http://www.thesaddj.com Audiovisual Live Performances, Live Interactive Media Arts, Electroacoustic Music, Floss Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:41:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/pure-data-for-live-media-workshop-cagliari-conservatory/ 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, ... http://www.thesaddj.com/live-performers-meeting-2010-rome/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/ma-sound-design-with-pure-data-and-more/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/kuoyah-london-mastering-session/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/pd-workshop-live-performance-ahacktitude/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/ferment-at-alternative-filmvideo-festival-belgrade/ 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/ http://www.thesaddj.com/live-media-updates-nov09/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/report-puredata-workshop-agitmedia-italy/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Vague Terrain"][/caption] I'm delighted to announce I just enjoyed as blog contributor the community at the web based digital arts publication Vague Terrain. My aim is to present and possibly discuss works, events, festivals related to FLOSS practice within the new media artistic environment. You can check my ... http://www.thesaddj.com/read-more-vague-terrain-publications/ via Piksel mailing list: Piksel09 :: f[re](e){op}[en]able [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Piksel09 :: festival November 19-22 2009 Piksel09 :: exhibition Nov. 20/09 - Jan. 10/10 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/piksel-festival-2009-bergen/ [caption id="attachment_1216" align="alignleft" width="346" caption="All pictures by Joanna M. Stacewicz, thank you!"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/netaudio-festival-2009-report/ [caption id="attachment_1196" align="alignleft" width="264" caption="Ant Scott - Repetitive Beats (detail) - 2008"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/vague-terrain-15-microsound/ [caption id="attachment_1175" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="original img by noisybox.net"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/agit-media-pure-data-workshop-real-time-audiovisual-processing/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/new-kuoyah-remix-on-eightfx-records/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/interview-on-linux-audio-italy/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/live-at-netaudio-berlin-2009/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/report-robot-festival-2009-bologna/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/pure-data-convention-09-live-recordings/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/ferment-new-dark-short-film-by-ioann-maria/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/live-media-updates-sept09/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/italian-premiere-at-robot-festival-2009/ 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 - ... http://www.thesaddj.com/interactive-installation-at-dundee-master-show/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/aymeric-mansoux-marloes-de-valk-flossart/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/report-pd-convention-09-sao-paulo/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/report-s-block-festival/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/report-pure-data-workshop-gotland-university-sweden/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/3rd-international-puredata-convention-09/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/kuoyah-rmx-on-frj004-out-now/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/puredata-workshop-july-sweden/ 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 ... http://www.thesaddj.com/pd-extended-0414-released/