[PD] Amsterdam: Workshop -- Open Source Multimedia Tools
Derek Holzer
derek at x-i.net
Fri Mar 7 14:00:38 CET 2003
Amsterdam: Workshop -- Open Source Multimedia Tools
10 t/m 13 april 2003
Costs: 100,- [Scholarships Available, please inquire to Montevideo:
marloes at montevideo.nl ]
Max Participants: 25
Bring your own laptop or use machines from the medialab at Montevideo.
Guests (subject to change) : Günter Geiger, Andrey Savitsky, Iohannes Zmölnig,
Johannes Taelman, Thomas Musil and Derek Holzer
This workshop will focus on Open Source software for the real-time manipulation
of audio and video. The dual package of Pure Data and GEM, offer a complete set
of tools for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes. Topics will include: real-time
audio and video processing, creating a custom user-interface, using and creating
external objects, an overview of other free and open source audio and video
tools for Linux.
Discussion and presentation workshop
Sunday April 13
15.00 hrs
Admission: free
A discussion on open source software versus commercial software, the artistic
use of multimedia tools and the future of open source. After the discussion a
short presentation of the workshop will take place.
Participants: Robert de Geus, Derek Holzer, Günter Geiger, Andrey Savitsky,
Iohannes Zmölnig, Thomas Musil, Johannes Taelman + others TBA
Links:
Montevideo/ Netherlands Media Arts Institute
http://www.montevideo.nl/
PD
http://iem.at/pd/
http://www.pure-data.org/
GEM
http://gem.iem.at/
Demudi
http://www.demudi.org/
Günter Geiger
http://gige.xdv.org/
Andrey Savitsky
http://www.hhtp.org/
IOhannes Zmölnig
http://gem.iem.at/
Johannes Taelman
http://www.ipem.rug.ac.be/staff/johannes/johannes.html
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~jtaelman/
Thomas Musil
http://iem.at/pd/iemlib/
Derek Holzer
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab/
http://www.gracies.org/derek/
Details:
----thurs april 10:
-introduction PD, GEM: installation, configuration, learning your way around,
focus on data structures, tables + audio
-introduction DeMuDi: installation, basic configuration, package overview
-discussion: other open-source audio-visual tools: various packages + DeMuDi
----fri april 11:
-intermediate PD, GEM: making instruments, various libraries, live processing,
focus on matrices + video
-intermediate DeMuDi: more configuration, Jack, Ardour, Ecasound [other
important sound apps?]
-discussion: working artists who use open source tools
---sat april 12:
-advanced PD, GEM: "patchmanship" [creating efficient + usable patches], new
user interfaces, using and creating externals, networking with OSC
-advanced DeMuDi: advanced configuration, getting the bugs out,
Cinerella/Broadcast + other video tools
-discussion: hardware "reclaimation"--old hardware, game/portable hardware [PDA,
XBox, mobile phone..? etc], ultrasound, sonar, accelerometers...
---sun april 13:
-discussion: "open source: it just tastes better" [overview of open source
multimedia philosphy + tools for general audience]
-open source jam: participants and guests rock out with ideas worked on over
past 3 days. not a "performance", just informal + fun!
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