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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/

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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

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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

I C::ntr::l Nature live at Flussi Festival, Avellino, Italy

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:06:07 +0000

The 2010 edition of Flussi Festival in Irpinia, Italy is approaching. I arrived yesterday and still suffering the incredible warmth of the italian summer, but the landscape is awesome.
I’ll be performing the audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature on 26th August and I’ll share the stage with Menion (La Bèl Netlabel), Mokira (Raster-Noton / Milleplateaux / Type Records) and Thomas Fehlmann (Kompakt / Plug Research).
I suggest to check the complete program on the festival website as it includes many other interesting artists such as Domenico Sciajno, Murcof, Asferico, Lukid and Mount Kimbie.

Call for Works: Make It Yourself

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:53:27 +0000

Cybersonica with Openlab Workshops and Manchester Art Gallery present:
Make It Yourself

www.cybersonica.org
http://openlabworkshops.org
CALL FOR EXISTING WORKS

Make It Yourself is an exhibition of inventive Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects to accompany the major solo exhibition Recorders by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Manchester Art Gallery between 18 September 2010 and 30 January 2011.

A rapidly expanding community of people worldwide is taking advantage of new, cheaper technology and a growing pool of shared knowledge to make things for themselves – useful things, clever things, silly things, unique things. Make It Yourself is a ‘small but perfectly formed’ show of a handpicked half-dozen of these hand-made devices.

We are now accepting submissions of existing Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects from artists, hobbyists, hackers, DIY musicians and anyone interested in making things for themselves wishing to exhibit their work as part of Make It Yourself.

We are looking for pieces that reveal and demonstrate:

* unique devices born out of imagination or happy accident
* how everyday artifacts actually work
* custom-made tools born out of a frustration that nothing else quite does the job
* modified consumer products that now do something their manufacturers never conceived of

Overall we are looking for inventive projects that demonstrate a wide range of function and form, simplicity and complexity, humour and intent.

We expect creators of selected works to provide a project ‘info pack’ of design schematics, component lists, code and step-by-step assembly instructions.

Deadline
Monday, 13 September 2010.

Notification
Friday 17 September 2010.

Entry forms
Download full details, entry forms and terms as a PDF here

2nd Pure Data Scots Users MeetUp, 19th August, Glasgow

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:35:12 +0000

Here a little reminder.

Tomorrow 19th August we’ll be gathering for the 2nd Pure Data Scots User MeetUp.
The meeting kicks off at 15.00 at the Electron room, CCA, Glasgow.
Meeting is free, public and open to all practitioners, beginners, artists, programmers, musicians, passionates of digital arts and simply anybody who might be interested in spending few hours patching, talking, sharing ideas, making some noise, teach and learn.

We encourage you to actively take part in our newborn community and propose presentations or talks for next meetings.

If you want to keep up to date with our activities, please subscribe to the Pd Scots User list at:

http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdusers

The Pd Scots User Group and mailing list is kindly hosted by Electron Club.

http://www.electronclub.org/doku.php
www.cca-glasgow.com

Hope to see you soon!

Report Pure Data Workshop at Electron Club, CCA, Glasgow

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:27:01 +0000

About three weeks ago me and Ioann Maria held a two days, free Pure Data workshop at Electron Club.
I gave an introduction of the graphical programming framework of Pd, audio and video real-time processing libraries and their possible applications, Ioann showed her DIY HRM – heart rate monitor – and eventually explained how to use Arduino in combination with Pd.
We had great times with folks in Glasgow and we are going to gather again this week for our second Pure Data Scots Users MeetUp. Come and join us if you’re around, the meeting is open to beginners, practitioners, passionates whoever might be interested in spending few hours chatting, patching and making some noise.

I’d like to thank Simon Yull for his support in the organization of the workshop, the CCA staff for their help and all the people who showed up.
Here you are some photos.

Linux video editing workshop 22. August Hamburg, Germany

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:30:48 +0000

via Piksel list

From 14:00 till open end Malte Steiner lecture about video formats, gives an overview of the free open source applications available for Linux and gives a practical demonstration from capturing via editing till finishing a DVD and online video.
Software includes Cinelerra, Kino, OpenMovieEditor and more. The workshop is free and no registration necessary but would be great if you drop an email to steiner AT block4 DOT com stating your particular interests in this workshop. Bring your laptop with an installed version of Cinelerra, internet wont be available on location. It happens to be at Unlimited Liability art store

Norderstr. 71 ug
20097 Hamburg, Germany
http://targetautonopop.org

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media art + development
http://www.block4.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.

