking and collaboration across borders and cultures.

The line-up of the festival is generously eterogeneous, providing a day program including:

… and a night program too broad to be described in this article. Plenty of artists and genres – electronic, drum’n'bass, dubstep, hip hop, techno. Be sure to check the full program here. The live visuals will be curated by my dear friends Visual Berlin, don’t miss it!

Report roBOT Festival 2009 Bologna

SAD — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:11:48 +0000

Thanks Bologna!
I had definitely great days in there. The roBOT festival – organized by Shape Association – took place at Palazzo Re Enzo – Bologna – one of the most beautiful ancient building in Bologna and probably in whole Italy.

Look at the ‘Sala del Podestà’ picture below to get a glimpse about the rest of the building. Something awesome.
The festival is more clubbing oriented, but since this year they established a call for works located in the experimental audiovisual field.
That’s how i got to participate alongside with Ape5+Eraser, EricaIlCane, Saul Saguatti, Teatrino Elettrico and Pixelnoizz.
I could enjoy a warm and quiet atmosphere and nice chats with the technical staff (in the picture).
You know? one of the best thing that can happen to an artist going to perform somewhere is to get in touch with professional, friendly technicians who understand his needs… and that’s what has happened.

On Wednesday, the opening was reserved to Carl Craig and his SHAPE project. Highly acclaimed musical project connecting and blending techno and classical musical languages. On Thursday has started the experimental section of roBOT with the first three performances including me, Pixelnoizz and EricaIlCane.
I made a shorter performance, trying to understand how to relate with the space of the huge concert hall. It hasn’t been easy to understand how to play in such a space, where the sound jump from one side of the roof to another, like playing in a big Gothic church.
EricaIlCane and his crew has showed ‘Piove, Governo Ladro’ an evocative imagery, sometimes more decorative sometimes more dreamy. Playing inside of a semi-transparent box they have spread some interesting noise with four audio channels surrounding the installation.

In between on Friday i had the chance to get to know the american artist John Duncan. Incredibly he was holding an informal meeting with some young artists at the same place where i’ve been hosted (Nosadella.2 – residency for artists and curator).
So i participate to the meeting with him and Melissa Pasut and in the end we spent the night together with a lovely dinner and other friend Elisa DelPrete. It’s useless to say it has been an inspiring meeting.

Finally on Saturday I’ve met a lot of old friends and I’ve also met for the first time the Italian artists Ape5 and Eraser. They proposed their latest performance ‘Future sounds like Past Toys’ mixing the ethereal music of Eraser (heavy circuit bending on old toys) with a glitch visual imagery provided by Ape5.

Then i repeated my performance ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ - audiovisual improvisation for augmented electric bass guitar, butterfly and self-designed software C::NTR::L, Pure Data based - and i have to say it has been one of the best performance I’ve ever made since I’m traveling around with this project.
I was feeling this kind of emotive tension who often push a creative mind to get out his best.
The sound was finally as i wish it would have been and a lot of people showed up to attend to the concert.
I’m usually really critic towards my concerts but this time I’ve felt something too good around, maybe the presence of many friends, maybe the great location, maybe the proper astral plane connections… anyway the show was strong and impressive.

My friend Carlotta Piccinini from Visuallab has been so kind to shoot almost all the performance with an excellent camera, so be patient and expect a new video reel from the performance.

After the performances (including also Byetone who was performing at my same time, I would have loved to attend) everybody has moved to the Link for the last club night of the festival. Nice time in there supporting old good friends Vj Hash and Sapo during their vj set, and around 5am everybody has jumped in the car driving back home.

Once again Sunday has come and I’ve taken the last tour around the city, sitting in a park and enjoying the last rays of sun – because in Milan the rain was waiting for me.
I end the report with this picture: a public park in Bologna dedicated to the 11st September 2001.
I’ve the maximum respect for that event (and also a lot of doubts and anxiety), but could you tell me why in Italy we should dedicate a park to this date???
Sorry but i cannot agree with that.

