Places are filling up fast, but I wanted to post this one more time to the list.... last chance! --derek -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Amsterdam: Workshop -- Open Source Multimedia Tools

10 t/m 13 april 2003

Costs: 100,- [Contact: marloes@montevideo.nl ]

Max Participants: 25 Bring your own laptop or use machines from the medialab at Montevideo.

Guests: Guenter Geiger, Andrey Savitsky, Iohannes Zmoelnig, Johannes Taelman, Thomas Musil and Derek Holzer

This workshop will focus on Open Source software for the real-time manipulation of audio and video. The dual package of Pure Data and GEM, offer a complete set of tools for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes. Topics will include: real-time audio and video processing, creating a custom user-interface, using and creating external objects, an overview of other free and open source audio and video tools for Linux.

Discussion and presentation workshop

Sunday April 13

15.00 hrs

Admission: free

A discussion on open source software versus commercial software, the artistic use of multimedia tools and the future of open source. After the discussion a short presentation of the workshop will take place.

Participants: Robert de Geus, Derek Holzer, Guenter Geiger, Andrey Savitsky, Iohannes Zmoelnig, Thomas Musil, Johannes Taelman + others TBA

Links:

Montevideo/ Netherlands Media Arts Institute http://www.montevideo.nl/

PD http://iem.at/pd/ http://www.pure-data.org/

GEM http://gem.iem.at/

Demudi http://www.demudi.org/

Guenter Geiger http://gige.xdv.org/

Andrey Savitsky http://www.hhtp.org/

IOhannes Zmoelnig http://gem.iem.at/

Johannes Taelman http://www.ipem.rug.ac.be/staff/johannes/johannes.html http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~jtaelman/

Thomas Musil http://iem.at/pd/iemlib/

Derek Holzer http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab/ http://www.gracies.org/derek/ http://karosta.edworks.net/

Details:

----thurs april 10: -introduction PD, GEM: installation, configuration, learning your way around, focus on data structures, tables + audio -introduction DeMuDi: installation, basic configuration, package overview -discussion: other open-source audio-visual tools: various packages + DeMuDi

----fri april 11: -intermediate PD, GEM: making instruments, various libraries, live processing, focus on matrices + video -intermediate DeMuDi: more configuration, Jack, Ardour, Ecasound [other important sound apps?] -discussion: working artists who use open source tools

---sat april 12: -advanced PD, GEM: "patchmanship" [creating efficient + usable patches], new user interfaces, using and creating externals, networking with OSC -advanced DeMuDi: advanced configuration, getting the bugs out, Cinerella/Broadcast + other video tools -discussion: hardware "reclaimation"--old hardware, game/portable hardware [PDA, XBox, mobile phone..? etc], ultrasound, sonar, accelerometers...

---sun april 13: -discussion: "open source: it just tastes better" [overview of open source multimedia philosphy + tools for general audience] -open source jam: participants and guests rock out with ideas worked on over past 3 days. not a "performance", just informal + fun!