***Live Electronics and Sound and Music Computing Workshop 2025***
Faculty: Alvise Vidolin and Nicola Bernardini
Academic Coordinator: Julian Scordato
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
The Chigiana Musical Academy presents its advanced ***Live Electronics and
Sound and Music Computing Workshop 2025***, designed for performers and
composers working in contemporary digital music. This year's program
honors *Pierre
Boulez* in the centenary of his birth.
**Curriculum includes:**
- Performance techniques for live electronics
- Electroacoustic composition with live processing
- Concert performances of historic masterpieces and world premieres using
real-time systems
- Practical workshops and masterclasses
- Final performance of works created during the program
- Guest lectures by leading figures: Giorgio Nottoli, Giuseppe Di Giugno,
and Andrew Gerzso
**Dates:** July 10-23, 2025
**Venue:** Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Siena
Full program details and application:
https://www.chigiana.org/live-electronics-2025
<https://www.chigiana.org/live-electronics-2025>
Hi,
planifolia, library of vanilla abstractions, was updated today (v.0.32) and
is already in decken.
There are both bug fixes ([any.==], specially) and new tools (osc
ready-to-use abstractions, list manipulation functions, [symbol.v], etc).
The idea of planifolia is to have a good amount of vanilla
dependence/compilation free tools to make it easier to bring patches to
different PD-based systems.
https://github.com/zepadovani/planifolia
Hi all,
The submission page for PdMaxCon25 is now open. Please read the instructions carefully and use the guidelines/templates provided.
You can find it all here: https://music.illinois.edu/pd-max-con/
Please spread the word.
Some fun facts:
PdMaxCon25~ is September 5-7, 2025
The PdMaxCon will be open and free to the public.
We will require registration and attendance, but it will be free.
We have no funding to provide artists, so please budget accordingly.
Miller Puckette and David Zicarelli are the keynotes
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the historical origin of Lejaren Hiller’s ‘ILLIAC Suite’
Any questions, ping my work email: kerry(a)illinois.edu
Patch on, my friends,
Kerry
In case you have missed both the original deadline and our announcement
for extending it:
IEM (iem.at) and the SMC network (smcnetwork.org) extends its call for
paper contributions to SMC, which will be held in Graz, consisting of a
summer school between July 7th and 9th,
and the conference/concerts as main event between July 10th and 12th at
MUMUTH/Kunstuni Graz, 2025.
The new submission deadline for papers is **March 12th 2025**.
See <https://smc25.iem.at> for details; we chose "Auditory Landscapes"
as a theme.
IOhannes
(for the Graz SMC25 team)
Hi all,
The University of Illinois is hosting a special PdCon - the PdMaxCon - to celebrate Pd’s 30th and Max’s 40th year anniversaries.
This is a save-the-date email: September 5-7, 2025, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
This is the page that will be updated with more information as it becomes available: https://music.illinois.edu/pd-max-con/
We already have Miller and David Zicarelli lined up as our keynote speakers.
This will be double-blind, peer-reviewed. So I am also looking for volunteers to review submissions. Please drop me an email at kerry(a)illinois.edu with your preferred email, and what you feel you can review competently (e.g., research? Music? Workshops? Demos? Installations? Topics? Pd or Max or both? Etc.)
You can be both a reviewer and a submitter.
Registration will be free, but we have no money to offer travel or accommodation support.
Regards,
Kerry
Hi list,
version 0.4.0 adds 2 new objects:
- [pqcrossover~]
- 4th order Linkwitz-Riley filters to be able to do multi-band
limiting (or other processing)
- [pqpeak~]
- reports maximum peak in dBFS from a 2048 sample buffer to be used
with Pd's [VU]
sources and bug reports:
https://github.com/Lucarda/pd-pulqui
get the bianries from Deken for many OSs and archs via menu "help/find
externals" or from
https://deken.puredata.info/results.html?name=pulqui
:)
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Hey all
I just released another version of my pet project netpd. While not so
much has changed in netpd itself, this is the first release available
as AppImage for Linux. There are also apps for Windows and macOS (code-
signed and notarized). Those are meant to be user-friendly for people
not familiar with Pd. netpd still runs (and will forever) with regular
Pd and some externals.
Feedback is welcome!
