Linux Audio Conference 2008

The 6th Linux Audio Conference is taking place in Cologne (Germany) Feb 28th to March 2nd 2008. The Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, is proud to host the Linux Audio Conference 2008, where once a year programmers and artists, musicians, composers and practioneers gather to discuss and explore new and important developments in making music and sounds with Linux and Open Source software.

Spring School time again

A two week boot camp dedicated to free software tools for audio-visual art and performance: The Pure Data Spring School 2007 on May 14th-25th 2007 in Glasgow is brought to you by GOTO10, CCA and OpenLab Glasgow. The tutors are Frank Barknecht, and Chun Lee, two experienced artists who work closely with Pure Data in live performance projects and who have also contributed to the development of the software itself.

GTD with Mutt

X-Labels are nice to add comments to mails in your inbox. If you keep track of your TODO stuff in a GTD-way ("Getting things done") X-Labels can be even more useful. Here's a little script I'm using to comfortably label and save incoming mails with Mutt.

Beginner's Guide to the FFT-objects in Pd

The Fourier transformation (FFT) is a powerful operation in digital signal processing. Pd includes objects that can be used to apply FFT, modify signals in the frequency domain, and transform the data back. This guide will try a hands-on explanation of how to use the [rfft~] and [rifft~] objects and give you at least a basic understanding of the process. This guide however is not meant to be a deep explanation of the underlying math, it will just give you enough knowledge to get started. For a deeper explanation I would recommend the wonderful DSP-Guide and the FFT and Pd paper by Marius Schebella.

A Turing Machine for Pd

I wrote a simple, graphical Turing machine realized in Pd.

RTC-lib for Pd 1.0

The Real Time Composition Library by Karlheinz Essl and others is a software library for algorithmic composition in Max/MSP/Jitter. Now the RTC-lib is also available for Pure Data in a first 1.0 release. There are still objects missing, but the basic layout is done now and it is usable.

Nocturne 8

Starting this November I'm happy to be a fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. To celebrate this big event I'll do a concert and talk as part of the ongoing concert series Nocturne on Thursday, Nov 23, at 8pm.

bang - the Pd book

Finally it's out: bang - the book containing lots of articles about Pure Data, amongst these an interview with Pd inventor Miller Puckette, lots of hand-on stuff from your favourite Pd developers and users, theory around Pd and what not. Including the DVD of the Pd contvention 2004.

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