Hi,
the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (famous for this year's Linux Audio
Conference) invites to its annual exhibition of student's works 16th
to 19th July. There will be several Pd works again, some of them in
the Klanglabor/Soundlab of the Academy, where Matthias Neuenhofer and
myself will show pieces for the "16:9" speaker wall of Rumori/Teige. I
cannot say much about Matthias' work, except that it's hauntingly
beautiful!
My piece is called "schusslig 1.7 beta" and consists of an unfinished
abstract 2D bullet hell shoot'em'up game (Psyvariar meets Pong)
written in Lua (the engine is ~500 lines of pure Lua, to be published
later), graphics projected with Gem and sonified with Pd (with some
game sounds courtesy of Obiwannabe) for you to survive.
More info on the open days:
http://www.khm.de/
Programme:
http://www.khm.de/aktuelles/pressemeldung/article/112-tage-der-offenen-ta14…
16:9 http://www.rumori.de/projects/169/
Hope to see you there,
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Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
After a little holiday due to an OS upgrade, pdpedia is back! Please
let me know if it isn't working for you:
http://pdpedia.org
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"[W]e have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are
deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from
scarcity." -John Gilmore
= RJ Sprint, July 2008 =
www.realityjockey.com
= Kickstart interactive music =
RJ is an interactive music format for the iphone and other mobile
devices. The goal of the project is to turn interactive music into a
consumer format.
? RJ tracks are mainly consumed with headphones. Think of it as the
next generation of walkman or mp3 player. The consumer experience of
RJ is similar to the effects of drugs. Drugs affect our sensory
perception, so does RJ. RJ is a mind twisting hearing sensation.?
= Open doors =
RJ is built on a number of open source components and most parts of
the project will be open sourced in return. RJ tracks are composed
using pure data (PD). The RJ player has direct access to the online
repository of RJ tracks. Of course we want as much people as possible
to participate in this and create RJ tracks.
= RJ sprint =
The first RJ sprint is focused on people who want to produce RJ tracks
using Pure Data. We will provide RJ-Know-How and sufficient tools. You
should be a fluid PD user with a music background. For this first
sprint we are looking for 5 to 10 people. Your feedback will have
direct impact on the development of the RJ format, player and
composition tools.
Right now we can offer to you not more and not less than being among
the first RJs. Your RJ tracks will be the first tracks downloadable on
the RJ player. If we manage to turn RJ into a success story, your name
and your tracks will be part of this success.
= Welcome =
The event is the first of a number of sprints hosted by Michael
Breidenbruecker, Guenter Geiger, Paul Brossier and Amaury Hazan. It
takes place in Bizau, Austria on a hopefully sunny weekend in the
scenic landscape of the austrian alps.
Of course we will cover the costs of your traveling from and to Bizau,
accommodation and food during the event.
We would be very delighted to welcome you and a number of fellow RJs
in Bizau. Please let or Guenter or Michael know as soon as possible if
you are interested and we will contact you concerning details.
Date: 11, 12, 13 July 2008;
Location: Bizau, Austria
Hotel: Hotel Taube
If you want to join us, please contact
geiger at realityjockey.com or michael at realityjockey.com
More info at www.realityjockey.com
Thanks,
Michael Breidenbruecker, Günter Geiger, Paul Brossier, Amaury Hazan.
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So it turns out that the drivers for the Sony SIXAXIS controller are
now included in the Linux kernel. So if you have kernel version
2.6.24, then you can just plug it in, and it'll be fully recognized.
And even better, [hid] gets all of the data from it, except for the
accelerometer. So I wrote [sixaxis], which is meant to be used in
conjunction with [hid], to get the accelerometer data.
This controller is unusual because all of its buttons are also
pressure sensitive. That means for each button, you also get an
analog report between 0 255. You can get this first version in SVN
or here, built for i386:
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/objects.html
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Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/objects.html
You can read all about the protocol design here:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Firmata
Here are some key changes:
- updated to use Firmata 2.0 protocol
- Firmata is now an Arduino library
- a number of included firmwares to support things like Servos
- switched serial speed to 115200
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I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and
during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man
for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General
Smedley Butler
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
**Piksel08: code dreams
december 4-7 2008
Bergen, Norway
How does code dream? What are the dreams of code?
Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded
reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic
vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of
mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and
umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened.
Piksel08: code dreams explores the dreams of this soft machine; bachelors
coding for pleasure, reverse engineering paranoiac constructs of the real,
automatic coding practice, soft hardware, and everyday magic.
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
**open call:
1. Installations
Projects related to the code dreams theme including but not restricted to:
reverse engineering, soft hardware, code poetry, novel instruction sets,
invisible exploration, ghosted computation...
programmed by and running on free and open source software and/or open/DIY
hardware.
2. Audiovisual performance
Live art realised by the use of free and open source software. We specially
encourage live coding and DIY hardware projects to apply.
3. Software/Hardware
Innovative DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art
released under an open licence.
<<<<<< Deadline - august 15. 2008 >>>>>>
Please use the online submit form at:
http://piksel.no/piksel08/subform.html
or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online
documentation with images/video to piksel08 [AT] piksel [DOT] no
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
**subsections:
**real code
real.co.[de][re] actively explores code which has strong effects on the real,
constructing the world through prediction and description. The twelve hour
real.co.[de][re] session will attempt the active construction of a working
code model (of any form) which addresses a flattening of the distinction
between software and hardware, to resolve a new political reference for real
core code.
**abstract code
Abstract code is software whose results can be invisible, a software
implementing different layers of action at the same time.
Abstract code is a connection to parallel worlds, a poetic formula dealing
with outer forces. Code is art, its action is subtile, effective, magic.
procedural text
maledictions, oracles, iambi, hymn, formula, refrains, hypnotic sentences,
prayers, and other.
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Piksel is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway,
Vestnorsk Filmsenter, Hordaland County Council and others.
More info: http://piksel.no
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For this release, there has been a lot of work in making the GUI and
user experience much more fluid and easy. There is a new visual look
that was designed to make patches more readable. Additionally, lots
of things have been tweaked to make Pd behave more like a normal app.
There has already been a lot of testing on these builds, so it is
getting quite close to a final version. (Debian/PowerPC is missing
now but will come later)
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
Here is a partial changelog:
- next visual appearance designed for readability
- default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc.
GNU/Linux: /usr/local/lib/pd-externals and ~/pd-externals
Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd
Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/
Application Data/Pd
- lots of standard key bindings added:
Enter/Return for OK
Escape for Cancel
Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows
on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows
on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows
Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window
Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window
Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console
Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser
- you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on
Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in paths
- Cut/Copy/Paste now work directly into object and message boxes on
all platforms
- fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console
- [declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading (but much work
needs to be done before there namespace support is complete)
- "File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/) on Mac OSX
- new patches default to the folder last saved in
- included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
- 'hardware' and 'deprecated' removed from libraries loaded by default
- On Debian/Ubuntu, the packages now install into /usr rather than /
usr/local
- On Mac OS X, you can now build "standalone" applications from the
File menu.
KNOWN BUGS
- check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs
- Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup
preferences
- pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd
- loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying
to load it
- the GUI runs slower on some older Macs
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I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and
during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man
for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General
Smedley Butler
I am giving this workshop at Hangar in Barcelona in a week and some.
There is a cap of 15 people to keep it workable, but there are still
a couple spots open.
http://www.hangar.org/drupal/?q=content/workshop-hans-christoph-steiner
30 of june 2008 - 4 of july 17h-21h
(possibility of working in the space the whole day if needed)
participation : 20 euros
inscription : activitats(a)hangar.org (with letter of motivation)
This workshop will focus on building instruments using Pd with
Arduino and game-controllers to control sound, video, and graphics in
real time. It will cover getting data into Pd, turning that data into
a usable form, then mapping the data to build engaging interactions
and interesting performances. Participants will learn how to get data
from the real world, process the data to eliminate noise and ignore
unimportant details, then create a data flow that gives interesting
control over media. If time permits, force and vibration feedback
will be introduced.
The workshop is for beginners as well as experienced users, but some
experience with Pd is strongly encouraged. Bring in game controllers,
tablets, mice, etc. or an Arduino with sensors. You can use your own
laptop, the workshop will be preceded with a short installation help
session. This course will prepare you for further work in audio,
video, graphics or electronics. It will be project based, so bring a
project idea to work on. By the end of the workshop, you should have
something that works.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is
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