Concept Store Journal: Art, Activism and Recuperation

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:08:56 +0000

via AHA list

Concept Store Journal

#3: Art, Activism and Recuperation

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

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

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

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

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

FFI about Concept Store
Journal and other Arnolfini publications

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

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

www.arnolfini.org.uk

Ircam musical research residency

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:40:51 +0000

via Rhizome

Deadline: September 30, 2010

Via the music research residency program, the Department for the Coordination of Scientific and Musical Research seeks to reinforce the interaction between the scientific and musical community by appealing to the computer music community at large. This program offers scholarships to artists and young professionals wishing to take advantage of a period of residency at IRCAM in order to pursue their music research projects in a stimulating collaborative environment.
Each year – via online submission – a limited number of candidates is selected by a panel of international experts based on the following criteria: project content; scientific and artistic motivation; quality and innovative character of the project; mastery of the technologies needed for the project; demonstrated ability to manage a collaborative research project.

Each selected candidate will benefit from a residency at IRCAM for a specific period, associated with one or more of the institute’s project teams. The candidate will receive a scholarship of 1200 euros. IRCAM does not cover travel and lodging expenses.
During the research residency, candidates will work in the context of the Research and Development department in order to pursue their work. They will collaborate with members of one or more teams thus enabling them to deepen the musical and technological issues explored through experimentation as well as participate in the intellectual life of the institute.

At the end of their stay, the selected candidates will be asked to document and share the results of their work via written publications and public presentations given to the IRCAM community as well as the international computer music community at large.

Further info at http://www.ircam.fr/rm-residence.html?L=1

GLI.TC/H ::: Call for entries

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:54:41 +0000

via Rhizome

glitchNES | Screenshots by Vince Veneziani | Gearfuse.com

Deadline: August 20, 2010

Download Pdf http://gli.tc/h/glitchcon_cfe_rough_7_10_10_em.pdf

CALL FOR ENTRIES: GLI.TC/H

**********http://gli.tc/h ***********
GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010!

GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers, moshers, dirty mediators, noise makers, circuit benders, p/h/i/l/o/s/o/p/h/e/r/s, and those who find wonder in that which others call broken.

GLI.TC/H seeks: Realtime + time-based performances (audio/video), utilizing broken/bent technologies/strategies. Workshops, sharing knowledge of hardware/software hacking, cracking, breaking, kludging, piracy, & tool building. Artworks and Projects, artware, videos, games, films, tapes, code, interventions, screen-captures, systems, websites & installations. Texts, lectures, essays, code, articles, & hypermedia.

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DEADLINE: 2010.08.20
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send an email to glitch [at] gli [dot] tc
link to your work, abstract, or other documentation
please include a short explanation and your bio
let us know your geolocation and if you want to physically (or electronically) attend the conference. If applicable, send spatial, technical or temporal requirements for the project.
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NOTIFICATIONS WILL BE SENT BY 2010.09.10 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
GLI.TC/H
submissions: glitch [at] gli [dot] tc
queries: i [at] gli [dot] tc
home: http://gli.tc/h
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Banff Residency deadline extended until 30 August 2010

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:37:43 +0000

via Electron list

Banff Residency deadline extended until 30 August 2010

A bursary of £6000 is offered to support an artist for six months (March 2011 – August 2011) to research and develop their work at the Banff New Media Institute, part of the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. The residency provides accommodation, studio access, meals, flights, and equipment/technical costs in addition to the £6000 bursary at this world-renowned centre.

Additional Guidance Notes on the Banff Residency are available here www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/1007181.aspx and from the Creative Scotland Enquiry Service.

Application form and guidelines can be found at
www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/funding/apply/individuals/visualarts.aspx#banff

Scotts Pure Data Users Group, come join us!

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:52:15 +0000

I’m really glad to invite you to join us at the Scotts Pure Data Users Group.
Following the workshop we held at Electron Club, we just set up a mailing list for future discussion, activities and events related to Pure Data in the Glasgow/Edinburgh/Dundee/Aberdeen area.
At the moment we plan to establish a regular Pd Users MeetUp at the Electron Club, Glasgow.

We just started and we warmly welcome you to join us and share your ideas or propose initiatives.
You can subscribe to the Scotts Pd Users List at http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdusers.

