The symposium will run from Monday May 20th through Friday May 24th and is free and open to the public. Concerts will be Monday-Thursday evenings, with presentations, workshops, and installations happening during the day. Friday will be mostly a developer day and general wrapping up of things.

Dec. 31st 2012

for details and more information…

http://supercollider2013.com/

This seminar will explore the history of non-standard synthesis, the developer’s aesthetico-political positions, as well as possibilities of implementing non-standard synthesis methods in SuperCollider. Moreover we will present contemporary extensions of non-standard synthesis and will try to provide the participants with the possibilities to continue to experiment practically.

Level: Intermediate

Instructor: Luc Döbereiner

Luc Döbereiner composes instrumental and electronic. He studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and computer music at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz. His compositions have been performed by among others the ensemble Modelo62, ensemble Vortex, Akane Takada, Jasper Vanpaemel, Martin Lorenz, Sond‘Ar-te Electric Ensemble and the ensemble unitedberlin. His electronic works have been performed at the ISEA 2010 (Ruhr), the SuperCollider Symposium, Computing Music V (Köln) and on the GRM Acousmonium. Döbereiner has given lectures at among others the Sound and Music Computing Conference (Berlin, Porto), next generation (ZKM, Karlsruhe), the ICMC (Huddersfield) and the Nederlands Muziek Centrum (Amsterdam) and he has recently published an article in the Computer Music Journal. Döbereiner is currently a doctoral candidate at the artistic doctoral school of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. His research project is concerned with compositional models and explores the relationship of sound and sound description in musical composition.

Dates:
Friday 14.12.2012, 18:00-22.00h
Saturday 15.12.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 16.12.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h

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

Price: 90€

+info: [ http://lullcec.org/en/2012/workshops/sintesi-no-estandard-tecniques-estetiques-extensions/ ]

This activity is organized by l’ull cec in collaboration of OSIC, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Fabra i Coats – Fábrica de Creació.

Level: intermediate (some basic knowledge of SuperCollider and sound synthesis is assumed)

Instructor: Dan Stowell

Dan Stowell (MCLD) is a musician, programmer, and scientist. In 2010 he obtained a PhD in Machine Learning and Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, where he is now currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Digital Music. Dan has been developing techniques to use voice sounds such as beatboxing to control electronic instruments. In his musical practice, he combines live-coding with beatboxing – both solo and as part of the duo Spoonfight – and also produces installation work as part of C4DM Presents. He’s currently also one of the lead SuperCollider developers.

Dates:

Friday 23.11.2012, 18:00-22.00h
Saturday 24.11.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 25.11.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h

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

Price: 90€

+info: [ http://lullcec.org/en/2012/workshops/aprenentatge-artificial-en-temps-real/ ]

This activity is organized by l’ull cec in collaboration with OSIC, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Fabra i Coats – Fábrica de Creació.

Session #01

Interfacing
• Basics of accessing devices (HID, MIDI, OSC) and their data.
• Inputs and outputs.

Session #02

Mapping
• Exploring the semantics and data of the interfaces
• Events vs. continuous control
• Default states
• Physical properties of controllers
• Gestures
• Types of movement and control
• Energy
• Modal control
• Mapping strategies

Session #03

Designing the instrument
• Sound design for realtime control
• Programming an instrument

Notes: HID only works on OSX and Linux. Participants should bring some controllers that to use during the workshop.

Level: Introductory/Intermediate (some knowledge of sound synthesis and
SuperCollider is assumed)

Tutor: Marije Baalman

Marije Baalman studied Applied Physics at the Technical University in Delft and graduated in February 2002 on the topic of Perceptual Acoustics. In 2001/2002 she followed the Sonology Course at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She completed her Ph.D. on Wave Field Synthesis and electro-acoustic music in 2007 at the Electronic Studio of the Technical University of Berlin. Between 2007 and 2010 she was a post-doctoral researcher in Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research goes into the use of wireless networks for live performance (such as dance and music), and installations. She has performed and exhibited work across Europe (STEIM, WORM (NL), EXIT festival (F), Club Transmediale (D)) and beyond (Electrofringe (AU)) and collaborated with, among others, Alberto de Campo, Hannes Hölzl, Chris Salter, Michael Schumacher, Attakkalari Dance Company and Workspace Unlimited. She is a contributor to “The SuperCollider Book” (MIT Press, coming up in 2011). In her artistic work she is interested in the realtime components of the work, in that nothing is precomposed as such, but rather the (mostly, but not exclusively) sonic output depends on realtime interactions, be it of the performer, or of the audience. Thus composition becomes more the composing of behaviours and interaction modalities, creating processes, rather than fixed sound tracks. This is expressed with tools such as physical computing (performance interfaces and/or installations), livecoding (both as a skill, as well as a performance interface), digital and analog sound processing, and improvisation.

Time Schedule:
Friday 26.10.2012, 18:00-22.00h.
Saturday 27.10.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 28.10.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h

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

Price: 90€ (or cheaper if you sign up to the whole series, look here for details)

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

This activity is organized l’ull cec with the collaboration of OSIC, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Fabra i Coats – Fábrica de Creació.

Structure:

Session #01:
• Introduction to the language:
• Syntax, semantics, object oriented programming, class library.
• Introduction to the synthesis server.

Session #02
• Language concepts: Functions
• Synthesis concepts: Unit generators and synth definitions
• Subtractive synthesis: Noise, oscillators, filters

Session #03
• Synthesis concepts: Sample playback
• Language concepts: Routines, timing
• Synthesis concepts: Granular synthesis

Level: Introductory

Notes: All participants should come with their own laptop with the latest SuperCollider version available already installed (3.5.5).

