Wow - i didn't know so much text fits in the Subject. Sorry.

There are just a few places left in the Workshop.

2 places left for the workshop with Derek Holzer 2.-3. April

1 place left for the whole session with Derek Holzer (first two days) and Frank Barknecht (three following days) 2.-6. April

more info and admission through Werkleitz: http://werkleitz.de/html_de/w_medienkunst_pure_data.html

impressions from last year: http://kunstundmedien.burg-halle.de/km/pd-workshop07/

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Academy of Fine Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein in conjunction with Werkleitz Association will organize a Pure Data Workshop from the 2nd to the 6th of April 2008

First half of the Workshop will be held by Derek Holzer in English, the second part will be held in German by Frank Barknecht.

Pure Data (or PD) is a free and open source real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.

While many tools exist for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes, few of them are designed with an open architecture which allows artists to configure the tools they use themselves. Fewer still are free. The dual package of PD [Pure Data] and GEM [Graphics Environment for Multimedia], developed under an open source model by an international community of programmers, offers just such a set of tools. Running under Windows, Linux or Mac OS X, PD and GEM can be used in commonly available, inexpensive hardware as a complete multimedia environment. Both applications allow for the real-time manipulation of sound and image data within a visual programming environment which does not require any previous experience in traditional computer languages.

Because all of these types of media are handled as data in the program, many fascinating opportunities for cross-synthesis between them exist. Video can create sound or sound can be used to manipulate video, which could then be streamed over the internet to another computer which might use it to control a motor-driven installation. PD is commonly used for live music performance, multichannel sound installations, realtime video and VJing, sound effects composition, interfacing with sensors, cameras and robots or even interacting with websites.

Participants are encouraged to bring project ideas to the workshop, so that these ideas can be used as the basis for instruction. The workshop can cover basics of processing data, audio, MIDI, 3D and video, for example, with the possibility of introducing physical computing (interaction of computers with the real world via sensors, lights, motors, etc) via the Arduino platform. It is open to those with no computer programming background as well as those with experience in similar multimedia environments such as Max/MSP, Jitter, Reaktor, VVVV, SuperCollider, EyesWeb etc.

My manual-in-progress for Pure Data is here: http:// en.flossmanuals.net/PureData Information about previous workshops can be found here: http:// www.umatic.nl/workshops.html

About the instructor:

Derek Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio, webstreaming and environmental recording. His work focuses on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Pure-Data. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR, Frozen Elephants Music and Gruenrekorder labels, and has co- initiated several internet projects for field recording and collaborative soundscapes including Soundtransit.nl. His current projects include the electro-acoustic death metal duo "Abominations", work with Theremin-controlled field recordings, solo performances for analog synthesizer and a manual for Pure Data.

"One of the central concepts of my work is that every object and space around us is a recorder. Each one has collected the resonances of its surroundings for as long as it has existed. You could call it an acoustic version of particle physics or genetics, because the idea remains the same--in the smallest details you will find a representation of the greater whole. My task as a sound artist is often just to listen, and to listen very closely, to the histories hidden inside our everyday world."

Holzer has performed live, improvised electronic music in many venues and festivals in Europe, the US and Brasil including FILE (Sao Paulo, BR), WRO (Wroclaw, PL), Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht, NL), Garage (Stralsund, DE), Videomedeja (Novi Sad, CS), BEK (Bergen, NO), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), RAM6 (Vilnius, LT), Arts+Communication (Riga, LV), Kuda.org (Novi Sad, CS), Earational Festival (S'Hertogenbosch, NL), Medienturm (Graz, AT), Kunstraum (Innsbruck, AT), Art Museum of Nantes (Nantes, FR), Montevideo (Amsterdam, NL), Kraakgeluiden (Amsterdam, NL), Denver University (Denver, USA), Fylkingen (SE) and others.

Am 03.02.2008 um 04:20 schrieb Max Neupert:

Pd-Workshop with Derek Holzer and Frank Barknecht in Halle(Saale)/ Germany

Academy of Fine Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein in conjunction with Werkleitz Association will organize a Pure Data Workshop from the 2nd to the 6th of April 2008

First half of the Workshop will be held by Derek Holzer in English, the second part will be held in German by Frank Barknecht.

Details in german:

Pure Data – visuelles Programmieren für Künstler Dozenten Frank Barknecht (Medienkünstler, Musiker und Autor, Köln) Derek Holzer (Medienkünstler, Berlin)

Inhalt Ursprünglich für die Komposition elektronischer Musik gedacht, ist Pure Data zu einem Werkzeug geworden, mit dem sich unterschiedlichste mediale Projekte verwirklichen lassen - von interaktiven Installationen bis zu audiovisuellen Performances. Pure Data folgt der Logik des Verkabelns und ist eine gerade bei KünstlerInnen beliebte Programmierumgebung. Die visuelle, datenstromorientierte Struktur erlaubt es, auch ohne Informatik-Kenntnisse komplexe Programme zu entwickeln. Pure Data ist das quelloffene und freie Pendant zur kommerziell vertriebenen Software MAX/MSP. Der Workshop findet in Kooperation mit dem Fachgebiet Medienkunst der Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design im sogenannten Gärtnerhaus, Seebener Str. 2 statt.

Termine Einführung: 70 EUR, ermäßigt: 50 EUR Fortgeschrittene: 80 EUR, ermäßigt: 60 EUR beide Kurse zusammen 120 EUR, ermäßigt: 90 EUR

Anzahl der TeilnehmerInnen 5 (+ 15 StudentInnen der Hochschule)

Kosten (für nicht an der Hochschule Burg Giebichenstein immatrikulierte): kompletter kurs: 120 EUR, ermäßigt: 90 EUR

Unterkunft in Halle kann organisiert werden.

http://werkleitz.de/html_de/w_medienkunst_pure_data.html http://www.puredata.org