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Call for Projects | Interactivos?’12 Ljubljana. Obsolete Technologies of the Future

Medialab-Prado comunicacion — 2012-05-23T09:55:53

*MEDIALAB-PRADO*
Área de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Arts Department of the Madrid City Council
http://medialab-prado.es*
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    Interactivos?’12 Ljubljana. Obsolete Technologies of the Future
    Call for Projects

Ljudmila, Digital Medialab of Ljubjliana, in collaboration with SGMK of 
Zurich and Medialab-Prado are seeking for proposals for an upcoming 
workshops in collaborative prototyping which will be hold in Ljubljana 
(September 5 - 15, 2012) with the participation of advisors, technical 
assistants.

Deadline: June 8, 2012
Call for Collaborators: starting July 2, 2012
Project development(workshop): September 5- 15, 2012

Suggested areas of focus include:

    *      Projects that suggest different usages of existing urban
      technological infrastructures
    *      Rethinking outdated technologies and recycling the computer
      and IT wasteland.
    *      Projects which allow people to interact with technology to
      provoke new ways of perceiving the surrounding, the self, the
      visual, the material, and stimulate aesthetic experience.
    *      Particular attention will be paid to projects which promote
      open source communities, collaborative work and collective modes
      of behavior.
    *      Playing with data - submissions for works, which connect data
      forms and physically embody data streams, bridging ‘on’ and ‘off’
      line worlds.
    *      Products and services that provide sustainable solutions for
      our needs, including the use of open data, data mash ups and remixes.


We are seeking proposals for:

    *      Installations (interactive, responsive, generative)
    *      Performances (participatory, gesticular, dance)
    *      Visualisations (moving images, generative, projections,
      holograms)
    *      Free Software (FLOSS) / Open Hardware / Open Design /
      Services / Start-ups / Apps / Devices


The open call is aimed at designers, artists, engineers, coders, 
sociologists, architects, city planners, teachers, programmers, 
psychologists, journalists, environmentalists... or to any other person 
interested in the theme of the workshop.

Complete information and guidelines:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos12_ljubljana_future_obsolete_technologies

Advisors: Luka Frelih, Ida Hirsenfelder, Chris Sugrue and Yago Torroja.

**Activity within the framework of Studiolab European project:
http://www.studiolabproject.eu/
http://medialab-prado.es
http://www.sciencegallery.com/

location changed:Pd-berlin meeting next tuesday,22th May

Malte Steiner — 2012-05-22T14:45:52

Attention: NK cant provide room for tonight so PD-Berlin meeting tonight 
going to be at In-Berlin: Lehrter Str. 53 10557 Berlin
IN-Berlin = Individual Network Berlin e.V.
http://www.in-berlin.de/
http://tinyurl.com/fb-in-berlin
Internet Service Provider & Hackerspace 
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/IN-Berlin
http://tinyurl.com/in-berlin-de GoogleMaps
http://osm.org/go/0MbFEoZH- OpenStreetMap

Pd-berlin meeting next tuesday, 22th May

Malte Steiner — 2012-05-21T14:24:53

Hello,

next tuesday, 22th May 20:00, will be the next meeting of Pure Data 
users in Berlin at NK (http://www.nkprojekt.de/) - Elsenstr. 52, 2HH 2Etage.

For more information, look up
http://puredata.info/community/groups/pd-berlin/pd-berlin-users-group/
We also encourage you to take an active part, and put up suggestions for
topics you want to talk about / topics you want to be talked about.

Pd-Berlin Google group: You can join the open group
http://groups.google.com/group/pd_berlin, and make questions to the users
there.


Doors are open from 20h-20h15. After that they'll be closed, and you will
have to call someone from the Pd-meeting to get in. To get a telephone
number to call or confirm assistance you can write to
steiner AT block4 DOT com.

Please, don´t call to the staff of NK to open the doors. They let us use
the space but we have to take care about having the meeting without
producing any disturbance to them, and to clean the space after the
meeting.


We would apreciate if you would send us a small mail to
steiner AT block4 DOT com with your name, Pd experience and interests, so
that we know how many people might be coming. Or put your name in the
pd-berlin wiki page.


We would like to thank the support and willingness of NK in the
organization of these events.

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Workshop Brussels August : Pd and GEM introduction

Nicolas Montgermont — 2012-05-21T12:08:59

Hello all,

jack (rybn) and me will be teaching two pd workshop this summer at iMAL 
in Brussels:

31/07/2012 -> 03/08/2012 : Pure Data, an introduction
14/08/2012 -> 17/08/2012 : Gem, Real time video in Pure Data

you can find the complete announce down there (in fr)

there are other workshop as well (arduino, processing, ...), if you want 
to check:
http://www.imal.org/en/activity/summer-digital-art-workshops-2012/
please forward if you know people interested,

Best,
n

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*Pure Data I & II* */ IMAL 2012*
http://www.imal.org/en/activity/summer-digital-art-workshops-2012/puredata

*|| Pure Data I : Introduction son-image temps-réel*

Pure Data (Pd) est un logiciel libre utilisé dans le domaine de l'audio, 
de la 3D et de l'art interactif par une communauté sans cesse 
grandissante de personnes issues de milieux différents (musiciens, VJ, 
chorégraphes, plasticiens, conteurs, éclairagistes, etc.). Pd offre un 
très vaste champ d'exploration : diffusions et traitements multimédias 
temps réel (vidéo, 3D, son), gestion d'interfaces physiques (joystick, 
souris, tablettes graphiques, capteurs), actions robotiques et lumineuses.

