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Place Melange Social Club 281 Kingsland Road London E2 8AS Map Date/Time 25th Nov 2007 2pm till late About Openlab 4 will be a whole day event around Free Software as creative means in music, digital arts and performance. The event will provide the general public an opportunity to learn about the potentials and culture of Free Software as well as enabling Openlab activists to showcase their work. The event will start with presentations in the early afternoon and finish with a series of live demonstrations and perfomances in the evening. Presentations Ed Kelly Meta Studio ------------ The Meta Studio is a polyrhythmic sequencing and synthesis application for Pure Data. It uses graph-on-parent objects to implement a modular system of sequencing and synthesis with a flexible patching system. Ed Kelly is a composer, performer, engineer, developer of Pure Data software and also a teacher. He play keyboard instruments, guitar, bass, computer and anything I can lay my hands on. He wrote his PhD thesis about the experience of time passing, and how this can be influenced by compositional devices. Jagannathan din ----------- din is a musical instrument for performing Indian classical music. It is inspired by the sound of the Sarangi, an Indian bowed string instrument. But din is constructed like the Piano. It has a keyboard that has a large number of thin, closely spaced keys. The 12 notes of the octave are among them and the range of the instrument is 3 octaves. But unlike a piano, you can specify the number of keys you want between any two notes. These inbetween tones (notes?) are called microtones and are very important for rendering Indian classical music. Sampath Jagannathan is a computer programmer and researcher from Chennai, India living in London, UK. In the past he has developed computer graphics and animation software for film and games. Evan Raskob Human Live-coding ----------- Coding with people, not code. Loosely based on patching programs like Max/MSP and PureData, this completely interactive and social workshop uses bungee cords and wearable symbols to put people in the roles of "objects," linking up to create sound and visuals, and reconfiguring the program as the participants wish. Please bring comfortable clothing and a good sense of humor. Aside from lecturing at Coventry University and UCCA (Farnham), Evan Raskob is a video, sound & interactive artist, VJ (pixelist), visual performance artist, and multimedia technology consultant working out of London (UK) and New York City (USA). Recent works include an installation with artist Robert Whitman ("Turning" at Pace Wildenstein Gallery), and work developing an interactive LED-lit cafeteria with architecture firm SOM in New York. Originally trained as an industrial engineer at Cornell University, his work reflects a scientific curiosity with natural phenomena and processes, especially those relating to visual and audiological perception. Evan received a Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunication Program at New York University in 2004. Andy Farnell Game audio design using OSC and Pd. ----------- (about presentation) Andy Farnell is a computer scientist with 15 years experience working as a freelance programmer and developer mainly in audio-visual media. He is a veteran open source advocate (proud to have not touched a Windows machine since 1999), a skilled content developer and composer of music for radio, television and film. His main occupation is serverside unix /linux programming and administration on LAMP stack, MySQL, Perl, C etc. Right now he is tinkering with Zope and Smalltalk for no particular reason. Rob Munro Osc sequencer ----------- It is a OSC sequencer, individual OSC events are programmed onto timelines, the OSC messages are used to control seperate audio and video PD patches, but could be any OSC enabled software. Rob Munro (a.k.a. slick lister - orig. Sydney, Australia) has been making music with open and closed source programs to maintain his sanity in an otherwise insane world, and hence restore order to his universe. Now purely a pure data user, he likes to tear apart samples in his usual non-linear fashion. Robert Atwood Jack-Bytes ----------- JACKBYTES was inspired by the discovery that seemingly the 'best' way to get sound data from other applications into a 'Processing' sketch was by using a non-open non-free library , that only works on Microsoft Windows platforms. Now that 'Processing' is open, this was a missing link for for artists wishing to use an open toolchain for creating reactive audio-visual applciations in 'processing' Although some similar usage may be feasable with either java-jack or using OSC, a simple single-purpose server was developed to simply send a packet of sound data or sound spectrum data to the application, using a network port. A 'processing' client was written to allow nearly drop-in replacement of the non-free library, and to allow direct use of the (open) sonia-helper library. Robert Atwood has experimented with semi-controlled - (sometimes uncontrolled) - feedback for sound generation for several years. As a part of Toronto's Urban Refuse Group in the 1990's, he explored the repurposing of discarded portable tape or radio players, using the amplifiers and speakers in feedback loops to generate sound as part of free-improvisational performances, along with other participants in the collective who used many other kinds of discarded objects to generate sounds (not only electronics). Chun Lee sequencing with phasor~ ----------- When comes to sequencing events in Pure Data, [metro] object is often the most obvious solution based on messages. However, in the context of making music, [phasor~] can also be used for such a purpose. As a result, the sequensing system will be based on DSP signals, which can produce some interesting effects and properties. Chun Lee is a Taiwanese sound artist currently based in London,UK. His discovery of Free Software led him to base his work on Puredata - a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. Chun is now actively involved in the use and development of PD. He is also an active member of Goto10 and Openlab - two international collaborations of digital artists. Chun has appeared in a number of places - from academic conferences, to festivals, local meetings/presentations, gigs and squat parties. Alex Mclean Vocable synthesis ----------- Alex will talk about and demo his percussive vocable synthesis, which allows a musician to make sounds by inventing and typing onomatopoeic words as part of polymetric rhythms. Alex makes music and art using various programming languages including Haskell and Perl. He performs with Adrian Ward and Dave Griffiths as the live intelligent ambient gabba combo 'slub', who together have made people dance to their code in festivals and nightclubs across Europe. Alex is a also a member of the Openlab free software collective, founding member of the T.O.P.L.A.P. live coding group, member of the state51 conspiracy, PhD student of Computational Arts at Goldsmiths College, co-organiser of the monthly dorkbotlondon meetings, and programmer of runme.org and leplacard.org. Claude Heiland-Allen GraphGrow ----------- GraphGrow is an interactive browser-based application for designing fractals, implemented in SVG and ECMAScript. Given a seed graph (a collection of edges arranged in 2D space), edges are recursively replaced by rule graphs until the new edges are too small to see. GraphGrow-Engine is a standalone command-line application for rendering the same class of fractals, implemented in C. Significantly faster, with prettier output, but harder to use. The main purpose of GraphGrow-Engine is rendering video. Expect hairy equations. Claude Heiland-Allen is a digital artist from London, where he has spent most of his life. Art was his first love, or was it computers? Either way the three of them have been involved in a tangled relationship for longer than he can remember. Ten years of using proprietary software was enough, and in 2004 he made a break for freedom. No more having to use hacks of dubious legality to add extra features to his tools of choice, no more worry over whether his files will be useable in the distant future after the software vendor is long gone and forgotten. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Oxford UK, then devoted his time to learning the arts of Linux, Puredata and Gridflow. Performances Ryan Jordan =========== Techno/experimental music made with super collider, possibily with body sensors. Robert Atwood ============= Feedback with homebrew electronics, plus custom sequencing software, free-improvisation. Ed Kelly ======== Meta studio remixed. Live experiments in rhythm, re-mixed in real time using machine-listening simile patch. Jagannathan =========== Performance using din. Rob Munro ========= Video remix stuff using custom OSC sequencer. Cracktux ======== Live audio visual with Pure Data and Processing pixelpusher =========== maybe michael & friends ========?======== Improvisation with Chun Lee (violin), Lina Lapelyte (violin), Mandelbrot (electric guitar) and michael (boxes/musical saw) |
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