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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Instruments may be:

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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.

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

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In few days I’ll be gladly coming back to Bergen, Norway to perform the interactive music piece for enhanced body Music for Flesh II and present the free, open source biophysical technology Xth Sense.
Below the full and exciting program of this year edition. Don’t miss some of the finest and most inspiring free, open source based performances and installations!

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Piksel11 — re:public
The 9th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom.
- Exhibitions – workshops – live art – presentations
- November 17th-20th, Bergen (NO)
- http://piksel.no/p11

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The 9th edition of the Piksel Festival takes place on November 17th-20th 2011. The festival subtitle re:public connects to various strategies for rethinking and redefinig public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context.

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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

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URBAN INTERVENTIONS @ Bergen centre
http://www.piksel.no/p11/urban-interventions

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

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PERFORMANCES @ Landmark & StudioUSF
http://www.piksel.no/p11/performances11

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

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PRESENTATIONS @ StudioUSF & KNIPSU
http://www.piksel.no/p11/presentations11

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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WORKSHOPS @ KNIPSU, PikselHut & Kafe Knøderen
http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11

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ELECTROMAGNETIC CITYSCAPE , Visual Live Coding with Texture, Schmutz Disrupter analog tools, the 120days of *buntu, Sudamerica Experimental Workshop, SonicDrift, din is noise, C/Overt operations with CCTV sniffing , Using the Milkymist One video synthesizer, OHANDA working session , UKI game level one [infect the city] workshop
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more info and complete festival program:
http://piksel.no/p11
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Piksel11 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, Hordaland County, PNEK, BEK, Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark and KORO.

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PIKSEL :: FREE AS IN ART!
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with free and open technologies in artistic practice.
Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies & art.
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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!

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“If you want to sign-up or drop in, check it out:

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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.”

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Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2011-11-26
End Time: 16:00

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http://www.thenoiseupstairs.com/2011/11/circuit-bending-part-2/
http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com
http://www.madlab.org.uk

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

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Meta-economics or post-VR?

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

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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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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.

From Jaromil, via Spectre mailing list

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http://PiXXXeL.net – made in Am*dam (and beyond!)
At PiXXXeL we focus on free and open source software practices, 360 degrees! and with direct participations of developers and pioneers living around or, as in this case, passing by the city of Amsterdam.
More precisely you’ll find us in Keizersgracht 264 at http://nimk.nl

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This mail announces our 3rd appointment of a regular series we are organizing during 2011 and this time we’ll focus on… MONEY : )
old media that can use a bit of an update – so free software developers are busy on it and there is some interesting running code to look at.
Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009, whose use online has grown during 2010 and is booming just as we are talking.

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http://pixxxel.net/bitcoin-digital-currency

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We’ll have a presentation of this technology by an experienced nomadic developer and bitcoin expert: Genjix – who is also a developer of free software solutions based on Blender and Crystal Space.
Then we’ll proceed with a Q&A session and a critical overview of the limits and, arguably, things that can be made better in Bitcoin, as well things that go wrong.

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You are all invited to be with us and brainstorm openly, but please register your presence with a mail to ilse@nimk.nl so that we can be sure we’ll accomodate everyone at NIMk.
Here some links to know more what we are talking about:

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http://www.bitcoin.org
http://genjix.freehostia.com
http://bitcoincharts.com/markets
http://www.silkroadmarket.org
http://DYNDY.net

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Please distribute to anyone interested,
ciao!

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I’m delighted to inform you that my generative composition for censored Internet Addresses Golden Shield Music and a related article of mine about IT censorship were featured on the first issue of the brand-new New Media Arts magazine Art-micro, based in Shangai, China.
I’m flattered knowing that this work, focused on the specific case of IT censorship in China, has reached the Chinese audience; I have to thank Yqian at Art-micro Head Quarter, for her support and wish her good luck with this project, which looks innovative and consistent in terms of contents and aesthetics. Be sure to have a look at their project.

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The hard-copy magazine is available via mail order, while a digital preview can be viewed on-line here.
Contents of the various issues can be browsed directly on-line here; you can find a recap of my article and work under the section “Net”. Enjoy your reading!

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