[microsound-announce] A10Lab July Newsletter

[Ryan Jordan]

A10Lab ---- July 2010
News Letter

A10lab, the Audiovisual and New Media Arts
platform at Area10 Project Space, Peckham,
London.
http://a10lab.info

A10lab aims to increase access
and awareness to cheep, free and DIY methods of digital and
electronic creative media.



Due to unforeseen
circumstances, all A10Lab activities this month will happen off site.
If you can help to relocate the events with Venue TBC as their
address then please get in touch right away to
info at a10lab.com

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Thursday
1st July:
Lunch Bites: Sensory
Response Systems by Ryan Jordan
@ Culture Lab,
Newcastle
12:30-14:00 Free
Lunch Bites is a series
of hour-long lunchtime conversations hosted in Space 7, Culture Lab
featuring local and visiting thinkers and creators.
Ryan Jordan presents
A10Lab and Sensory Response Systems, a practice based research
exploration into real­time DIY FLOSS­ based interactive
performance systems in order to create immersing, hypnotic, and
sometimes hallucinatory performance experiences. 

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/events/item/lunch-bites-ryan-jordan
http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=486
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Saturday 3rd July:
Knowledge of The Hidden
@ Barbican Centre, Silk
Street, LondonEC2Y 8DS
18:00 – late. £free
A10Lab, noise=noise,
and Barbican Lates present an evening of occult and paranormal arts,
live performance, film, and experiments.
>> Z’EV >>
TONESUCKER >> RYAN JORDAN & DR. MICK GRIERSON >>
RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON >> PHILIP JULIAN >> NICK LAMBERT
>> NIHAL YESIL >> JONATHAN KEMP >> JAMES ELPHICK >>
DISINFORMATION
Unlock Swedenborg’s
Angel communicants with Jonathan Kemp;
experience Rorschach Audio
through Disinformation;
witness EVP experiments with Philip
Julian;
hallucinate and have your brain waves read by Ryan Jordan
and Mick Grierson;
ritual cinematic experiences from Raymond
Salvatore Harmon, the first screening of Z’EV’s EyEar Event #1,
and Nihal Yesils’ Night Crawl.
revisit the Dreamachines by James
Elphick;
journey through the past 4000 years of human culture with
Nick Lamberts’ Oculus;
and psycho-navigate yourselves through
Tonesuckers hypnotically constructed performances.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11055
http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=490
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Sunday 4th July:
Introduction to Open
Source Software for Music Technology
@ Morley College, 61
Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT
10am – 5pm
cost - £48.00
Tutor: Ryan Jordan
A crash course in a
range of free and open source audio software, covering multi-track
audio recording, editing,  and synthesis.
http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=423
http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/
http://openlabworkshops.org/
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Wednesday 7th July:
Panorama of underground
experimental music in Brazil today
@ Limehouse Town Hall,
646 Commercial Road. LONDON, E14 7HA
artist name(s): J.-P.
Caron, Rafael Sarpa, J.C. Castanheira and Vinicius Pereira
-notyesus>
Simbiotecnoise
brief
description:
Brazilian noise projects -notyesus> and
Simbiotecnoise presents their brand of droning noise. 

www.myspace.com/jpccaron



You must register in
advance for this event here......
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/706921421
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Saturday 10th July:
Introduction:
SuperCollider
@ Morley College, 61
Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT
10am - 5pm
£48.00
Tutor: Thor Magnusson
SuperCollider is an
environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis
and algorithmic composition.
The introductory course
will introduce beginners to the core fundamentals of SC. Previous
programming experience may be useful,
but not essential.
http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=423
http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/
http://openlabworkshops.org/
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Also on Saturday 10th
July:
The 2nd Annual UK Noise
Conference
@ Old Blue Last, 38
Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3ES
5pm-1:30am | £6 advance | £8 on
the
door
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/83022
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124303524257943
http://www.last.fm/event/1549207
Featuring:
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - 
TEAM BRICK -  GUM TAKES TOOTH - FUCK KNUCKLES -  CEMENTIMENTAL -
BBBLOOD -  PURITAN MINISTERS -  RYAN JORDAN - MEATGRINDER- FMG - 
GIRL MOUNTAIN -  SLOPPY SECONDS - JUAREZ
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Saturday 17th July:
Introduction to Pure
Data (PD)
@ Morley College, 61
Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT
10am - 5pm
£48.00
Tutor: Ed Kelly
Pd (aka Pure Data) is a
real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and
graphical processing.
This introductory
course is aimed at absolute beginners, introducing the core
fundamentals of Pd and demonstrating how to make
cool sounds quickly!
http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=423
http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/
http://openlabworkshops.org/
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Sunday 18th July:
Advanced Pure Data
@ Morley College, 61
Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT
10am - 5pm
£48.00
Tutor: Ed Kelly
The advanced Pd course
is aimed at people who already possess some experience with using the
programme and will be tailored to
the students'
interests.
http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=423
http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/
http://openlabworkshops.org/
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Friday 23rd &
Saturday 24th:
din workshop
@ Venue TBC
If Puredata and
Supercollider are two synths,
din is a synth of a 3rd kind.
It forgets history,
To
not repeat it.
It doesnt hide analog
music hardware,
In digital music software.