Thanks to all the people from roBOT staff – Marcella, Federica and all the technical staff – and thanks also to all the people who showed up for my concert. It means a lot to me, especially here in Italy.

Pure Data Convention ‘09 Live Recordings

SAD — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:53:55 +0000

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ferment – new dark short film by Ioann Maria

SAD — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:33:25 +0000

Multimedia artist Ioann Maria just came up with a really dark short film, an elegant and intense 1.26 mix of footage, animation and symbolism.

She chose my track ‘Entering…’ as soundtrack for this work. The audio track is included in my first album ‘Home’ released back in 2007 by italian historical netlabel Sinewaves.it.

If you like the mood of this work, be sure to check the HD version here, and if you enjoy the sound – old but still one of my most inspired works IMHO – and you want to hear more check the album free to download here.

Live Media Updates Sept09

SAD — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:34:14 +0000

I just created kind of online newsletter where to keep you updated about upcoming events and where to collect all the articles from the past months, if you feel like you lost something.

So feel free to enjoy http://www.thesaddj.com/newsletter/sept09/index.html

This page does not substitute the normal newsletter you receive once every two months, but is just a less invasive way to inform more people about what is going in the lab.

Thanks!

Italian premiere at roBOT festival 2009

SAD — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000

Next audiovisual concert coming up in Bologna, Italy.

On 19th October I will be performing the third version of the performance for augmented bass guitar and butterfly I C::ntr::l Nature during roBOT festival at Palazzo Re Enzo. This will be the italian premiere of the brand new version of the audiovisual performance (recently presented in Brasil at Pure Data Convention), so don’t miss it!
The festival provide an interesting lineup, featuring a pool of selected audiovisual artist from Italy and Europe including Saul Saguatti, Ericailcane, Pixelnoizz, Vj Hash, Ape5 and a party time hosted by some big names of the scene such as Tim Exile, Carl Craig and many others. I will be probably also making a friendly vj set during the club nights at the LINK, enjoying old friends vjs from the italian scene.

If you’re around.. get a chance to enjoy us.
more infos:

I C::ntr::l Nature project website: http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature/

Festival:http://www.robotfestival.it/2009
tickets: http://www.robotfestival.it/2009/ingressi/

Interactive Installation at Dundee Master Show

SAD — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:35:42 +0000

During this summer me and Joanna Deftoo have been invited to take part in an artistic residency in Sweden to collaborate with the polish artist and teacher Iwona Hrynczenko in the creation of an interactive installation for her forthcoming PhD exhibition at Dundee Masters Show, hosted by the VRC – Visual Research Center in Scotland.

Using a camera and some motion tracking tweaks in Pure Data we created a kind of space-time distorted mirror which allow user to play with the delayed shadows of themselves deforming their actual reality.
The real time of the user’s movements is delayed in a fake computed time, using 6 different layers of time analysis.
Users can play with their motion shadows creating artificial image of their bodies in a surreal time. The interactive system recognizes human presence and eventually take pictures of the user, upload it to the web and immediately screen it back to the exhibition place on a secondary monitor.

The Exhibition will be open Monday – Saturday 11am – 5pm

Further informations:

http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/dundee-masters-show.html

http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Visual_Research_Centre/visual_research_centre.html

Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk – FLOSS+Art

SAD — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:33:35 +0000

Neural.it reviews on FLOSS+Art, a (free and open source) book which everyone interested in digital arts should read.

via: Neural.it

“Mute Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-1906496180, UK, 2009, English
Advocacy of FLOSS model in culture is a nodal strategy for change, and is important to keep in mind what the two editors Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk state in the introduction: “software industry no longer sells software: it sells licenses.” Starting from here their proposed path through all the art-related issues of free software results as a rich end empowering experience.
The collection of essays is the most exhaustive ever published including the analysis of FLOSS and music, video, theatre, graphic design, typography, libraries, licenses, live coding, you name it. This dense book with twenty-four authors is really not an apology of FLOSS models for the sake of an ideological battle. On the contrary, for example, the needed open mind and will to switch operating system, plus the consequent investment of personal time, is not underestimated. But the amount of analysis, practices and stimuli emerging while reading is amazing as a whole new world discovery.
Among the others the book includes the seminal Transmediale award winner text “All Problems of Notation Will be solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software and Distributive Practice” by Simon Yuill, that exemplary and critically analyze the FLOSS paradigm through history and philosophy enhancing its fundamental freedom of production quality.
So it’s a sort of manifesto, chorally written sometimes reflecting the same FLOSS defects (redundancy and enthusiasm) and its unmatchable virtues, but giving serious hope for its pervading potential in every art sector.”

Report Pd Convention 09, Sao Paulo

SAD — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:47:21 +0000

Online the pictures from the third international Pure data Convention in Sao Paulo, Brasil, where i performed the audiovisual piece ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ and presented the free, open source software C::NTR::L – Pd-based.

Much thanks to Alexandre, Paloma, Cristiano, Palm, Cybelle and all the staff for the big efforts to make this happen. Great experience for all of us and relevant effort to enhance the free culture in Brasil.

Check the gallery here: ../pics

More infos: www.pdcon.org

Report S-Block Festival

SAD — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:20:26 +0000

Here you are with a bit of delay the report about S-Block Festival.
The event has been organized by Plattform fuer aktuelle Musik and it took place at Interventionsraum in the very heart of Stuttgart. It has been my second time in the city and also this time i had the pleasure to enjoy a good dose of high quality experimental music.

Antenna Research opened the event with their concrete concert based on antennas and old radio. Pure noise eclectism and sane irony deadful mixture!

I definetely love spending days in Germany at experimental music events ’cause i always see things that i’m sure i won’t be able to see anywhere else. Don’t know if it’s all about my “mith” of Germany, but i can assure the”experimental” matter there has really a deep sense and clear imprint. Maybe it’s all about originality and the way to express it…

Coming next we had the DuoB – free, improvisational jazz duet from United States. They provided a huge concert, impossible to describe it, but just imagine 1.5 hour of free improvisation on drums (played in every way you can imagine) and double-bass, supported by impervious and theatrical readings by Pedro Cofrè from Chile.

We didn’t have the time to recover our mind from the intuitional free reading/jazz of DuoB, and Christine Sehnaoui started her solo performance/radical improvisation at saxophone. She’s one of the most professional improvisers i’ve ever seen playing live, i highly suggest to check her work. Great presence on stage and awesome confidence with her instrument.

On the second day of the event, after having a beautiful breakfast with the other artists, we reached again the venue for another session. This time Ezramo opened the night… It has been a lovely experience, from subtle mystic moments to ethnic derivations and electroacoustic breackdowns.

Following we had Experimentelles Musiktheater: „The International Besetztzeichen“. An experimental theater/live noise piece for three actors, performed by Oliver Prechtl and Philipp Golm (Stuttgart). Unfortunately i didn’t get any picture of their show.
I had the hard duty to close the festival with the audiovisual work “I C::ntr::l Nature” - solo piece for augmented bass guitar and self-designed software C::NTR::L. It has been a pleasure to play in front of the many people came to see the performance. The tiny and cosy venue of the festival was overloaded of people all around me… lovin’ it!

Thanks Stuttgart and thanks once again to Ezramo and Wendelin Buechler who organized such an inspirational event, and good luck guys for your future projects!

LINKS:
http://www.thesaddj.com/s-block-festival-advanced-music-and-live-audiovisual-art/
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
http://interventionsraum.de/sblockfestival.html
http://interventionsraum.de
http://www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell

Report Pure Data Workshop, Gotland University, Sweden

SAD — 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/

3rd international PureData Convention 09

SAD — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:00:56 +0000

Next week I’m flying to Sao Paulo, Brasil. I’ve been selected to perform at the 3rd International Pure Data Convention ‘09 with the work ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ – solo audiovisual performance for augmented bass guitar.

