SuperCollider

Audiovisual Programming: Mapping and Visualization. Barcelona 18/19/20.05.2012

redfrik — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:28:46 +0000

part of sonic seminars - spring 2012

18/19/20.05.2012 - Audiovisual programming: Mapping and visualization, by Fredrik Olofsson

This seminar will investigate the built-in graphical features of SuperCollider and how to use these artistically in combination with the sound synthesis server. We will use simple sounds and simple graphics to explore the endless possibilities of audiovisual mapping and sound visualization. The aim is to combine shapes, colours, paths and pixels with oscillators, control signals, wavetables and spectrums. At the end of the course we will have programmed a few unique audiovisual instruments and connected sound generating code to drawing routines. We will also play with drawing time and frequency domain representations of audio and looked at generating static images by plotting waveforms in non-realtime. We will code sounds that look good as well as code graphics that sound well.

Level: intermediate (presumes some basic SuperCollider knowledge)

Language: English

Dates:
Friday 20.04.2012, 18:00-22.00h.
Saturday 21.04.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 22.04.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h

Location: Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació. Sant Adrià, 20. Barcelona. Metro Sant Andreu.

+info: [ http://lullcec.org/en/2012/workshops/programacio-audiovisual-mapeig-i-visualitzacio/ ]

A hands-on look at some exotic techniques for sound generation and processing. Barcelona 20/21/22.04.2012

redfrik — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:28:57 +0000

part of sonic seminars - spring 2012

20/21/22.04.2012 – A hands-on look at some exotic techniques for sound generation and processing, by Chris Jeffs.

This seminar will present a wide spectrum of lesser known and somehow exotic sound generation and processing techniques. A short presentation and explanation will be provided for each technique, along with sample patches provided for each participant to hack as they choose. These are some of the techniques we will see: physical modeling, distortion, altered harmonic distributions, analogue emulation, phase distortion, dynamic waveshaping, algorithmic waveform generation, and spectral processing techniques using the Fast Fourier Transform.

Time schedule:

Session #01

Distortion.
Algorithmic waveform generation.
Dynamic waveshaping.

Session #02

Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis: Gendy.
Audio buffer read/write modulation.
Phase distortion.
Altered harmonic distributions.
Physical modelling.
Sound granulation.

Session #03

Analogue emulation.
Spectral processing: Fast Fourier Transform.
Sonic textures.
Sound effects.

Level: beginners / intermediate

Language: English

Instructor: Chris Jeffs

Chris Jeffs was born in the UK and nowadays lives in Berlin. Originally a trombone player, he progressed to making and releasing electronic music, touring extensively since 1994 as a live artist and DJ, with 13 singles and 5 albums published on Rephlex, most prominently under the name Cylob. He turned to creating his own programs as a way of making his sound more distinctive. His granular synthesis and visual animation software “Particularity” won joint first prize in the LOMUS 2010 competition. Recent activity has focused on freelance iPhone development, in addition to programming for interactive installations and performances.

Location: Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació. Sant Adrià, 20. Barcelona. Metro Sant Andreu.

Price: 90€ (cheaper if you sign up to the whole series)

To sign up or request further information, please send an email to info@lullcec.org.

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Fabra Coats – Fábrica de Creació and Hangar.

Introduction to audio programming with SuperCollider. Barcelona 30/31.03.2012 & 01.04.2012

redfrik — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:25:25 +0000

part of sonic seminars - spring 2012

30/31.03.2012 & 01.04.2012 – Introduction to Audio Programming with SuperCollider, by Miguel Negrão.

This introductory seminar will allow anyone with no previous experience in audio programming to start developing his/her own interactive sound synthesis programs using the SuperCollider programming environment. After a general introduction to the SuperCollider language and architecture, participants will learn to implement fundamental audio synthesis and processing techniques, as well as scheduling events in time and interfacing to the real world using MIDI, OpenSoundControl or the HID protocol.

Time schedule:

Session #01

General introduction to the supercollider language and environment.
Synthesis definitions, UGens.
Audio Synthesis Techniques.
Control techniques.

Session #02

The SuperCollider language: syntax, control structures, object-oriented programming, collections API.
The SuperCollider server.
Client-server interaction.
Server representations in the language: Synths, SynthDefs, Groups, Buses, rates and node ordering.
Debugging.

Session #03

Scheduling, tasks, routines.
Specs, mapping.
Interfacing with the real world: MIDI, OSC, HID.
Brief introduction to graphical user interfaces and patterns.