“Keep an ear on…” International Symposium on Soundscapes in Florence, Italy, 20-22 May 2011

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:18:39 +0000

FKL and TempoReale invite you to submit scientific and musical contributions related to the theme of soundscape to the fifth symposium of Forum Klanglandschaft to be held in Florence, 20 – 22 May 2011.

The conference is held in cooperation between the two institutions, together with the contemporary art center EX3, and offers the opportunity to present, in the conference, papers, sound-works, installations and videos.

The title “keep an ear on …” suggests, as the specific theme for this edition, the need to pay attention to and also to control what we all hear, both from the point of view of the danger of noise pollution, and from the one of the aesthetic quality of our sound environment.

Scientific papers

Scientific sessions are planned with papers of 20 minutes. To submit a paper you have to send an abstract (max 400 words) and a short biography (max 200 words).
Abstracts and biographies, both in your own language and in English, must be submitted to the following email address: convegno2011@temporeale.itThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
A stereo audio system and a video projection system will be available during the symposium.

Soundworks

There are two categories of soundworks:

1 – Soundscape composition (also in multichannel format)

Send an the audio recording of the work with a short description (max 400 words) and a short biography (max 200 words). All the documents must be submitted, both in your own language and in English, to the following email address: convegno2011@temporeale.itThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
A stereo recording of the audio material, marked “FKL-Soundscape Composition”, must be sent to the symposium address.

2 – Works on the theme “Music and environment” (without live musicians, also in multichannel format)

Send an audio recording of the work with a short description (max 400 words) and a short biography (maximum 200 words).
All the documents, both in your own language and in English, must be submitted to the following email address: convegno2011@temporeale.itThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
A stereo recording of the audio material, marked “FKL-Music and environment” must be sent to the symposium address.

Sound installations and videos

Send a short description of the work (max 400 words), a short biography (max. 200 words) and a documentation file.
The documentation file should contain pictures or drawings of the installation, explain clearly the working of the installation, contain all the technical data, the required space and everything else that is needed.
Describe as accurately as possible all the technical and space requirements, and specify also what you can contribute to the realization of your work and what you would need to be provided by FKL.
A movie or a video simulation of the installation will be appreciated.

All the documents , both in your own language and in English, must be submitted to the following email address: convegno2011@temporeale.itThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The documentation file as well as the attached materials (movies, audio files etc), marked “FKL-sound installation”, must be sent to to the symposium address.

The accepted installations will be hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Art EX3.
At the address: http://www.paesaggiosonoro.it/keepanearon/ex3_spazi, you can see the spaces that the contemporary art center EX3 makes available.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is: October 30, 2010

Address for all materials:
FKL 2011 Symposium
TEMPO REALE
Villa Strozzi – Via Pisana 77
50143 Florence (Italy)

The scientific and artistic selection committee will include board members of FKL and TempoReale and will choose the papers, musical works and installations (together with a member of EX3) be presented during the symposium.

Please note that in case of acceptance of your scientific and /or artistic proposal , in order to present it at the conference you must be or become a member of FKL.

For more information and details
convegno2011 [at] temporeale [dot] it

((audience)) Call for 5.1 Surround Sound Works

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:56:28 +0000

via Rhizome

SUBMIT TO UNSOUND FESTIVAL 2011
Deadline: August 15, 2010

BASIC INFORMATION
((audience)) has been invited to participate in Unsound, a festival of experimental music and sound art. Founded in 2003, Unsound is an annual event held in Krakow, Poland; in April 2011, the festival organizers will present the second annual Unsound festival in New York City at venues throughout the five boroughs.

Conceived in 2006, ((audience)) is an unprecedented project that explores the cinema as a 21st century concert hall. It is dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers. The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a biennial program of 5.1 surround sound works by international artists intended for presentation in movie theaters as “cinema in the dark.” This program travels to partnering organizations from Delhi, India to New York City — accompanied by curatorial lectures, performances, exhibitions and screenings on a city-by-city basis.

CALL FOR WORKS
((audience)) is issuing a special call for 5.1 surround sound works for the 2011 Unsound festival. Selected works will be presented in a completely dark cinema environment without visual accompaniment at the Walter Reade Theater / Film Society of Lincoln Center. Selected artists will receive a modest fee. (Fees to be determined in September.)

