XS Workshop at the Pure Data Convention 2011

I’m writing to forward the info related to the Xth Sense (XS) Summer Workshops.
The XS is a free and open biophysical technology.
It was recently named the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument” by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US).

Courses are taking place worldwide, below detailed info and how to get involved.

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_WHAT:

Xth Sense – Sonic Body and Biophysical Music

http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/xth-sense-biophysical-music/

Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.
Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.

_WHERE:

\\\\\ MEXICO DF | *Liveness*
It is the first Mexican gathering of international artists whose main interest lies in the critical investigation and distribution of a discourse around theater, dance or performance practices that rely on a tight relationship between body and technology.
@ Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico DF

\\\\\ NEW YORK | *Harvestworks*
Founded in 1977, its mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies.
@ Harvestworks, New York, USA

\\\\\ LONDON | *BEAM Festival*
It is a high-tech music weekender, a playground of homemade instruments and sonic installations, where you can listen to, watch and learn how to create your own physically living electronic music.
@ Artaud Forum, Brunel University, London, UK

\\\\\ BERLIN | To be announced
This session needs to be confirmed, but expression of interest are welcome.

_HOW

Visit this page below, and book your place by visiting the related links for each event.
http://marcodonnarumma.com/calendar/

Places are limited to 10 participants for each session, so it is recommended to book in advance.
If you want to host an Xth Sense workshop, don’t hesitate to contact me.

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!

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

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.”

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

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

The Xth Sense (XS) is a free and open source based technology; as such, its free distribution is an integral aspect of the research.
In this workshop participants build their own XS biosensor and learn how to generate interactive music from the muscle sounds of their bodies.

Winter workshops schedule:

• 7o Simposio Internacional del Posgrado en Artes Visuales
  3,4,5,7,10 November at the UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico City,
  Info and registration;
• CultureLab
  21-25 November, Newcastle, UK;
  Info and registration;
• Matadac Festival
  12-15 December, Madrid, ES.

Info:

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.

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

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

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

Libpd Patch by Patrick Sébastien

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

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

Interactive wall at Te Papa Museum Interactive | Samuel Mann | 2008

=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

=== Organisers ===

made with pd, an arduino and a selfmade relayboard

as an illustrating example, appetizer

• Date: Sat+Sun 27+28.11.2010, from 12:00 to 18:00 (with break)
• Costs: free
• Where: Metalab, Library
• Language: German or English
• Lecturer: grh

Workshop Contents

• General introduction to Pure Data
• Audio and Signal Processing
• Video and 3D Graphics (OpenGL)
• Special topics suggested by the audience

Find more info here.

http://cntrl.sourceforge.net/

http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/pd-aka-pure-data-intro/

http://puredata.info/downloads

http://www.electronclub.org

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 musical composition and new technologies featuring concerts and installation projects by established composers and new media professionals.
The atmosphere in Cagliari was cozy and warm. We could enjoy an early spring, a shiny sun and almost 20 degrees.

Participants were MA students of the Electronic Music, Music and New Technology and Electroacoustic Music courses. They were extremely interested in Pure Data and dataflow techniques, although for most of them it was the first direct approach with a graphical programming environment. After a brief audiovisual review of some interesting works ranging from live performances to experimental videos, we started with the basic of Pd, building simple processes in order to give a clear idea of real-time data processing.
Then I slightly forced them to get their hands dirty with some real-time video processing and few common idioms for audio synthesis and manipulation. I used the term “forced” because I did not give them any ready patch, but explaining step-by-step simple processes we built together useful examples.

Their responsiveness was awesome and with my great satisfaction we went through the main topics of the course pretty fast. In the end we also had time to have a chat about network data exchange, i.e. OSC, wi-fi server and client communication protocols, and later on few participants were already having fun exchanging data through the conservatory network or talking to a Monome.

In the end I made a brief talk explaining the most typical setup for live audiovisual performance and how to implement all the techniques we just learned into an actual audiovisual concert; single player with a musical instrument controlling MIDI and/or OSC hardware, two players exchanging audio and video data over a network and a quintet including different instruments, a server machine receiving and organizing data coming from few clients, creating feedback interactions among each player of the group.

