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

The big Pure Data (Pd) tutorial written by Johannes Kreidler with the help of a grant by the Music University of Freiburg / Germany, is now online, in English and in German. It is also available as a book (paperback) at Wolke Publishing House.

This tutorial is designed for self-study, principally for composers. It begins with explanations of basic programming and acoustic principles then gradually builds up to the most advanced electronic music processing techniques. The book’s teaching approach is focused primarily on hearing, which we consider a faster and more enjoyable way to absorb new concepts than through abstract formulas.

The patches described are available for download.

Two days ago, at Network Cultures Winter Camp, GOTO10’s new netlabel, GOSUB10, launched Substrate, its inaugural release. A 12-track compilation of music from across the electronic music genre, it features friends and family of the GOTO10 collective, illustrating the strong networks by which the label will grow and providing insight into future directions.

Substrate features tracks by: Earweego, krgn, vacca, 0xA, Bazterrak, Frank Barknecht, Yee-King, Soudo, Julian Brook, Martin Howse, Rob Canning and Ultrageranium. Download the whole album or listen to tracks here [requires VLC media player]. Stay tuned for the release of the source code. Continue reading

[spectre] xxxxx_micro_research workshops: A new series of workshops at xxxxx_micro_research [Berlin], an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware :: March 7, 2009: Audiovisuals with SuperCollider [with Fredrik Olofsson] :: xxxxx_micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119.

March 7; 2:00 pm: Audiovisuals with SuperCollider [with Fredrik Olofsson] ::syn-er-gy | noun | the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. [OED] — A one-day workshop in which we explore synergies in the form of very direct and one-to-one relationships or mappings between sound and image. Continue reading