Tutor: Stefan Kersten

Stefan Kersten works as a researcher and sound artist in Barcelona, where he is pursuing a Phd at Pompeu Fabra University’s Music Technology Group. His main research interests are the synthesis and analysis of sound textures and the computational modeling of soundscapes. As a member of the col·lectives Zysk and Dissonoisex, Kersten is interested in the study of human communication strategies and also in the perceptual limits of interactive media. He is the author of the original port of SuperCollider to Linux.

Dates:
Friday 05.10.2012, 18:00-22.00h
Saturday 06.10.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 07.10.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h

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

Price: 90€ (or cheaper if you sign up to the whole series, look here for details)

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

This activity is organized by l’ull cec with the collaboration of: OSIC, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Fabra Coats – Fábrica de Creació.

(inscriptions open)

05/06/07.10.2012 – Fundamentals of Sound Synthesis with SuperCollider, by Stefan Kersten.
26/27/28.10.2012 – From Interface to Instrument, by Marije Baalman.
23/24/25.11.2012 – Live Real-time Machine Learning, by Dan Stowell.
14/15/16.12.2012 – Non-standard Synthesis: Techniques, Aesthetics, Extensions, by Luc Döbereiner.

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

Price: 90€ (1 seminar) or 250€ (the whole series, 4 seminars)

+info: [ http://lullcec.org/en/2012/workshops/seminaris-sonors-tardor-2012/ ]

As a conclusion of SuperCollider residency where Tim Blechmann and Jakob Leben are developing a new IDE (integrated development environment) for SuperCollider - a powerful language for sound synthesis, Cyberpipe is throwing a preview party. The SC-IDE is hoped to make SuperCollider finally a cross-platform “app” (on Linux, Mac & Windows). The “party” will include a lot of (possibly live) music, informal demo and - most imporantly - free code in abundance!

more info at:
http://kiberpipa.org
http://icmc2012.si

source tarballs:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.5.3/SuperCollider-3.5.3-Source.tar.bz2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.5.3/SuperCollider-3.5.3-Source-linux.tar.bz2

osx installer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Mac%20OS%20X/3.5.3/SuperCollider-3.5.3-OSX.dmg

win32 installer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Windows/3.5.3/SuperCollider-3.5.3-win32.exe

ubuntu debs (due to launchpad packaging hell currently one commit before
3.5.3):
https://launchpad.net/~supercollider/+archive/ppa

cheers, tim

changes since 3.5.2:
Dan Stowell (6):
LocalIn helpfile fix, thanks Bruno Ruviaro
Fix scvim regsitry file for updated filename (thanks Carlo Capocasa)
version number to 3.5.3
Server helpfile: see-also reference docs
SCVim.sc should not be executable
cmake build system: use system boost libraries if available

Jakob Leben (1):
cmake: fix Boost Thread linking on Windows

James Harkins (10):
EnvGen_next_ak_nova: Hardcoded blocksize=64, change to
inNumSamples
Per Scott W., initSiblings is not needed
Reinstate Mix.ar and Mix.kr, with rate checks
Fix crossplatform fail: Scale.directory shouldn’t always depend
on Document
ListPatterns: offset.value omitted (inval) as an argument
Fix PbindProxy:storeArgs - should NOT call “source” on keys in
the array!
Scale:degreeToRatio should handle degrees outside of one
octave’s range
More meaningful error message for too many selectors
Explain the limitation on the number of selectors in one
FunctionDef
Correct spelling error

Jonatan Liljedahl (3):
Methods.html: auto-redirect to Search if method not found
SCDoc: fix detection of old format class docs
Mix.ar was un-deprecated, so remove the deprecated method

Joshua Parmenter (2):
fix scroll view problem for OS X 10.7.4
update SC_DirUtils to look at the name of the app bundle on osx

Julian Rohrhuber (14):
fix bugs due to wrong usage of partial application
PV_BinShift helpfile improved
PV_Diffuser helpfile improved
reformat statement for readability (no change of functionality)
helpfile improvements
improve array helpfile
add note to the loop argument of DiskIn (thanks Stefan).
improve helpfile
some helpfile improvements
improve helpfile
improve helpfile
improve and simplify FFT overview helpfile: fix some errors in
examples.
improve and simplify IFFT helpfile.
improve and simplify FFT helpfile, mention that hopsize must be
larger than 0.0

Tim Blechmann (11):
external libraries: update nova-tt (gcc 4.7 fix)
supernova: correctly implement replace semantics for /s_new
Help: Function.scope is not limited to OSX anymore
cmake build system: locate server plugins on freebsd
server: add support for RF64
cmake build system: ensure boost include path for scsynth
cmake build system: set boost library path
cmake build system: link scapp with correct version of
libboost_thread
cmake build system: minor cleanup
supernova: fix asynchronous commands for empty reply address
common: fix non-apple builds

For more info see…

http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/evenement/dev-art-invite-ixi-lang

If you have your own git clone of supercollider, you should update it so it points at github. Here are the appropriate terminal commands:

git remote rename origin sf
git remote add origin g...@github.com:supercollider/supercollider.git
git fetch origin
# The following is for 3.5 and master branches. Do it for all the ones you have:
git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
git branch --set-upstream 3.5 origin/3.5

8/9/10.06.2012 - Seminar: 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.

Level: intermediate

Tutor: Nick Collins [ http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/nc81/ ]

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.

Dates:
Friday 08.06.2012, 18:00-22.00h.
Saturday 09.06.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 10.06.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h

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

Price: 90€

To sign up please send an email to info@lullcec.org.

+info: [ http://lullcec.org/en/2012/workshops/sistemes-daudicio-i-aprenentatge-artificial-per-a-la-composicio-i-la-interpretacio-en-viu/ ]

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 Fabra Coats – Fábrica de Creació.

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/ ]

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)