All works must relate to this year’s festival theme: “Horror – the Pleasure of Fear and Unease” (for example, one could submit a soundtrack to an imagined horror film; a radio play; a work dealing abstractly with the concept of horror, etc.) New works or newly contextualized works will be accepted. Artists currently located in Eastern Europe are encouraged to apply, and will receive special attention. We are especially interested in narrative or musical works that play with the traditional idea of cinematic surround sound, and/or with the concept of horror, and in works that emphasize temporal, narrative or spatial experimentation.

PLEASE download the submission instructions for information on how to submit, by visiting http://au.dience.org/?/submit/submit/

Collaborative Global Field Recording Radio Aporee for the World Listening Project

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:00:37 +0000

via .microsound announce list

The WSP group, 1973; left to right: R. M. Schafer, Bruce Davis, Peter Huse, Barry Truax, Howard Broomfield

Dear Friends,

I’d like to invite you to participate in a special project of radio aporee and the World Listening Project for the first World Listening Day, on Sunday, July 18, 2010.

Radio aporee is an open project about the creation and exploration of public space. Its creator, Udo Noll asks you for help in creating an “audio snapshot of the world” as heard and recorded on World Listening Day. Aporee maps uses the Google maps interface to allow anyone to easily find their location on the map, then upload their audio via the web or mobile phone.

We’re inviting you to send an audio recording from your actual location, or other places of your interest on this day to the maps: http://aporee.org/maps/.

With your contributions collected on World Listening Day, Udo will then create a dedicated project page on the aporee map. As Udo says, “And besides having a nice documentation, I’m really intrigued by the idea of listening to the sounds of a particular day, around the world….” I’m very curious about what will happen, too.

Specifications for uploading

WEBSITE: http://aporee.org/maps/

FORMAT: mp3, 128-320 kbit, 44.1 or 48 kHz (for best audio quality, we recommend bitrates of 224, 256 or 320 kbps)

FILE SIZE: max. 25 MB

PLEASE NOTE: Contributors should type a tag “WLD” or “world listening day” in the keywords field, so that it can be found by searches.

Please be patient while uploading, depending on your connection this may take a while.

Below are basic instructions on how to send sounds (upload) to the radio aporee soundmap at http://aporee.org/maps/

You don’t need a login in order to participate, just a valid email address.
Find the location of your audio on the map and click on it
A small pops open that says “new place, add recording” with three choices: upload sound, fetch sound from URL, and phone call.
Select whichever method you’re using to upload, navigate to the file if it’s on your computer, fill in the form fields for info and email address, then click “ok”
Once your audio file has uploaded to the aporee server, check your email for a message from radio aporee
In the message you are provided with a link to confirm and edit the info about your audio submission, please remember to TAG YOUR SUBMISSION: “world listening day” and/or “WLD”
Once that’s done your sound will appear on http://aporee.org/maps/.

Questions? Contact: radio@aporee.org or visit the Help & How-to on radio aporee page.

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The purposes of World Listening Day are:

To celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around environmental awareness, acoustic ecology, and us
To raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, including individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography
To design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices

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You’ll find the press release and further information on world Listening Day at http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/?p=667

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All the best,
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Eric Leonardson, founder
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE)

Useful Resource the Open Video Alliance Wiki

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:11:29 +0000

Thanks to my friend Fernando Fonseca I just found out this useful wiki. It is a comprehensive collection of free and open source tools, full-featured applications for video editing, production and real-time processing.
Check the database here.

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/

Sense/Stage – low cost, open source wireless sensor infrastructure live performance interactive rt environments

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:24:13 +0000

Chronotopia Detail | Christopher Salter | 2009

Surfing through Linux Audio Conference LAC 2010 schedule, I just found this really interesting paper by Marije Baalman, Christopher Salter, Harry Smoak, Vincent De Belleval, Brett Bergmann, Joseph Malloch, Joseph Thibodeau, Marcelo M. Wanderley from Montreal, Canada.
The paper is titled Sense/Stage – low cost, open source wireless sensor and data sharing infrastructure for live performance and interactive realtime environments .

If you’re interested in real-time interactive environments for live performance you should definitely read the paper and watch on-line the video of the presentation.
Good work!

Save Area10!

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:38:17 +0000

***AREA10 IS FIGHTING TO SECURE TENANCY AT EAGLE WHARF BEYOND 15 JULY 2010
*** PLEASE WRITE YOUR TESTIMONIAL OF SUPPORT ***

AREA10 has for the past 8 years been a monumental project space in London for the development and presentation of artists, performers, actors and musicians.Thousands of artists have been supported to make new work, showcase performance and exhibit within a safe and creative environment. After this 8 year research and development AREA10 is well underway for preparing for the next stage.

