(apologies for x-post)
Hello Pd fellas,
here's my 6-monthly mailout.
It includes a selection of what happened recently and what's coming up in
the next months.
http://marcodonnarumma.com/next/sept2012/
You'll find more info about:
- New Xth Sense project finalist at European Competition for Live
Electronic Music
- Music for Flesh II, biophysical music at ISEA, New Mexico, US
- Biotechnological Performance Practice, a new publication out now
- Upcoming sonic body concerts in UK, Slovenia, Ireland, Hungary, and
Brazil.
- Xth Sense biophysical tech schematic released, and user's forum now
on-line
- On the press: Reuters, Create Digital Music, and Digicult features.
thanks for reading!
please, let me know if you happen to be around one of those events so we
could hook up,
best wishes,
--
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
Heya all,
I've been away from the list finalizing the release of the Xth Sense and
other major commitments.
The Xth Sense (software and hardware) is finally available on-line, get
binaries, DIY documentation, and tutorials at:
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/
The digital interface is developed in Pd; there's a main software for the
computation of incoming muscle sound (and virtually any sound input), and
the xth-sense-lib, a collection of 120 objects (and help files) ranging
from specific muscle sound methods, to everyday Pd patching needs. It also
includes a lot of GUI stuff, to facilitate building things.
Wanna the source? Here you go: https://github.com/marcodsad
What is the Xth Sense?
"**is a biophysical musical instrument. You can build your own and produce
music with it using the sound of your muscles.
It is free and open source, and it was named the “world’s most innovative
new musical instrument” by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology
(US, 2012). Its name is spelled ecsth sense (not tenth sense!). But it’s
way easier to call XS."
With the XS you can also control other software on your machine (video,
audio, light systems, etc.), send Voltage output to hardware, or control a
prosthetic arm.
Hacks are encouraged by the design of the instrument itself. For some ideas
see:
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/#get-started
We have a (newly born) user's forum, courtesy of Create Digital
Music/Motion; the forum lives at:
http://createdigitalnoise.com/categories/xth
We are on also on Facebook (imagine!):
http://www.facebook.com/XthSense
if anybody works with it, let me know!
We have users and works in Australia, Sweden, US, UK, Ireland, Spain,
Vietnam, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, and Italy, so far :)
hope it is useful to some of you,
cheers,
--
Marco Donnarumma
New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction Research Team.
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com
Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
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The Times Literary Supplement reviewed the "Rorschach Audio" book as
"engaging" and "packed with interest" (TLS 5707, page 30), Mojo magazine
says the book "fascinates" (Oct 2012, page 111), The Quietus feature (see
link below) describes "Rorschach Audio" as "wonderfully argued, eccentric
and impassioned", stating that "the cultural scope of the book is
dizzying". Talks are confirmed for The ICA, London, 15 Sept (as part of the
closing events for the exhibition by Bruce Nauman) and Liverpool Biennial,
6 Oct 2012. The "Rorschach Audio" research archive is on-line now...
http://thequietus.com/articles/09899-joe-banks-disinformation-rorschach-aud…
Talks - http://tinyurl.com/8p5yo3n + http://tinyurl.com/cklauvdhttp://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/rorschach-audio/http://rorschachaudio.wordpress.com/
Trade distribution by Turnaround
ISBN 978-1-907222-20-7
Hardback, 191 pages
UK £10 Non-Fiction
Art Theory, Cultural Studies
Thanks for your attention ;)
[please forward]
GEORGIA TECH SCHOOL OF MUSIC
MUSIC FACULTY POSITION
DESCRIPTION: The School of Music seeks to fill a music technology position for the 2013-2014 academic year. This is a full-time, nine-month, open-rank tenure-track appointment at the assistant, associate, or full professor level, beginning August 2013.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Teach courses in music cognition, digital signal processing, music information retrieval and/or other music technology courses as required. Teaching load is typically one lecture course and one research course per semester. Advise graduate students in collaborative and individual research projects, and theses. Pursue an active research agenda with a primary focus on music information retrieval, music cognition, and/or digital signal processing. A secondary focus in another area of music technology is desirable. Assist with administrative responsibilities with the graduate programs in music technology, the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, and the School of Music.
QUALIFICATIONS: PhD or DMA in computer music, music technology, computer science, or electrical engineering is strongly preferred. ABD will receive consideration.
RANK & SALARY: Rank and salary are open, competitive, and commensurate with experience and qualifications.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC: The School of Music combines tradition and technology to create unique and exciting opportunities for students in all academic programs. Undergraduate students can participate in one of three Music Minors and graduate students can apply for the Master of Science and PhD in Music Technology. For more information please visit: www.music.gatech.edu.
