Dear Friends
Concordia Laptop Orchestra will perform this Saturday morning (sometime between 11:00 AM to 12 PM EST) at the Birmingham Network Music Festival with two acoustic ensembles in three locations: The Transcenders @ UC San Diego and Irvine and Mustek @ Edinburgh (29 performers in total).
You are invited to experience the performance in one of the following options:
1. in 8 channels at Concordia Music Department (John Molson building, 1450 Guy Street, 8th floor, room 245, Montreal)
2. in 4 channels at the Birmingham Network Music Festival (The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside Digbeth, Birmingham, UK B12 0QH)
3. Online (audio) at http://mixlr.com/eldad-tsabary
The telematic ensemble will perform the piece Small World Network (2013), created for this event
See program notes here: http://networkmusicfestival.org/programme-2/performances/clork/
Summary:
A performance by a telematic mixed ensemble (29 players) including Concordia Laptop Orchestra @ the Birmingham Network Music Festival
Date&time:
Sat, March 23rd 11:18 (approximate time… )
The concert begins at 10 AM EST (7 AM PST, 3 PM GMT)
Location:
Montreal, San Diego, Irvine, Edinburgh, Birmingham, online
Performers:
Můstek @ Edinburgh, Scotland
Lauren Sarah Hayes piano
Christos Michalakos drums
The Transcenders @ UC San Diego
Elisabet Curbelo soprano/piano
Marcelo F. Lazcano guitar
Joshua Charney piano
Mark Dresser Bass
Jon Forshee Guitar
Judith Hamann Cello
Michael Ricca Audio
Yeung-ping CHEN Network
@ UC Irvine
Jared Mattson Guitar
Jonathan Mattson Drums
Martim Galvão Percussion
Juan David Rubio Percussion
Shih-wei Wu Bassoon
CLOrk @ Montreal QC
Perry Pilloy Laptop
Simon White Laptop
Marco Liy Laptop
Frankie Fiore Laptop
Keith Odell Laptop
Byron Edelmann Laptop
Alexis Dionne Laptop
Chris Gorman Laptop
David Fiorentino Laptop
Charles Bale Laptop
Michael Palumbo Laptop
Evan Stepanian Laptop
Joe Brown Laptop
Reg Kachanoski laptop
Eldad Tsabary Director / conductor
Email me for more details
Cheers
Eldad
The second Network Music Festival will take place in Birmingham (UK) on
22-24 February 2013. Sébastien Piquemal will hold a WebPd workshop as
part of the festival.
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More about the workshop:
WebPd for online “jamming” applications.
Saturday 23rd February 11am-1pm & Sunday 24th February 10am-12.30pm
Level: beginner-intermediate
WebPd is an open-source library written in JavaScript, allowing to run
Pure Data patches on the web.
In this workshop, we will program an online jamming application with
JavaScript and WebPd. This application will consist in a simple web
page, where every user can “jam” with other online users with mouse
clicks, key presses or moving objects – all in sound. Each attendee will
make his own application.
A workflow will be proposed : firstly designing the interaction and the
jamming system, secondly prototyping the sound in Pure Data, and finally
writing the JavaScript code and integrating the sound to the web page.
At the end of the day, we will gather, try everybody’s jamming app and
make some noise.
Attendees will first receive a quick introduction to Pure Data and to
JavaScript. They will learn how to get started with both technologies,
write a simple web page with a dash of JavaScript and make a simple Pure
Data patch. Then, they will learn how to use WebPd to sonify a web page.
Everybody is welcome. People with no previous knowledge in the
technologies will focus on learning, people with JavaScript and/or Pure
Data knowledge will be able to explore deeper the possibilities of WebPd
of making web pages sound better.