Recently Area10 moved the first steps in order to become the first UK hub for free open source culture, promoting plenty of workshops, performances, meetings and many other forms of collaborative actions.
Help Area10 to survive signing an on-line petition here.

Sun Boxes ecology aware sound art?

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:16:28 +0000

Sun Boxes Craig Colorusso

The American musician Craig Colorusso wrote me some days ago introducing his Sun Boxes, a solar powered installation.
The piece is simply made of a board for each box with an amp, sample and basic software.
What most fascinated me is the environmental interaction of the objects. While boxes are fed by the natural environmental energy they contribute a continuous sonic flow which alters the actual site-specific soundscape.

Arduino gets lighter and flexible

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:06:48 +0000

Arduino gets flexible, yes, indeed. Just read this news through Dorbot ALBA mailing list, so I thought to share the few info I found through this article on MAKE magazine.
What you see in the picture is an experimentation of an Arduino-compatible board on flexible printed circuit (FPC) material, developed in this same moment by the folks at Seeed Studio.

The material insulating the circuit is very similar to the traditional one, except for his flexibility. This means you would be able to bend and change the shape of your Arduino board.
You can view a complete list of feature at Seeed Studio website.
This is not a final product, folks are working on the production of few prototypes to give out to some lucky, want-absolutely-to-try-that guys who will propose interesting usage of the new hardware… well, it doesn’t look so hard anymore.

Live Media Updates June

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:21:23 +0000

Brand-new issue of the on-line newsletter brought to you by thesaddj.com; new media and open source related art works, events and people.

Tags: openlab, piksel, re-new festival, mapping festival, arduino, content, live performers meeting, net art, online performance.
Read it here http://www.thesaddj.com/newsletter/june10/index.html.

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

Open Source Hardware User Group meeting #3

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:06:54 +0000

via Openlab list

:: Open Source Hardware User Group meeting #3 ::
:: Thursday 1st July 2010, London SW1 ::

For the third Open Source Hardware User Group meeting we’ll be asking the question “what factors contribute to the success of an open source hardware project?”, and using Arduino and derivatives LilyPad Arduino and the concurrency.cc board as the basis for the discussion.

There will be presentations on:

- Current Cost Bridge – an Arduino based, hackable consumer device

The Current Cost Bridge was developed using the open-source Arduino platform. The reason for using Arduino, was to speed up the development process of the bridge, allowing for fast prototyping and producing a hackable device.

http://www.currentcost.com/product-bridge.html

- Concurrency.cc – parallel programming for makers and artists

The concurrency.cc project describes itself as “a group of educators and researchers exploring the development of tools that make parallel programming more accessible to more people. Our hope is that concurrency.cc will serve the community of developers surrounding parallel and concurrent languages on the Arduino and other low-cost embedded platforms.”

http://concurrency.cc/

- LilyPad – an Arduino based platform for wearables and e-textiles

The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller, plus a set of sewable electronic components designed so they can be put together to create interactive wearables or textiles based artworks. There is quite a range of components such as LEDS, sensors, buzzer, accelerometer and more that can be connected with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V/328Vand was designed and developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/index.html

To register:

http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/

For more info and for video from previous events:

http://oshug.org

Re-New Digital Art Festival Report

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:41:12 +0000

Just after my audiovisual concert at Mapping Festival I flight to Copenhagen for Re-New Digital Arts Festival, a mostly sound art-focused four days annual event.
The overall quality of the selected works was impressive and the organization was unexceptionable.
Once unpacked my stuff at the hotel I had a lovely walk through Copenhagen and shortly reached Huset i Magstraede, the main location of the event which is nicely located in the old center of the Danish city.

Bad Religion Still Alive! | Copenhagen | 2010

I didn’t even had the time to sit down and connect my laptop I immediately noticed a guy working with an Arduino box, that’s how I got to know brasilian digital artist Henrique Roscoe aka HOL and his interactive creature “Shy”. Henrique is a lovely person and talented guy, he also organizes the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil.

HOL | Shy | Re-New Festival 2010

One hour later I started setting up the participative concert and interactive sound installation “High Spheres”. Thanks to the kind support of sound technician and the organizers everything went smoothly and in a couple of hours the setup was ready. My work was programmed for the opening of the festival, I spent thus last hour modifying the Pure Data patch to adapt it to the open air environment in front of Huset.