There is a small, but committed user base regularly using netpd and
having jam sessions. While not flawless, netpd has matured in recent
years and might interest people that like creating electronic music (of
any kind). A handful of new instruments have been developed which are
hosted separately and thus not always mentioned in the netpd release
notes, but it's probably those that create the fun. Let me just mention
a few of the more recent ones:
untik - new versatile clock system supporting time patterns with
irregular intervals and polyrhythms
metaseq - a meta sequencer that slices timelines and re-arranges them
elorg - an organ emulation
mmmarimba - a marimba based on Mike Moser-Booth's marimba patch
filtlib - filter effect library
mx - added support for nesting effects in other effects
Of course, netpd users might develop their own instruments and use them
with their peers. A handful of such instruments is in circulation. The
documentation of the topic has recently been updated (see links below).
Download:
https://netpd.org/download/
Release notes:
https://github.com/reduzent/netpd/releases/tag/v2.3.5
Listen to netpd artefacts (sound made fully in Pd):
https://netpd.org/listen/
Write your own instruments:
https://netpd.org/docs/instrument-creation/
So.. I guess that's enough of shameless self-advertisement...
Enjoy!
Roman
hi list,
[hidraw] version 0.2.0 was released and the new features are:
- add optional 3th outlet via creation arg "-info" that outputs devices
listing as a Pd list
- add methods "open-path" and "list-vidpid"
- update hidapi submodule
the motivation for the update was that is was very hard to open 2 (or
more) same devices (same as in: same manufacturer/model). with this
version one can query devices and store them on a [text], do some logic
and finally open devices via "open-path"
it's up on Deken for Windows(i386 amd64), Linux(i386 amd64 arm arm64)
and macOS(amd64 arm64)
sources https://github.com/Lucarda/pd-hidraw
:)
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Dear all,
Please pardon x-posting.
L2Ork is pleased to announce the latest Holiday release of Pd-L2Ork and WebPdL2Ork, version 20241217. Below is an update summary:
*Integrated rich text and vanilla 0.55 additions
*Improved indexing
*Initial clean-up of the cyclone library (active, mousefilter, and MouseState)
*Added neuralnet
*Reworked flite
*WebPdL2Ork bugfixes and improvements (Tweeter now loads in seconds)
*59 new L2Ork Tweeter instruments and a new piece, added MadMapper interfacing patches
You can grab your builds from the usual place https://bit.ly/pd-l2ork
Don't forget to follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/L2Ork
Wishing all Happy Holidays!
Best,
Ico
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Director, Creativity + Innovation
Director, Human-Centered Design iPhD
Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
Virginia Tech
Creative Technologies in Music
School of Performing Arts – 0141
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
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ci.icat.vt.edu<http://ci.icat.vt.edu>
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ico.bukvic.net<http://ico.bukvic.net>
Call for submissions: ECHO #7 - Speculative Sound Synthesis
Deadline: February 28 2025
The online journal ECHO invites submissions for its upcoming seventh issue on "Speculative Sound Synthesis," edited by David Pirrò, and Leonie Strecker. ECHO is the online publication of the Music, Thought and Technology research group at Orpheus Instituut, Ghent.
The artistic practice of sound synthesis has evolved in close relation to science and technology. This relationship has been fundamental, offering new means and methods for experimentation while simultaneously instilling a strong pull toward standardisation, closure, and control.
"Speculative Sound Synthesis" destabilises and recomposes the multilayered relationship between technology and artistic practice, seeking to unleash aesthetic potentials that would remain unseen or hidden by technological habits. Speculation, in this context, denotes a questioning attitude that emphasises hypothetical thinking, curiosity, and exploration. As an artistic practice, speculation functions as a situated oscillation between experience and imagination, generating new forms of knowledge and opening pathways to novel aesthetic thinking.
This special issue welcomes contributions from practitioners who are committed to critical and speculative approaches at the intersection of art and technology. Within this hybrid space, synthesis is understood both as a means of producing new forms and, in a more abstract sense, the practice of bringing forth assemblages of materials and concepts. We seek contributors engaged in practices that question, challenge, criticise, deconstruct, recompose, reformulate, shift, dislocate, endanger, or reject established standards of sound synthesis, exploring aesthetic positions that offer alternative perspectives on thinking and creating sound.
For further details and submission instructions, please click:
https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/current-call
This issue is edited by the Speculative Sound Synthesis research project team. The "Speculative Sound Synthesis" project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) – PEEK AR 713-G and is hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
https://speculative.iem.at/