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SCBeginnerWrkshpBerlin

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:25:00 PDT

by Fredrik Oloffson.

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 hatam@drfz.de until May 18.

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

ixiQuarks wins first prize (Lomus 2008)

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:55:06 PDT

by Fredrik Oloffson.

The French Association for Music Informatics (AFIM) has given Thor Magnusson & c/o the 1st prize for ixiQuarks in their Lomus 2008 International Music Software Contest.

http://concours.afim-asso.org/2008

Congratulations Thor.
ixiQuarks is best installed via SuperCollider's packet managing system Quarks.

SuperCollider workshops in July in London, choose your own price to attend

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:35:48 PDT

by Fredrik Oloffson.

Dear all,
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

SuperCollider workshop - Switch-from-Max! (Berlin 8mar)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:26:07 PST

by Fredrik Oloffson.

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

---_______

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 (prd@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

SuperCollider Workshop - Logik der Störung (Cologne 28feb)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:30:59 PST

by Fredrik Oloffson.

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.

SuperCollider 3.2 now available!

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:16:44 PST

by Admin User.

We're very happy to announce that you can now download SuperCollider 3.2 for Mac, Linux and Windows!

From Nick's announcement email:

Many thanks to all who have helped with this process, and in particular I'd like to single out Josh Parmenter for his dedicated work at getting the final builds sorted out.

The devs are happy to announce the official SC3.2:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

best,
Nick

SuperCollider 3.2 release candidate 3 now available

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:57:54 PST

by Admin User.

Thanks to the feedback of SC users plus the efforts of lots of SC developers, we can now announce that the third "release candidate" of SuperCollider 3.2 is now available.

Mac bundle and source-code downloads are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

The "release candidate" means that the developers consider it appropriate for general release, so we're putting it out for general use and testing. If no important problems are revealed then this will be the official 3.2 release, the release on which the forthcoming book will be based.

The changelog, showing what's new, can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/29s6eg

The first release candidate of SuperCollider 3.2 now available

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:52:53 PST

by Admin User.

Thanks to the efforts of lots of SC developers, we can now announce that the first "release candidate" of SuperCollider 3.2 is now available.

Mac bundle and source-code downloads are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

The "release candidate" means that the developers consider it appropriate for general release, so we're putting it out for general use and testing. If no important problems are revealed then this will be the official 3.2 release, the release on which the forthcoming book will be based.

The changelog, showing what's new, can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/28nx7b

SuperCollider workshop/masterclass in Paris, Feb/Mar 2008

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:11:23 PST

by Anonymous SCuser.

English version (French version below):

WORKSHOP/MASTERCLASS SuperCollider at Confluences
February 26th / 29th and March 1st , 2008
SPECIAL LIVE-CODING with Alberto de Campo

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Espace Culture Multimédia at Confluences Paris invites to
participate in a workshop on SuperCollider programming. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together a wide spectrum of musicians, composers,
artists and programmers interested in real-time sound synthesis,
algorithmic composition, and live-coding.

Please note that the NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IS LIMITED to twenty people.

Time schedule:
---------------------
Feb 26th / 27th, 2008: INTRODUCTORY CLASS
- General introduction to SuperCollider
- Basic programming in SuperCollider
Fees:
This part of the workshop is FREE OF CHARGE FOR REGISTERED USERS.

Feb 28th / March 1st: ADVANCED PROGRAMMER'S CLASS with Alberto de Campo
- This workshop will be given in English
- Advanced topics in real-time sound synthesis
- Live-coding and musical improvisation
Fees:
This part of the workshop is charged with EUR 100,- (for three days)

Important Notes:
----------------------
Please bring your own notebooks for the workshop. On the first day of
workshop we will assist you installing SuperCollider.

Registration:
-----------------
Registration for the workshop is obligatory. To register please write an
email to
mailto:nicolas@confluences.net?subject=SC@confluences-registration

In case you'll bring your own notebook, please specify your operating
system.

Further information:
--------------------------
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

Espace Culture Multimédia Confluences
190 bd de Charonne
phone: +33 1 40 24 16 64

Paul Crabbe
phone: +33 8 70 29 78 32
mobile: +33 6 31 05 88 72

Further information on Alberto de Campo may be found at:
http://www.musikundmedien.net/index.php?id=325&L=1

_Organizers:_
vincent.rioux [at] confluences.net
paul.crabbe [at] free.fr
Sylvain Le Beux :: slebeux [at] limsi.fr
Markus Noisternig :: markus [at] noisternig.com

==============================================
Version Française:

ATELIER/MASTERCLASS SuperCollider à Confluences
les 26,27,28,29 février et 1er mars 2008
SPECIAL LIVE-CODING avec Alberto de Campo

L'Espace Culture Multimédia de l'association Confluences vous propose un
atelier de 5 jours autour du langage libre *Supercollider*.
Cet atelier est destiné aux personnes intéressées par la synthèse
sonore, la composition assistée par ordinateur et le traitement
temps-réel en vue de performances.

L'atelier destiné à une vingtaine de personnes se déroulera en deux temps:
_Un atelier d'initiation_ : les mardi et mercredi 26 et 27, entrée libre
dans la limite des places disponibles
_Un masterclass_ de trois jours avec Alberto de Campo, sur le thème du
LIVE-CODING, principalement en anglais. Le coût pour ces 3 journées est
de 100 euros.

/réservation nécessaire dans les deux cas./

Vous êtes encouragé à apporter votre ordinateur portable.

Merci de bien vouloir faire suivre... et désolé pour les annonces
croisées...

Renseignements et inscriptions:
Espace Culture Multimédia Confluences
190 bd de Charonne
75020 Paris
tél: 01 40 24 16 64
ou
Paul Crabbe
tél: 08 70 29 78 32
port: 06 31 05 88 72
mailto:nicolas@confluences.net?subject=SC@confluences-inscription

Vous pourrez trouver des informations complémentaires concernant Alberto
de Campo sur son site:
http://www.musikundmedien.net/index.php?id=325&L=1

_Organisateurs:_
vincent.rioux [at] confluences.net
paul.crabbe [at] free.fr
Sylvain Le Beux :: slebeux [at] limsi.fr
Markus Noisternig :: markus [at] noisternig.com

SC 2-days course in Italiano, Palermo, Dec 19-20

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:06:10 PST

by Anonymous SCuser.

Andrea Valle will be running a "crash course" in SuperCollider, Dec 19-20. The course will be in Italian and will be held in Palermo during the Live!iXem 2007 festival. More info:

http://www.ixem.it/index.php?sezione=li07laboratori