Cette initiation à Pure Data abordera principalement l'aspect son, 
vidéo/3D (avec la librairie GEM) et réseau. Comment intéragir en temps 
réel sur une vidéo ou de la 3D à partir du son ? Comment partager des 
données entre plusieurs ordinateurs ? Comment ouvrir de nouvelles voies 
à la création musicale, vidéo et 3D ? Ce stage répondra à toutes ces 
questions (et à bien d'autres) grâce à l'apprentissage, pas à pas, de 
cet outil. Une documentation et un cours (qui sera expliqué tout au long 
du stage) sera remis à chaque participant.

*/Prérequis/*: connaissance de base du traitement de l'image et de la 
vidéo numérique, ainsi qu'une curiosité pour les environnements de 
programmation visuelle.
/*Dates et durée*/: Du mardi 31 juillet au vendredi 3 août 2012, de 10h 
à 18h (4 jours)/*
Prix*/: 100EUR

/*Formateur*/: Jean-Marie Boyer (FR)
Jean-Marie Boyer est artiste-développeur, membre du collectif RYBN. Son 
travail s'articule autour du détournement d'outils ou de concepts afin 
d'apporter un regard différent sur notre société. Pour cela il utilise 
la donnée comme matière première, données généralement issues de 
l'immense base qu'est internet. Il co-organise les rencontres entre 
artistes et  développeurs /dev/art/ chaque mois sur Paris.


*|| Pure Data II : Gem / Vidéo-3D temps-réel *

La librairie GEM permet de manipuler en temps-réel des données 
graphiques dans le logiciel Pure Data. S'appuyant sur une architecture 
openGL, les possibilités offertes par cet environnement de programmation 
sont très nombreuses : dessin 3D, lumières, textures, traitement 
d'images fixes ou animées.
Durant ce stage, nous ferons un tour d'horizon des programmes que l'on 
peut développer avec cette librairie.

Les participants apprendront dans un premier temps les techniques de 
base de travail dans GEM: dessin de formes simples, mouvement, mapping 
de textures, lumières. Ensuite, des exemples avancés de création vidéos 
seront détaillés: interaction image - son, manipulation de webcam, 
création de structures aléatoires et bruitées, représentation de modèles 
physiques,...

Certains exemples spécfiques pourront être abordés à la demande des 
participants.

/*Prérequis*/: connaissance de base de l'environnement Pure Data (ex. 
après le stage "Introduction son-image temps-réel - Pure Data I").
/*Dates et durée*/: Du mardi 14 au vendredi 17 août 2012, de 10h à 18h 
(4 jours)
/*Prix*/: 100EUR

/*Formateur*/: Nicolas Montgermont
Nicolas Montgermont (FR) est un artiste/chercheur qui étudie les 
relations entre art et sciences en utilisant l'ordinateur comme un 
atelier. Sa démarche de création est la recherche d'une esthétique 
particulière au numérique, en utilisant et développant des outils 
personnels pour explorer les possibilités spécifiques à l'ordinateur. Il 
fait partie de deux collectifs d'artistes : chdh, qui développe un 
travail de performance audiovisuelle synesthésique et art of failure qui 
réalise des installations. Son travail est montré dans de nombreux 
festivals et expositions en Europe. Plus d'infos sur son site: 
http://nim.on.free.fr

Workshop Newcastle June 11

Andy Farnell — 2012-05-18T05:48:24

To: pd-announce-3mXD6pJrRzU< at >public.gmane.org

UK, Newcastle, Culture, Lab Monday 11th June 2012, 

A hastily organised but hopefully fun and informative
Pd workshop. Suitable for brave beginners but also hope to
touch some advanced stuff along the way. Bring laptop,
charged battery, headphones, with extended for max enjoyment

http://tinyurl.com/NCL-PD-workshop

By the way this is just prior to the ACM DIS in case
anyone is going to that

http://www.dis2012.org/

best 2 all
Andy

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The new D-Fuse installation Re-Construct [Particle 3.0], which has been created specifically for Recombinant Media Labs' CineChamber, a 10-screen installation lab for panoramic performance, will premier in the installation at Cinema Excentris at Mutek Festival in Montreal, Canada. Re-construct [Particle 3.0] is a reworking of one of the main strands of D-Fuse's output from the last few years. Taking its cue from the live cinema performance pieces Particle and Latitude, Re-construct follows a trajectory from abstraction to reconstruction, creating a narrative that plays out as much through immersive spatial experience as it does over time. Investigating an urban space that is at the same moment real-and-imagined, the piece merges layers of experience that range from the existential to the reflexive, from singular concrete observations to abstract patterns and textures.

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3 JULY ¬ FOOD AND SOCIETY. BRITISH LIBRARY CONFERENCE CENTRE. LONDON. UK.
Michael Faulkner has been accepted to present his IE MRes paper Global Food Superhighways - How Food Shapes Cities at the British Sociological Association (BSA) Food and Society Conference. Following the success of last year's event, the aim of this third conference is to further examine the role of food in contemporary society, examining both empirical questions raised by the relation of food to social and intergenerational inequalities, and exploring theoretical issues of food as an item of consumption, cultural symbol and commodity.
Global Food Superhighways investigates the relationship between food and cities by interrogating film, using observational methods and visual ethnography. Using food as his 'lens' and selecting from a database of video clips filmed over the past three years for D-Fuse's 'Endless Cities' project, Faulkner has edited 14 films for analysis, based on the inclusion criteria that they must have evidence of food, food culture, food products or food byproducts. The methodology used to analyse the films involved creating a series of categories or 'meta tags' relating to food and cities. The films were then put online, and a select audience of academics and practitioners was invited to view and comment, reflecting on the films and the themes coming out of them. Faulkner then combined these with my own analysis in a multimodal meta-narrative around the 14 films.The films and comments can be viewed viewed here.
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Themes addressed in Small Global include the destruction of the world's rainforest to make way for the cattle needed for fast food production, as well as ongoing wars in the Congo related to the mining of Coltan, a rare mineral crucial for mobile phone production, which has caused profound human suffering as well as the near extinction of gorillas in the Congo. The publication was produced in collaboration with the Open Space Research Centre at The Open University and is a collaboration between academics from the Geography discipline OU, the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield and researchers at the New Economics Foundation.
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Donnarumma, Tanaka, Parkinson,Biophysical and mobile music 19th May

