SuperCollider

amongst other lectures and workshops, 12-14. Nov. at IRCAM, Paris:

LiveCoding : « personnes réparties, distribution des données »
Séance de travaux pratiques : Just in time programming music in networks
Intervenants : Julian Rohrhuber, Alberto de Campo

http://forumnet.ircam.fr/713.html?&L=0&event=742
(not free of charge unfortunately)

On November 20th, Sergio Luque will be giving a SuperCollider workshop in Madrid, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. On the next day, he will give a lecture on stochastic synthesis.

• More info (in Spanish)

Stefan Nussbaumer will be giving a FREE SuperCollider workshop at Iceland’s Acedemy of the Arts in Reykjavik from Friday Nov 7 to Saturday Nov 8 (10am - 13 pm). The workshop will be held as part of the Pikslaverk Festival 2008: http://www.pikslaverk.org

location: Listaháskólanum í Laugarnesi, Reykjavik (I believe that stands for the Iclandic Academy of Fine Arts)
Sat Nov 08, 10.00-13.00
Sun Nov 09, 10.00-13.00

Andre Bartetzki writes: I’ll be giving two introductory SC workshops:

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in October in Palma de Mallorca during the festival “ping!08″

21. - 23.10.2008, 17 - 21h   (3×4 hrs)

location: Estudi UBIK, C/Tomàs Forteza, 11, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares / Spain

fee: 60 Euro

more information
pingfestival@gmail.com

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in November in Hamburg as part of the CAMPUS program during the festival ”Hamburger Klangwerktage 08″

Tuesday, 25.11.2008, 16 - 18h
Thursday, 27.11.2008, 10 - 13:30h  (2 + 3.5 hrs)

location: Kampnagel Hamburg, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, Germany

free entrance

More information

SuperCollider workshop for beginners will be held on Sat. 5th July by Fredrik Olofsson.

SuperCollider is an audio programming language which is known for its beautiful sound and special functions to produce algorithmic musical events.
It will be a practical and hands-on workshop focusing on quickly getting familiar with the SuperCollider environment and how to code small but very noisy programs.

Also examples of sc works will be shown by sc users.

And after the workshop we’re planning to have dinner together with Fredrik.

* Basically, this workshop is only for students of a school but a few people may join us if you’d like. Please mail to : tn8[a]supercollider.jp before, because of security things.

Brief interpretation will be given, please feel free to join us if you’re interested in.

Sat. July 5 14:00 - 17:00
at IAMAS (Gifu, Japan)
BRING your laptop and headphones
* please install SuperCollider 3.2 before. download from :
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads

Presentations
　umbrella_process “SC and Networking”… Introduce his loop sequence which can be controlled by multiple players via UDP/IP network and a performance piece with Wii remote controller.
　otophilia “Amusing Toy box”… Introduce unique ways to use supercollider.
　tn8 … some music examples works with SC.

best wishes & hope to see you soon,
tn8

SuperCollider Beginner Workshop in Berlin Friedrichshain Bersarinplatz

4 days 6hrs/day spanning 2 weekends:
May 24 & 25 13-19h
June 7 & 8 13-19h

with Andre Bartetzki
www.bartetzki.de/en/sc_kita08.html

location:
K:ITA - Kunstprojekt: International Temporary Art Weidenweg 44-46 / Bersarinplatz,
10249 Berlin Friedrichshain
http://www.k-ita.de/?page_id=3
http://www.k-ita.de/?page_id=7

The workshop languages are English and German.
The number of participants is limited to 15.

The workshop fee is 100 Euros, to be payed at the beginning.

Please reserve your place by sending an email to hat...@drfz.de until May 18.

contact and further information:
hat...@drfz.de (Farah Hatam, K:ITA)
and...@bartetzki.de

Description of course topics:

SuperCollider for Beginners

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It has a large and growing library of sound synthesis modules and supports structural concepts in composition as well as new approaches to musical design like live coding.
The architecture of SuperCollider is optimized for working in real time and for networking with other softwares and machines via Open Sound Control.

SC3 is free and open source, runs under OSX, Linux and Windows.
Binaries as well as sources of SC3 can be downloaded from http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

The participants must bring their own computers with SC installed.
The main platform for the course will be OSX.
In general, Linux or Windows will work as well but you have to install SC by yourself in advance!
In order to run SC under Linux you need to configure emacs as an editor and to install SwingOSC as GUI for SC.
For Windows you need Psycollider and SwingOSC as GUI.