The work is completely produced and performed with the self-designed software ‘C::NTR::L 1.2 Beta’ - PureData based software for real-time audiovisual improvvisation which exploits physical computing technology.
The software is free for download and use, check this page.

It will be an honour for me to show the results of my research in the physical computing enviroment and to contribute to the success of this 3rd convention, but above all i’m expecting a great experience, full of contents, inspiration and new ideas.

I’m specially looking forward to attend to the series of conferences focused on the Pd development where also Miller Puckette – the creator of Pd – will hold a conference about Multiprocessing for Pd.

Here you are what the Pd Convention is all about:

“The International Convention for Puredata (Pd) is a periodic event that started in 2004 and is the most important event of the community of developers and enthusiasts of Pd. Pd is a programming language used for the development of interactive applications, allowing the manipulation of data flow in real-time.

As a free open source software, the developer’s community is vast and independent, and is characterized by having a rich and eterogeneous profile formed by researchers, developers and designers with a strong interaction and internal productivity.

There are several projects that use Pd in the area of robotics, psychoacoustic, new physical interfaces and open-hardware, artificial intelligence and pattern recognition signal, artistic and commercial projects, among others. In the Brazilian edition, we want also to improve the Brazilian community of developers, which has grown over the past two years becoming part of the international scene.”

C::NTR::L AV augmented bass guitar improvisation from TheSAD on Vimeo.

…and here the full list of participants (Performances, Installations, Workshops and Lectures):

Miller Puckette
Rogério Costa
IOhannes m zmölnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner, EUA
Marius Schebella
Julien Ottavi
José Luis Santorcuato
vjpalm/Ricardo Palmieri
Alexandre Torres Porres
Luca Carruba
Lluis Gomez i Bigordà
Wilson Sukorski
Nick Porcaro, EUA
Natalia Mount, Andrew Mount & Mark Grimm
mpc2059
Teresa Ascenção
Ressaca
Ryan Jordan
Jaime Oliver
Xname
Philippe Boisnard
Chikashi Miyama
Henrique Iwao
Marco Donnarumma aka The !S.A.D!
CHDH
Xavi Manzanares (Daax!) & Oscar Martin (Noish~)
Elpueblodechina
Dan Wilcox
Coletivo Make Install
Cristiano Rosa
LiveNoiseTupi
Giuseppe Birardi & Sebastian Faeth
Breakup
Yves Degoyon
Tim Vets
Ben Bogart
José Henrique Padovani
William Brent
David Doukhan
Marcus Alessi Bittencourt
Jaime Munárriz
John Harrison
Tuti Fornari
Cristiano Figueiró
Ed Kelly
Sergi Lario Loyo
Sven König
Jose Ignacio Lopez Ramírez-Gastón
Glerm Soares
Mitchel Turner
Yroyto
Greg Dixon
Kruno Jošt

More infos

Pd Con: http://blog.pdcon.org
Pure Data: http://puredata.info
‘I C::ntr::l Nature’: http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature

Kuoyah rmx on FRJ004 Out now!

SAD — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:23:42 +0000

New release out now for my side musical project Kuoyàh.

I’ve been remixing a wonderful track of Point B titled ‘Someone Else’s Past’ which is featured on the forth vinyl of the british dubstep/garage/2step label ‘Frijsfo Beats’.

The release feature three stunning tracks by Point B, located among speed garage, idm and 2step.
Grab it now from Chemical Records, Boomkat and your favourite records shop!

Press Review

“After his excellent remix for Sully’s “Phonebox” EP last summer, Frijsfo Beats is delighted to provide a home for Point B’s latest and best experiments on the fringes of dubstep and UK garage. Point B previously enjoyed a swell of grass-roots appreciation for his material on leading UK electro label SCSI-AV – a sharp, intricately produced dancefloor twelve and an extremely thoughtful full-length. 2007’s EP for Stormfield’s Combat Recordings fused his techniques and sound palette with the rhythmic genius of two-step, an idea expanded and developed to its full potential on his first full Frijsfo release.