Marco Donnarumma — 2012-05-16T17:18:14

(sorry for x-post)

Dear all,

this weekend, a concert of biophysical and mobile music in New York.
Both me and Atau&Adam use Pd. (they use iPhones with custom RjDj patches)

19th May
h. 8pm
Harvestworks
FREE** entry
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker

Info at: http://bit.ly/K1PA9m

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In a double bill on May 19th, Marco Donnarumma starts with a performance
utilizing the award-winning biophysical instrument Xth sense, that he
teaches this weekend in a class at Harvestworks. This is followed by Adam
Parkinson's and Atau Tanaka's exploitation of a common consumer electronics
device, the iPhone.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Marco Donnarumma's Music for Flesh II is a seamless mediation between human
biosonic potential and algorithmic composition. By enabling a computer to
amplify and augment the muscle sounds of human tissues, the work approaches
the biological body as a means for computational artistry.

Adam Parkinson & Atau Tanaka reappropriate the iPhone and its advanced
technical capabilities to transform the consumer object into an expressive
musical instrument for concert performance. In a duo, with one in each
hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone.

hope to see some of you there,
best wishes,

Call for 60 second works for 60x60's 10th anniversary

Eldad Tsabary — 2012-05-11T01:47:24

Vox Novus is inviting composers/sound artists to submit (fixed) works 60 seconds or less in length to be included in its tenth annual 60x60 project. 60 compositions will be selected to be played continuously in a one-hour concert.

Act fast! The deadline is in less than a month!

Your works can be considered for multiple mixes, including the International and local mixes (Canada, Europe, NOrth-East, UK) and a variety of other thematic mixes. Please check the appropriate boxes when you submit your work: 

International mix
Canada mix
Un-Twelve mix - for microtonal works
The Athena mix - for female composers
Voice mix - works incorporating the human voice
John Mix - for works that are based on recorded natural or urban sounds
North American Soundscapes - focusing on urban soundscapes in North America
Presenters mix - from composers who presented 60x60
Latin-American mix
Europe Mix
UK mix
North-East mix

More information about the call and submit your works here:

http://www.60x60.com/calls/

Best,
Eldad Tsabary_______________________________________________
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Intro to Pure Data Workshop / Taller introductorio de Pure Data < at > Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico

Epic Jefferson — 2012-05-12T22:12:15

Recently, I gave an "Introduction to Pd" workshop at the Puerto Rico Music
Conservatory. As far as I know, it's the first one ever given in Puerto
Rico!

We covered:

-Basic synthesis [osc~]

-Sample playback [soundfiler]

-Basic Arduino interface

Workshop materials are *HERE
<http://www.mediafire.com/?bgds4uykxpnlb3d>* (comments
are in spanish)

Check out some pics http://www.epicjefferson.com/2012/05/pure-data-workshop/

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*Recientemente realice un taller introductorio de Pure Data en el
Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico. Que yo sepa, es el primero
realizado en Puerto Rico!*
*
*
*Se cubrió:*
*
*
*-síntesis básica [osc~]*
*
*
*-reproducción de archivos de audio [soundfiler]*
*
*
*-interfaces básicos con Arduino*
*
*
*Los materiales del taller están AQUI<http://www.mediafire.com/?bgds4uykxpnlb3d>
.*
*
*
*Fotos http://www.epicjefferson.com/2012/05/pure-data-workshop/*

Noish - Black Nature - [Hum.rec 2012]

oskoff lovich — 2012-05-13T12:01:23

*
Hi list!
It is a placer to share here my last audio work and some code..

The patch is a ensemble using boids lib. I made a gui to control
2 groups of boids wich are conected to 2 sound generator..


The release inagurates HUM.REC
<http://goog_2030192185>Hum.rec<http://www.humrec.org/>label which
will support experimental sounds made from the open source philosophy. (Free
/ Libre and Open Source
Software<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free/Libre_Open_Source_Software>)
and in which “releases” also include the source code. Each release will be
available for free download – high-quality FLAC and also in physical
format, in this case in cassette 40 minutes.*
*

Download FULL ZIP AUDIO (FLAC) + CODE +
INFO<http://www.archive.org/download/Noish_-_Black_Nature_hum.rec_2012/Noish_-_black_nature_hum.rec_2012.zip>

feedback and comments are wellcom!!
enjoy it

oscar


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*

Noish - Black Nature [hum.rec, 2012] Available in cassette [C20]
http://humrec.org/


  Release title : black nature    by Oscar Martin [noish]
http://noconventions.mobi/noish

  Coded, edited and master < at > txukrut studio  BCN  2 nov 2011

  Software : Pure Data, SuperCollider and Ardour under Ubuntu "lucid"

  artwork: lcpino  http://lcpino.com/

  licensed under GPLv3




  *Side A : track 001 boids_01
           track 002 boids_02
           extra 003 eetz_zzz

  Side B : track 004 karplus
           track 005 noish vs antom mobin *



 * Side A* : *track 001* come from a exploration of the sound
posibilities of the "boids algorithm"
           I used the boids lib from Pure Data and some [phasor~]
audio generators.
           (c) 1995-98 Eric L, Singer  float/2d/3d adaptation by a. sier / jash

           Based on Simon Fraser's implementation of Craig Reynolds'
Boids algorith.
           Boids is free for non-commercial use.
           Boids is a bird flight and animal flock simulator. It is
based on the same algorithm
           which was used in Jurassic Park for the herding dinosaurs.

