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Making Musical Apps, Real-time audio synthesis on Android and iOS with Pure Data

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:05:09 +0000

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

Making Musical Apps
Real-time audio synthesis on Android and iOS
by Peter Brinkmann
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022503.do
“Want to turn your mobile device into a musical instrument? Or equip your game with interactive audio, rather than canned samples? You can do it with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual programming environment that lets you manipulate digital audio in real time. This concise book shows you how to use Pd—with help from the libpd library—as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.”

Japanese Pure Data book is out now

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:16:27 +0000

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

Seiichiro Matsumura, Ph.D.

Tokyo University of Technology
School of Design
Associate Professor

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

Pd-Taipei Meeting

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:20:17 +0000

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

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

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

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

AntiDataMining project in ZKM using Pd and Gem

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:53:12 +0000

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

Meta-economics or post-VR?

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

Gem 0.93.0 released

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:41:43 +0000

Frédéric Voisin | somGemPd | 2005

I’m quite excited about this new release of Gem, one of the most used video library for Pure Data aka Pd.
Check the highlights below to get a glimpse of new features and fixed issues.
Follows the original message from Gem mantainer IOhannes Zmoelnig:

“After long years of waiting (foir you) and hard labour (for me), Gem 0.93 has been released today.
large parts of the underlying engine have been re-written to give you a better experience!
binaries are available for w32 (installer & zip), for the brave and adventurous there is the source code.
binaries for OSX and not available yet, but we hope to get them online soonish.

grab it while it’s hot: http://gem.iem.at/releases/0.93.0

alternatively you can get the files from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem

highlights
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Objects
——-
frei0r video plugins support

- [mesh], [surface3d],…
- [separator] now takes arguments to define which stacks to push/pop

documentation
————-
- numerous bigfixes and improvements

extra
—–
- [pix_fiducialtrack] is no more part of Gem (but comes bundled with Gem)
- [pix_artoolkit] fiducial tracking using ARToolKit
- [pix_drum], [pix_mano]: Jaime Olivier’s analysis objects!

plugins
——-
image acquisition is now factored out into “plugins” this means that you can e.g. easily add new image acquisition methods to the existing [pix_video], [pix_film] and [pix_image] objects

- still image loading/saving now uses plugins on all platforms on w32 you can now use ImageMagick and/or QuickTime for loading/saving images, which greatly increases the number of supported formats. you now get programmatic feedback on image loading success…
- video acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms uniform way to get or set properties/attributes/controls, like hue, saturation, shutter-speed, pan,… working DV support (on linux)
V4L also works with newer kernels (that dropped v4l)
support for IIDC
support for industrial grade GigE cameras using 3rd party libraries such as PYLON, Halcon or AVT’s PvAPI experimental UNICAP support
- film acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms (you could use gmerlin on w32 or osx…)
- recording (film output) now uses plugins on all platforms support for V4L2 (and V4L) loopback devices, in order to generate a fake live video from your Gem window – use it for recording, streaming,…

settings
——–
global & local settings files to modify the overall behaviour of Gem you don’t like Gem’s default framerate, windowsize, font, texture mode,…? change it once and for all

internals
———
- API: this is the first Gem with a “public” API: a selection of headers that you can use to write your own Gem-plugins build-system
- build system: completely switched to a proper autotools
- openGL: updated bundled GLEW
- source organization: re-organized the entire source tree for hopefully better maintainability

lowlights
=========
i need an OSX developer willing to spend some time in getting image acquisition and windowing to work on OSX>=10.6 (x86_64)”

Piksel11 call for works, Norway

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:25:51 +0000

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Piksel11
November 17-20 2011
Bergen, Norway
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with
Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized 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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open CALL for PROJECTS
For the exhibition and other parts of the programme we currently seek
projects in the following categories:
1. Installations
Projects to be included in the exhibitions.
The works must be realised by the use of free and open source technologies.

2. Audiovisual performance
Live art realised by the use of free software and/or open/DIY hardware.

3. Presentations
Innovative DIY/open hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under a free/open licence. (Also includes presentations of artistic projects realised using free/open technologies.)

4. Workshops
Hands on workshops utilising free software and/or open/DIY hardware for artistic use.

5. Urban Interventions
Pikselert NovemberNatt is a specially curated project involving visual
interventions in selected parts of the Bergen urban environment.
We look for surface projections or media facade projects using video mapping or similar techniques to recontextualize the urban landscape. All parts of the projects must be realised using free and open source technologies.

