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5th May: Crouching Table, Hidden Pointer [Pure Data for soundfiles and live sampling] with Derek Holzer

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xxxxx workshops at pickledfeet, Berlin

A weekly series of constructivist workshops emphasising making and connection within the field of the existent.

Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and reception, and electromysticism. workshops solely utilise free software and GNU toolbase.

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Calendar:

5th May: Crouching Table, Hidden Pointer [Pure Data for soundfiles and live sampling] with Derek Holzer

12th May: Free projects. Discussion and construction of participant's projects using workshop resources. Details tbc.

see: http://www.1010.co.uk/xxxxx_research_institute.html

May/June projected: GNU Emacs, television transmission, the C programming language, spectral RF reception and white noise, rapid-prototyping-realtime-3D, ATmega8 microcontrollers a la Arduino

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5th May 2PM. Crouching Table, Hidden Pointer [Pure Data for soundfiles and live sampling] with Derek Holzer

The Shaolin Temple secret for manipulating recorded sound in Pure Data lies in the arcane arts of the Table. Seekers of enlightenment will be shown how to load soundfiles from the harddrive into tables, or capture live audio from the microphone, so that these sounds can be looped, stretched, pitchshifted, granulated and mangled. The Way is a long and dangerous one, and some basic understanding of PD is recommended, but some of you will triumph!

Time will also be set aside for responding to participants' questions about their own PD audio projects.

---What to bring:

Essential:

1) Laptop running Linux, OS X or Windows 2) Pure Data Extended installed from: http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html 3) Soundcard (internal or external, quality a non-issue) 4) Headphones 5) EUR 10 participation fee

Recommended/Suggested:

1) MIDI controller/keyboard 2) Microphone 3) USB Joystick 4) Your own soundfiles (WAV, AIFF format) 5) Your own PD audio projects for feedback

---About the Teacher

Derek Holzer [USA 1972] began working with Pure Data in 2001. Since then, he has taught and performed with the program across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. His work focuses on field recording, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Pure-Data. Holzer has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and Gruenrekorder labels, and has co-initiated several internet projects for field recording and collaborative soundscapes including Soundtransit.nl. He is currently writing a Pure Data beginner's manual for the FLOSS Manuals project.

http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html http://www.umatic.nl/workshops.html http://www.flossmanuals.net/puredata (under development, feedback welcome)

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previous workshops:

saturday 27th January led by Julian Oliver:

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Object Oriented Programming with Python.

Object Oriented Programming refers to the technique of designing and authoring powerful, task-oriented code 'objects' that work together to do things for you.

This introduction to OOP uses the dynamic language Python and is intended for those with little or no programming experience; the day long class starts with the basics of programming and moves through to writing whole modular programs.

http://selectparks.net

10 February:

The Pure Data workshop 10th February led by Derek Holzer:

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Pure Data is a powerful, free software environment for producing and manipulating sound, image and data in real time. Because the programming is done visually, many artists find it a more intuitive tool than traditional text-oriented programming languages. However, many newcomers to PD miss the chance to learn the "grammar" and "vocabulary" of this visual language, and this results in confusion about how PD actually handles sounds and images.

This one-day workshop will give an introduction to Pure Data for beginners and for experienced users who might have missed some of the fundamentals of the program. We will construct a basic sound synthesizer, and use this exercise to go over the deeper mysteries of what makes PD tick.

Time will also be set aside for responding to participants' questions about their own PD audio projects.

---About the Teacher

http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html

http://www.umatic.nl/workshops.html

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17th February 2pm noise_produce with Martin Howse

Electro-mysticism is a materialism and only "gathers that which is". Circuit diagrams and bodies relate to each other as the front and reverse side of the same piece of paper, recto and verso, then "Not even in the worst times of night, with pencil words on your page only Delta-t from the things they stand for?"

[Friedrich Kittler: Pynchon and Electromysticism]

The noise_produce workshop is concerned with techniques for the elaboration of experimental noise electronics (mis-use of functional digital electronics) and a generic means of production traced from defined circuit diagram to copper-etched board.

Please bring a soldering iron and any spare/salvaged electronic parts of interest. All other materials will be supplied.

Course fee 15 euros includes materials.

