Spark Festival of Electronic
Music and Arts 2009
February 17 - 22, 2009
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN.

Doug Geers & Ali Momeni, Artistic Directors
J. Anthony Allen, Producer
James P Hunglemann, Nightlife Curator

CALL FOR WORKS
University of Minnesota West Bank Arts Quarter
In partnership with the American Composers Forum
Announces

2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
West Bank Arts Quarter, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

Minneapolis, MN
February 17 -- February 22

Enter the Online Submission System

CALL FOR ARTISTS, COMPOSERS, and PRESENTERS

Submission Deadline: 11:59pm PST, October 31, 2008 (postmarked)

The University of Minnesota West Bank Arts Quarter and Collaborative Arts Program (COLA) are proud to present the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, February 17-22. The festival will be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (USA) and neighboring Minneapolis performing arts venues, and will feature numerous guest artists to be announced.

Now in its seventh year, the Spark Festival showcases the groundbreaking works of music, art, theater, and dance that feature use of new technologies. Last year's festival included innovative works by over one hundred international composers and artists, including featured guest artists Paul Demarinis, Graffiti Research Lab, Iancu Dumitrescu, and Richard Devine. Leading scholars and technology specialists also presented lectures and panels relating to new technology and creativity. Audiences for the concerts, installations, and lectures last year totaled approximately 4,000 people and garnered multiple articles and reviews in local and national media.

Spark invites submissions of art, dance, theater, and music works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres. Although Spark does not force submissions to adhere to a annual theme, we are especially interested this year to feature wearable and mobile technologies, and events will include the first Spark Fashion Show.

Spark also invites submission of scholarly lectures and panel proposals on topics of Collaborative Arts, Interactivity, Cognition, Compositional and Artistic Process, Social and Ethical Issues in the Arts, Art, Music, Video, Film, Animation, Theater, Dance, Innovative Use of Technology in Education, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality, intermedia composition, performance, human-computer interaction, software/hardware development, aesthetics, and history and all topics related to the creation of new media art and music. For Spark 2009, we are particularly interested in lectures about wearable and mobile technologies, but submissions on any of the above topics are welcome. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings. Please see http://www.spark.cla.umn.edu/media.html for PDF copies of the Spark 2006, 2007, and 2008 proceedings and program.

OPEN technologies workshop, Zaragoza, Spain, June 26th - July 1st

http://www.0j0.org/pmwiki/index.php/Events/GohanDevelopmentJun07

******* FREE WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT *******

Arduino, Pd, and Processing are becoming more and more intertwined. Sensors controlling software synthesis, robots controlled by video tracking, custom musical instruments, and more. We are a collection of developers working with these free software tools. Join us to work on projects of these combinations, or help us create new possibilities by bringing these tools ever more intertwined.

This event is a combination of a hacklab and a barcamp. We are following the ad hoc, participant-driven nature of the barcamp in combination with the collaborative work studio environment of a hacklab. If you have not been to a hacklab, barcamp, and/or unconference before, here are a couple of good references to get an idea of the way it is done:

BarCamp on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp

There will be workshops and talks, and plenty of time to work together. We will all be working together to create projects which will then be exhibited in Zaragoza. Bring one or more of the following: ideas, projects, a desire to learn, a desire to teach. Come everyday to pick up skills and finish your project. Come whenever you can to learn new bits and pieces, and help build compelling things to exhibit!

Dates & Location:
June 26th (Tuesday) - July 1st (Sunday)
Centro de Historia
Pl. San Agustín 2
50002 Zaragoza - Spain
http://www.zaragoza.es/centrodehistoria/

Team - Guest developers:
* Hans-Christoph Steiner, Pd, Polytechnic University, community management
* Emanuele Roman, Processing, visual representation[visio imaginorum sonus est]
* XÄ, Pd, electronic music

Team - Resident developers:
* David Cuartielles from Arduino
* Marcos Yarza from Libelium, physical interfaces

Join us! Just sign up on the register page!

http://www.0j0.org/pmwiki/index.php/Jun07/Register

If you live near Zaragoza and are willing to host people, please mark that on the registration page. If you want to come and need a place to stay, contact people on the registration page who marked themselves as hosts.