           For more information about the boids algorithm, see Craig
Reynolds' Web site at
           http://reality.sgi.com/employess/craig/boids.html

           *track 002* is a hybrid between boids sound material and
sounds generated by "eetz" my
           previus work still under development.
          +info about "eetz" audio&code
http://www.apo33.org/records/doku.php?id=virtual_records


 * Side B : 004 Karplus* For this track i used code i found in a
supercollider's tutorial
           random melodies with the Karplus-Strong clasic sound
algoritm.. the code could be by
           Paul Berg, Nick Collins, Alo Allik, Jan  Trutzschler,
Zlatko Baracskai, Sergio Luque,
           Jorrit Tamminga, David Cottle, Julio d'Escriván.. not too
much especifications in the
           tutorial,,

           *005 noish vs anton mobin*  (extract) live < at > A Maïzing
Session #24 (KKWNE radio) very
           specials thanks to Zorei   anton mobin: impro with tape,
scratch cassette, delay
           noish: impro with a Pd patch      anton mobin  web:
http://antonmobin.blogspot.com

<< FINE PIXELS >> BY RICARDO MBARKHO - OPENING MAY 15,2012 < at > 6 PM

Galerie Mark Hachem - Beirut — 2002-05-13T22:00:21

FRENCH BELOW
================


RICARDO MBARKHO
<< FINE PIXELS >>
OPENING: TUESDAY MAY 15, 2012 < at > 6 pm
Artist Talk starts < at > 7 pm
www.ricardombarkho.com

at Galerie Mark Hachem - Beirut
Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 7 pm


Galerie Mark Hachem (Beirut) is proud to present “FINE PIXELS” by Lebanese artist RICARDO MBARKHO. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, 15 of May 2012 and will run until Tuesday, 29 of May 2012.

The exhibition will showcase Ricardo Mbarkho’s images: The artist manipulates different layers of significations by investigating multiple questions related to language, communication, cultural industries, history of art as well as the visual representation within the sociopolitical sphere. Mbarkho’s images are made from texts. The artist uses the computer as a tool to transcend texts into images; the text's binary codes, those simple digits that computers use to stock information, are transposed into a unique corresponding visual. By this creative process, the shapes and colors of Ricardo Mbarkho’s art are constantly unveiling new facets of the initial texts.

Ricardo Mbarkho’s work stems from the vibrant scene of today’s global digital art practices. Mbarkho divulges alternative readings to issues pertaining to his local cultural and sociopolitical environments, where the latter’s significance and information are embodied and channeled through the artist’s own flux.

Galerie Mark Hachem invites the public to share the artist’s doubts and findings through Ricardo Mbarkho’s solo show, “Fine Pixels”.



mark hachem I contemporary art gallery
Capital Gardens Bldg. | Salloum St. | Mina el Hosn | Beirut Central District | Lebanon

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FRANCAIS
===========


RICARDO MBARKHO
<< FINE PIXELS >>
VERNISSAGE LE 15 MAI 2012 A 18h
Artist Talk à 19h
www.ricardombarkho.com

à la Galerie Mark Hachem - Beyrouth
Lundi - Samedi, 10h - 19h


La Galerie Mark Hachem (Beyrouth) a le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage de “FINE PIXELS”, l’exposition de l’artiste libanais RICARDO MBARKHO, le mardi 15 mai 2012. L’exposition se poursuit jusqu’au mardi 29 mai 2012.

Au programme, les images numériques de Ricardo Mbarkho: Le langage, la communication, les industries culturelles, l’histoire de l’art ou encore la représentation visuelle de l’espace sociopolitique, autant d’aspects que l’artiste met en exergue en manipulant moult strates de sens relatives à l’objet de son questionnement.

A l’origine, il y’a un texte. L’artiste le prend tel quel, ou le compose dans l’optique particulière de l’œuvre finale. Puis il y’a l’ordinateur, outil de choix de Mbarkho, cet outil de mutation des textes initiaux en visuels. Des images uniques vont ainsi se révéler à chaque fois, images générées par les codes binaires de ces textes, codes qui ne sont autre que la simple unité de base dont l’ordinateur use pour  stocker l’information.

En phase avec les pratiques contemporaines de l’art numérique, l’œuvre de Ricardo Mbarkho propose une lecture renouvelée de l’environnement culturel et sociopolitique de l’artiste. Un momentum très particulier que nous livre Ricardo Mbarkho ; une transcendance, une sorte de mise à nu de textes, de leurs mots, de leurs sens. De ces textes, l’artiste ne retient que l’essentiel, la moelle substantifique.



mark hachem I contemporary art gallery
Imm. Capital Gardens | Rue Salloum | Mina el Hosn | Beirut Central District | Liban

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CFP - 1st International Workshop on MusicalMetacreation (MUME2012)

Graeme McCaig — 2012-05-08T10:50:26

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
======================

((( MUME 2012 )))
1st International Workshop on Musical Metacreation
http://www.metacreation.net/mume2012/

Held at the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'12)
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
October 9, 2012

----------------------

Deadline for Paper and Demo Submissions:
*** July 6, 2012 ***

======================

We are delighted to announce the 1st International Workshop on Musical  
Metacreation (MUME2012) to be held October 9, 2012, in conjunction  
with the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and  
Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'12).

