[PD-announce] GUI symposium August 17 Santa Cruz
Phil Curtis
pcurt at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 8 02:56:30 CEST 2002
I would like to announce a symposium to be held on August 17th at University
of California at Santa Cruz. It is entitled G.U.I (Gesturing the UPIC
Instrument).
The symposium is co-sponsored by La Kitchen in France and Elsa Productions
(http://www.elsaproductions.com). Among the expected speakers are Miller
Puckette, Curtis Roads, James McCartney and Gerard Pape.
The goal of this one-day symposium is to establish a structure of
collaboration between institutions, musicians and industrial partners for
the development of UPIX, a freeware project based on Iannis Xenakis' UPIC.
UPIX consists of 3 core modules running in real-time: a graphical interface,
a correlation system (mappings) and a synthesis engine. The main challenge
of the UPIX project is the design of a central mixer for network music using
the macrostructure formalism of UPIC. Discussions will focus on new
solutions for the 3 core modules of UPIX to reach the following objectives:
* Allow different types of inputs to define arcs: architect table
(historical input device for UPIC), controllers, motion capture sensors and
sound samples.
* Provide a user-friendly graphical interface to visualize, transform and
mix UPIX inputs.
* Use UPIX in real-time for music composition (historical use of UPIC), and
live performance.
* Develop UPIX with appropriate freeware platforms and tools.
People interested in attending should get more details and register at:
http://www.elsaproductions.com/gui.html
There will also be an electronic music festival at UC Santa Cruz in the
evening of the same day. For information regarding this, see:
http://www.elsaproductions.com/events/woodstockhausen.html
Thank you,
Phil Curtis
Elsa Productions
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