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!!!!!!!!!! Deadline – august 15. 2011 !!!!!!!!!!
Please use the online submit form at:
http://piksel.no/ocs
or send documentation material – preferably as a URL to online
documentation with images/video to piksel11 (AT) piksel.no

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Piksel11 is organized in cooperation with Galleri 3,14, Bergen
Kunsthall/Landmark, USF and HackBergen. Supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Hordaland County Council, KORO and others.
more info: www.piksel.no
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Marco Donnarumma Augmented Media Performance @ WRO Biennale, 13th May

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:40:13 +0000

I Cntrl Nature | Audiovisual concert for augmented electric bass guitar, self-designed software and butterfly

I Cntrl Nature (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is an unambiguous, synesthetic action of audiovisual improvisation.The live act represents the sarcastic celebration of the human instinct finally able to govern the nature. The improvised body gestures of the performer sculpt in real-time the soundscape and the moving images. The living creature on the screen reacts to the movements of the performer on stage in a mutual agreement and attraction.
~
Work info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
Author info: http://marcodonnarumma.com
~
The WRO Biennal is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe.
Other artists performing at WRO2011:
Stelarc, Istvan Kantor, Incite, Noriko Yamaguchi, Cécile Babiole.

http://wro2011.wrocenter.pl/site/en
Other upcoming events http://marcodonnarumma.com/calendar

Music for Flesh II @ LAC, Linux Audio Conference 2011

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 06 May 2011 10:18:37 +0000

Briefly to mention I’ll be playing Music for Flesh II tonight at the Linux Audio Conference in the section Electro-acoustic concerts.

Concerts starts at 7pm.

Music for Flesh II is a solo sonic piece for augmented muscles sounds.
It aims at demonstrating an experimental coupling between theatrical gesture and biophysical generation and control of music.
Based on the Xth Sense wearable technology (open source and DIY based).
I’ll also give a related paper on Sunday.

Info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii/
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/

Find here the complete schedule of LAC concerts:
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011/?page=program&mode=table&day=0

PdDroidParty – play your unmodified Pd patches on Android devices

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:28:08 +0000

I forward a message by Chris McCormick to the Pd list.

“PdDroidParty is, I think, the easiest way to get your patches running on your Android devices. It emulates Pd native user interface elements (only toggle and slider implemented so far) so all you need to do is name your patch droidparty_main.pd and copy it to your SD card.

Download and install the apk from here, and then try out the drum machine example by unzipping it to your SD card:

http://mccormick.cx/projects/PdDroidParty/

This is beta software hot off the compiler, but I think it’s just ready enough for use. As always, patches welcome!

Chris.

PS oh yeah, get the source like this:
bzr co http://mccormick.cx/dev/PdDroidParty/”

Workshop: Pd as your embeddable audio engine

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:05:14 +0000

Libpd Patch by Patrick Sébastien

http://www.nycresistor.com/2011/04/07/class-pd-as-your-embeddable-audio-engine/

“Pd as your embedded audio engine” will teach all about embedding libpd as the sound engine for your app, whether its iPhone, Android, Java, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. This workshop provides a broad spectrum of different ways of connecting Pd to other things. Having hardware isn’t a requirement either. The workshop will cover ways of interfacing with Pd from computer to computer. Bring your laptop and devices that you want to install libpd on (Android, iPhone, etc.)

HTML and/or programming knowledge will certainly help. The aim of this workshop is to give a broad spectrum of different ways to interface to Pd. So it will be dipping very slightly into Python, C, Java, Javascript, but this is usually “glue code” and all of the code will be fully provided. You do not need to be proficient in these languages at all, the workshop will also cover methods that also just use Pd with no code at all.

Here is an outline of topics:

* Introduction
* History of Pd as an engine
* Ways to interface with a Pd process
* Midi & OSC
* FUDI
* stdout
* Python + sockets
* pdsend/pdreceive
* Parsing patches in three languages
* libpd on Android and iOS
* PdWebKitDroid
* RjDj and ScenePlayer
* WebPd

Purchase a ticket here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1491957485

Workshop: Pd as your embedded audio engine
Taught by: Chris McCormick, http://mccormick.cx/chrism
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EDT)
Where: NYCResistor, 87 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, http://nycresistor.com

Picture by Patrick Sébastien.