Thanks to continued progress in artistic and scientific research, a  
new possibility is emerging in our musical relationship with  
technology: Generative Music or Musical Metacreation, the design and  
use of computer music systems which are "creative on their own".  
Metacreation involves using tools and techniques from artificial  
intelligence, artificial life, and machine learning, themselves often  
inspired by cognitive and life sciences. Musical Metacreation suggests  
exciting new opportunities to enter creative music making: discovery  
and exploration of novel musical styles and content, collaboration  
between human performers and creative software "partners", and design  
of systems in gaming and entertainment that dynamically generate or  
modify music.

The workshop will bring together artists, practitioners and  
researchers interested in developing software and systems that  
autonomously (or interactively) recognize, learn, represent, complete,  
accompany, compose or interpret music. In particular, emphasis will be  
put on systems with real-time aspects, since these are relevant to  
both art and entertainment communities.


Topics
======

We encourage paper and demo submissions on topics including the  
following:
    * Novel representations of musical information
    * Systems for autonomous or interactive music composition
    * Systems for automatic generation of expressive musical  
interpretation
    * Systems for learning or modelling music style and structure
    * Systems for intelligently remixing or recombining musical material
    * Advances or applications of AI, machine learning, and  
statistical techniques for musical purposes
    * Advances or applications of evolutionary computing or agent and  
multiagent-based systems for musical purposes
    * Computational models of human musical creativity
    * Techniques and systems for supporting human musical creativity
    * Online musical systems (i.e. systems with a real-time element)
    * Adaptive music in video games
    * Methodologies for, and studies reporting on, evaluation of  
musical metacreations
    * Emerging musical styles and approaches to music production and  
performance involving the use of AI systems


Format and Submissions
======================

The workshop will be a one day event including:
    * Presentations of TECHNICAL PAPERS
    * Presentations of POSITION PAPERS relevant to Musical  
Metacreation and its future
    * Presentations of DEMONSTRATIONS
    * One or more PANEL SESSIONS (potential topics include  
international collaborations, evaluation methodologies, industry  
engagement, generative music in art vs. games)

For complete details on attendance, submissions and formatting, please  
visit the workshop website:
*** http://www.metacreation.net/mume2012/ ***


Important Dates
===============

Submission deadline: July 6, 2012
Notification date: August 3, 2012
Accepted Author CRC due to AAAI Press: August 17, 2012
Workshop date: October 9, 2012


Workshop Organizers
===================

Dr. Philippe Pasquier (Workshop Chair)
School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT)
Simon Fraser University

Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt
The School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University

Dr. Oliver Bown
Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
The University of Sydney


----------------------

http://www.metacreation.net/mume2012/

======================

Pd-berlin meeting next tuesday, 8th May

Malte Steiner — 2012-05-06T20:26:34

Hello,

next tuesday, 8th May 20:00, will be the next meeting of Pure Data users
in Berlin at NK (http://www.nkprojekt.de/) - Elsenstr. 52, 2HH 2Etage.

For more information, look up
http://puredata.info/community/groups/pd-berlin/pd-berlin-users-group/
We also encourage you to take an active part, and put up suggestions for
topics you want to talk about / topics you want to be talked about.

Pd-Berlin Google group: You can join the open group
http://groups.google.com/group/pd_berlin, and make questions to the users
there.


Doors are open from 20h-20h15. After that they'll be closed, and you will
have to call someone from the Pd-meeting to get in. To get a telephone
number to call or confirm assistance you can write to
steiner AT block4 DOT com.

Please, don´t call to the staff of NK to open the doors. They let us use
the space but we have to take care about having the meeting without
producing any disturbance to them, and to clean the space after the
meeting.


We would apreciate if you would send us a small mail to
steiner AT block4 DOT com with your name, Pd experience and interests, so
that we know how many people might be coming. Or put your name in the
pd-berlin wiki page.


We would like to thank the support and willingness of NK in the
organization of these events.

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Incarnated Sound - USA Tour 2012

Marco Donnarumma — 2012-05-03T08:33:16

INCARNATED SOUND - USA TOUR 2012
Biophysical music, sonic flesh theory and body hacking courses.

~~~~~~~~

Dear all,
hoping it might be of your interest,
I'm sharing with you the schedule of the upcoming USA Tour.

I'll be performing, teaching and speaking with and about the Xth Sense in 5
cities on the East Coast.
See the planned events below, and feel free to get in touch if you happen
to be in the area.
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/xth-sense/
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii

For detailed information you're welcome to visit:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/calendar

You can still book a place for the Xth Sense workshop in New York at:
http://bit.ly/JEwto0


||| ACM - CHI 2012 Liveness
||| 5-10 May
||| Austin Conference Center, Texas

- Presentation “Xth Sense: recoding visceral embodiment”
Other presenters include Toby Harris, Maria Lantin and Leila Sujir, among
the others.

~~~~~~~~

||| They, Who Sound
||| 7 May
||| Avant Garden, 411 Westheimer, Houston, Texas.

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced
body.
- Performing “Nascent”, incarnated sound sculpture, US Premiere;

~~~~~~~~

||| Washington DC
||| 15 May
||| American University, Washington DC.

A night of Biophysical music with Marco Donnarumma.
- Performing “Music for Flesh II”;
- Performing “Nascent”;
- Open Workshop “Performing incarnated sound: the Xth Sense”.

~~~~~~~~

||| Tanaka/Donnarumma, Mobile and biophysical music
||| 18 May
||| Spectrum, 115 West 23rd Street #22, Manhattan, New York.