Topics
- basic concepts of SC3:
server (scsynth) and client (sclang),
synths and synthdefs (patches)
nodes and busses
- modules for synthesis und processing of audio signals:
unit generators (oscillators, noise, filters, delays …),
buffers and sampling
envelopes, triggers, control signals
FFT
- language basics:
objects and messages, classes and methods
functions, arguments and variables
operators
collections (arrays, lists, dictionaries …) and list processing
control structures (if, while, do, switch …)
- generation and organisation of events and sounds:
scheduler and tasks
streams and patterns
scores
recording und non-real-time recording
- synthesis and audio processing examples:
additive synthesis
granular synthesis
delay-based effects
multichannel and spatialization techniques
analysis and intermodulation techniques
presentation of projects and realizations
- control and networking:
Open Sound Control and remote servers
MIDI and HI devices
- other topics:
GUI overview
live coding
extensions

A four day SuperCollider summer school will be held at the University of Westminster, Room 206 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW, Tues July 15 to Friday 18th 2008.

If you don’t know SuperCollider, it’s a powerful audio programming language for generative and interactive music, with full realtime sound synthesis facilities (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/)

Both beginners and more advanced students are welcome and will be catered for. The course will culminate in a public gig for participants at Public Life in Shoreditch on the Friday night.

The organisers are John Eacott and Nick Collins, who will also be the main tutors.

The course is being run at minimum costs on a basis of pay what-you-like (you pay once at the workshops). In order to avoid time wasting, a minimum of £10 is required, and a £20 course fee is suggested as a basis for students, benefits etc (pay more if you can). However, bear in mind how much other workshops of this nature tend to cost, and you’ll get an idea of how we’re going out of the way to make this as non-commercial a venture as possible. The tutors are accepting no fee apart from travel expenses, and any excess will go to subsidising the Friday night performance opportunity, and if we go beyond that, to a dementia charity.

The maximum number of participants we can take is 30. Please email John Eacott off list in order to register (john atsymbol informal dot org). Note also that the organisers are not responsible for finding London accommodation for international participants; travel and lodging would have to be dealt with by you.

best wishes,
John and Nick

A (more-or-less) weekly series of constructivist workshops emphasising making and connection within the field of the existent.

Calendar:

March 8th 2PM: Switch-from-Max! … (and other patch cable based systems)

Forthcoming matter:

Pinhole and Kirlian photography, radio telescopy, data forensics, scientific visualisation toolkits, hardware RNG, EVP, PD and HID, scrying boards and KiCad design

… contact if you’re interested in leading a related workshop.

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March 8th 2PM: Switch-from-Max! … (and other patch cable based systems)

A one-day workshop focusing on the free software SuperCollider and why programming with syntax can be both easier and far superior to the graphical ditto (aka. patching). It is unfortunate that code or syntax often scares artists and musicians at first sight. We will try to cure this fear by showing fairly simple examples of how SuperCollider can be used to produce music and sound much more dynamically than using the static and deceitfully easy patching paradigm. More particularly we will do granular synthesis, randomly generated synthesis networks and networked music - all the things that are a real pain to do in systems like Max/MSP.

Intermediate level - knowledge of basic computer music concepts like filters and envelopes is required, knowledge of some patching system (Max/PD) is a plus.

–What to bring:

1) Laptop running Linux, OS X or Windows

2) SuperCollider 3 installed (version 3.2 recommended): http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

3) Headphones

4) 10 Euros participation fee

–About the Teacher:

Fredrik Olofsson, aka. redFrik, is a musician and developer who also sometimes performs tricks with visuals and electronics.
http://www.fredrikolofsson.com
http://www.klippav.org
http://www.musicalfieldsforever.com

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Background:

Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free software and GNU toolbase.

Practitioners have included Martin Kuentz (p...@scrying.org), Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell, , jo FRGMNT grys(http://tob.de.vu/)

xxxxx, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl.
U8, Rosenthaler Pl.

Telephone: 3050187482.

http://1010.co.uk/workshop.html

http://1010.co.uk/xxxxx_research_institute.html

http://pickledfeet.com

at Linux Audio Conference 2008 Köln

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/

A workshop on distributed stochastic composition and synthesis

Sergio Luque, Julian Rohrhuber

When

Thu 28 Feb 2008
14:30 - 17:30

Location

Klanglabor, Filzengraben 8-10 (No. 3 on the KHM map)

Description

New ways to bring back the noise into the telephone line. Instead of separating signal and noise, we will try to devise new and beautiful uncertainties, reconstruct respected old noise sources and play with the intractable. This workshop will be an experimental laboratory for finding and exchanging stochastic algorithms that run on each other’s computers in the local network. We will give a brief introduction to the programming language SuperCollider, and continue into networked live coding of noise music. Please bring a laptop.