Conductor:
jagernot
When: July 23 & 24, 2010.
Time: TBC
Agenda:
* July 23:
Design of din & how to play din - Part 1.
* July 24: Design of
din & how to play din - Part 2.
* July 24 PM: din performance
by jagernot & workshop participants (venue TBC).
Charge:
* GBP 30 for
the workshop
* USB sticks that boot quickly into din on any
PC/laptop available for an additional GBP 10.
The workshop is limited
to 20 participants.
Please register by sending an email to
info at a10lab.com
with the subject heading “din workshop”.



http://code.google.com/p/din/
http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=523



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Monday 26th – Friday
30th :
Live Media and FLOSS*
Extended Production Seminary
with Marco Donnarumma 

@Venue TBC
£80 pp



*Free/Libre Open Source
Software
In-depth Theoretical and practical audiovisual live
performance seminary using FLOSS.
Pure Data audiovisual real-time
processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.



Description
The seminary consists
of four parts. During the introduction the participants acquire a
basic theoretical knowledge about Live Media. The introduction is
extended through a review of selected audiovisual works in order to
explore and analyse the potential of the audiovisual research.
Therefore participants
are introduced to the concept of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source
Software), they familiarize with few FLOSS software as they
understand its practical and theoretical keystones.
In the second part
participants learn the meaning of “real-time audio-video data
processing” reviewing the most common production tools. Eventually
they deal with the process of an audiovisual performance
pre-production using FLOSS: from brainstorming and concept design,
through planning of the audiovisual format, to the collection of
support materials – such as texts, tutorials – and the drawing of
sketches representing the logic structure of data processing. 

The third part focus on
Pure Data graphical programming environment. Participants learn to
communicate with Pd and how to surf through the audio and visual
processing libraries. They build basic processing structures and
discover tricks and tips to create their own performance tool.
For the last part the
work group is split in smaller groups. Through practical individual
exercises participants acquire the technical know-how about the
creation/collection of moving images and sonic events within the Pure
Data graphical programming environment, thus they develop an original
software, following the standard realisation steps: beta-testing,
debug – analysis of errors and its correction – and final testing
during a collective jam performance.



Aim
The seminary seeks to
give the participants who don’t have previous experience in
programming and Live Media practice the needed theoretical and
practical knowledge and skills to feel comfortable within the FLOSS
creation environment. The classes’ aim is to make the participants
able to understand and assimilate the diverse passages of the
creation process of software ad-hoc in order to be independent during
the planning and development of a FLOSS project (musical,
audiovisual, multi-media or theater pieces) using the audiovisual
language.



Who’s it for
Musicians, producers,
live visualists, film-makers, programmers, sound designers or
passionates of digital arts or electronic music and experimentation
who want to enhance and extend their skills and tools will find this
seminary inspirational and fundamental for the further development of
their works and creative ideas, free from the limitations of
user-friendly and proprietary software.
No previous programming
experience is needed.



What to bring
Participants are
invited to bring their laptops and encouraged to bring musical
instruments, cameras, photo cameras, webcam, microphones, sensors,
MIDI devices and fresh, unusual ideas! 




The workshop is limited
to 20 participants.
Please register by sending an email to
info at a10lab.com
with the subject heading “LiveMedia and FLOSS
workshop”.



http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/?p=393
Primary personal
website and portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
Personal blog dedicated
to new media art, digital freedom and music: http://www.thesaddj.com
C::NTR::L
Interactive
environment for audiovisual performance with physical computing:
http://cntrl.sourceforge.net/ 




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We
are seeking volunteers here at A10Lab to help with the day to day
running, practice, and creative output of the lab.

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///DONATE
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Currently we are not
funded, low budget, and voluntary.
We are keen to hear
from anyone wishing to donate equipment or any other support.
If you would like to
help or sponsor A10Lab with equipment or financial support then
please get in touch directly to info at a10lab.com

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to
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