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”.
Also on stage Atau Tanaka with his mobile musical instruments.

~~~~~~~~

||| Xth Sense Workshop New York
||| 19-20 May
||| Harvestworks, Manhattan, New York.

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”.
Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.
Book a place at: http://bit.ly/JEwto0

~~~~~~~~

||| NIME Conference
||| 21-23 May
||| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”;
- Poster “Music for Flesh II: informing interactive music performance with
the viscerality of the body system”

Patching Circle in Munich, Germany on May 14

Thomas Mayer — 2012-05-01T21:12:59

Hi,

on Monday, May 14, 20:00, we will have the first Pd patching circle in
Munich, Germany. I hope, you do not mind, if I give the information in
German only:

Ort: iRRland, Bergmannstraße 8, München

Das iRRland ist ein ehemaliges Elektrogeschäft auf der Schwanthalerhöhe,
öffentlich am besten zu erreichen mit Tram 18 oder 19, Haltestelle
Trappentreustraße, gemietet vom Department of Volxvergnügen.

Getränke sind zu günstigen Preisen zu erstehen, Strom und WLAN sind
vorhanden.

Bis dann,
Thomas

CFP | Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City

Medialab-Prado comunicacion — 2012-04-27T11:20:08


*MEDIALAB-PRADO*

Plaza de las Letras
C/ Alameda, 15 · 28014 Madrid
+34 913 692 303
www.medialab-prado.es*
*

*
*


    Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs
    Call for Projects

Science Gallery (Dublin) and Medialab-Prado (Madrid) are issuing an Open 
Call for projects to be collaboratively developed and presented during 
Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs 
(Dublin, Ireland, July 11 -- 26, 2012), with the participation of 
advisors and technical assistants.

Deadline: May 20, 2012.
Call for collaborators: June 1 - July 5, 2012

Through this call 6 to 7 ideas will be selected, aiming to:
- Involve the design of objects, installations or other platforms that 
put the hacker ethos into practice.
- Utilise open and free software and hardware technology developed 
through "Do It Yourself" (DIY) and "Do It With Others"(DIWO) 
methodologies and working strategies.
- Address current and future city needs - Specifically we are calling 
for projects that address: Crowd Sourcing Public Data, Wellbeing and 
Open Data Services.

This call is aimed at artists, designers, makers, doers, data nerds, 
hobbyists, citizen scientists, tech geeks, activists, edgy engineers, 
urban planners and to anyone interested in the theme.

Advisors of the workshop: Tim Redfern, Carolina García Cataño, John 
Lynch with Teresa Dillon (HACK THE CITY curator).

Complete information and guidelines:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/cfp_interactivos_dublin_12

**Activity within the framework of Studiolab European project:
http://www.studiolabproject.eu/
http://medialab-prado.es
http://www.sciencegallery.com/

LoMus 2012

Thierry Coduys — 2012-04-25T07:58:09

Désolé en cas d’envois multiples / sorry for possible crossposting

The dead line for software submission was extended to the April 29th
_______________

LoMus 2012

À la recherche des logiciels libres pour la création sonore et intermedia

Pour sa quatrième édition, LoMus 2012 s’adresse à tous ceux qui s’aventurent dans le développement de logiciels libres musicaux ou de logiciels libres qui peuvent contribuer au processus de la création musicale.

Un prix sera remis aux logiciels qui font preuve non seulement d’innovation, mais notamment d’inventivité face aux enjeux actuels de la création musicale.

Calendrier
6 avril 2012 - Appel à soumissions
29 avril 2012 - Date limite de soumission des logiciels
5 mai 2012 - Notification d'acceptation
11 mai 2012 - Remise du prix lors des JIM 2012

Info : http://concours.afim-asso.org/
JIM2012 : http://www.jim2012.be


LoMus 2012

In search of open-source software for musical and intermedia creation

For its fourth edition, LoMus 2012 invites music and audio open-source software creators to submit original projects that either directly or indirectly contribute to musical creation.

A prize will be awarded to open-source sofware that proves to be not only innovatory but also inventive in the present context of music and audio creation.

Calendar
April 6, 2012 - Call for submissions 
April 29, 2012 - Submission deadline 
May 5, 2012 - Admission notification 
May 11, 2012 - JIM Awards Ceremony

Info: http://concours.afim-asso.org/
JIM2012 : http://www.jim2012.be
http://www.le-hub.org/


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Antescofo Software developer position at Ircam/INRIA

Arshia Cont — 2012-04-23T16:44:10

In his position, you will be interacting with researchers and musician at Ircam and affiliated to the new MUSYNC team-project, a joint project between Ircam, CNRS and Inria. The project is centered on extensions of Antescofo, an award-winning software for realtime computer music composition and performance, featuring a dedicated synchronous programming language coupled to an artificial listening machine. This development mission consist in enriching the language interpreter in the first step by including common formats such as MusicXML, and in a second place to render its current architecture autonomous with a dedicated graphical interface. This project will allow the extension of Antescofo's  applications to new artistic domains and assure its ongoing relationship with the ever growing user community.

