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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.

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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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!

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Here are the details.

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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:..”

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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

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

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This is absolutely brilliant, if you are a fan of noise synths you can’t miss this one.

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From the website (by Martin Howse and others the creators of Blackdeath):

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“Inspired in part by Leif Elggren’s Virulent Images/Virulent Sound (if images can be virulent, can sound be virulent too?), blackdeath is the first open hardware/free software noise synthesiser with the plague inside.
Embedding epidemic and plague simulations amongst other data generation algorithms for granular re-synthesis of incoming audio signals or self-generated feedback, blackdeath represents a virulent yet highly controllable noise/audio engine with built-in, switchable distortion.”

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Further info at http://1010.co.uk/org/blackdeath.html

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Make sure to check out the other works of the Berlin/London group, you will find some inspiring insights on software, metasoftware and data aesthetics.
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/

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Vague Terrain 19: Schematic as Score
Online 02 May 2011
http://vagueterrain.net/journal19

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Over the past few years, a strong reaction against the sterile world of laptop sound and video has inspired a new interest in analog processes, and a fresh exploration of the pioneers of the electronic arts during the pre-digital era of the 1960s and 1970s. Artists and inventors such as Nam June Paik, Steina & Woody Vasulka, Don Buchla, Serge Tcherepnin, Dan Sandin and David Tudor all constructed their own unique instruments long before similar tools became commercially available or freely downloadable–often through a long, rigorous process of self-education in electronics.

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John Cage once quipped that Serge Tcherepnin’s synthesizer system was “the best musical composition that Serge had ever made”, and it is precisely Cage’s reformulation of the concert score from a list of deterministic note values to a set of indeterministic possibilities that allowed the blurring of lines between instrument-builder and music composer that followed.

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The current issue of Vague Terrain, curated and edited by Derek Holzer, features an eclectic range of young, contemporary artists who have revisited and expanded upon the philosophies and works of this earlier generation. Operating at the extreme edges of the DIY electronics scene, builder-composers such as Peter Blasser, Jason R. Butcher, Moritz Ellerich, Lesley Flanigan, Martin Howse, the Loud Objects (Kunal Gupta, Tristan Perich and Katie Shima), Jessica Rylan and Synchronator (Bas van Koolwijk & Geert-Jan Prins) all represent some of the most radical and idiosyncratic artistic approaches to creative circuitry of the moment. Their compositions take the form of systems which provide a map of what is possible, but lack a prescribed route on how to get there. The discovery—-and the risk—-is left to the moment of the performance.

I’m pleased to forward a call for participation announced by sound artist Derek Holzer.

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Regenwald 2011: a workshop/installation/performance in the spirit of David Tudor
for Club Transmediale Berlin
with Derek Holzer (USA/DE) & Mads Bech Paluszewski (DK)

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Direct link: http://macumbista.net/?p=2018

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*Overview*

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Regenwald 2011 is a contemporary re-interpretation of David Tudor’s series of compositions from the 1970′s entitled “Rainforest”. It uses various types of sonic transducers to play live sounds through various resonant objects in the performance space, as well as through architectural features of the space itself. Additionally, an 8×8 matrix mixer allows the sound from any of the objects to be sent to any of the performers, making the whole piece an experiment in generative chaos.

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Regenwald 2011 will be developed in a workshop format with up to 8 participants over a period of several days. The resulting work should shift between relatively static installation-like moments and performative sections where the artists seek new relationships with the objects and each other. The audience is free to move around the performance space, engage in conversations and explore the resonant objects, thus adding new life to the rainforest.

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A opening night presentation will introduce the concept of Regenwald 2011 and the context of “Schematic as Score” as seen in the works of both David Tudor and John Cage.

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*Documentation*

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A rough schematic of a previous transducer system (Regenskog 2010) can be seen here:
http://macumbista.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/regnskog_notext.png

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Documentation of Regenskog 2010 can be found here:
http://macumbista.net/?p=1840

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*Dates*

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28 January – 01 February, 12-19:00 daily: Regenwald 2011 workshop in West Germany, Kottbusser Tor, Berlin
01 February 21:00: opening Regenwald 2011 presentation/performance, West Germany, Kottbusser Tor, Berlin
02 February – 05 February 18-22:00 daily: Regenwald 2011 installation, West Germany, Kottbusser Tor, Berlin

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*Participate*

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The Regenwald 2011 workshop is open for 8 participants who will be selected and notified on or before 16 January 2011. There is no fee to participate. Applying participants should be:

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–Comfortable working in a collaborative environment
–Knowledgeable in the basics of acoustics
–Proficient in one or more chosen analog or digital sound instruments and/or systems for working with sound
–Capable of bringing any equipment they require beyond the basics of the transducer system (instruments, mixers, computers, etc etc)

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Please send an email to regenwald2011 [at] clubtransmediale [dot] de by 9 January with the following information:

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–Name, location and short bio (max 100 words)
–Short statement of interest (max 300 words)
–Short description of your chosen instrument or system (max 300 words)
–Links to audio/video documentation of one solo work and one collaborative work you have made

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*Workshop Leaders*

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Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught workshops in noise art technology, across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.
http://www.macumbista.net

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Danish sound artist and cultural producer Mads Bech Paluszewski (1977) works with circuit bending, sound installations, tactile acoustics and performances from his Copenhagen base. Solo and as a member of several groups of experimental audio/visual music and performance groups, he has performed at many Nordic music and sound art festivals. He has also held several workshops in circuit bending and user driven sound installations in Denmark.

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*Partners*

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Regenwald is a join production of DISK/Club Transmediale and Tuned City/DOCK e.V.
http://www.clubtransmediale.de
http://www.tunedcity.net
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::: derek holzer ::: http://macumbista.net :::

Via Openlab List

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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3) Introduction to Processing and Arduino with Evan Raskob

Hands-on starter kit for anyone interested in interactive art

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

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

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

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Follow us on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/openlabworkshop

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Paper-submission, call-for-music and registration are now open
for the Linux Audio Conference 2011 – May 6-8 2011, Maynooth, Ireland

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More information: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011/

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As in previous years, we will have a full program of talks, workshops
and music.

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The Linux Audio Conference 2011 will include several concerts. We are
looking for music that has been produced or composed entirely or mostly
using GNU/Linux or other Open Source music software for:
* The Electroacoustic Music Concerts
* The Linux Sound Night
* Sound installations