Marco Donnarumma | High Spheres | Re-New Festival 2010

Great timing, great weather, great location. I was also quite happy to use for the first time in public my brand new multi-channel sound card. A powerful Focusrite Saffire Pro40, 20 I/O, 8 Pre-amplified I/O and a lot of quality components. Worked like a charm.
Around 19.00 audience started to gather in the main garden and the participative concert could start.
Audience was really excited about the work and I gladly noticed how children and elderly people were equally interested and attracted by the improvised sound interaction provided by my self-designed system. A local TV operator was there too shooting the concert.

Marco Donnarumma | High Spheres | Re-New Festival 2010

Personally the most interesting aspect of this work is to see how different people relate to sound. You know, children were posing and screaming without caring too much about what kind of sounds they could produce, some of the participants were really curious and started looking around for different objects to use, some of them were really shy and were almost hiding while producing tiny silent sounds, some people was totally seduced by the collective interaction, some others were just trying to get loud. This is probably what the work is about, a collective improvisation, a almost unaware group ritual, during which every single individuals is connected to each other in reaction chain.

I should surely mention few other works.
Ryo Ikeshiro presented “Pulse Cubes” an interactive installation based on tiny greatly-designed black cubes tracking. The user can set the cubes in patterns over a white table as their position generates granular and organic sounds in real-time.

Ryo Ikeshiro | Pulse Cubes | Re-New Festival 2010

The main Huset hall was animated by “He” a music-drawing installation by New York based artists Hsin Yi Chien and Laewoo Kang. A beautifully crafted drawing machine was setup with a luminance tracking system – developed in Processing – which translated calligraphy into music.

Hsin Yi Chien Laewoo Kang | He | Re-New Festival 2010

Last but not least the amazing installation “Intrinsic” by York based artist Angie Atmadjaja and presented at Re-New by Michael Cheung. The work is based on the sound phenomena known as Standing Waves.
I warmly reccomend to check the work’s website here.

Angie Atmadjaja | Intrinsic | Re-New Festival 2010

Great event and stunning works. Special thanks to Lars Graugaard and Anne Bogh for their beautiful hospitality and great work.

Piksel SummerCamp Call for Participation

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:15:26 +0000

Skjerjehamn | Piksel SummerCamp

Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend this, but I warmly suggest to plan 6 days with the Pikseler’s in Norway.

via Piksel list

Piksel Summer Camp is an international gathering of artists, developers and creators working with free and open technologies, taking place at the idyllic island of Skjerjehamn outside Bergen, Norway. The program will consist of presentations, workshops and performative events proposed and organized by the participants themselves, before and during the Summer Camp.
A particular focus is set on hands-on exploration, discussion and development of tools and applications for open video editing technologies.

The call for participation is now open.
!!!! Deadline – JULY 01. 2010 !!!!

Please use our online form to register:
http://www.piksel.no/pulse/summercamp/reg10

MORE: http://www.piksel.no/pulse/summercamp

Openlab Interview on Vague Terrain online Journal

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:40:36 +0000

Openlab Night | Fave Dave Alex | Live coding

Just cross posting the interview with Openlab I recently curated for Vague Terrain online journal.
Tags: london and Openlab, open source distribution, tech activism, models of social organization.

Call for performers using FLOSS and recycled technology

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:16:37 +0000

via Pd-list:

We’re looking for audio and audio-visual artists to perform at a couple of small live sonic art events at Access Space this year. We’re particularly interested in artists who use FLOSS audio and video tools under Linux with recycled technology, and who are resident in and around South Yorkshire, UK.
Unusual approaches to diffusion and sound generation e.g. using recycled computer speakers, are welcome!

Our first event will be on the Friday 23rd of July, the second on 29th of October, and run 6pm-8.30pm.

If you are interested in the first event please email an example of your work no larger than 7 Mb or a link to a media file, a description of your proposed performance and any technical requirements to jake [at] access-space [dot] org by 21st of June 2010.
For the second event please contact us by the 31st of July 2010.

Access Space is an unusual venue for events of this kind as it is an open access media lab during the day and the technology available is all donated or recycled.

About Access Space:
Based in Sheffield city centre, Access Space is the UK’s longest running open access media lab. We have been using Open Source Software and recycled computers to develop creativity, community, skills and resourcefulness for over ten years.
We’re a place for skill sharing, artistic endeavour, creative expression and collective knowledge. Access Space has also recently announced plans for a DIY FabLab.