Sébastien Piquemal, born in France in 1986, is a computer engineer,
musician and sound designer based in Helsinki. He has been working as a
web developer at Futurice Ltd. since 2010, mostly developing Futurice’s
internal services and IT infrastructure. Sébastien is also studying
sound design in Helsinki Media Lab, and on his free-time, developing
open-source projects such as WebPd – a Javascript library for running
Pure Data patches on the web.
http://networkmusicfestival.org/programme-2/workshops/#webpd
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All workshops will take place at The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Deritend,
Birmingham, B12 0QH
The workshop is free to attend for NMF2013 ticket holders but spaces are
limited so please sign up in advance by emailing
networkmusicfestival(a)gmail.com or ask at the information desk at the
festival.
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Network Music Festival presents a weekend of hi-tech musical
performances, installations and workshops that presents new musical
forms and ideas where networking is central to the aesthetics, creation
or performance practice of the work.
More about the festival: http://networkmusicfestival.org/
(sorry for x-post)
Dears,
if you find yourself in Amsterdam this week...
"Come join us before the opening ceremonies of Sonic Acts festival for the
initial preview of new media and sound artist Marco Donnarumma’s latest
work, Nigredo.
Nigredo (Marco Donnarumma, 2013), developed during a residency at STEIM, is
designed as a private 8 minute artwork to be experienced by one visitor at
a time. The work draws from studies in analytical psychology, human sensory
system, and biotechnology so to create an intimate and uncanny experience
of one’s internal self.
The work uses ad hoc biofeedback methods and wearable bioacoustic
technology to create feedback systems within the visitor’s own body through
sound (bioacoustics) and bioelectric signals. The senses are heightened
beyond their natural threshold, so as to induce an intense experience
between viscera and perception.
The term Nigredo comes originally from alchemy, where it is referred to as
putrefaction or decomposition. In order to create the philosopher’s stone,
alchemists would produce a homogeneous black matter by slowly cooking all
their ingredients at once. Later in the framework of analytical psychology,
the term Nigredo became a metaphor for the moment of despair and
disillusionment caused by a spiralling descent into the dark unknowns of
the subconscious mind.
The techniques used in this artwork are completely safe, however, be aware
that the work includes high sound pressure level, pulsating lights, and
induced body vibration."
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PLEASE NOTE:
Private showings will happen every ten minutes from 11h-14h and 15h-18h
Due to the limited number of available slots it is recommended to reserve
in advance.
Book your slot at the bottom of this page:
http://steim.org/event/nigredo-preview-feb21/
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DATE: 21 FEB 2013
TIME: Five showings per hour, one every 10 minutes
11h – 14h
15h – 18h
COST: FREE
LOCATION: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam
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Hope to see some of you there,
best wishes,
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Marco Donnarumma
New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction Research Team.
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London
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Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com
Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
[Sorry for any cross posting, feel free to contact me off list to discuss]
PhD Studentships in Music available at Durham University
We are pleased to announce the availability of up to three funded PhD studentships. In recognition of the recent strategic appointments of Professor Tuomas Eerola and Dr Nick Collins, which they will be taking up over the coming months, we invite proposals related to their areas of expertise, namely:
. Music cognition/ Empirical musicology, especially in relation to the themes of emotion and of movement (PhD by thesis)
. Live computer music/ generative music (PhD by thesis or by composition)
We welcome proposals for projects overlapping with the research expertise of other department staff.
Doctoral studentships will be tenable for three years from October 2013. They will annually provide award-holders with a fee-waiver and a tax-free maintenance grant at the current RCUK rate (currently £13590).
Applicants must have submitted an online application form no later than Monday 11 March in order to be considered for a studentship. They will need to include within the Other Relevant Experience section of the online application form a summary of the research project they plan to conduct. This should not exceed 1000 words in length and should address the following questions:
a. What research question or problem will they be addressing?
b. What is the research context in which the question or problem is located?
c. What contribution to knowledge and understanding do they expect to make?
d. What methodology will they employ to address the research question/problem?
e. What sources will they be using during the research project, where are they located, and how will they be accessed?
Potential applicants are encouraged to contact music.pgadmissions(a)durham.ac.uk for advice before submitting their applications. See www.dur.ac.uk/music/postgraduate/ for further details on studying for a research degree at Durham.