GTCMT: The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) is an international center for creative and technological research in music, focusing on the development and deployment of innovative musical technologies that transform the ways in which we create and experience music. The Center’s mission is to provide a collaborative framework for committed students, faculty, and researchers to apply their musical, technological, and scientific creativity to the development of innovative artistic and technological artifacts. The Center combines musical, technological, and cognitive research in an effort to create rich and expressive experiences for performers and audiences alike. Areas of interest include composition, performance, mobile music, machine listening, music information retrieval, digital signal processing, robotic musicianship, interactive music manufacturing, networked music, music perception, music theory, multimedia development, and education. For more information please visit: gtcmt.gatech.edu.
COLLEGE: The College of Architecture at Georgia Tech champions advancements in the arts and the built environment through academic schools in architecture, building construction, city and regional planning, industrial design, and music. A leader in design innovation since 1908, students, faculty, and researchers work across boundaries to advance knowledge of designed environments at all scales, producing new realms of experience and creativity. The College is a cultural center of creativity and progressive thinking, and frequently hosts world-class performances, exhibitions, lectures, and symposiums. Committed to world-class research, the College is home to five interdisciplinary research centers and more than 20 research groups conducting projects that range from creating better simulation models for predicting building efficiency, to new assistive technologies and more effective healthcare environments. For more information please visit: www.coa.gatech.edu.
GEORGIA TECH: The Georgia Institute of Technology is one the nation’s top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Tech’s campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education. Georgia Tech is consistently ranked in U.S. News World Report’s top ten public universities in the United States.
APPLICATION: Letter of application, curriculum vitae, names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references are required. Electronic submissions are particularly encouraged. Do not send supporting materials at this time. Review of applicants will be ongoing but all interested applicants should have materials to the committee no later than October 1, 2012. The review of applications and the interview process will continue until the position is filled.
SEND MATERIALS TO: [for electronic submission]
MusicTechSearch(a)music.gatech.edu
[for surface-mail submission]
Music Technology Search
School of Music
840 McMillan Street
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0456
MORE INFORMATION: Please contact Dr. Gil Weinberg, Director, GTCMT
Telephone 404-894-8949 or e-mail gilw(a)gatech.edu
Georgia Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
The installation ADM8 (Bot) will be presented in the festival Ars
Electronica in Linz, Austria (30 August - 03 september).
This installation is built with Pd, Gem and Java.
http://www.antidatamining.net/
So We will be in Litz during this period. If you are in the area, you
are welcome to visit us ;)
++
Jack
SIMULTAN 2012 - CALL FOR VIDEO WORKS
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SIMULTAN FESTIVAL #8 | 'The beginning of the end'
11-13 october 2012 timisoara, romania
Deadline: 15 september 2012
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http://www.simultan.org/en/2012/callforentry.htm
FESTIVAL INFO AND THEME
SIMULTAN is a festival dedicated to media art and artistic experiment, which
aims to create a bond between different media and encourage new and
innovative forms of artistic expression, in the field of visual, sound art
and music
Based on a different theme every year, the festival presents video art
projections, music live performances, interdisciplinary works,
installations, lectures.
The 8th edition of the Simultan Festival will take place from October 11 to
13, under the title 'The Beginning of The End' (TBOTE). This theme wishes to
reflect upon the phenomenon 2012, which includes a set of cataclysmic or
processing assumptions.
2012 is considered the year of changes, different Conspiracy theories were
born about the apocalypse and the end of the world - those beliefs or
speculations are related to the long Mesoamerican calendar, according to
which a cycle ends in the history of Earth and mankind. A New Age
interpretation of this transition would be that this date marks the
beginning of a new era, a positive physical or spiritual transformation,
abandoning reliance on the material level, allowing humanity to enter a new
era, one of universal harmony.
Scientists have rejected proposals like pseudoscience, stating that it
conflicts with simple astronomical observations and targets distraction from
more important issues such as global warming and biodiversity loss.
These theories seem distant and unclear in relation to the pressure of the
present and the uncertainty of the near future.
'The Beginning of The End' is questioning how this transformation process is
perceived by the individual in the present socio-political and economical
context, how we think this interpretation affects our present. This is the
question that this situation is rising inside us.
TERMS OF ENTRY
Simultan is open for submissions of innovative works, which use technology
in a creative, ingenious way or are based on a peculiar, unusual story.
- categories: video, experimental video, fiction, documentary, experimental
documentary, motion graphics, experimental animation, digital/generative.
- number of works: max 2 / author
- duration: maximum 10 minutes each
APPLICATION METHOD
- online or by post
DEADLINE
15 september 2012
MORE INFO AND APPLICATION FORM
http://www.simultan.org/en/2012/callforentry.htm
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www.simultan.org <http://www.simultan.org/>
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www.facebook.com/simultanfestivalwww.twitter.com/simultan_org
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Kevin Austin <kevin.austin(a)videotron.ca>
> Subject: [cec-c] Concordia University, Montreal, Fulltime position in Electroacoustic Studies
> Date: 20 August, 2012 12:01:57 AM EDT
>
> Please feel free to distribute.
