XS Workshop at the Pure Data Convention 2011

I’m writing to forward the info related to the Xth Sense (XS) Summer Workshops.
The XS is a free and open biophysical technology.
It was recently named the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument” by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US).

Courses are taking place worldwide, below detailed info and how to get involved.

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_WHAT:

Xth Sense – Sonic Body and Biophysical Music

http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/xth-sense-biophysical-music/

Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.
Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.

_WHERE:

\\\\\ MEXICO DF | *Liveness*
It is the first Mexican gathering of international artists whose main interest lies in the critical investigation and distribution of a discourse around theater, dance or performance practices that rely on a tight relationship between body and technology.
@ Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico DF

\\\\\ NEW YORK | *Harvestworks*
Founded in 1977, its mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies.
@ Harvestworks, New York, USA

\\\\\ LONDON | *BEAM Festival*
It is a high-tech music weekender, a playground of homemade instruments and sonic installations, where you can listen to, watch and learn how to create your own physically living electronic music.
@ Artaud Forum, Brunel University, London, UK

\\\\\ BERLIN | To be announced
This session needs to be confirmed, but expression of interest are welcome.

_HOW

Visit this page below, and book your place by visiting the related links for each event.
http://marcodonnarumma.com/calendar/

Places are limited to 10 participants for each session, so it is recommended to book in advance.
If you want to host an Xth Sense workshop, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Weds 4th April, Cafe OTO, London
£5 adv/£7 door BUY TICKETS HERE

BEAM Festival presents BEAM NIGHT – a special one-off taster event held at Cafe OTO. Following BEAM’s mission, the acts tonight were all featured at BEAM 2011 and all use unusual and/or homemade interfaces to perform.

• Atau Tanaka & Adam Parkinson play iPhones as sensitive, handheld controllers.
• Bruno Zamborlin performs Cafe OTO’s wall – possibly for the first time?! – with his invention, MOGEES, which read gestural language on any surface.
• Marco Donnarumma’s Music for Flesh is a visceral sensor performance using his instrument system Xth sense, which has just been named “the world’s most innovative new musical instrument”.
• Tom Bugs appears in a rare performance using his Modular Synths.
• Beguilingly creative Leafcutter John conjures up soundscapes with his new explorations in light and sound.

Check them out and buy your tickets on the BEAM Festival website!

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

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

Tokyo University of Technology
School of Design
Associate Professor

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

Performing with the Xth Sense at the finals of the Guthman Competition US

The Xth Sense (XS), has been awarded the first prize at the prestigious Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition as “the world’s most innovative new musical instrument.”
The XS is a novel, biophysical wearable technology for musical performance and responsive milieux which I’m developing and performing with since March 2011. It consists of a free and open framework of hardware and software that reacts and interacts with the vibrations of muscle tissue.

The GNMIC is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering.
It takes place at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, US.
This critically acclaimed event seeks to provide a fertile platform for the advancement of the studies on New Musical Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)

The Xth Sense is a free and open project; release for public use is scheduled in April 2012.
Please, visit this webpage for further information.

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

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

This event looks very good, free, great music and performances in Berlin. Wish I could attend.

Performances by
Echo Ho (DE/CN), Mario de Vega (MX), Alex Nowitz (DE), Ignaz Schick (DE)

Thursday, 26.01.2012
8pm – Performances from 9pm
Free Entry (or donate what you like)

Following the first event event of the BodyControlled series, BodyControlled #2 focuses on the idea of incompatible matter. While BC #1 was organized around the concept of “other spaces”, using the specific architecture at LEAP and provoking it in order to synthesize new environments, BC #2 combines space and sound.

Through exploring the physical reality of sound-instruments and objects, complex acoustic spaces emerge. Sound of any kind – vocals, instruments, vibrations – become a material themselves, a hybrid. Creating Matter-Incompatible, the exhibition focuses on searching for the hidden materiality of acoustics, where distinguishing between live-produced sound and mechanically generated playback becomes a challenging self-observation.

