audiojungle.net has been blogging about available musical applications.

[image: Ardour, a new musical workstation]

This week they’ve looked at those available for the Linux operating system and come up with 29. Here’s a quote from the site: Continue reading

SquareTangle virtual art performance company launches with an open source plug-in for artists and sound designers.

Renowned Australian virtual artists John McCormick and Adam Nash today announced the formation of SquareTangle, a virtual/art/performance company, as a milestone in their Australia Council Inter-Arts Connections Residency at Hidden Cove Solutions.

They have released the first results of this productive collaborative residency, in the form of a plug-in that allows the FMOD sound designer to be used within the Unity game development environment. Continue reading

TOPLAP presents PUBCODE2 — Featuring: chr15m (making machines that make machines that make music); MCLD (beatboxing + livecoding, is it possible?); Yee-King + Click Nilson (algorithmic choreography); openSlub (crowdsourced livecoding) :: August 5, 2009; 7:00 - 11:00 pm :: The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street, London.

Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. Continue reading

Piksel09 :: November 19-22, 2009 :: Bergen, Norway :: Deadline extended to - July 31, 2009 :: Please use the online submit form or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel09 [AT] piksel [DOT] no.

Piksel [1] is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art. Continue reading

MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?! :: distributed and open practices in FLOSS art :: Call for projects: Extended deadline, July 22

make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The fourth edition of make art ? What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 7th to the 13th of December 2009. It will offer performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the encounter between digital art and free software. Continue reading

MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art :: December 7-13, 2009 :: Poitiers, France :: Call for Projects — Deadline: July 15, 2009.

Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/ Libre/ Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. Make Art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the encounter between digital art and free software. Make Art is currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS works and projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, and installations. This year Make Art focuses on distributed and open practices in FLOSS art. Continue reading

MzTEK Unplugged: Julie Freeman & Open Source :: April 29, 2009; 7;00 - 9:00 pm :: Leon Bankside (directly behind & facing the Tate Modern) - closest tubes: Southwark, London Bridge.

If you were ever curious about Open Source — what it is, who uses it, why, and how you can too — artist Julie Freeman will chat about the politics of Open Source software and code, and will introduce some of the useful programs, packages and tools available for artists, and tools she uses in her work.

Julie Freeman’s work explores transforming complex processes into sound compositions, objects and visualizations. Her work spans visual, audio and digital art forms and explores the relationship between science, nature and how humans interact with it. Continue reading

The Public Sound Objects (PSOs) is a Shared Sonic Environment for experimental music available as an installation or as a web based system. It is targeted to the general Public and it does not require previous music knowledge. A user can join a collaborative performance using a “Bouncing Ball Java Interface” by manipulating Sound Objects in a central soundserver.

To run the client software properly you need to have Java installed and a Standard MIDI Synthesizer. The Public Sound Objects Software is Open Source under a GPL Licence. Source code can be downloaded. A video essay can be found here. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Hard Data by R. Luke DuBois [Needs Flash plugin and speakers; wait for data to load] Hard Data is a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source “score” of events. Using Xenakis’ understanding of formalized music as a starting point, DuBois draws upon a variety of statistical data ranging from the visceral (civilian deaths, geospatial renderings of military actions) to the mundane (fiscal year budgets for the war) to generate a dataset that can be used for any number of audiovisual compositions. Continue reading

G.A.P. No. 2 from Dream Addictive on Vimeo.

G.A.P. No.2 is part of a series of electronic prototypes with organic form, designed to simulate generative sound process. The device consists of a set of speakers, amplifier, sensors and Arduino. The organic disposition of elements, like a little sound garden sensitive to movement, stimulates the sensory interaction as a means for manipulating audio. Continue reading