Candidates are also encouraged to attend our Postgraduate Open Day on Saturday 9 March from 12.00 pm to 4.00 pm. This event will include the opportunity to meet staff, listen to mini research papers by staff and current postgraduate students, and tour our facilities. Lunch will be provided. If you are looking to study at MA or PhD level in the areas of Musicology, Ethnomusicology or Composition and would like to attend this event please email Karen Nichol (karen.nichol(a)durham.ac.uk) by Friday 1 March 2013. Karen
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Karen Nichol
Departmental Administrator
Department of Music
Durham University
Palace Green
Durham DH1 3RL
Telephone: +44 (0)191 334 3156
Fax: +44 (0)191 334 3141
Email: karen.nichol(a)durham.ac.uk
The Mac OS X/PowerPC build machine was down when the 0.43.4 release went out,
so I had posted on older build. That build machine is back up now, so I just
updated the Mac OS X/PowerPC build to be the full, complete 0.43.4 build.
Its available in the regular spot:
http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4
.hc
Raspberry Pi Flavored Pd Patching Circle Sunday 2013-02-10
On Sunday February 10th, starting at noon, we’re going to have a Pure
Data patching circle, with particular interest in using Pd on the
Raspberry Pi.
A Patching Circle is an informal gathering of anyone who is interested
in patching languages (Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, etc.). Beginners and
experienced patchers welcome. Open to everyone – work on personal or
professional projects, school work, or just patch quietly to yourself,
in a room full of other people patching patches and helping other
people patch.
This time, we will have some special guests, including Miller
Puckette, creator of Max/Pure_Data, + UK Composer Julian Brooks, who
will be demonstrating some of his work in Pd.
If you have any Pd or Raspberry Pi projects to show off, please
contact Theron at theron.trowbridge(a)gmail.com.
The event is free. There is an Eventbrite page set up for RSVPs:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5026873514 – just so we know how many
people are coming.
We will have copies of the Miller MUS 171 "Introduction to Computer
Music with Pd" class available to copy (bring a USB stick or hard
drive with at least 16 GB of space), as well as the (SDHC) Pd-Pi image
to use Pure Data on the Raspberry Pi.
Dear all,
This evening (Thursday 7th February)
6 - 6.45pm EST / 11 - 11.45pm GMT
There will be a live telematic performance with a concurrent internet
audio-stream kindly provided by NAiSA
Featuring:
CLOrk (Montreal, CA)
Members of The Cybernetic Orchestra (Hamilton, CA)
Julian Brooks (HELOpg) UK
Live Coding, Improvisation, Text Scores, Beats and Pieces and other
telematically induced weirdness.
All welcome so please bring your ears along and join us if you are feeling
so inclined:
http://www.naisa.ca/
*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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Libre Graphics Meeting. Open Call for Presentations
Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) 2013: Future Tools will take place in
Medialab-Prado from April 10 to 13 in Madrid, Spain. LGM is seeking for
proposals to be presented within the program of the event.
The Meeting is a unique opportunity for software developers, artists and
designers from all over the world to collaborate and develop present and
future tools. By Libre Graphics we mean Free, Libre and Open Source
tools for design, illustration, photography, typography, art, graphics,
page layout, publishing, cartography, animation and video. The Libre
Graphics Meeting is not just about software, but extends to standards,
file formats and actual use of these in creative work.
The call is looking for in-depth presentations on Libre Graphics
technologies, showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics
tools, new projects, updates from existing projects, current status,
future roadmaps, prototypes...
Click here to see find out what kind of proposals are suitable for this
call:
*http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2013/call-for-presentations/*
Deadline: February 15, 2013. Submit your proposal now!!
