For those of you in or around Paris:

Tuesday 2nd of December 2008, 15H00, IRCAM, Salle Stravinsky

A seminar by

Thomas GRILL, Media artist

on

"flext: C++ programming layer for cross-platform development of Max/ MSP and PD externals"

(in English)

For directions: http://www.ircam.fr/5.html

Abstract:

Flext seeks to represent a uniform programming interface for extending the most common modular real-time audio systems Max/MSP and Pure Data (PD) with external modules, or short externals. These modules provide a way to tailor such a system for one’s special needs and supply additional functionality. Source code based on Flext is able to exploit nearly all features of the respective real-time framework while staying completely independent of the actual host system and platform (hardware and operating system). flext currently supports PD for Linux, Windows and OSX as well as Max/MSP for OS9 and OSX and Windows, and other systems can follow in the near future.

In this seminar, we look at the current status, possibilities and limitations of Flext, a review of some famour objects developed using flext, as well as hearing your exotic wishes.

More info: http://grrrr.org/cv.html http://puredata.info/Members/thomas

Arshia Cont Researcher, Realtime Interactions Team, and Responsible for Coordination of Musical Research. IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. http://cosmal.ucsd.edu/arshia/