New GOSUB10 release by 0xA

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:44:32 +0000

expr~ from 0xA is GOSUB10′s fourth release.

0xA is a band made not out of people, but objects and patches. Snippets of codes that bleep and blink are added and modified in the online repository, where it all began. As the repository grows, 0xA evolves with it. Aymeric Mansoux, Chun Lee and Olivier Laruelle are the current active contributors. They have performed 0xA across Europe, North America and Asia in galleries, clubs and festivals.

expr~ is the first music release of 0xA, consists of retro sounding tracks made almost entirely with the [expr~] object in Pure Data. No tweaking of number boxes and sliders, no clever generative algorithms, just switch the audio on and listen.

The source code for this release (implemented in Pure-data) is free software distributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3 or greater). For repository, see: http://gitorious.org/0xa

Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License.

Released on 10th October 2010.

== TRACKLISTING ==

01 0xA – Winter_Solstice
02 0xA – 0903-4
03 0xA – Nandsynth
04 0xA – Moving_Souf
05 0xA – Cafe_Kuroshio
06 0xA – Family_Mart

== WHATIS GOSUB10 ==

Dedicated to innovative music and audio/visuals, the GOSUB10 label will feature an eclectic group of musicians drawn together by their shared use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS).
Freely distributed by stream, download and special DVD releases, and made available through an open license, GOSUB10 is run by the GOTO10 collective – an international group of artists, musicians and programmers, dedicated to FLOSS and digital arts. Brought to life in a intensive four day work sprint but years in the making, the GOSUB10 netlabel is a natural extension of GOTO10′s activities supporting and promoting digital art alongside FLOSS tools through workshops, festivals, exhibitions, writing, and more.

== URL ==

http://gosub10.org

Live Media Concert I C::ntr::l Nature@Screenplay, Artist Talk @NK, Berlin

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:36:25 +0000

I C::ntr::l Nature v3.0
Audiovisual concert for augmented bass guitar, Xth Sense biosensing technology and butterfly
by Marco Donnarumma.

http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
Saturday 9th April
h. 19.00
Panoramasaal, .CHB, Berlin

http://chb.screenplaynights.com/en/av-night/programm/
Panel discussions, performances and installations by Mia Makela, Pierce Warnecke, Yroyto, Olga Mink, Abstract Birds, Servando Barreiro among the others.

SCREENPLAY represents contemporary audiovisual art with special focus on generative or cinematographic performance as well as performance involving live-camera-feedback.
SCREENPLAY shows an eclectic selection of artists who explore aestetic principles on the frontiers of new technologies, interactive story-telling and the interplay of audio and video.

Artist Talk
Saturday 9th April
h 20.30
NK, Berlin

http://www.nkprojekt.de/artist-presentation-by-marco-donnarumma/

Donnarumma will present some of his works, all deploying self-designed, Pure Data-based software, eventually focusing on the ongoing research project for biophysical live media ‘Xth Sense’.
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/

Workshop: Xth Sense biophysical generation and control of Music, NK Berlin

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:55:56 +0000

Marco Donnarumma | Xth Sense New Work Development Residency | Inspace, Edinburgh 2011

What
The workshop offers an hands-on experience and both theoretical and practical training in gestural control of music and bodily musical performance, deploying the brand-new biosensing technology Xth Sense.

Developed by the workshop teacher Marco Donnarumma within a research project at The University of Edinburgh, Xth Sense is a framework for the application of muscle sounds to the biophysical generation and control of music.
It consists of a low cost, DIY biosensing wearable device and an Open Source based software for capture, analysis and audio processing of biological sounds of the body (Pure Data-based).
Muscle sounds are captured in real time and used both as sonic source material and control values for sound effects, enabling the performer to control music simply with his body and kinetic energy.
Forget your mice, MIDI controllers, you will not even need to look at your laptop anymore.

The Xth Sense biosensor was designed to be easily implemented by anyone, no previous experience in electronics is required.
The applications of the Xth Sense technology are manifold: from complex gestural control of samples and audio synthesis, through biophysical generation of music and sounds, to kinetic control of real time digital processing of traditional musical instruments, and more.

