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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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
//////////////////// 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@gmail.com or ask at the information desk at the festival.
//////////////////// 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/