I would like to announce a symposium to be held on August 17th at University of California at Santa Cruz. It is entitled G.U.I (Gesturing the UPIC Instrument).

The symposium is co-sponsored by La Kitchen in France and Elsa Productions (http://www.elsaproductions.com). Among the expected speakers are Miller Puckette, Curtis Roads, James McCartney and Gerard Pape.

The goal of this one-day symposium is to establish a structure of collaboration between institutions, musicians and industrial partners for the development of UPIX, a freeware project based on Iannis Xenakis' UPIC. UPIX consists of 3 core modules running in real-time: a graphical interface, a correlation system (mappings) and a synthesis engine. The main challenge of the UPIX project is the design of a central mixer for network music using the macrostructure formalism of UPIC. Discussions will focus on new solutions for the 3 core modules of UPIX to reach the following objectives:

* Allow different types of inputs to define arcs: architect table (historical input device for UPIC), controllers, motion capture sensors and sound samples.

* Provide a user-friendly graphical interface to visualize, transform and mix UPIX inputs.

* Use UPIX in real-time for music composition (historical use of UPIC), and live performance.

* Develop UPIX with appropriate freeware platforms and tools.

People interested in attending should get more details and register at:

http://www.elsaproductions.com/gui.html

There will also be an electronic music festival at UC Santa Cruz in the evening of the same day. For information regarding this, see:

http://www.elsaproductions.com/events/woodstockhausen.html

Thank you, Phil Curtis Elsa Productions

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