[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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