Music for Flesh II – solo piece for Xth Sense biosensing wearable device from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

How
Firstly, participants will be introduced to the Xth Sense Technology by its author and led through the assembling of their own biosensing wearable hardware using the materials provided.
Next, they will become proficient with the Xth Sense software framework: all the features of the framework will be unleashed through practical exercises.
Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music and new musical instruments will be developed by means of an audiovisual review and participatory critical analysis of relevant projects selected by the instructor.
Eventually, participants will combine hardware and software to implement a solo or group performance to be presented during the closing event.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be free to keep the Xth Sense biosensors they built and the related software for their own use.

Perspective participants
The workshop is open to anyone passionate about sound and music. Musical background and education does not matter as long as you are ready to challenge your usual perspective on musical performance.
Composers, producers, sound designers, musicians, field recordists are all welcome to join our team for an innovative and highly creative experience.

No previous experience in electronics or programming is required, however participants should be familiar with digital music creation. Participation is limited to 10 candidates.

Register by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de

FULL PROGRAM available at http://www.nkprojekt.de/xth-sense…

Requirements and further info
Participants need to provide their own headphones, external soundcards and laptops with Pd-extended already installed.
Free download is available at http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/pd-extended

Musicians interested in augmenting their favourite musical instrument by means of body gestures are encouraged to bring their instrument along.

More information about the Xth Sense can be viewed on-line at
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii/

Dates
6-7-8 April, 11.00-19.00 daily (6 hours sessions + 1 hour break)

Fee
EUR 90 including materials (EUR 15).

Xth Sense, biophysical generation and control of music [at] Imagine Create Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:51:41 +0000

Thursday 31st March
16.30-18.00
Foyle Arts Building
Derry, Ireland.

/// Xth Sense.
The Xth Sense is a low cost, Open Source-based framework for the application of muscle sounds to the biophysical generation and control of music (or more generally for responsive milieux).
The framework includes a low cost biosensing wearable device, and a modular DSP software (Pure Data-based) for real time capture, analysis and design with muscle sounds.
Marco Donnarumma will be reporting on the methods used during the research, present findings and issues, perspective outcomes of future research, while discussing the aesthetic criteria underpinning the research.

Further info and live performance reel: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/

Donnarumma is a performer, new media and sonic artist.
He’s currently interested in critical analysis and development of experimental paradigms for embodied interaction in performative environments.
http://marcodonnarumma.com

/// Among the other invited speakers:
Ricky Graham (Ulster), Dennis Fischer (Ableton), Gregory Taylor (Cycling ’74), Jeff Burke (UCLA), Alex Beim (Tangible Interaction), James Alliban (Augmatic), Katsuyuki Shibata (Fukuoka University).

/// About Imagine Create:
Imagine Create is a digital arts festival which brings together a leading-edge line-up of talents and minds from the worlds of art, design, new media and software development.
Expect five days of inspirational talks, demonstrations, panels, exhibits and performances delivered by the people and tools transforming digital culture.
The biennial event will take place at locations around the city of Derry~Londonderry and runs from 29 March to 2 April 2011.

For further information please visit the festival website http://www.imaginecreate.info

Report: Pure Data Mini Con, Trinity College, Dublin

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:57:05 +0000

We really had great times in Dublin.
This Irish Pd mini con was a small event, but an excellent review of some works(in-progress) made in Pd. Above all it was a good chance to meet face to face other Pd developers, which sadly does not happen so often as it should.

Many thanks to Rich Duckworth for the efforts in putting the event together.

My presentation concentrated on the research project Xth Sense, a bio-sensing hardware/software framework for the application of muscle sounds to biophysical generation and control of music, video and responsive milieux. I also performed a related solo sonic piece titled “Music for Flesh II”, see more info here.

My highlights of the event were the presentation by Ricky Graham “Performance system in Pd” and the Data Structure Workshop by Joao Pais, an active Pd’r based in Berlin and author of the jmmmp library for Pd extended.

Richard presentation focused on a study of musical gesture; specifically Richard is working on a complex system for live electric guitar which is well described in the video below:

Joao is also author of Click Tracker, “a program designed for composers, conductors and instrumentalists working with modern music. The main goal of the software is to prepare a click track of any score, no matter how complex it is”. Find further info here.

And finally, my impressions of the event. Hope next year will bring another Pd Con in UK!
See bottom page for links to the webpages of the artists involved.