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Linux Open Source Sound project: http://loss.access-space.org/
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We’re looking for audio and audio-visual artists to perform at a couple of
small live sonic art events at Access Space this year. We’re particularly
interested in artists who use FLOSS audio and video tools under Linux with
recycled technology, and who are resident in and around South Yorkshire, UK.

Unusual approaches to diffusion and sound generation e.g. using recycled
computer speakers, are welcome!

Our first event will be on the Friday 23rd of July, the second on 29th of
October, and run 6pm-8.30pm.

If you are interested in the first event please email an example of your
work no larger than 7 Mb or a link to a media file, a description of your
proposed performance and any technical requirements to
jake@access-space.orgby 21st of June 2010.
For the second event please contact us by the 31st of July 2010.

Access Space is an unusual venue for events of this kind as it is an open
access media lab during the day and the technology available is all donated
or recycled.

About Access Space:
Based in Sheffield city centre, Access Space is the UK’s longest running
open access media lab. We have been using Open Source Software and recycled
computers to develop creativity, community, skills and resourcefulness for
over ten years.
We’re a place for skill sharing, artistic endeavour, creative expression and
collective knowledge. Access Space has also recently announced plans for a
DIY FabLab.

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Linux Open Source Sound project: http://loss.access-space.org/
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LPM 2010 an Interview

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:14:19 +0000

Recently my timing is so bad… A couple of weeks ago I had an interview with Penelope.di.pixel for Artsblog.it.
Our conversation focused on LPM – Live Performers Meeting – an annual international gathering for live media artists we organize in Rome.
Also this year we hosted more than 300 hundred artists and 200 performances in 4 days, check the photo and video gallery here.
Unfortunately the interview is in Italian only, even though Google Translator is not that bad recently.

Read the complete interview at Artsblog.it – LPM 2010 Interview.

Event, Signal, Affect. The ‘Signaletic’ Event in Art, Culture and Politics

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:55:07 +0000

Originally posted by Tatiana Bazzichelli at Networkingart.eu

Conference-Colloquium, Aarhus University, June 12 &14, 2010, ADA building, room 333.

This conference-colloquium at the Humanistic Faculty, Aarhus University, will relate to the widespread use of the concepts event and/or affect in contemporary research of media, art, philosophy, politics and culture. It is the aim to qualify, explore and investigate the scope of the terms event and affect in different analytical fields. We assume that the renewed focus on event and affect is partly due to the impact of new (electronic and digital) media and the new forms of immediacy created by real-time control and transmission.
The conference will therefore investigate two key issues: 1) How can we describe event and affect on philosophical, artistic, political and cultural levels? 2) Has a new paradigm of the signal – related to the bypassing of representation in real-time transmissions – superseded the sign? What characterizes the signal?

By combining these questions the conference wants to initiate a broader discussion on a paradigmatic transformation from sign to signal in relation to the concepts of event and affect and their use and scope in art, politics and culture.

[The text above is an extract of the Conference's call. The arrangement team consists of: Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, Britta Timm Knudsen, Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Carsten Stage, Camilla Møhring Reestorff, Mathias Bonde Korsgaard and Jonas Fritsch].

Download the program.

Keynotes:
Nigel Thrift, Brian Massumi and Erin Manning.
Speakers:
Niels Albertsen, Mads Anders Baggesgaard, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Christian Borch, Christoph Brunner, Merete Carlson, Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Leila Dawney, Carsten Friberg, Jonas Fritsch, Jan Ifversen, Britta Timm Knudsen, Mathias Bonde Korsgaard, Christoffer Kølvrå, Annette Svaneklink Jakobsen, Thomas Jellis, Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, Thomas Markussen, Casper Høeg Radil, Carsten Stage, Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, Anne Marit Waade.
Participants:
Lise Nygaard Christensen, Lise Dilling, Jette Geil, Lars Bo Løfgreen, Kirsten Marie Pedersen, Rebecca Parbo.

My paper is about networked events as political and social practices of criticism in grassroots communities. Title is: The Network Events. Networked art as a challenge for sociopolitical transformation. I will address some artistic and activist projects as an example of fertile zones of rewriting and experimentation of cultural and political codes. In particular, I will describe the Italian case of Anna Adamolo (2008-2009).

Read an abstract of the paper by Tatiana Bazzichelli here.