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> DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
> FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
>
> Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Electroacoustic Studies
>
> Concordia University’s Department of Music invites applications for one tenure-track position in Electroacoustic Studies for July 1, 2013.
>
> • The department is known for its focus on creative practices in contemporary and classical music, jazz and electroacoustic studies. We also offer music performance (instrumental and vocal) and theory and composition as areas of concentrated study, all built around a core curriculum of general music instruction. Situated in Concordia’s vibrant Faculty of Fine Arts, faculty and students enjoy numerous cross-disciplinary opportunities, state-of-the-art resources and facilities, and a rich artistic and cultural context for research and study. Interfaces between music and other Fine Arts departments include links and collaborations with dance, theatre, animation, film, creative arts therapies, music therapy, and others. Music faculty members are well known internationally for their active contributions to research/creation, conference organization, composition, pedagogy and performance.
>
> The BFA Major in Electroacoustic Studies, one of the few of its kind in North America, attracts increasing numbers of strong candidates. A recent move into new facilities in downtown Montreal has meant several new, dedicated studios; easier access to other facilities within the Faculty; and has placed the program at the core of Montreal’s dynamic cultural life where electroacoustic work flourishes. A well-organized curriculum provides students with a balance of technological guidance, creative work, critical listening, and awareness of both history and current theoretical research. Recent developments include increased live performance, a laptop orchestra, networked telematics concerts, and collaborations especially with animation and contemporary dance.
>
>
> •• The successful candidate will be expected to teach a range of Electroacoustic courses, with a particular emphasis on ear training. Specifically, the successful candidate will be expected to teach and coordinate core ear training, as well as live, mixed, interactive, and computer-assisted performance In an increasingly connected and collaborative world, the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to other areas within and beyond the music department; therefore, besides top-flight electroacoustic skills, a certain amount of background in one or more other realms of music, or other fine arts, is desired. Besides teaching, additional expectations are: to develop a national and international research profile in the candidate’s area of expertise; to undertake administrative service; and to help strengthen links with cognate units in the university and city, such as matralab, Hexagram and other entities.
>
>
> ••• Preferred candidates should demonstrate expertise in the area of electroacoustic ear training and practice; have an active research/creation profile in the domain of live, interactive, and/or mixed performance; an excellent knowledge of current trends in relevant software and hardware developments; and evidence of artistic endeavours in the field. We are looking for an excellent teacher with very broad interests encompassing creative, conceptual, technological, historical and future-oriented issues.
>
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> •••• Applicants should possess a completed PhD; teaching experience at the post-secondary level; a demonstrated ability to conduct and disseminate innovative research; and a record of administrative and committee service. Although classes are taught in English, fluency in French would be considered a strong asset, with additional languages welcome.
>
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> ••••• Submissions should include a covering letter, a curriculum vitae, research documentation, a statement of teaching philosophy and interests, evidence of teaching effectiveness (including course evaluations where applicable), documentation of past and current performance works, and the names and contact information of three referees, one of which must be the candidate’s department chair or dean or someone in a direct supervisory role.
>
> Applications should be submitted or postmarked on or before November 1, 2012 to:
>
>
> Mailing address:
>
> Dr Christine Beckett, Acting Chair, Department of Music
> Concordia University
> 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, GM 500.01,
> Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8
> Canada
>
> Email: chair.music(a)concordia.ca
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>
> Civic address for in-person and courier delivery:
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> GM Building, Sir George Williams Campus
> 1550 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, GM 500.01,
> Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1N2
> Canada
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>
> For further information, applicants are encouraged to consult:
>
> Department of Music: http://music.concordia.ca/
>
> matralab: http://matralab.hexagram.ca/home/
>
> Hexagram-Concordia information: http://finearts.concordia.ca/research/centres/index.php#hexagram
>
> Faculty of Fine Arts: http://finearts.concordia.ca
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> Academic Services for Fine Arts Faculty: http://finearts.concordia.ca/HTML/acadfac.htm/
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> Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate filling this position, normally at the rank of Assistant Professor, for July 1, 2013. Appointments at a more senior level may also be considered. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
>
> All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Concordia University is committed to employment equity.
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(Sorry for cross-posting)
Dear colleagues,
There is a doctoral student position (Sound and Physical Interaction Research Group) open at
http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/jobs/teaching_and_research/doctoral_student-…
The deadline for applications is September, 17th 2012. Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested.
best,
Koray
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M.Koray Tahiroğlu
Department of Media,
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
http://sopi.media.taik.fi/http://mlab.taik.fi/~korayt
tel: +358 45 233 6272
Hi all,
Gemnotes 0.2 is released.
It has dynamics (at last), hairpin crescendos, and very basic articulation (just the accented note for now).
Also, the clocking is done seperately from the GEM framerate (thanks IOhannes).
Enjoy!
Ed
Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data
http://sharktracks.co.uk/