David Collier | Paper Polyrhythms in Pd

Richard Graham | Paper Live Performance System in Pd

Roger Gregg and Rich Duckworth | Trash - Timbre

Softday | Sean Taylor and Mikael Fernstrom

Marco Donnarumma | Music for Flesh II (Xth Sense technology)

Pd workshop | Emer Landers, Niamh Mahoney and Nicola O'Dwyer

Workshop Data Structures in Pd | Joao Pais | Graphic Score

Rich Duckworth: http://bluespetroleum.blogspot.com/
Richard Graham: http://rickygraham.com/
Joao Pais: http://code.google.com/p/clicktracker/
Mikael Fernstrom: http://www.idc.ul.ie/mikael/
Softday: http://www.softday.ie/

Release: Pd 0.43-0 released

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:57:19 +0000

Message from Miller Puckette.

Pd version 0.43-0 is available on http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.htm
or via git from sourceforge:
git clone git://pure-data.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pure-data/pure-data

New Work Residency at Inspace, New Media Scot and Informatics Edinburgh

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:40:28 +0000

I just ended a new work residency at Inspace, home to a joint research partnership between the School of Informatics and New Media Scotland.
During the residency, me and Brendan F Doyle (Production Sound Engineering) worked on a participatory Musicircus which included a massive, reactive sonic system for 8 Xth Sense biosensors and 8 audio channels.
The piece was premiered two days ago on 15th March during a public event which gathered quite a good amount of people from different backgrounds, music, sound design, informatics, hackers and general public.

It was awesome to see how the audience positively reacted to this novel paradigm of musical performance for muscle sounds, namely generating and controlling electroacoustic sounds and music moving and contracting muscles. After some initial – and expected – disorientation, everybody started realizing how to use the sensors and how to interact with the system, only then the actual Musicircus started.

The event was pretty successful, everything worked out fairly smoothly – except the few things which always “have to” get broken just before the opening – and we received several excited and stimulating feedback. Overall a great and satisfying experience.

During the same night, I also performed my new solo sonic piece Music for Flesh II, for augmented muscle sounds and Xth Sense technology. The acoustic capabilities of Inspace were challenging: glass walls all around, an empty floor which acts as a resonant shield, and interesting sonic reflections happening all around the space. I need to thank again my colleague Brendan for his great work with the sound engineering of the venue and his live mixing during my performance.

Chris Scott (who took the heading picture above during a rehearsal at Inspace) documented with awesome pictures the whole residency, so hopefully soon I’ll post a report, with pics, audio and video!

Golden Shield Music featured on Shangai based Magazine Art-micro

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:55:58 +0000

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.

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!

LiWoLi 2011 – Open Call!

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:33:20 +0000

Do Sinusoid dream of electric sweeps | IOhannes Zmoelnig | Liwoli 2010

LiWoLi 2011
12th – 14th May
Kunstuniversität, Linz
art meets radical openness!

Observing, comparing, reflecting, imitating, testing, combining

LiWoLi is an open lab and meeting spot for artists, developers and educators using and creating FLOSS (free/libre open source software) and Open Hardware in the artistic and cultural context. LiWoLi is all about sharing skills, code and knowledge within the public domain and discussing the challenges of open practice.

This year’s event offers an exhibition, artists’ workshops and –
like every year – lectures, presentations and sound-performances.

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Open Call 2011
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Please fill out the online submission form for Liwoli 2011
https://www.liwoli.at/open-call
Deadline 27/03/2011

o Art exhibition laboratory
Artists producing art and culture using or developing FLOSS and/or open hardware are invited to show their work in our exhibition space. Entertaining contributions with a strong sense of humor around topics like the end of art, plagiarism, copyright/copyfight, world improvement, economy of open systems etc. are very welcome!

o Workshops
All selected artists are expected to conduct a workshop where they will share their ideas, skills, code, products and experience.

o Lectures (around 30 min)
We invite proposals for lectures dealing with the challenges of open practices, investigating the economy of open systems, exploring new ways of living…

o Presentations (~15min)
Artists, developers and educators are invited to present their work in order to find interested people join the project or to get feedback.

o Performances
LiWoLi 2011 is able to offer a great performance space in the Stadtwerkstatt (http://stwst.at). Best sound-equipment in town!
Sound artists using FLOSS, Open hardware or hacked toys as well as live-coding acts are welcome. The artists must agree that the performance will be recorded and used for the free radio-archive (http://cba.fro.at) under a Creative Commons license.