All performances will be available from 20.00 CET via live stream on
http://bit.ly/uXRgyq

Facebook-Event BodyControlled #2 “matter-incompatible”: on.fb.me/AmEtO9

Artist links:
Echo Ho – http://www.echoho.net/
Mario de Vega – http://www.mariodevega.info/
Alex Nowitz – http://nowitz.de/, http://www.steim.org/projectblog/?p=3715
Ignaz Schick – http://www.zangimusic.de/, http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick

LEAP
Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance
(Berlin Carré, 1. Stock)
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13
10178 Berlin

info@leapknecht.de
www.leapknecht.de

How to find LEAP: http://bit.ly/pqTAJi
LEAP Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/uxfyT2

SCANZ 2013: THIRD NATURE
Call for projects

The concept of a third space – a zone of hybridity – traverses the cultural landscape from the writing of Homi Bhabba in the mid 1990s, to Sony advertising (see hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/papers/meguire.pdf). Hybridity is now embedded in creative and
cultural production and consumption.

A space of hybridity can assimilate potentially any set of concepts. SCANZ2013 3rdNature seeks to develop a fresh space, carrying memes from previous SCANZ events (which have all had an emphasis on environment) and other Intercreate projects that have involved
scientists, indigenous peoples and artists working together. We are aiming to build new knowledge and establish legacies around this work, unencumbered by old perspectives and distant categories.

We ignore the environmental crisis at our own peril. Integrating the indigenous perspective, creative environmental and scientific views on the environment is essential for continued human habitation of the planet. From these trajectories it is possible to conceive of a fresh hybrid space, composed of overlapping elements.

We ask tangata whenua, artists, technologists, teachers, environmentalists, scientists, philosophers, educationalists,
indigenous peoples, technologists and lecturers to contact us with ideas for talks, discussions, presentations, residency projects,
exhibition ideas for gallery space and a botanic garden. And to join us on the weekend of January 1st- 3rd, 2013 at a hui to share
knowledge and build resources.

Important Dates:
Early expression of interest: February 12,
2012
Residency proposed dates: Saturday 19 January to Monday 4
February,2013
Symposium proposed dates: February 1-3, 2013

Call
This is a call for project concepts for the fourth SCANZ residency to be held in New Plymouth, New Zealand early in 2013. Planned are: a two week residency and Open Lab beginning with a one night stay over at historic Owae marae, an exhibition at Puke Ariki museum, four projects in a local botanic garden, a Pecha Kucha night and a three day symposium with a presentation evening on the middle night.

3rd NAURE THEMES
This project involves creativity and innovation at the intersection of three critical interfaces:
*Acknowledging the environmental crisis
*Engaging with Maori and indigenous peoples
*Engaging the Sciences and Hybrid Arts

These three intersecting dialogues together provide space for a 3rd Nature, a fresh space for engaging with new knowledge and approaches vital to a sustainable civilisation.

Possible Activities
Exhibition projects – in Puke Ariki Museum
Residency projects at the Western Institute of Technology, Tarinaki (WITT) campus
Projects in Pukekura Park Botanic Garden
Workshops at WITT campus or local environs including the beach and parks
Symposium papers and presentations
Pecha Kucha Night
Open Lab at WITT campus

Find here further info about the application process.

April 12-15, 2012 @ CCRMA, Stanford University

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/

Online submission of papers, music, installations and workshops is now open! On the website you will find up-to-date instructions, as well as important information about deadlines, travel, lodging, and so on. Read on for more details!

We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing based on Linux and open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic or scientific issues and can target developers or users. We are also looking for music that has been produced or composed entirely or mostly using Linux and other Open Source music software.

The Deadline for all submissions is January 11th, 2012

The Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is an international conference that brings together musicians, sound artists, software developers and researchers, working with Linux as an open, stable, professional platform for audio and media research and music production. LAC includes paper sessions, workshops, and a diverse program of electronic music.