Opening track “Detritus” is built around an unbreakable backbone of kicks, woodblocks and dense sub-bass growls. Tweaked techno stabs sustain the pressure until Point B drops a mean (but tastefully executed) snippet of Distance-style bass guitar and an atmospheric post-Skream melody.

“No Smokes” is a tense meeting between two-stepping beat patterns and stiff electro-funk, illustrating Point B’s distinctiveness. Graceful soundtrack synths smooth things over somewhat, only to get re-jigged for mashed-up dancefloors by fragments of a caustic acid line.

“Isocity Meter” boasts an even brisker, more invigorating arrangement, dominated by huge, metallic bass tones that sound as if they’re being collided and yanked apart by an elastic sense of rhythm.

Finally, Italian Frijsfo discovery Kuoyàh contributes an unbelievable remix of “Someone Else’s Past”. His trademark loose, unevenly oscillating beat constructions are fascinating in their own right, but take away nothing from the rolling, dark two-step vibe. Any DJ who feels a connection to dubstep’s more creative eras should be playing this.”

PureData Workshop July Sweden

SAD — 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/

Pd-extended 0.41.4 released!

SAD — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:40:38 +0000

via: Pd Mailing list

Even if with a bit of delay, i’m glad to report this news.

<< image http://delcorp.org/abbadingo/

Its done and available for download. This release is focused on lots of usability enhancements and bug fixes. There are some new features in the core and in the many included libraries.

http://puredata.org/downloads/

Here’s the rough changelog:

- fixed strict-aliasing build problems with cyclone, iemlib, bsaylor, and sigpack
- added/fixed “Next Window” menu item and key binding (Cmd-` on Mac OS X)
- lots of usability fixes and improvements
- removed all external binaries from package, you can get them here:
http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-download-the-flext-binaries-that-used-to-be-included-in-pd-extended
- changed to GPL v3
- fixed paths that used the same image for Gem examples
- fixed paths to example images in Gem help
- libdirs now load properly when using [import]/[declare] to load a
libdir outside of the sys_libdir (i.e. extra) into the canvas-local
namespace
- single [output~] that works everywhere
- improved Max Text file (.pat) importing and exporting and added
the ability to handle .mxt files, and binary .mxb and .help files
- added cyclone “maxmode” libraries to cyclone. To use them,
load the cyclone, library, then create [maxmode/cyclone] or
[maxmode/maxmode].
- updated VBAP from 0.9.9 to 1.0.3
- fixed bug in VBAP that cause CPU spike
- bug fixes and clean up of [hid]? externals
- (GNU/Linux) Free Desktop file associations and mime types for
Pd and Max/MSP files
- (GNU/Linux) fixed font size issue when using Tcl/Tk 8.5
- (GNU/Linux) fixed Help Browser when using Tcl/Tk 8.5
- (GNU/Linux) built against libv4l on Debian/testing,
Ubuntu/intrepid, Ubuntu/jaunty, and Fedora 9
- (Debian/Ubuntu) fixed /etc/init.d/pd script to be standards-compliant
- (Ubuntu) lpia builds for Ubuntu Netbook Remix
- (Mac OS X) reduced default audio buffers to 20ms
- (Mac OS X) fixed exit logic
- (Mac OS X) fixed issue with app builder. You can now create apps without replacing an existing one.
- (Mac OS X) upgraded to libquicktime 1.1.1 and ffmpeg 0.4.20071217
- (Windows) moocow/pdstring externals now included
- (Windows) increased default audio buffer for Window to 100ms since there are some really flaky audio cards in Windows land

KNOWN BUGS
———-

Check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs,
and if you find an existing bug report on the same issue, please
add your information there.

- Tcl/Tk 8.5 support is a bit rough, and IEM GUI fonts aren’t quite right under 8.5
- Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don’t close the Path and Startup preferences
- pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd
- loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying to load it
- (Mac OS X) Using Jack can cause extra CPU usage at idle
- (Windows) installer won’t replace existing installs