Hello, interesting thread indeed...

2012/1/4 Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca>
Le 2012-01-03 ā 21:47:00, Pagano, Patrick a écrit :


Here is btw another call about a Pd workshop BEK held back in 2005. http://www.bek.no/projects/35-visiblesoundaudibleimage?locale=en but that was 7 years ago...

So, why don't you give more recent examples, to show some kind of continuity ? I know that in seven years, there can be a lot of change of personnel (and thus mentality) in an art centre... I mean, from my own personal experience (5200 km away from BEK).

The reason I put this was just because I wanted to see if they had anything about Pure Data at all in BEK so I put  
"Pure Data" in the search window on the main page at bek.no and that was one of few entry that showed up in the search result. I didn´t spend much time on that - antd didnt compare with other things thay might have done with open source resources. Also agrees and knows institutions and arts center changes with the staff involved. 
 
Found this about the equipment/softwares in some studio of theirs - and really they don´t seem to have Pd or other open source resources there: http://bek.no/pages/fascilities?locale=en

Here is what they state under "sound" and "other":

Sound
  • Ableton Live
  • Amadeus
  • Cubase
  • Logic Pro
  • Max4Live
  • Soundbooth
  • Wave Editor
  • Wavelab
  • Other
  • Photoshop CS5
  • Illustrator CS5
  • Indesign CS5
  • Compressor
  • iShowU HD Pro
  • Max Msp Jitter



  • Also, preferably, something with more hours... that's 25 hours, probably minus food time, let's say 20 hours. That's better than most workshops, but there have been significantly longer ones.


    In a way it would be cool to just send back this e-mail exchanges to the call-makers? - so they see how stupid this call is - and anti-productive.

    Is it stupid or is it just a generous rebate plan from two software companies ? Just an honest question, no insinuations.



    Well, I think so called marketing from software companies could maybe be that aggresive (that they can have some specific deals with people/institutions receiving generous discounts)... I don´t know about how the discussion goes. It would be an interesting topic to lift up. Are there huge rebate plans for instituions / schools / - and how are (generally) the conditions to receive these?

    Here in Sweden I know that Steinberg has rather hefty rebates of up to 50% for students and academic institutions, but they don´t state any exclusive conditions for the academic institutions. I think Digidesign (Avid) has about the same deals. Institutions & associations that are not academic might be another thing with...   (just raising perspectives, know nothing about this really)


    All the best,
    Björn Eriksson