The upcoming 2012 conference will be hosted at CCRMA, Stanford University, on April 12-15. The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. CCRMA has been using and developing Linux as an audio platform since 1997.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu

Stanford University is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, about one hour south of San Francisco, California. This is the first time LAC will take place in the United States.

http://www.stanford.edu

We look forward to seeing you at Stanford in April! Sincerely,

The LAC 2012 Organizing Team

SLE introduces Inventors Composers Coaction 2012

**Extended deadline for submissions Friday 20th January 2012**

The Inventor Composer Coaction is a novel project designed to facilitate collaboration between composers and developers of bespoke digital or electronic instruments, for the creation of new music. It will take place at the Department of Music, University of Edinburgh, during the first half of 2012.

We invite inventors of new musical instruments to submit examples of their work. These will be displayed online, creating a public archive of new electronic instruments. The submissions will be reviewed by a group of upcoming and established postgraduate composers, at the University of Edinburgh. The composers will each select an instrument by way of a voting process. Over a three month period they will compose a new work for the instrument and professional ensemble, assisted through close communication with the inventor. The compositions will be performed in a concert of new music, Edinburgh, in 2012.

We invite submissions of new digital or electronic instruments for Inventors Composers Coaction 2012, an interdisciplinary collaborative project and concert. These will be reviewed by participating composers, at the University of Edinburgh, who will be able to vote for three instruments in order of preference. Inventors of the selected instruments will be provided with one night’s accommodation in Edinburgh in order to attend the event (April 2012 – to be confirmed), as well as a small contribution towards travel costs. Selected participants may be invited to present a short talk on one aspect of their creative practice.

Instruments may be:

purely software (e.g. built in Max/MSP, Supercollider, Pd) augmented instruments, including software, sensors etc. mobile devices that make use of smartphone technology novel hardware devices, repurposed controllers, NIMEs etc. may involve spatialisation techniques.

Please see http://www.inventorcomposer.net for submission details.
Deadline 6th January 2012.

http://turbulence.org/soundtransit

Pillow Talk – a series of projection for performance documentaries, organized by Japanese media artist Yamaguchi Noriko.
“Performances cannot be shared by people of all the time, however much appreciation they received. Since they are consumed immediately and become “something that happened” very soon, their records should be all the more important. However, documentary movies of performing arts have not had frequent chances to be projected.
This exhibition is to create that opportunity for ourselves. Lying on the floor of a comfortable space with high ceiling, why donʼ t you enjoy these unexplored movies with us?”

Pillow Talk #3 took place last Saturday at the KCUA, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan.
The event included screenings of 3 performances hosted at this year WRO Biennale; namely, my audiovisual work I C::ntr::l Nature, along with works by Istvan Kantor, Megan May Daalder. The programme of Pillow Talk also included works by Ichihara Hiroko, Sako Kojima and Tomohiko Kyogoku.

http://yamaguchinoriko.com/pt3/artist_wro.html
http://www.kcua.ac.jp/gallery/event/1948.html

Job posted by Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics/ University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (23/11/2011)
PhD student in Sonification Research (Audio Engineering/ Climate Science)

Applications are invited for a postgraduate student to join the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM, http://iem.kug.ac.at) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz for the FWF funded project SysSon – A systematic procedure to develop sonifications.

The goal of SysSon is the systematic development of sonifications – from finding sound metaphors and creating a ‘sound library’ to aesthetic/scientific evaluation and finally the sonification tool ‘ClAudio-Climate Audio’. The procedure is developed with and tested on data from Climate Science. Main researchers of the project (and supervisors of the PhD) are R. Hoeldrich and K. Vogt at IEM, where the PhD student will be based.
Cooperation partners are the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change and the Center for Systematic Musicology
(www.uni-graz.at/en/muwi99ww).

The PhD will comprise the application of the procedure to data from climate science: handling data compatibility issues, sound synthesis, co-development of evaluation test design, finalizing of ClAudio, and supporting of sound installation.
The position is available from 1st February 2012 and financial support is guaranteed for 2 1?2 years (an additional half year of support for writing up the thesis is envisaged). Salary will be paid according to
www.fwf.ac.at.