Online Application:http://repmus.ircam.fr/antescofo/jobs

Application :  April 13th to September 28th 2012 (or until filled)
Start Date : January 1st 2013
Duration : 1 year, extendable to 2 years
Salary:  2527€ to 3054€ gross based on experience + benefits
Location: Ircam - Centre Pompidou, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004 PARIS, FRANCE

REQUIRED SKILLS

- Solid background in software engineering with C/C++
- Solid background and experience in realtime computer music (audio protocols, languages and engines)
- Solid background in language parsing and lexical analysis
- Familiarity with multi-platform GUI design (Juce, QT, etc.)
- Solid musical culture and willing to work in a collaborative environment with researchers and artists

ABOUT MuSync Project

MuSync is a recent joint team-project between Ircam, INRIA and CNRS.
The work of MuSync team-project is at the intersection of two important problems in computer music: Realtime recognition of music data from audio signals, and reactive synchronous programming in computer music. MuSync is housed at Ircam, the world leader in Sound and Music Computing, a unique place for the convergence of artistic and technological innovations. MuSync's research results are disseminated largely within the electronic music community.

MuSync is home to  Antescofo. An award-winning real-time polyphonic score following program coupled with a synchronous language for realtime computer music composition and performance. Antescofo is among the leading score following programs used for creation of novel mixed electroacoustic pieces with world-class performances and creations throughout the year.


Online Application:http://repmus.ircam.fr/antescofo/jobs





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Pd-berlin meeting next tuesday, 24th April

Malte Steiner — 2012-04-23T10:05:24

Hello,

next tuesday, 24th April 20:00, will be the next meeting of Pure Data users
in Berlin at NK (http://www.nkprojekt.de/) - Elsenstr. 52, 2HH 2Etage.

For more information, look up
http://puredata.info/community/groups/pd-berlin/pd-berlin-users-group/.
We also encourage you to take an active part, and put up suggestions for
topics you want to talk about / topics you want to be talked about.

Pd-Berlin Google group: You can join the open group
http://groups.google.com/group/pd_berlin, and make questions to the users
there.


Doors are open from 20h-20h15. After that they'll be closed, and you will
have to call someone from the Pd-meeting to get in. To get a telephone
number to call or confirm assistance you can write to
info_at_minitronics.net.

Please, don´t call to the staff of NK to open the doors. They let us use
the space but we have to take care about having the meeting without
producing any disturbance to them, and to clean the space after the
meeting.


We would apreciate if you would send us a small mail to
steiner AT block4 DOT com with your name, Pd experience and interests, so
that we know how many people might be coming. Or put your name in the
pd-berlin wiki page.


We would like to thank the support and willingness of NK in the
organization of these events.

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[announce] Shu Lea Cheang exhibition : PD and 30 keyboards making Noise in Nantes

APO33 — 2012-04-18T07:33:21

Hi
If you are around Nantes/France this evening, come to see this  
installation with 30 keyboards connected to Apodio-puredata making  
noise. Quite extreme, it is interesting to see how PD react to that,  
all the keyboards are connected together to the ps2 keyb port, the  
audience put some random keys back on the keyboard and trigger some  
sound. Of course the combination of PD and the 30 hacked beyboard  
creates amazing entropic reaction.

It will be fun!


SHU LEA CHEANG (Taiwan/Paris)

BABYWORK


 From 18th of April to 8th of May 2012

-Exhibition - Plateforme intermedia

Opening Wednesday the 18th at 6pm - Plateforme intermédia - La Fabrique

Open from Wednesday to Sunday from 2pm to 6pm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjB5UNjqvw


The Locker Baby project recalls Ryu Murakami's noted novel Coin Locker Babies
(1980) in which twin boys were abandoned at birth in one square foot  
coin locker metal box at Tokyos subway station. The boys grew up  
haunted with the sound of human heart beats, those of their birth  
mothers. Coin lockers are Japan's train station landmark and much  
utilized by shoppers and travelers. In post-war japan, unwanted babies  
(often interracial) by unwed mothers were dropped off in coin-lockers.  
Fear of terrorists' explosive deposit, coin lockers have ceased to  
exist at public space in most metropolitan cities. In 1995, when Tokyo  
Doomsday was called for by cult Aum Shinrikyo, the coin lockers were  
sealed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force for a day. The  
historical association and references derived from coin lockers  
inspire the Locker Baby project.

The Locker Baby project proposes a fictional scenario set in year 2030. The
transnational DPT (DollyPolly Transgency) advances clone babies as an  
industry. Genes extracted from deep sea pearls harvested off Okinawa  
Island are identified as best breed. Coin lockers situated in busy  
Tokyo train stations are located for underworld test tube  
fertilization. Ticking seconds to oblivion in darkness, the lockers  
announce the birth of the Clone Generation. Serving themselves in the  
intelligent industry, the locker babies are entrusted to negotiate  
human "memory" and "emotions". The Locker Baby holds the key to
unlock the networked inter-sphere of ME-motion (Memory-Emotion), a  
playfield of sonic imagery triggered only by human interaction.



SHU LEAN CHEANG

Shu Lea Cheang (born in Taiwan in 1954) is a multi-media artist who  
works in the fields of net-based installation,social interface and  
film production.

Over the past decade, she has emerged as a prominent figure in new  
media art. Cheang is one of the leading multimedia artists dealing  
with multidisciplinary studies. Her work is unique in allowing viewer  
interaction. She is most noted for her individual approach in the  
realm of art and technology, creatively intermingling social issues  
with artistic methods.[1]

Cheang's art ranges in mediums such as film, video, net-based  
installation, and interface, which explore "...ethnic stereotyping,  
the nature and excesses of popular media, institutional - and  
especially governmental - power, race relations, and sexual politics."  
("Shu Lea Cheang") Most recently, she has moved to 35mm feature  
filmmaking.

She has been a member of the Paper Tiger Television collective since  
1981. Though originally based in New York, Cheang is currently living  
and working in Paris, France.