--
Nerea García Garmendia
Comunicación / Press
Medialab-Prado
Intermediae Matadero Madrid
Paseo de la Chopera, 14 28045 Madrid
(Temporary Location)
Tel. +34 915 177 288
difusion(a)medialab-prado.es
www.medialab-prado.eshttp://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid
Twitter: @medialabprado
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*NETWORK MUSIC FESTIVAL // A hi-tech musical weekender*
*22-24th FEBRUARY 2012 // BIRMINGHAM (UK)*
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*Network Music Festival returns to Birmingham to present a weekend of
innovative hi-tech musical performances and installations from local and
international artists. *
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After the success of the first *Network Music Festiva*l in January 2012
the festival will return to Birmingham on *22-24th February 2013*.
We are working with some of the artists from NMF 2012 to curate what
promises to be an exciting and diverse line-up of network artists.
Benoît and the Mandelbrots (CO/DE), Wrongheaded (UK), Glitch Lich
(UK/USA) and BirminghamÂ’s own network band BiLE have each curated a
concert at the weekend long festival. Alongside this, local curator
Samuel Rodgers (Consumer Waste) has programmed a sound installation
exhibition which addresses the theme of networking. NMF2013 will feature
specially invited artists, including audio-visual laptop duo *Alo
Allik* (EST) and *Yota Morimoto* (BRA), and artists selected from the
festival's Open Call, which received more than 90 proposals from Europe,
the Americas and Australia.
The festival will take place in venues across BirminghamÂ’s lively arts
quarter, Digbeth, with performances and the festival hub located once
again at the home of the Friction Arts collective, the newly expanded
The Edge warehouse.
This year's very special guests are *The Hub* (USA) - considered by many
to be the inventors of network music - making a rare visit to the UK.
This legendary band first started wiring computers together for live
performance in the 1980s and remain a seminal influence for computer
music bands today.
Other highlights include the live-coding band *Slub* (UK), inventors of
the ‘Algorave’: that is, dance music produced using computer algorithms,
written live in front of the audience. The festival will also welcome
another highly innovative act, *PB_UP* (DE), who were the first laptop
band to perform entirely wirelessly. The German group describe
themselves as an 'acoustic computer folk band' in that they perform
completely 'unplugged,' without any external power or amplification.
Contemporary composer *John Eacott* (UK) will present his piece
'Floodtide', which is based on the natural movements of the river
Thames. It will see Eacott collect real-time data on the river's tidal
movement, which is automatically translated into musical notation, and
transmitted via the internet to be performed by a chamber group of
classical musicians in Birmingham.
The festival will also include a chance to explore the inner-workings of
network music with a variety of general interest and specialist talks
and workshops - open to all levels of experience.
Tickets for NMF 2013 are available now from:
http://networkmusicfestival.brownpapertickets.com
<http://networkmusicfestival.brownpapertickets.com/>.
More information about the festival can be found at the festival
website: networkmusicfestival.org <http://networkmusicfestival.org/> or
you can follow us on facebook: facebook.com/networkmusicfestival
<http://facebook.com/networkmusicfestival> or twitter:@netmusicfest
<http://twitter.com/netmusicfest>
Network Music Festival // 22-24th February 2013 // The Edge, 79-81
Cheapside, Birmingham, B12 0QH
Web: networkmusicfestival.org <http://networkmusicfestival.org/>
Twitter: @NetMusicFest <http://twitter.com/netmusicfest> Hashtag: #NMF2013
Facebook: www.facebook.com/networkmusicfestival
<http://www.facebook.com/networkmusicfestival>
Email: networkmusicfestival(a)gmail.com
<mailto:networkmusicfestival@gmail.com>
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NMF2012 featured over 70 artists from BirminghamÂ’s home-grown talent to
UK and international artists from as far afield as USA and Colombia in 5
concerts. They presented a diverse range of performances including live
coding, multiple-location performances, trans-atlantic streaming, new
instruments for network performance, installations, workshops and talks.
The festival was featured on BBC 5 LiveÂ’s Outriders program and
mentioned in several national and international publications including
The Financial Times and The Computer Music Journal. This year is set to
feature just as many artists showcasing cutting-edge approaches to
high-tech musical performance. Expect a diverse programme of laptop
performances, live coding, multi-location performances, communicating
home-made musical gadgets, immersive sound installations, interactive
workshops and more!