*Pure Data goes Back to School*
Saturday 10 February 2007 14:00 - 20:00
Pickled Feet Linienstrasse 54 Mitte, Berlin DE U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482
Please RSVP m_at_1010.co.uk to reserve places! Fee: EUR 10
Pure Data is a powerful, free and open source environment for producing and manipulating sound, image and data in real time. Because the programming is done visually, many artists find it a more intuitive tool than traditional text-oriented programming languages. However, many newcomers to PD miss the chance to learn the "grammar" and "vocabulary" of this visual language, and this results in confusion about how PD actually handles sounds and images.
This one-day workshop will give an introduction to Pure Data for beginners and for experienced users who might have missed some of the fundamentals of the program. We will construct a basic sound synthesizer, and use this exercise to go over the deeper mysteries of what makes PD tick.
Time will also be set aside for responding to participants' questions about their own PD audio projects.
---What to bring:
* Essential:
1) Laptop running Linux, OS X or Windows 2) Pure Data installed from: http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html 3) Soundcard (internal or external, quality a non-issue) 4) Headphones (!!!!) 5) EUR 10 participation fee
* Recommended/Suggested:
1) MIDI controller/keyboard 2) Microphone 3) USB Joystick 4) Your own soundfiles (WAV, AIFF format) 5) Your own PD audio projects for feedback
---About the Teacher
Derek Holzer [USA 1972] began working with Pure Data in 2001. Since then, he has taught and performed with the program across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. His work focuses on field recording, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Pure-Data. Holzer has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and Gruenrekorder labels, and has co-initiated several internet projects for field recording and collaborative soundscapes including Soundtransit.nl. He is currently writing a Pure Data beginner's manual for the FLOSS Manuals project.
http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html http://www.umatic.nl/workshops.html http://www.flossmanuals.net/puredata (under development, feedback welcome)