On the first night I also had the chance to attend to an amazing concert of a traditional choir from Sardinia. Apart from the breathtaking location – S. Saturnino’s church – the experience of listening to a live performance of this kind is something unbelievable. The strength of their five voices, the incredible harmony they were able to create was something I can’t describe. Perhaps I felt the same feelings when for the first time I had the chance to listen an organ playing in a cathedral. Your body physically “feels” the sound, the acoustic energy in all its force.

I have to say I really enjoyed my time in Cagliari, probably I was missing a beautiful sky and a “normal” temperature, but for sure the wonderful hospitality of few friends played the most important role. Thus I have to say thank you to the Signorafranca guys and Riccardo, and Fabrizio Caglia for the excellent organization of the course. Hope to come back soon to Sardinia and maybe see some works of my students…

]]> http://www.thesaddj.com/pure-data-for-live-media-workshop-cagliari-conservatory/feed/ 0 http://www.thesaddj.com/ma-sound-design-with-pure-data-and-more/ http://www.thesaddj.com/ma-sound-design-with-pure-data-and-more/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:20:00 +0000 Marco Donnarumma http://www.thesaddj.com/?p=1310

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 New Technology for Art.
Along with the usual sound design techniques the course includes excursions in soundscape studies and sound art. Students use only free software for audio real-time processing and interactive sonification such as Pure Data graphical programming environment.
The LABA MA also includes courses held by Massimo Banzi (Tinker.it/Arduino), Otolab, Luca Carrubba.

Then let’s start where we left.

The programme of the event was full of contents and activities, panels and workshops, you can get a glimpse here.

original img by noisybox.net

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 Agit Media – organized by Ualuba.org. Agit Media is promoted by Centro A&T (Arte & Tecnologie) with partnership of LABA Academy of Fine Arts, Brescia and curated by Davide Anni.

The second part of the workshop held by Husk on 4-5 November will follow a similar structure focused on the video libraries of Pd and the manipulation of video streams.

• Pd and its Community
• Pd works review
• Pd Language
• Audio objects and idioms
• Sonic Laboratory
• Principles of audio video interaction 1
• Collective briefing
• Collaborative software development

5-6 November (Video – Luca Carrubba)

• Video Libraries introduction
• Video Review
• Video reproduction and basic manipulations
• Video Effects
• Generating visuals and advanced processing
• Principles of audio video interaction 2
• Collective Briefing
• Communication protocols
• Sofware production Laboratory

Looking forward to meet some of you there!

Unfortunately, subscriptions for this workshop  are reserved to the University’s professors, anyway i hope to get you involved soon posting some tasty pictures.

Gotland University: http://mainweb.hgo.se/adm/about_en.nsf/

Pure Data: http://puredata.info/

“The new technologies are not anymore an exclusive domain of a close elite, its are already present in all the aspects of our life.

Klab_03 offers the chance to get closer to some of this applications used in the world of music and images…”

• Workshop CUSTOM MADE HARDWARE: create your own audiovideo controller.
  Servando Barreiro, Whiteemotion, The !S.A.D!
  Multimedia space where you can build your customized hardwares for the audiovideo creation.
  Friday and Saturday, from 22.00 to 02.00 at La Salita. Subscription is necessary, submit here
• Demonstration, concert and meeting REACTABLE.
  Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger, Marcos Alonso
  Talk about the creation and diffusion of the Reactable. Concert by Carlos Lopez Campmany. All day long live demonstration of the tool.
  Demonstration: Friday and Saturday, from 21.00 to 02.00 | Concert and meeting: Friday at 23.00 at La Nave.
• Theremin demonstration and concert.
  Javier Díaz Ena. Well-experienced theremist will show the great possibility of this music instrument.
  Demonstration all day long: Friday and Saturday from 21.00 to 02.00 | Concert: Friday at 22.00 at La Nave.

and more…
Final party: Saturday from 22.00 to 02.00 at La Nave.