Dear colleagues,

Please find enclosed information about the DIY: Do It Yourself !
workshop within the steirischer herbst festival. Best regards,

Gerda Strobl

Apologies for multiple posting!

DIY: Do It Yourself ! Hands-on three-day workshop for building “DIY” sound generators

04/10 – 06/10, Medienkunstlabor Graz With Gert-Jan Prins (NL) & Winfried Ritsch (A)

Final public concert Tue 07/10, 7.30 pm, steirischer herbst festival centre

Composers Gert-Jan Prins and Winfried Ritsch provide instructions for
building your own electronic sound-generating circuits and for
handling and building “robotic instruments”. Relevant concepts such as
open hardware (“algo_dsPIC” and “algo_fets” developed at the
Algorhytmics studio) and control protocols such as Open Sound Control
(OSC) are explained in a practical context. The workshop finishes with
a joint concert featuring all participants.

For many years Gert-Jan Prins has been working on compositions and
live electronic performances that use DIY, usually analog circuits
primarily in the sphere of radio / FM modulation. He is a member of
the electronic improvisations supergroup “Mimeo”, among others, and
runs the “Synchronator” video and audio research project with Bas van
Koolwijk.

Winfried Ritsch has been working in a wide range of musical fields
since 1984, including computer music, interactive music, radio,
networks, and on the development of DIY electronic music devices and
cybernetic control models. He founded the “Algorythmics” studio, the
“Tonto” label and the Graz-based “mur.at” network, among others, and
works at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at Graz
University of Art.

A basic understanding of computer-controlled instruments and/or any
kind of background in electrical engineering is an asset but not
essential for taking part in the workshop. Contribution towards expenses for material is €40

Please send your registration including CV not later than July 30,
2008, to

steirischer herbst, attn. Bea Dermond Sackstr. 17, 8010 Graz, Austria dermond@steirischerherbst.at

The workshop is taking place as part of the series of concerts
“Devices, Suitable for (Almost) Every Purpose”

“Devices, Suitable for (Almost) Every Purpose” curated by Heike Schleper & Bernhard Schreiner (“feld” label,
Frankfurt):

Tue 07/10, “INTENSIFICATION: Get High!” with Russell Haswell (GB) Tue 14/10, “INVESTIGATION: Explore!” with Jana Winderen (N) Tue 21/10, “IMPROVISATION: Merge!” with Thomas Ankersmit (NL) & Phill
Niblock (USA) Each: 9.30 pm, steirischer herbst festival centre _______________________________________________ Pd-announce mailing list Pd-announce@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce