SuperCollider

Making music via internet chat: goto10 workshop, Bristol UK, Nov/Dec

dan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:27:44 +0000

mode +v noise: an intense 3 day workshop for up to 10 participants, looking at how to build an Internet chat based music platform:: to be held in Arnolfini, Bristol, UK :: Monday November 30, 2009 - Wednesday, December 2, 2009 :: Deadline for applications: November 16, 2009 ::

The workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own software sound synthesiser and different chat bots that will be used to manipulate and turn your chat into a music score. To achieve this, we will use free software such as Python, Supercollider, Puredyne, Emacs and more!

More information

sc140 : A compilation album release… with 140 characters of sourcecode!

thor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:20:29 +0000

Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, barely enough for a sentence - so it’s nothing short of miraculous that SuperCollider users have been creating entire musical compositions that fit within that limit.

The album “sc140″ is now out featuring the best of these pieces! It’s free to listen and download and even comes with the 140-character source codes so you can generate or tweak the sounds yourself. Download it now

supercollider workshop in Athens, Greece (14-15 nov 2009)

redfrik — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:02:06 +0000

Marinos Koutsomichalis is presenting a 2days workshop on supercollider @ Bios in Athens, Greece on the 14th and 15th of November 2009

participants need no previous experience

more info here

http://www.agxivatein.com/index.php?/ongoing/supercollider-workshop–bios—athens-greece/

SALZBURG - 10 days of super collider (05-15 oct 2009)

redfrik — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:59:31 +0000

subnet presents >>>

10 DAYS OF SUPERCOLLIDER
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Workshops, kollektive Web-Jammings uvm.
05-15 Oktober 2009

http://www.subnet.at/projects/supercollider.html

WHEN:

5-9 Oktober 09
SuperCollider Workshop mit Andre Bartetzki

12-15 Oktober 09
SuperCollider Web-Jammings mit Fredrik Olofsson

WHERE:
subnet
Josef-Preis-Allee 16, 1.Stock
5020 Salzburg, Austria

registration via subnet@subnet.at

attendance free!

BEASTmulch multichannel system released

dan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:26:57 +0000

Scott Wilson today announced the release of the BEASTmulch system, developed as part of an AHRC-funded research project exploring approaches to large-scale multichannel electroacoustic composition and presentation.

Downloads at: http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/research/mulch.shtml

For more information: beastmulch-info@contacts.bham.ac.uk

BEASTmulch System

BEASTmulch System is a software tool for the presentation of electroacoustic music over multichannel systems. Designed primarily with a classic ‘live diffusion’ model in mind, it is nevertheless flexible enough to be adapted for a number of purposes, and can support input and output configurations of arbitrary complexity (i.e. live inputs, soundfiles with varying numbers of channels, etc.).

The software has numerous features (e.g. realtime reconfigurable routing, channel processing, automation, etc.), incorporates various standard and non-standard spatialisation techniques (VBAP, ambisonics, etc.), and adapts easily to both small and large (i.e. > 100 loudspeakers) systems.

BEASTmulch System is the software component of the BEAST concert system.

System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.4 - 10.5 (10.6 compatibility forthcoming)

BEASTmulchLib

BEASTmulchLib is a SuperCollider class library designed for use in the creation, processing and presentation of complex multichannel signal chains. Objects include sources, matrix routers and mixers, and sound processors and spatialisers. The latter are based on a simple user-extensible plugin architecture. Many classes have elegant GUI representations.

The library also includes classes which represent a variety of different controllers, including MIDI controllers, GUI Faders, EtherSense, etc., and provides support for controller automation (i.e automated mixing and diffusion).

It supports a number of common spatialisation techniques, such as Ambisonics, and includes SC ports of Ville Pullki’s Vector Base Amplitude Panning (VBAP), and the Loris analysis resynthesis method. It also supports some idiosyncratic techniques, such as Spatial Swarm Granulation, and provides utility classes for Speaker Array balancing and visualisation.

N.B. Currently the library is not fully cross-platform: GUI classes and UGens are OSX only.

Article on Conversational Programming and Live Coding in SuperCollider

julian — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:27:57 +0000

In the new book, Gérard Assayag and Andrew Gerzso (ed.), New Computational Paradigms for Computer Music. Delatour France / Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2009, there is an article on: Improvising Formalisation: Conversational Programming and Live Coding. (Julian Rohrhuber and Alberto de Campo).

SuperCollider workshops in New York, 17/18 October, at Harvestworks

redfrik — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:52:32 +0000

The first day (Saturday, Oct 17) is devoted to beginners, and should give you a head start for working with SuperCollider. If you have already experience in SuperCollider, or feel ready to go to the next level after Saturday’s class, we offer an intermediate workshop the next day.

Each class is $110, and if you sign up for both classes right away, the price is $190 instead of $220.

The class is part of our month long New York Electronic Arts Festival (http://www.nyeaf.org/). On Friday before the class (Oct 16), Nick will also play on the opening night of our festival at Roulette’s, as part of his duo “Nic vs. Nick”, together with equally famous hardware hacker Nic Collins from Chicago, employing live coding and live circuit building.

To sign up for the classes, or if you have questions call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130 ext 130. You can also conveniently sign up at
http://www.harvestworks.org/cms/index.php/Classes/Classes-new.html
where you will also find the schedule for the upcoming months. Membership is $75/yr, and you can pay for the membership when you sign up for the class.

SUPERCOLLIDER: BEGINNER’S WORKSHOP

Nick Collins

Saturday 17th October, 10am - 5pm

Class cost: $110

SUPERCOLLIDER: INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP

Nick Collins

Sunday 18th October, 10am - 5pm

Class cost: $110

—> Take both classes for $190

Saturday 17th October: Beginners day
A friendly introduction to SuperCollider for absolute beginners, aimed at artists and musicians. Aside from a little familiarity with the digital arts, no prerequisites, though some prior exposure to computer music (perhaps through Max/MSP or Csound) may be helpful.

Sunday 18th October: Intermediate day
Would be suitable for those who have taken the previous day’s beginner workshop, as well as those wanting to refresh or extend their skills. The emphasis here will be on live performance with SuperCollider, and facilitating participants’ own projects. The workshop will be adaptable to participants’ needs, and I will take requests for topics, and run a general question and answer session.

Installation, Belfast, 8th Sept

dan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:53:32 +0000

An installation using SuperCollider and Arduino in Belfast next week, by Robyn Farah (see previous works):

When: 8th September 14:00 – 18:00
Where: Surround Room in the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University, Malone Road (opposite the Botanic Inn), Belfast

An environment to excite the imagination.

An installation using sound and light, where the sound is algorithmically
triggering different sound patterns. As this installation is set in a dark
room, the participant is unaware of the size of the room, and what it’s
contents are, leaving a lot to the participant’s imagination. Hence the
participant begins creating his/her own environment , within the
installation space, around the given sounds and lights.

SC workshop at EMS Stockholm, Sept 7th-11th 2009

redfrik — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:26:14 +0000

Andre Bartetzki is holding a 5 days SC workshop for beginners at the EMS (Swedish centre for electroacoustic music) in Stockholm in cooperation with SEAMS (Sällskapet för elektroakustisk musik i Sverige)

dates: September 7th to 11th, 18:30 - 21:30
location: Konferensrummet i EMS-studion Söder Mälarstrand 61
costs: 1500 kronor (SEAMS-medlemmar och studenter 1200 kronor)

for more information and registration go to:

http://www.seams.nu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:supercollider-workshop&catid=44:program&Itemid=62

London workshop Tue 25 Aug: SuperCollider, Android

dan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:49:08 +0000

In the next OpenLab workshop (in central London), Dan Stowell will be doing some more beginner’s level SuperCollider, and Rob Munro will be introducing Android. The cost is £10 for one or £15 for the entire night.