Level: beginners

Instructor: Miguel Negrao

Miguel Negrão is a sound artist born in 1981 in Lisbon, Portugal. Under the alias ZLB he has been active with Drone and Ambient music projects. He has presented pieces for the Wave Field Systems of the Game of Life foundation and of TUBerlin, Acousmonium of the GRM and in other concerts in Portugal, Spain , Netherlands and Germany. With a Bachelors in Applied Mathematics, he has recently finished a Masters at the Sonology Institute in the Den Haag Conservatory on the topic of Strategies in diffuse spatialization and is currently a PhD candidate in the field of Spatial Audio at Sonic Arts Research Center in Belfast.

Time Schedule:
Friday 30.03.2012, 18:00-22.00h.
Saturday 31.03.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 01.04.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h

Location: Hangar. Passatge del Marquès de Santa Isabel, 40. Barcelona. Metro Poble Nou.

Price: 90€ (or cheaper if you sign up for the whole series)

To sign up or request further information, please send an email to info@lullcec.org.

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Hangar.

Sonic Seminars – spring 2012, Barcelona

redfrik — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:13:10 +0000

A new series of seminars (from http://lullcec.org/en/2012/tallers/seminaris-sonors-primavera-2012/)

30/31.03.2012 & 01.04.2012 – Introduction to Audio Programming with SuperCollider, by Miguel Negrão.

20/21/22.04.2012 – A hands-on look at some exotic techniques for sound generation and processing, by Chris Jeffs.

18/19/20.05.2012 – Audiovisual Programming: Mapping and Visualization, by Fredrik Olofsson.

Despite lacking the slick effects and fancy 3D features found in other programming languages, programming graphics in SuperCollider is special due to one unique feature: the sharing of data and algorithms between the sound synthesis and the drawing routines. This seminar will investigate the built-in graphical features of SuperCollider and how to use these artistically in combination with the sound synthesis server. We will use simple sounds and visuals to explore the fields of audiovisual mapping and sound visualization.

Fredrik Olofsson was trained as a composer at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm. As part of MusicalFieldsForever he has exhibited interactive art at museums and galleries. He currently teaches at the University of Arts of Berlin and is a frequent contributor within the SuperCollider open source community. He is also one of the founding members of TOPLAP, a collective that popularized the use of live coding.

8/9/10.06.2012 – Listening and Learning Systems for Composition and Live Performance, by Nick Collins.

This seminar will explore practical machine listening and machine learning methods within the SuperCollider environment, alongside associated technical and musical issues. Applications for such techniques range from autonomous concert systems, through novel musical controllers, to sound analysis projects outside of realtime informing musical composition. We will investigate built-in and third party UGens and classes for listening and learning, including the SCMIR library for music information retrieval in SuperCollider.

Nick Collins is a composer, performer and researcher in the field of computer music. He lectures at the University of Sussex, running the music informatics degree programmes and research group. Research interests include machine listening, interactive and generative music, and audiovisual performance. He co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press 2007) and The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press, 2011) and wrote the Introduction to Computer Music (Wiley 2009). iPhone apps include RISCy, TOPLAPapp, Concat, BBCut and PhotoNoise for iPad.

Location: Hangar (introductory seminar) and Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació (rest of the series).

Price: 90€ each or 240/260€ for the whole series (in one single payment / payment by installments)

To sign up or request further information, please send an email to info@lullcec.org.

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Fabra Coats – Fábrica de Creació and Hangar.

supercollider workshop, berlin 31mar2012: Good looking sounds

redfrik — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:01:48 +0000

Saturday, 31.03.2012, 11.00 - 19.00 (with break) @ LEAP

A one day workshop by Fredrik Olofsson about generating strange graphics in the audio programming language SuperCollider. The idea is to not care much about how the code we write actually sounds or works, but rather that it looks cool graphically. We will deliberately perform odd math operations to mess up the audio signals and explore and abuse the scope, plot and post windows as well as draw custom waveforms and spectrograms.

The level of the workshop will not be too advanced and there is no need to be a fluent SuperCollider programmer to make interesting visuals. Bring your own headphones and a laptop with SuperCollider (3.4 or 3.5, http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/) installed. If you have trouble installing this software please come half an hour early and we will help. Workshop language is english.

REGISTRATION Workshop:
Please send an email until 27.03.2012 with subject “Good Looking sounds” to workshops@leapknecht.de.
The number of participants is limited to 15 places. The participation fee is 25€ per person and must be paid by 29.03.2012 at the latest. After e-mail registration you will receive an email with payment information.

Fredrik Olofsson
Fredrik Olofsson graduated in 2000 as a composer at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm, but has since then extended his artistic repertoire with electronics, code, video and installation art. He is a frequent contributor within the SuperCollider open source community and has held related workshop all over Europe, Asia and Australia. He is also one of the founding members of TOPLAP, a collective that popularized the use of live coding.

http://fredrikolofsson.com/

LEAP
Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance
(Berlin Carré, 1. Stock)
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13
10178 Berlin

info@leapknecht.de
www.leapknecht.de

How to find LEAP: http://bit.ly/pqTAJi
LEAP Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/uxfyT2

SuperCollider 3.5 released

dan — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:04:50 +0000

SuperCollider is a programming language and environment for real-time audio synthesis and processing.

