For those of you in the US Southwest. There's a couple of slots left for this, so RSVP if you are interested!
derek
Pure Data workshop Santa fe, Sunday 20 Feb 2005 1PM-9PM Library of the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe New Mexico USA Cost: $50 Max participants: 8 *participants must bring their own laptop/desktop or make prior arrangements with me!
Pure Data is a visual, object-oriented data-flow programming language which can be used for a wide variety of multimedia purposes. These include:
live audio performance live video processing + "VJing" MIDI and sensor data handling microphone and video camera input "plugin" prototyping audio and video webstreaming art installations interfacing with databases control of STAMP/PIC-style microprocessors for robotics, lighting & etc applications intergration with Flash, Reaktor, Max/MSP, SuperCollider, Proce55ing and JavaScript via Open Sound Control ...and much much more
Pure Date is free to download, use, modify and share, is open source and has a huge international user community who are often quite willing to give pointers. It is commonly used by sound, video and media artists for performances, installations, web projects and custom devices. Besides its modular structure, its main advantage is being able to manipulate data, sound and image all within the same environment.
PD runs on the Linux, OSX, win32 and Irix platforms, allowing it to be used on almost any hardware, from dektops to palmtops. No previous programming experience is necessary to learn PD, although a working knowledge of digital audio and video is recommended.
This workshop will be an 8 hour crash course in the "vocabulary" and "grammar" of Pure Data, giving the participants enough background in PD to continue their own explorations in the program, and hopefully to create a local users-group to continue to help and support each other.
During the course of the day, we will cover:
- Installation + configuration for Linux, Mac OSX 10.3, Windows
Please note that not all the features of PD are supported under Windows, including much of the video processing! If this is a concern, please contact me ahead of time and we can work something out.
- Pure Data as a Language
Like learning any new language, PD starts with learning vocabulary and grammer. In this case, we will learn the names of many common objects and the syntax of how to use them.
- Pure Data for Sound
PD has powerful signal-processing abilities, and we will explore these by building a simple, monophonic synthesizer controllable from either a MIDI device or from the keyboard of your computer.
- Pure Data for Video
PDP [Pure Data Packet] is an external library for Pure Data which processes video packets. We will use randomly-generated video noise and Quicktime video files to explore PD's use as a VJ performance tool. Please encode any video you would like to use in Quicktime Photo-JPG compression. PDP is not available for Windows!
- Pure Data for 3D
GEM is an external library for PD which uses OpenGL for the creation and manipulation of 3D graphical objects. Images and videos can then be applied as textures to these objects, and the objects can also be made to respond to sound, MIDI or other input.
- Pure Data Examples
We will look at several projects using PD for live performance, installations and web-based projects.
- Pure Data Resources
Finally, we will check out where to find more information about PD, including it's built-in documentation and tutorials, the various websites devoted to it, the PD mailing list, and hopefully each other.
- Participant Info
I'll need to know the following info from you if you would like to attend:
---the OS your laptop will run during the workshop [very important!] ---what experience you have with PD/GEM/PDP, Max/MSP/Jitter, Reaktor, SuperCollider, Flash/ActionScript or similar applications [not required, I'm just curious...] ---contact phone numbers for you in case something changes ---confirmation that you will be able to attend on Sunday
More info about Pure Data:
Pure Data program http://pd.iem.at/ http://www.puredata.info http://www.puredata.info// http://pure-data.sourceforge.net/
GEM - Graphics Environment for Multimedia http://gem.iem.at/
PDP -Pure Data Packet and PiDiP http://zwizwa.fartit.com/pd/pdp/doc/ http://ydegoyon.free.fr/pidip.html
About the lecturer: Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound and radio artist based in the Netherlands. His work focuses on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds and electromagnetic resonances from various natural and urban locations, participatory and collaborative media projects, live audiovisual performance and the use and teaching of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data. He has been giving workshops on Free + Open Source multimedia tools for two and a half years in various locations in Europe.
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derek holzer