Presenting Xth Sense at Pure Data mini-con 2011, Dublin

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:13:29 +0000

Trinity College | Dublin | Photo CC licensed by Informatique

Tomorrow I’m leaving for a weekend in Ireland; it will be good to change environment for a bit.
The 2011 Pure Data mini-conference is about to kick off at the Trinity College, Dublin. The event is fairly small, but I’m glad that our colleagues at Trinity College made this UK Pd happening possible.

I’ll be presenting a paper which describes the present findings of my research about embodied interaction and augmented muscle sounds. In the evening there will be some Pd concerts and I’ll perform Music for Flesh I, my latest piece for DIY biosensing wearable hardware and Pure Data-based software. An early demo presentation can be viewed here.

On Saturday there will be a workshop by Joao Pais, which you might already know for his jmmmp library for Pd-extended and other Pd goodies. Joao will describe the Pd data structures and their different applications, from real time score drawing to GUI enhancements. I look forward to his workshop, being that Pd data structures are known for their great potential, but is often difficult to gather proper information about their use.

Rich Duckworth is one of the organizer and here’s his blog where you will possibly find some updates about the post-conference.

Photo CC licensed by Informatique.

Call for papers and workshops: Pure Data Convention 2011

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:58:59 +0000

Blinddate Mtl

Paper draft submission: March 28, 2011
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2011
Final Paper submission: July 11, 2011

The 4th Pure Data Convention will be held August 08-14, 2011, at Liszt School of Music and Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, Germany. In custom of the previous conventions we invite you to submit your papers related to the Pure Data programming environment in the fields of computer science, artistic creation and scientific research. The papers will be rated according to academic standards such as novelty and relevance in a peer review process. The Pd community is a heterogeneous group of users, developers, authors, artists, musicians, programmers; often in more than one role at a time.

Papers from widely divergent perspectives are encouraged. Some possible topics could include:

Libraries and externals extending Pd
Tools built in or for Pd
Education
Spatialisation
Pd on mobile devices
Pd embedded in games and applications
Pd as a framework for audiovisual works

Please check the website for the of terms of submission. Templates for the Papers (LaTeX, Open/LibreOffice) will be provided soon on the conventions home page:
http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/Pure_Data_convention_2011

The conference is held in English, thereby the papers have to be in English. The length of a paper should be 4-8 pages, including an abstract (50-100 words) and up to 5 keywords.

Proposals for workshops of all levels, from beginner to special interest, may be directed my email to max.neupert at the domain uni-weimar.de
A separate call for music, performances and artworks will follow soon.

Please feel free to forward this email to anybody who might be interested!

The PureData Convention 2011 organization team.
Björn Lindig and Max Neupert

Live Media Updates February 2011

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:39:36 +0000

The new issue of thesaddj.com news aggregator is now on-line!

Issue #23: news, articles, calls and events around open source culture, sonic research, new media art and shared knowledge.
Tags: festival, piksel report, sonification, xth sense, biotechnology, censorship, wearable DIY, scotland, workshops, LAC2011, data visualization.

+ upcoming 2011 events.

Read it here http://www.thesaddj.com/newsletter/feb11/index.html

cw_binaural~ for Pure Data released!

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:15:03 +0000

Pd’er David Doukhan just released cw_binaural~. It looks a very useful and well coded implementation for Pd lovers, I’m going to give it a try asap.
Follow the announcement by David.

“It’s been a long time since PDCON09, and I’ve been quite busy. I finally cleaned up my code, did some improvements, and a user-friendly documentation for the external cw_binaural~ .

In few words, cw_binaural~ is a binaural synthesis external allowing:

*the use of any hrtf database (listen, cipic, …)
* the simultaneous use of different hrtfs
* the choice of the interpolation method used (all pass/pure delay decomposition for better ITD estimation or no decomposition)
* the length of the HRIR considered
* the filtering method (spectral, temporal)
* the method used for the pure delay

Precompiled external (Linux, Mac Intel & Windows) and doc are now available at http://perso.limsi.fr/doukhan/cw_binaural~.tgz
The external sources are available on pd svn: trunk/externals/ddoukhan/cw_binaural~
The external has been initially described in: CW_binaural~: a binaural synthesis external for Pure Data, David Doukhan and Anne Sedes, PDCON09

There have been few improvements since that time that are described in the example patches.
The aim of that external is to be as user friendly as possible, so feel free to tells any remarks helping to improve the external or the help patches, or to ask any question concerning its use.
Hoping you will enjoy it!”