The closing date for applications is 25th December 2011.
(Skype) interviews are planned for January. Female applicants are preferentially considered in case of equal qualification.

We expect:
+ A Master?s degree in audio engineering and electrical engineering or computer science or similar, who have a solid scientific background in acoustics, sound synthesis and auditory perception. An additional background in sciences (physics/ climate science) is beneficial.
Candidates about to earn their degree are welcome to apply.
+ Familiarity with programming languages (either SuperCollider3 or Pure Data; plus other programs such as Max MSP, MATLAB, etc.) is a precondition.
+ High motivation for interdisciplinary and application-oriented work and a special interest for sonification research.
+ An integrative and cooperative personality.
+ Very good communication skills in English.

We offer:
+ A top-level research environment at the edge of technology and the arts; the IEM is considered to be Austria?s leading research institution in the field of audio engineering with the three research areas Artistic Research, Signal Processing and Acoustics, and Computer Music (including sonification).
+ Efficient supervision by an interdisciplinary team of supervisors, strong communication and interaction between the involved institutions.
+ The location in Graz, a city of five universities (two are involved in SysSon) and cultural capital of Europe 2003, hosting internationally renowned festivals such as steirischer herbst and Elevate.

Please send your applications (in English or German) to vogt(at)iem.at including:
+ letter of motivation or re?sume?
+ CV
+ copy of relevant university diplomas
+ a short expose? (1-2 pages) on a previous project related to audio
engineering, sonification or similar
(sound examples ?or their links- are welcome)

Drones in Din

The Pixelache Software of the Year 2012 title is this time given to din – din is noise.

din is a Free software musical instrument exclusively for the GNU/ Linux operating system made by the Indian programmer S. Jagannathan.
din – din is noise presents an innovative way of generating live music from a simple visual interface based on Bezier curves, and is a good example of how creative and DIY technologies can foster new approaches and solutions that escapes the leading rules of the software industry.

It forgets history,
To not repeat it.
It doesnt hide analog music hardware,
In digital music software.

You had pulse, sine, triangle and sawtooth,
And went forth and made electronic music.

Now there is just the Bezier curve.

Pixelache Software of the Year is an initiative by Pixelache Network, started in 2008. The chosen software for the first year was Animata, a live animation software by Kitchen Budapest. In 2010 it was divided between the live CD distributions pure:dyne by GOTO10 and APODIO by APO33.

More information:
www.piksel.no
www.pixelache.ac
din – din is noise: http://dinisnoise.org

Artist in residence 2011 - Suspended Reality by Sebastian Mahaluf

WHO: International Artists
WHAT: 1-3 month residency
WHERE: APO33, Platforme Intermedia – Nantes, FRANCE
WHEN: Mid April – May or August – October 2012

APO33 a not-for-profit association/artists collective founded in 1997 in Nantes, France. APO33 research practices cross philosophy, poetry, visual, architecture, sonic arts and anything else that may arrive through collaborative working. APO33 projects often use networked and physical spaces, develop tools (hardware/software) for its creative projects and the FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) community of artists and programmers.

RESIDENCY: APO33 invites artists annually to develop new work in situ. The resident will have the opportunity to work towards an exhibition, presentation, experimentation reflecting on these working methods and forms of collaboration, depending on the proposal. The residency usually entails two levels of development: a first preparation stage (approximately 1 month) installation, performance … or to realise a performance project or architectural construction and a second stage where space is open to the public (visit, participate and feedback). APO33 will provide technical assistance to artists and expert assistance to those using digital media open to exploring FLOSS software and programming tools. In addition artists are invited to give a public talk around their practice and project at APO33. We will give preference to those applicants with a strong desire to exchange and collaborate with the APO33 project as a whole.