.hc

Hi all, my first post here...
I'm using pd 0.40-2 on MacOSX Tiger 10.4.9, with much fun!
But everytime i start the app, i have to set again audio/midi preferences, because pd was back to default parameters (builtin audio i/o and no midi in/out).
Yeah, this is not really a problem, but is a little annoyng...

Do you know if this happen on osx even with 0.39.2-extended-RC1? Is this version the better one? What are the core differences between the 2 versions (beyond extensions..)?

Thank you very much

Regards

jk

Aye, and how was your Euro-tour? I'm sorry we never got to meet up when you were in London, did you find Claude?

btw, I'm not ready to announce as news yet because there's a few more pages to go, but there's an update on obiwannabe.co.uk that might be of interest - check out the new "birds" tutorial

best,
andy

Hi All,
The Eastman School of Music has a call out for works that employ computer technology -- you know, what we're all doing! Sadly, I am ineligible to enter this competition cause I work here, but you are not! The cash prizes are significant and are accompanied by performances. There are NO FEES to enter, so you have nothing to lose! Dust off those pieces people!

Please check the following link for details.

http://ecmc.rochester.edu/ecmc25/announcement.html

Cheers and good luck!

-S

hi forum.

i dunno if announcements of this kind belong to the abstractions forum, the patches one or the news one (maybe even the pd-announce mailing list?) but for i wish to share my pack of abstractions with the community, i file it under abstract~.
for those of you who use pd mainly for music synthesis, my bagoftricks might be interesting, i announced it already (0.2.6) together with that shameful electro track i posted here (yes, i can do better .

here's the new version 0.2.8:
[url=https://www.puredata.org/Members/syntax_the_nerd ]https://www.puredata.org/Members/syntax_the_nerd

from the changes.txt (since 0.2.6):

-added bot.wshaper, capable of cosine, polynomic and some other transform
-fixed pitch bug in bot.blubber, much more usable on idm drums now
-added bot.chord, simple number to harmonic group of numbers converter
-repaired a bunch of ugly bugs in bot.plucker. should be in tune now and cpu
aware
-added bot.paraeq single 2p-bandpass wrapper
-slightly changed bot.distort's behaviour
-added a volume control to bot.blip
-changed bot.filter from using bot.synth2's vcf filterboxes to regular
lp/hp/bp's. saves a lot of cpu, they weren't signal controlled anyway
-bot.revplay can now play forward. idm retriggers hooray!
-added bot.kmute, a keyboard-controlled spigot scheduler
-added "please hurt" to the bot-song-archive
-nailed down some cpu leaks
-added some cpu leaks
-added bot.pong not really finished yet, though, but fun to watch (beware, it
drains some cpu cycles)
-added a new hihat sound to bot.minidrm
-some bugs added, some fixed
-extended bot.sq-piano somewhat
-crippled bot.sq, now depends heavily on bot.sq-piano


enjoy, and don't forget to mail comments, flames or tracks to me.
stn

This is quoted from a mail passing in the Canadian Electroacoustic Community about three new ambisonic objects for PD. Seems quite well done.

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I'm very pleased to announce that new objects for sound spatialization are
available on the CICM web site : [url=http://www.mshparisnord.org/cicm/dl_en.htm ]http://www.mshparisnord.org/cicm/dl_en.htm

These objects are developed by Rémi Mignot and Jean-Baptiste Thiébaut. Most
of them are available for Macintosh, Windows and Linux for Max/MSP and PD.

ambipan~ is an external that uses ambisonic techniques for a surround
panning up to 16 loudspeakers. The ambisonic algorithm is from Michael
Gerzon.

ambicube~is a 3-dimensional version of ambipan~ so you can use it with two
levels of loudspeakers

vbapan~is an external that uses vector based amplitude panning for a
surround panning up to 16 loudspeakers. The vbap algorithl is from Ville
Pulkki.

trajectory is an intuitive abstraction for drawing trajectories. It
contains 8 graphical tools such as ellipse, spiral, broken line, etc.
Trajectories can be stored. The coordinates may be send to ambipan~ and
vbapan~ to localise up to 16 independent sounds.

Help files are written in French for instance, the trajectory help is
bilingual.

Your feedback is welcome !
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