Our next major release, SuperCollider version 3.5 is now out! It contains many new features and bugfixes - major highlights are new help system, a new cross-platform gui and a new multiprocessor-aware audio-synthesis server. for details, please consult the `News in 3.5′ section of the new help system, which can be found online at: http://doc.sccode.org/Guides/News-3_5.html

source tarballs:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.5.0/SuperCollider-3.5.0-Source.tar.bz2

https://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.5.0/SuperCollider-3.5.0-Source-linux.tar.bz2

osx installer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Mac%20OS%20X/3.5.0/SuperCollider-3.5.0-OSX-x86.dmg

windows installer (should be used with gedit [1]):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Windows/3.5.0/SuperCollider-3.5.0-win32.exe/download

thanks a lot to everyone that has been involved in this release!

[1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gedit/2.30/gedit-setup-2.30.1-1.exe

sc2012 London: keynote announced

dan — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:23 +0000

The SuperCollider 2012 keynote speaker will be Japanese multimedia artist Takeko Akematsu

See http://www.sc2012.org.uk/2012/02/keynote/ for more info

Super-Collide or Die Workshop, London, 18+19th Feb 2012

dan — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:46:37 +0000

A 2-day intensive intermediate/advanced workshop for the SuperCollider programming environment. Participants already familiar with the basics of supercollider will be guided into a hands-on exploration of more advanced concepts like designing GUIs and virtual instruments, writing classes, networking via OSC, interacting with arduino and analogue sensors, live-coding, NRT composition, generative music techniques.

Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th Feb 2012

11am-5pm daily

nnnnn, Unit 73a, Regent Studios

8 Andrews Road, E8 4QN

http://nnnnn.org.uk/

Cost £60 / £50 conc.

Booking email ryan@nnnnn.org.uk

Workshop leader:
Marinos Koutsomichalis

http://www.marinoskoutsomichalis.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/265274666874071/

First release candidate of SC 3.5

dan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:27:37 +0000

Tim writes: “with today’s 3.5-rc1, we finally leave the `beta’ phase. we have to plan to do one more release candidate before the final 3.5.0″

If you’re interested in trying out this release candidate [?] please read on:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.supercollider.user/82973

Tokyo sc workshop at womblounge (21, 22, 28, 29/2 + 3/3, 2012)

redfrik — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:16:41 +0000

5 days supercollider workshop at http://womblounge.jp/ in Tokyo. February 21, 22, 28, 29 + March 3, 2012.

Detail is here : http://scwswomb.info/
(in Japanese)

- 5days workshop including 5 dinners!
- Lecture for beginner to advance by Koichiro Mori, Takeko Akamatsu
- venue is a nice club in Shibuya
- various guest Lectures who are using SuperCollider, Akihiro Kubota, Masayuki Akamatsu, typing monkeys ,Craftwife+Kaseo+
- Last day is the concert by Participants with good speakers

SuperCollider 2012 programme announced

dan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:15:10 +0000

This April will see musicians, artists and coders come to London for a festival of what can be done with the SuperCollider audio programming environment.

Tickets are available from £70 for a whole week of sonic inspiration… for all the details go to <http://www.sc2012.org.uk/2012/01/supercollider-programme-announced/

SuperCollider 3.4.5 bugfix release

dan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:08:32 +0000

SuperCollider 3.4.5 is now out. This is a bugfix release, fixing a handful of small issues in 3.4.4.

Source code only at first:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.4.5/

Someone might upload pre-compiled packages later.

Our current efforts are focused on the forthcoming 3.5 major release. (Don’t get confused between 3.4.5 and 3.5!)

If you’re interested in the cutting-edge, here’s the announcement of the first beta release of 3.5: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.supercollider.user/81931

London SuperCollider workshop, Jan 11th-13th

dan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:04:19 +0000

Get ready to get sucked into the supercollider vortex !!

SuperCollider has established itself as probably the most powerful
programming environment for real time sound synthesis,
algorithmic/generative music and all sorts of other audio-related
ap...plications. It is widely used by artists and scientists alike for
both research and actual artistic creation. It features a powerful
state-of-the-art sound engine and an easy to learn fully featured object
oriented language. More, it is open-source and totally free of charge.

This three day intensive workshop welcomes participants of any discipline
with or without prior programming or musical experience and guides them to
their first sounds, instruments and musical structures with supercollider.
Apart from a thorough introduction to the Supercollider language and the
synthesis server, the workshop aims to be an informal introduction to
algorithmic/generative music, GUI design, live coding and digital sound
synthesis with SuperCollider.