APO33 will provide accommodation, pay travel costs, sustenance and a small production budget. http://www.apo33.org

HOW TO APPLY:
Send a PDF* with the following information included to: apo33.proposal2012@gmail.com
FULL NAME (+ ALIAS if applicable)
EMAIL
COUNTRY & CITY OF RESIDENCE
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
MOTIVATION
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
URL
ANY OTHER INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF YOUR APPLICATION

*PDF should be no more than 2MB

DEADLINE: 9 DECEMBER 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Programme:

EXHIBITIONS @ Galleri 3,14, KNIPSU & Kafe Knøderen
http://www.piksel.no/p11/installations11

Gordan Savicic, Jenny Pickett, Julien Poidevin, Romain Papion, blablabLAB, Linda Hilfling, Andy Gracie, Dave Griffiths, Marloes de Valk, Aymeric Mansoux,  Mey Lean Kronemann, HsienYu Cheng, Wayne Clements, Danja Vasiliev, Ben Baker-Smith, Delia Cristina Gheorghiu, Paul Eugen Popescu, John Bowers, Aditya Zalewski, Marleen Andela, Eva van der Velden

The Impossible City, Be Your Own Souvenir!, City Fireflies, UKI game level one - infect the city

S∆G∆∆N, Wanda and Nova deViator, Alejandra Maria Perez, Luka Frelih, Christian Galarreta, APO33/ALOARDI, Cristiano Rosa, Daniel Llermaly, Oscar Martin Correa, Jason Glen Levine, Ryan Jordan, Gisle Fr0ysland, Brendan Howell, Marco Donnarumma, Malte Steiner, Agnese Trocchi, Federico Bonelli, Wendy Ann Mansilla, Paula Pin, Maria Mitsopoulou, Alex McLean, Jake Harries, Jørgen Træen, Elin Vister, Signe Lidén

din is noise, Streaming Experiences, A Popular Guide to Unpopular Cinema, LumiBots, Human Mobile Medium, Cube Cola Lab, Xth Sense, wearable, biophysical open source technology, ICECSTREAM – a new free software in the live streaming world!, Zero Dollar Laptop, Cámara Lúcida, Re-framing the World Wide Web, Ecology of Precariousness, Pueblo Nómade, Network Topology as a Site of Resistance

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Piksel11 – 17-20 nov. 2011
www.piksel.no
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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

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.

The Xth Sense is a novel, biophysical system that enables a performer to control and process interactive music generated in real time from her muscle sounds.
This research and the related model of biophysical music was presented to the Asian academic community on 22nd October in occasion of the SICMF/KEAMS 2011. The engagement was endorsed by Creative Scotland.
A related paper “Xth sense: a biophysical framework for the application of muscle sounds to interactive music performance” will be published soon in the Computer Music Journal Emile Vol. 9 (December, 2011).

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

SLEO will gather current and future practitioners for a workshop and symposium exclusively dedicated to the topic of laptop ensembles and orchestras.  The symposium will address the use of all types of mobile devices, including laptops, tablets, phones and other handheld devices, along with other relevant hardware and software for live group performances.

SLEO will feature workshops, paper and panel presentations, and performances with the goal of making it an important venue for anyone interested in music composition, performance and education using laptop and mobile devices.

SPECIAL EVENTS: The symposium will feature a keynote address by Dr. Ge Wang, director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra and co-founder of Smule, along with performances by the Mobile Performance Group (Stetson University), Sideband (Princeton University) and the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LSU).

SUBMISSIONS:
We encourage proposal abstracts for the following types of presentations:

• workshops (2 or 4 hours in length)
• papers (15 mins presentations)
• panel discussions (30 – 60 minutes)
• posters & demonstrations
• music compositions for LEOs (Laptop/Mobile Ensemble/Orchestras)
• SLEO video archive

Suggested topics for presentations include, but are not limited to:

• Best practices in composition, rehearsal, performance
• Techniques used in composing for LEOs
• Software & network management
• History & aesthetic theory of LEOs
• Teaching & pedagogical strategies
• Hardware (audio, interface, computers, loudspeakers)
• Software environments & frameworks
• Composers’ perspectives on their own music compositions

For more information and instructions for submissions, please refer to the SLEO 2012 website, http://sleo2012.cct.lsu.edu/.  The deadline for submission abstracts is November 1, 2011.