[img CC Licensed by Terrapin Flyer]

Pure Data 24h audio stream, ecoradio and open music

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:01:10 +0000

My friend and talented musician Noish~ sent some info about this ecoradio project:

“metaminaFNR is 24h audio stream. A PD patch is running in a server. It chose by random diferents audio-urls from a txt file and play them.
Almost all the audio tracks are hosted at archive.org. In the selection you will listen soundart, noise, algorithmic and generative music, improvisations, field-recordings, microsounds, and more.. all of them with a strong experimental character and under “open” licenses.

all info+code+concept+contens and how to listen here >> http://metaminafnr.hotglue.me/“.

This autonomic radio freely gathers and spreads nodes of sound art instances, works by different composers and sonic artists with a common interest in openness of media, languages and technologies, ecologies of individuals and values. Once again such issue reminds me of the primordial peer2peer character of the Internet, shaped nowadays by capitalistic paradigms into a far less wild environment then it was at its birth.
Peer2peer autonomic radio.

Besides, I’ve been forwarded a text by Julien Ottavi, interestingly interrelating the otherwise usually separated concepts of Eco and Radio in a wider behavioural and social perspective. Give it a read at http://memoir.okno.be/?id=1173, maybe while listening to metaminaFNR Pure Data Radio!

The program you will listen to includes pieces and live recordings by many active and hacktive artists of the present sonic art scene (full list here), among which Francisco López, Daax!, Julien Ottavi, Frank Barknecht, Anton Mobin, d.R.e.G.S, Martin Howse, Pangea, Claudius Maximus, Noish, Chun Lee and your writer here, Marco Donnarumma.
Finally, if you want to set up your own open radio, be sure to read the comprehensive guidelines which Noish added to the project webpage!
You can download the Pure Data patch, set it up on your server and start streaming your sonic nodes!

3rd Pure Data Scots Users Meet Up, 4th February, Glasgow

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:16:13 +0000

Hi all,
here a little reminder.

On Friday 4th February we’ll be gathering for the 3rd 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. Simply come over and show something you have been doing with Pd.
The user group is a great chance to collect feedbacks about your patches and ideas.

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
http://www.cca-glasgow.com

Hope to see you soon!

Talk – Pure Data and Hacktive Behaviours, 3rd Feb, Edlug, Edinburgh

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:13:23 +0000

I’ll be giving a talk and demo of PureData at the next Edinburgh Linux User Group Meeting on Thursday 3rd February.
The meeting is held at the Edinburgh Conference and Training Centre, St Mary’s Street Edinburgh (map at http://tinyurl.com/5r6ebgp ) and starts at 7:30pm. Tea, Coffee and biscuits are available free of charge.

Creativity, hacktive behaviours, self-taught quasi-programming and new media openness.

These keywords quite well summarize the personal artistic research I’ll be presenting at Edlug. From a concept to its practical realization, an artistic work is always a mixture of theories and technical skills and often the hardest task is to keep the work enough close to the original idea which it was generated from.
In these days digital multimedia tools are notably contributing to enhance, and somehow change, the human capability of creation; they can expand our abilities, be thought-provoking and change viewpoints on values and social idioms. This stands true unless we consider how capitalism affects innovators and innovation and the modalities by which we undergo a capital-guerrilla dissemination of closed source tools. In this perspective creativity looses its charachter of authenticness. However, a worldwide actual community of makers, developers, artists and geeks works relentlessy to provide an awesome and infinite set of free, open tools by which an artist can express a creative message and provide a socio-political declaration of intellectual and technical independence.

My first approach to Pure Data dates back to 2004; during these years my work encompassed diverse topics such as biosensing technology, musical and theatrical performance, participatory practice and semantic hacking of Internet data set. These works would have not been possible without a growing awareness of the radical importance of openness of tools and techniques and I hope to provide a comprehensive insight about the possibilities and the challenges that an hacktive creative behaviour can foster.

Talk will be followed by a demo presentation of a biosensing framework (hardware/software) for gestural control of music and responsive milieux I’m currently developing (with the support of The University of Edinburgh and the Dorkbot ALBA group at the Edinburgh Hacklab). Participants will be able to wear the devices and make some noise!

http://marcodonnarumma.com

http://res.marcodonnarumma.com

Thanks Jan at Edlug for organizing the event.
Back to EdLUG:Meetings

Pure Data mini-conference in Dublin

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:46:33 +0000

I just received this brief announcement via Pd mailing list.
Sounds interesting, if you’re in the UK, might be worth trying to participate. Some time after this the Linux Audio Conference will take place in Dublin too.