Dates, times, and location:
Wednesday 11th January 2012 - Friday 13th January 2012
11am - 6pm daily
nnnnn, Unit 73a, Regent Studios, 8 Andrew's Road, London, E8 4QN

http://nnnnn.org.uk/doku.php?id=supercollider_workshop

SuperCollider Users Meeting in Montreal

Martin Marier — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:53:42 +0000

Next Monday (December 19 2011) at 16:00, a SuperCollider users meeting will be held in Montreal. It will take place at the faculty of music of the Universté de Montréal in room B-179.

Everyone is welcome.

Location:
200, ave Vincent d’Indy
Montreal, QC

Open location in Google Maps

Stochastic Composition and Synthesis, 16/17/18.12.2011, Barcelona

redfrik — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:36:16 +0000

part of Sonic Seminars 2011

16/17/18.12.2011 - Stochastic Composition and Synthesis, led by Sergio Luque.

With a focus on algorithmic composition and stochastic synthesis, this seminar will explore the functionalities offered by SuperCollider to sequence and control sonic processes in time. We will study the main classes involved (Event, Stream, Pattern) and develop a vocabulary of patterns to later create sonic and musical structures by combining random walks and distributions, tendency masks and Markov chains.

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Hangar.

http://lullcec.org/en/2011/tallers/sonic-seminars-2011/

Just-In-Time Programming, Interfaces and Performance with Computers, 25/26/27.11.2011, Barcelona

redfrik — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:53:32 +0000

part of Sonic Seminars 2011

25/26/27.11.2011 - Just-In-Time Programming, Interfaces and Performance with Computers, led by Alberto de Campo.

This seminar will explore the possibilities of SuperCollider to create realtime systems for computer music. We will work following the methodology of just-in-time programming, which allows the modification of parts of an algorithm while it is executing. Likewise, we will see how to integrate our instruments with a wide variety of control devices in a flexible and reliable manner. After each session, we will evaluate the behaviour of our programs under live performance conditions.

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Austrian Cultural Forum and Hangar.

http://lullcec.org/en/2011/tallers/sonic-seminars-2011/

Practical Sound Analysis, 28/29/30.10.2011, Barcelona

redfrik — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:35:45 +0000

part of Sonic Seminars 2011

28/29/30.10.2011 - Practical Sound Analysis, led by Fredrik Olofsson.

This seminar will give an overview of several sound analysis techniques and guide participants on how to apply them to control sound or music processes. We will experiment with techniques for pitch detection and envelope tracking and will also cover more advanced algorithms, such as event and chord identification. We will also look at the importance of filtering and mapping the resulting data prior to using it to drive various synthesis parameters in realtime.

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Elektronmusikstudion and Hangar.

http://lullcec.org/en/2011/tallers/sonic-seminars-2011/

Introduction to SC - Workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico, 28-30sep, 2011

redfrik — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:58:26 +0000

SC Introduction Workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico.

tutor: Alexandra Cárdenas

Wedenesday 28th until Friday 30th at Casa Sociacusia http://www.sociacusia.net/

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137654576331231

sc workshop in malmö, sweden, oct12-15, 2011

redfrik — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:14:11 +0000

spektrografisk workshop+exhibition, 12-15 oct 2011, malmö sweden

coding sounds that look good - plot and animate waveforms and spectrograms.

the workshop will be held in swedish and/or english.

for more information see http://mediamassage-mediamassage.blogspot.com/2011/08/2011-10-12-spektrografisk-workshop.html
(scroll down for english)

Introduction to Sound Synthesis and SuperCollider, 30.9/1.10/2.10.2011, Barcelona

redfrik — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:50:22 +0000

part of Sonic Seminars 2011

30.9/1.10/2.10.2011 - Introduction to Sound Synthesis and SuperCollider, led by Thor Magnusson (ixi audio).

This seminar will cover the basics of realtime sound synthesis and introduce participants to SuperCollider. Attendees will be acquainted with basic sound generators and processors (oscillators, noise generators, filters, delays) as well as with synthesis techniques such as additive and substractive synthesis and amplitude or frequency modulation. This knowledge will then be used to build synths able to be controlled programatically, by means of graphical user interfaces or using OpenSoundControl.

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Hangar.

http://lullcec.org/en/2011/tallers/sonic-seminars-2011/

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02.10.2011, 21:00 – ixi lang persentation + concert by Thor Magnusson. Miscelanea. Guàrdia, 10. Barcelona.
+ info: [ http://lullcec.org/2011/concerts/thor-magnusson-ixi-lang ]