En Collaboration avec Inspace (GB) et Zero1 festival (USA)

Satellite CCRMA workshop - Jun11-15 < at >STEIM, Amsterdam

Jonathan Reus — 2012-04-21T16:05:09

Hey all, apologies for cross-posting. But I think this is relevant to
anyone who'd like to experiment with mobile computing and music
interaction.

June 11-15 Edgar Berdahl and Florian Goltz will do a week-long intensive
workshop on the subject of music interaction using open, embedded
single-board linux computers and PureData.

Please see the workshop information below, and feel free to pass this along
to anyone you think would be interested!

Satellite CCRMA: Interactive design with open embedded computers
June 11th, 2012 10:00 am until June 15th, 2012

*Advanced registration is required for this course and can be made using this
online registration
form<http://www.steim.org/steim/event_registration.php?event=501>
.
*
This is an in-depth course in physical interaction design led by
researchers Edgar Berdahl and Florian Goltz. In this workshop we will
explore the essential notions of interactive art and invention through
working with small embeddable computers (the open, DIY-friendly Beagle
Board<http://beagleboard.org/>).
These small computers combine the connectivity of a laptop with the
computational power of a high-end smartphone; however they are less
expensive than either and fit inside a cigar box. We will dedicate much of
the workshop to prototyping new functional artworks, for example: musical
instruments, effects processors, interactive installation works, and
anything else you can imagine that requires high computational power in a
small, inexpensive footprint.

In the broader sense this workshop deals with interaction design: What
happens when human behaviours meet those of machines? How do the devices we
use determine the style of interaction? How do we design for the
limitations of human performance and the affordances of machines? A key
component of this workshop will be learning about the process of making
something that interacts with the real world. We will cover the topic of
physical interaction design in depth, using the physical interaction design
framework developed by Bill Verplank as a fundamental approach.


Specific topics we will cover include:


   - The core perspectives of physical interaction design: idea, metaphor,
   model, display, error, scenario, tasks, and control
   - Exercises in invention, brainstorming and sketching
   - A survey of existing controllers and interactive music practices
   - Embedded, open computing with Linux and the Beagle Board
   - Sensor technologies (force-sensitive, capacitive, optical, and
   acceleration) and the design of custom DIY sensors using conductive and
   piezoelectric fabrics
   - Applications of sensors and electronics to real-time music
   - Programming music synthesis and effects with PureData
   - Interfacing sensors with the Beagle Board using the Arduino Nano
   - Hands-on work with analog and digital electronics

*Dates: 11 – 15 June , 2012
Time: 10:00 – 19:00 each day with lunch break
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, 1017WL Amsterdam
Cost: €300 registration + cost of workshop kit *(see below)
For those traveling from abroad, STEIM has available a number of rooms in
our artist hotel for a discounted rate. Please contact us directly by email
if you are interested in reserving one of these rooms.
*
For more information visit STEIM.ORG <http://steim.org/>


The Beagle Board at the heart of our creations will be running Satellite
CCRMA <https://ccrma.stanford.edu/%7Eeberdahl/Satellite/>, a special flavor
of the Linux operating system developed at Stanford University. Included in
Satellite CCRMA is PureData, a widely-used open-source visual programming
language for real-time sound synthesis and processing. We’ll be using
PureData for most of the programming of sound and interaction on our
devices.

The workshop is intended for musicians or composers, makers, engineers,
industrial designers, or anybody looking to learn more about interaction
design with basic analog and digital electronics. Please see the Physical
Interaction Design for Music course taught at Stanford
University<https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a/>for more
information.

* We will provide workshop kits containing all the necessary hardware
(BeagleBoard, Arduino Nano, breadboard, sensors, and components). The kits
can then be purchased and taken home at the end of the workshop after you
have built your prototypes. Thanks to a generous donation of components by
the FLORIS.CC webshop <http://www.pieterfloris.nl/shop/> we are able to
sell the kits for €165. The price of the kits may come down even further as
we seek out additional sponsors.


*WHAT TO BRING / PREPARE
*Each participant must bring a Max OS X, Linux, or Windows laptop. A pair
of headphones with a stereo minijack connector. And a willingness to
experiment and invent! To save time, we ask that Windows users pre-install
Cygwin in advance of the workshop so that openssh, xinit, and the
“required” packages are all available.

Even though we’ll be focusing on using PureData, any Linux-compatible
synthesis software *should* theoretically run on the BeagleBoard. If you’re
interested in using something other than PD please let us know beforehand
so we can prepare.

You should have some programming know-how (for example: MaxMSP, Javascript,
or Python) for this workshop, though you certainly don’t need to be an
expert. We will be providing numerous examples to get you off the ground.

The kits can be used for prototyping new kinds of effects boxes (for
instance, for guitar). If you are interested in creating a programmable
effects box then please email the workshop leaders in advance so we can
provide a 1/4″ guitar cable connector for you.



*WORKSHOP LEADERS
Edgar Berdahl* is the lead developer of the Satellite CCRMA platform for
developing new musical instruments and sound art installations. Edgar
received his PhD at CCRMA, Stanford University in the area of new musical
instrument design.  His research now spans the interdisciplinary fields of
new media art, haptics, force-feedback control, acoustics, actuated musical
instruments, physical modeling, physical interaction design, and Autonomous
New Media Artefacts (AutoNMA).  Edgar is the inventor of the haptic drum,
which enables a musician to make gestures that would otherwise be difficult
or impossible, and in general he aims to make new digital interactions seem
more analog.
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Florian Goltz* is an artist and engineer living in Berlin who designs sound
art installations. Florian received a master’s degree in Communication
Science and Technical Acoustics from the Technical University of Berlin,
where he worked extensively with Arduino, Linux, Pure Data (pd), and
SuperCollider.