It looks like another Pd User Group was born in Taipei!
Here’s the announcement.

Pd-Taipei is set up by a group of Pure Data users in Taipei, which aims to host regular gatherings to create a fun place where people can share their experience and trouble-shoot, just like Pd-Mtl in Montreal of Canada, Pd-Berlin in Berlin of Germany, Pd-La in the California of the United States etc.
Sign up today to learn more updates from the link of our online forum

http://groups.google.com/group/openlabtaipei

Gathering Time: 2011/10/01 Saturday AM11: 00
Location: 23Design (Chongqing North Road, Taipei, No. 25, Lane 3–5)

Another brilliant, punctual and aesthetically awesome work from RYBN.ORG.
The work is developed in Pd aka Pure Data and GEM.

Meta-economics or post-VR?

Unfortunately I can’t find a way to embed the video, so please see it here.

Excerpt from the official announcement:
“Globaleaks is the first Open Source Whistleblowing Framework.

It empowers anyone to easily setup and maintain their own Whistleblowing platform. It is also a collection of what are the best practices for people receiveiving and submitting material. GlobaLeaks works in all environments: media, activism, corporations, public agencies.

For the full release notice you can visit http://www.globaleaks.org/news

For all the links and information on the project http://www.globaleaks.org.

GlobaLeaks has been tested by more than 50 drunk Venetian hackers, here is a link the presentation given at the Italian Hacker camp ESC:
http://www.slideshare.net/globaleaks/globaleaks-live-launch-venice-2011.

And most importantly, please come and hack with use and let’s change the world! http://www.launchpad.net/globaleaks“.

Folks at the Open Hardware Summit just released this sweet call for submission to award one Open Hardware Scholarship.
They say “Where does the money come from? We had $2,000 USD left over from our funds last year and we thought the best way to use it is to give it back to the community.”
Lovely… just get your chance! I’ll probably apply too right now… even only to show some love to the initiative!

Here are the details.

“Do you have the next big Open Hardware idea, but just don’t have the funds for it?

The Open Hardware Summit (OHS) is announcing its first Open Hardware scholarship this year! The purpose of the OHS scholarship is to support emerging artists/inventors and developers by providing funding for works that are released as Open Source Hardware. Granting these funds is an opportunity to draw attention to the Open Source Hardware movement, to give back to the DIY community, and to give you the chance to join a growing roster of gamechangers in Open Source Hardware history. If you have a project that is in the spirit of the OHS and supports the OHSW definition, we welcome your submissions.

PRIZE
Upwards of $2000 will be awarded. The scholarship is made available by the generous individuals and sponsors who have made the Open Hardware Summit possible.

PUBLIC VOTE
The winner will be chosen by the public. All projects will be viewable online and votes will be collected during the week of the summit. People will be able to vote on their favorite project remotely or onsite. A check will be presented to the winning artist/group at the conclusion of OHS on September 15th at the New York Hall of Science

INSTRUCTIONS
1. upload a 30 second (maximum) video clip to youtube that showcases the concept of your project. The title of the video MUST be the title of the work

2. include a short paragraph in the description of the video. Your description must start with the following sentence, and go on to explain your project in less than 500 characters.
Example:
“The following project is a submission to the Open Hardware Scholarship awarded by the Open Hardware Summit 2011.
Project title: …
Project Description:..”

3. email the following information to scholarship@openhardwaresummit.org :

name of artist/collaborative group
email address
place of resident (city, state/province, country)
title of project
summary of project (500 characters max)
URL of video clip
URL of project site that includes your application of the OSHW Definition (optional)
DEADLINE
For submissions is 12:01am, September 14th EST. NO EXCEPTIONS

NOTES:
Please feel free to email scholarship@openhardwaresummit.org if you have any questions.”