The Department of Music is pleased to announce a Pure Data mini-Conference taking place 4-5 March 2011 in House 5, Trinity College Dublin. It will > feature lectures, papers, workshops and an evening of pure data music performed live.
Please submit abstracts/proposals by email to richard.duckwo…@tcd.ie.
Deadline is January 25th, 2011 – with notification a week later.
Information and schedule of events will be posted on this blog:
http://bluespetroleum.blogspot.com

Rich Duckworth
Lecturer in Music Technology
Department of Music
House 5
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland

Piksel video report: Sonification of IT censorship technologies

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:43:12 +0000

Golden Shield Music | Photo We Make Money Not Art | Piksel

Piksel team just released a full video of my recent presentation in Norway for Piksel 2010.
The talk focused on the current state of IT censorship technologies and a related sonification work titled Golden Shield Music.

Piksel team published other videos related to the exhibition, performances and presentations hosted at Piksel 2010.
You’ll find many interesting projects on the Piksel blip.tv channel.

Among the other projects you will also find the full video of UKI – a viral performance by Shu Lea Cheang with Martin Howse.

Sonicscape with participation of Piksel10 artists Oscar Martin Correa, Marco Donnarumma, Joachim Montessuis, Alejandra Perez, Eleonora Oreggia, Julien Ottavi.

Piksel Festival: http://piksel.no

Noish~ :: “AQHG” ::…> net/cdr …::>uzusounds

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:58:28 +0000

Via Pd-announce list.

Here you are the latest release by noise artist Noish~.

Noish~ ::”AQHG”::…> UZUCDR-10

Coded, edited and mixed at Txcucrut Studio Bcn.
Field recordings, synthesis, diy software pure data
Experimental generative techniques for de-composing.
Graphic ///lcpino///

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::———track_A
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::———track_B

Uzusounds >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.uzusounds.com
Net//Cdr label managed by Aurel {zorei}, where you can find people like Kenji Siratori,
Phroq / Francisco Meirino,Manuel Knapp & Tim Blechmann, the tropicals fish(s) of the
bilbao’s RIA “”Mubles””,and more..

full download here: http://www.archive.org/details/noish_aqhg

This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it
under the terms of Yves Degoyon's license

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the noise published here can be studied,
modified, used by anyone that
provides all the original credits
and sources in derivative projects.

there are restrictions on its use,
it cannot be used for :

* military amd/or repressive use
* commercial installations and products
* any project that promotes : racism, nationalism, xenophobia, sexism,
homophobia, religious hatred or missionarism .. ( expandable list)

this is not a standard license.

sevy.

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Undervine, data visualization + Pure Data sonification at SFMOMA, San Francisco

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:22:11 +0000

Hans Christoph Steiner just posted his latest collaborative project Undervine to the Pd-announce mailing list.
Data sonification made in Pure Data.

Here it goes…

Under Vine from Stewdio on Vimeo.

Below the original message by Hans.

Working again with Bobby Pietrusko and Stewart Smith, I created sonification for visualization of data about the global wine industry. It opened recently at SFMOMA in San Francisco. You can see a little snippet here:

http://at.or.at/hans/undervine/

And here’s a chunk from a scene that didn’t make the final cut be we like anyway:
http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/11/21/highlighting-data-with-sound/

“Wine is a potent force in contemporary life, perhaps the only comestible to produce its own visual culture. How Wine Became Modern, the first exhibition of its kind, looks at the world of wine and the role that architecture, design, and media have played in its stunning transformation over the past three decades. Developed in collaboration with the New York architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the exhibition features historical artifacts, architectural models, multimedia installations, newly commissioned artworks, and even a “smell wall” to provide a richly textured experience in the galleries. Come discover how important cultural preoccupations of our day, such as the meaning of “place” and “authenticity” in our increasingly global and virtual world, play out at this uniquely fertile intersection of nature and culture. At once a nuanced investigation and a vivid sensory and aesthetic experience, this exhibition presents wine as you’ve never seen it before.”

November 20, 2010 – April 17, 2011
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/406

http://www.sfmoma.org/press/releases/exhibitions/829