GOTO10 "/mode +v noise" workshop at micro_research

“/mode +v noise” is a project of GOTO10, a collective of international artists and computer programmers. It is based on IRC, the oldest text-based Internet chat environment. This intervention will transform an IRC chat room/channel into a simple, collaborative, text-based online system for making music. Since IRC allows ‘chat bots’- computer programs that pretend to be human conversation partners -, we will program such a bot to create a collective musical composition environment based on Internet chats. In this workshop, participants will explore two parts of the project: designing sound generators in Supercollider that they can control via a simple IRC bot written in Python. Workshop is taught by Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen from GOTO10.

PREREQUISITES: This workshop is aimed to beginners, no previous knowledge is required but a basic understanding of computers and an unconditional love for command line and text based interfaces is mandatory!

To bring:

* bring your own Laptop (PC based, macbook/mactel, recent imac, etc. We can't provide support for PPC based Mac such as the old G3-4-5-…)
* bring your own headphones

Cost: €20 per participant for both days (this includes food)

Please email [email protected] to reserve a place (strictly limited to 8)

==== Day 1 ====

* 14:00 - 15:00: hands on demo of the "/mode +v noise" platform and experiment, using the Puredyne GNU/Linux live distro.
* 15:00 - 17:00: Intro to Supercollider's project botsynth, how to change patterns and synths, explanation of different hardcoded synthdef (from super simple, to more complicated examples).
* 17:00 - 17:30: break
* 17:30 - 19:50: make your own synth + play it through chat using local default bot
* 19:50 - 20:00: vote for the best synthdef and win a pack of stropwaffel

==== Day 2 ====

* 12:00 - 13:00: python crash course
* 13:00 - 15:00: reviewing the IRC bot features including OSC, IRC and mode+v classes
* 15:00 - 15:30: break
* 15:30 - 17:50: pimp your bot by combining existing code or writting your own
* 17:50 - 18:00: vote for the best bot and win a pack of stropwaffel

The workshop will be followed by performances at General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c:

http://www.generalpublic.de/current/events/article/19/mode-v-noise-by-goto10.html

Details to follow!

=== About Supercollider ===

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. Since then it has been evolving into a system used and further developed by both scientists and artists working with sound. It is an efficient and expressive dynamic programming language which makes it an interesting framework for acoustic research, algorithmic music and interactive programming. We will deal with practical sound-synthesis, jitlib (rapid prototyping), and get ourselves sounding ready for the irc-jam on the second day.

=== About Python ===

Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive.

=== About Puredyne ===

Puredyne is an operating system developed to provide media artists with a complete set of tools for realtime audio and video processing. Puredyne is a live distribution, you don't need to install anything. Simply boot your computer using the live CD or USB and you're ready to start using software such as Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound, Fluxus, Processing, Arduino and much much more.

=== About GOTO10 ===

GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital art projects and tools for artistic creation, located on the blurry line between software programming and art. GOTO10's members have backgrounds in visual arts, sound art, music technology, physical computing and programming. They have worked around the theme of FLOSS+Art since 2003, using performances, workshops, installations, print, and code repositories as their medium.

* http://goto10.org
* http://identi.ca/goto10
* channel: #goto10

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 at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz ([email protected]), Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Kathrin Guenter (http://www.fotokatie.com), Alice Miceli (http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2), 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/), mikomikona http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html, Antony Hall (http://antonyhall.net), Gijs Gieskes (http://gieskes.nl/), Alexei Blinov (http://www.raylab.com), Valentina Vuksic (http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/), Dave Griffiths (http://www.pawfal.org), Marc Boon (http://www.marcboon.com), Christian Faubel, Cordula Körber, and Ralf Schreiber (http://ralfschreiber.com/), Roman Häfeli and Olsen Wolf (http://www.netpd.org)
Details:

_____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

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

Telephone: 3050187482.

_____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/_____-micro_research.html

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