I'll be in Switzerland doing Pd workshops (English at the bottom). The workshops will be in English, I don't think my child-of-immigrant Austrian German will cut it in die Schweiz ;)

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ORT: kunstraum walcheturm zürich http://www.walcheturm.ch ZEITEN: 1.-5. MAI 2006 KOSTEN: 100,- sfr ANMELDUNG: monya@gmx.at

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Pure Data mit Hans-Christoph Steiner 5-tage WORKSHOP

hallo audio-activists ~

Hans-Christoph Steiner ( http://at.or.at/hans/cv.html ) wird im mai 2006 nach zürich kommen und einen pd workshop veranstalten. im anschliessenden teil findet ihr eine inhaltliche und zeitliche beschreibung des wokshops. sollte es dennoch fragen geben, könnt ihr euch gerne direkt an mich wenden! falls ihr von ausserhalb zürich kommt können wir evtl. einen schlafplatz organisieren. da die anzahl der teilnehmerInnen begrenzt ist, bitte ich euch, eure anmeldung so bald wie möglich vorzunehmen.

liebe grüsse monya

Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time, graphical programming environment for integrated media processing. It is free software created by Miller S. Puckette, who also conceived of Max, to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max paradigm. It was designed to be as neutral as possible, with few assumptions about how things should be done. This makes it an ideal platform for integrating audio, video, MIDI, sensors, graphics, robotics, interaction, and more. It is a closely related cousin to Cycling74's Max/MSP and knowledge of Max/MSP is easily transferrable to Pd and vice versa. Pd runs on Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux, and even on iPods, PDAs, and as a web-browser plug-in.

• This workshop starts with an overview: what is Pd, who uses it, how

do you program with it, and what is the available functionality. In the first day, participants will learn the foundations of the programming language itself, including: control structures, timing, and basic GUI building.

• Day two: participants will explore using Pd with many facets of

sound: sampling, synthesis, filtering, and feature extraction.

• Day three, basic video and OpenGL operations will be covered,

including video playback, video effects, live video, and simple OpenGL rendering will be covered.

• Day four will focus on communications between Pd and other processes

via networking and OSC. Pd can communicate with Java, Flash, PHP, Max/MSP, or really any program that supports OSC or network sockets.

• Day five: Learn to use sensors and electronics to interface with

audio, video, or anything Pd can do. Instead of building from scratch, there are many sensor boxes that can used with Pd. For this workshop, the Arduino is recommended.

You can use your own laptop, the workshop will be preceded with a short installation help session.

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