When: Tuesday 25 August, from 6pm-10:30pm
Where: The Roebuck pub (upstairs room), 50 Great Dover Street, SE1 4YG

http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/2009/08/11/openlab-summer-workshops-25-aug-2009/

SuperCollider 3.3.1 released (Safari 4 compatible)

dan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:46:16 +0000

We are happy to announce the release of SuperCollider 3.3.1, the environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

The most important update in 3.3.1 is compatibility with Safari 4, so Mac users can now happily update. There are also some GUI improvements, plus other helpful tweaks (full changelog).

Download from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

24th & 25th June Advanced workshop at STEIM Amsterdam

jan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:47:25 +0000

STEIM is hosting an advanced SuperCollider workshop by Jan Trützschler von Falkenstein on the 24th and 25th of June. For more info please visit:

< http://www.steim.org/steim/workshops.php?id=140&b=1&r=1 >

Openlab, Tues 30th June, London: SuperCollider, hardware hacking, Processing

dan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:12:57 +0000

Openlab is a London network of artists using cool open-source stuff. On Tues 30th June, 6pm–11pm they’re running a workshop with introductory teaching sessions on SuperCollider, hardware hacking, and Processing:

http://tinyurl.com/olevents

The SuperCollider session will be led by Dan Stowell, and will be aimed at people who haven’t used SuperCollider before.

SuperCollider in the Sourceforge.net community awards

dan — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:20:11 +0000

The 2009 SourceForge Community Choice awards have launched, and are seeking votes from users of cool software: please nominate SuperCollider!

Which category? We suggest “Most likely to change the way you do everything”.

SuperCollider 3.3 released

dan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:49:43 +0000

We are pleased to announce that SuperCollider 3.3 is now released.

Visit the SuperCollider downloads page to get binary or source-code downloads for your platform.

There are many changes since 3.2 (see the changelog for full detail) but here are some headlines:

GUI system updates: easier syntax, plus a major update of GUI documentation, as well as extra features such as modal sheets, SCLevelIndicator, and menu item manipulation
New UGens added:
- BEQSuite filter UGens (popular set of nice-sounding filters)
- PartConv (efficient frequency-domain convolution)
- SendReply (sends arrays from server to the language client)
- VDiskIn (like DiskIn but with variable rate)
- LFGauss
Buffer recording/playback UGens used to be limited to 16-channel; now they can handle massively multi-channel audio
SCImage for manipulating bitmap image objects (mac only)
LocalBuf framework allows synths to create/free their own “private” buffers, simplifying buffer management in many situations
Various behind-the-scenes efficiency improvements, for a sleeker audio server that can do more on a given machine

(Note: the Windows build of 3.3 is still in alpha stages and so is not yet a “stable” release… watch this space)

Release candidate available: SuperCollider 3.3rc2

dan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:38:00 +0000

The SuperCollider developers have been working hard since the symposium on finishing the new release of SuperCollider. A release candidate is now available, uploaded on SourceForge - if all looks well with this version, it will be released as the official version 3.3 next week.

Mac UB and source-code bundles are uploaded here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

Please report any problems that the more daring of you may come across while testing!

SuperCollider Symposium 2009: the evidence

dan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:47:35 +0000

The SuperCollider Symposium 2009 at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA) went down a treat.

Here are links to footage of some of the events:

Photos by danstowell, by hecanjog, by djensenius
Videos by erik schoster
Blog by James Harkins, by Dan Stowell

SuperCollider Symposium: Tickets now available

dan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:56:09 +0000

It is now possible to register for the SuperCollider Symposium on line at

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=24317&pid=6489400

If you register before April 8, the registration fee will be discounted to $35.00.

Details concerning presentations that will be part of the symposium can be found at

http://supercollider.wesleyan.edu/conf/index.php/sc3conf/SC09/schedConf/presentations

SuperCollider workshops in Montreal, April/May

dan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:45:00 +0000

Studio XX, Montreal welcomes audio artist Marije Baalman between April 20th and May 11th who will undertake a four (4) session SuperCollider Workshop.

Full details in English: http://www.studioxx.org/en/node/2202

Full details in French: http://www.studioxx.org/fr/node/2201

Tim Walters interview

dan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:39:42 +0000

There’s an interview online with Tim Walters about his recent album Ticker. It gives some nice little insights into his process of music-making with SuperCollider.