Hi all , I stumbled across this, there are three days of puredata workhops. does anybody knows anything about it? regards a
================================================= ULTRASOUND / 2004 / 25 / 26 / 27 November / ================================================= ULTRASOUND 2004 / PROGRAMME / ================================================= VENUE: The Media Centre 07 Northumberland St Huddersfield HD1 1RL England +44 [0]870 990 5007 info@ultrasound.ws
Please note - all events are FREE!
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CONFIRMED SO FAR:
ULTRASOUND / LIVE / Stephan Mathieu [Germany] /
"While the archetypal application of laptop DSP synthesis ends up tainted by antiseptic, clinical or cold tones, Mathieu manages to wrap all of his digital pixelations in a dreamy, warmly crackling, and wholly inviting atmosphere, not unlike the beloved Aphex Twin album 'Selected Ambient Works Vol II.'(â?¦)Mathieu's work ranks way up at the top of the increasingly prolific laptop community alongside Fennesz, Carsten Nicolai, and Stilluppsteypa."
Jim Haynes in Aquarius Records Review, Los Angeles
Since 1999 Stephan has released fifteen albums on labels around the globe. In 2002 British magazine 'The Wire' voted 'frequencyLib' among the 10 best electronic music releases of the year.
- Website: www.bitsteam.de
================================================= ULTRASOUND / LIVE / Farmersmanual [Austria] / ================================================= "Formed in Vienna in the mid 90s, the Farmersmanual collective represents media art at its most anarchistic. While being best known for their recordings, in recent years the group have shifted their emphasis towards extensive live performances, in which imaginative computer animation, synchronised with 'chaos-particle-accelerating' music, and the overall ambience of uncontrollable technology form a seamless whole."
The Farmersmanual set will be a live collaboration between Huddersfield and Berlin via the internet.
Anton Nikkilä, www.avantofestival.com
- Website: www.farmersmanual.co.at
================================================= ULTRASOUND / LIVE / Mileece [UK/CANADA] / ================================================= Her compositions are inspired by formations in nature: the rotating progression of sparse then condensed spouts of growth in plants, the changing hues and intensities of light, the sudden changing gusts to wisps of the wind, the unfathomably intricate structures of snow flakes, the random patterns of raindrops as they fall to ground.
- Website: www.mileece.net
================================================= ULTRASOUND / LIVE / TOPLAP [UK/International] / ================================================= TOPLAP is the Temporary Organisation for the Promotion of Live Algorithm Programming, set up to explore the application of live programming to composition and performance. TOPLAP advocates treating algorithms as live artistic material, allowing them to be written and manipulated while they create music or video, perhaps in front of an audience.
- Website: www.toplap.org
================================================= ULTRASOUND / LIVE / SI-CUT.DB [UK] / ================================================= Douglas Benford has collaborated with Scanner, Rechenzentrum, Janek Schaefer, Iris Garrelfs, Stephan Mathieu, Benge (as Tennis), and Tonne. Ranging from microsound, electronica and dub, Benford has released music on Fallt, Bip hop, BackGround, Highpoint Lowlife and 12K.
He has played Ars Electronica, Tate Modern, Nokialab and Transmediale & Sintesi festivals, and has been a co-curator of Sprawl electronic music events and label for eight years.
================================================= ULTRASOUND DJs / Alku [Spain] / ================================================= Alku is an artistic collective from Barcelona, working in the fields of computer music and digital arts; they performed at Ultrasound in 2002, as Evol.
Alku return this year with an eclectic DJ set.
- Website: http://personal.ilimit.es/principio
================================================= ULTRASOUND / INSTALLATION / rand()%lab / ================================================= Venue: Medialounge
by Tom Betts and Joe Gilmore.
rand()% is commissioned by Media Centre Network.
rand()%lab is a presentation by the generative net.radio station, rand()%, applied to a gallery context. The installation uses the laboratory as a metaphor for research and investigation into random number generation and sound. The exhibition will feature new audio works by rand()% artists Tom Betts, Joe Gilmore, Alku, James Brouwer and Mileece, installed for the first time in a physical location.
Various experiments will be presented: the results of ongoing investigations into quantum random numbers, mutant Unix code and bio-acoustic research. By using sensor technologies and software agents to take signal feeds from plants, light, the quantum decay of beta particles, lemons, and data packet sniffing from information systems, new audio experiments are created.
The artists and their collaborators will evolve the experiments and processes over the two month duration of the exhibition.
Visitors will be able to listen to the rand()% live stream via headphone listening posts, and browse exisiting rand()% works which have a previously unseen accompanying visual element, including works by rand()% collaborators:
Lia + Miguel Carvalhais [LMLB03] Steinbrüchel / Brusa [-00:dedaih] Renox[microsounds2004] Eude [Aluminia......5080 m/s] Thor and Runar Magnusson [Same, Same but Different]
- Website: www.r4nd.org
================================================= ULTRASOUND / WORKSHOP / Pure Data / FREE / ================================================= Multimedia Research Lab Canalside East Queensgate Campus University of Huddersfield
Wednesday 24, Thursday 25, Friday 26 November 10am to 4pm
A Digital Research Unit event supported by Yorkshire Forward as part of the Centre of Excellence in Digital Design at the University of Huddersfield.
Workshop Leaders ixi-software with Host Productions, plus special guests.
Who is it for? Anyone can attend this workshop, but it will be of special interest to new media artists, musicians, creative industries practitioners, especially graphic artists and designers, video artists, multimedia designers, and 3D designers.
What is Pure Data? Pure Data or 'PD' is an open source programming environment for multimedia development. It is used for real-time processing of data, particularly in sound related works, and can be extended through the use of a range of 'externals' or software libraries to include real-time video and openGL graphics.
Pure Data runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows.
This workshop presents:
- GEM [graphics environment for multimedia]
The PD external for openGL graphics processing and other externals for real-time video works.
- Physical Computing Technologies
Interfacing PD to serial controls from a microcontroller.
- Introduction to the Python Programming Language
Its integration with PD, and general use in multimedia audio/visual processing software.
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL!
Contact Clare Danek Tel: 0870 990 5007 Email: clare@the-media-centre.co.uk ================================================= Tom Holley Creative Director Media Centre Network www.mcnetwork.co.uk