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24th February 2pm

FM-transmitter-workshop with piradio/superfactory[TM].

How to build your own radio-transmitter, booster, antenna and if required receiver. Audio broadcast. Soldering permitted.

All materials and some tools supplied. Please bring individual audio/noise, your own soldering iron if possible or inform if needed.

Course fee 15 euros includes materials.

Please RSVP m@1010.co.uk to reserve places

Contact: fm-kit@superfactory.biz

http://superfactory.biz/download.html

http://kulturserver-berlin.de/home/piradio/funkrahm.htm

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3rd March 2pm. noise_produce part two. with Martin Howse.

Crack and etch/tech. Circuit diagram to active circuit transform.

The second partition of the noise_produce workshop is concerned with techniques for the elaboration of experimental noise electronics (mis-use of functional digital electronics) and a generic means of production traced from defined circuit diagram to copper-etched board. Participants can choose to design their own digital/analogue noise design or produce a Netherlandish cracklebox/kraakdoos:

http://www.logosfoundation.org/kursus/2005.html

http://www.crackle.org/CrackleBox.htm

http://www.synthi.se/kraakdoos/

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10th March 2pm. SuperCollider - writing algorithms that sound. with Fredrik Olofsson.

SuperCollider is a free software, object oriented, real-time audio synthesis programming language that runs efficiently across multiple platforms. This means that it is one killer app and among one of the hottest things you can have installed on your computer. In this workshop I will do my best to share my enthusiasm for this live coding environment. We will get creative with algorithms and sound in a very hands-on manner. The workshop is suitable for beginners as well as more experienced programmers.

--What to bring:

1) Laptop running Linux, OS X or Windows

2) SuperCollider installed:

LINUX: http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de/MusicTechnology/478 OS X: https://sourceforge.net/projects/blackrain-sc3/ WIN: http://sonenvir.at/downloads/sc3/sc3-win/

3) Some sort of speakers (quality a non-issue - internal laptop speakers are fine)

4) 10 Euros participation fee

--About the Teacher:

Fredrik Olofsson, aka. redFrik, is a fanatic livecoder and developer who also performs tricks with visuals and electronics.

http://www.fredrikolofsson.com http://www.klippav.org http://www.musicalfieldsforever.com http://www.toplap.org

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17th March 2PM: Oscillation Overthruster. PD_2

with Derek Holzer (http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html).

Pure Data is a powerful, free and open source environment for producing and manipulating sound, image and data in real time. This hands-on workshop will concentrate on using oscillators, filters, feedback and noise to create your own self-modulating/generative sound systems. Go for that classic analog sound, do the digital clicks-n-cuts thing, or indulge in a noise orgy freakout... Since we will cover quite a bit of Pure Data and DSP (Digital Signal Processing) basics, this workshop is ideal for PD beginners as well as experienced users who want to come and make some noise together. External inputs and controllers such as MIDI keyboards/faderboxes, USB joysticks, sensors or microphones could be useful, but not required.

---What to bring:

Essential:

Recommended/Suggested:

1) MIDI controller/keyboard 2) Microphone 3) USB Joystick 4) Your own PD audio projects for feedback/show-and-tell

---About the Teacher

http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html

http://www.umatic.nl/workshops.html

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31st March 2.PM. Noise_produce_3: I_am_a_neuron (part 2). with Martin Howse

The third partition of the noise_produce workshop elaborates on earlier noise/electronic/Schmitt trigger sessions (previous attendance not necessary) to consider expansion and connection under a noise modulated neural model. The neuron as base (map) system is concerned with impulse, threshold, weights, triggering and memory, terms which can be applied to the realm of analogue electronics and synthesis - ill-considered noise makes an attempt on the model, diverted from sense and attention. Schmitt triggers, capacitors (storage), resistors (the weightings) and diodes (direction of energy release) will be employed to form networks between and within participant's noise circuits; a jelly brain.

Please bring a soldering iron and any spare/salvaged electronic parts of interest. All other materials, including copper boards and jelly, will be supplied.

Course fee (inc. materials 15 Euros)

Please RSVP m@1010.co.uk to reserve places as these are limited.

http://1010.co.uk

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21st April 2PM. DIY simple-sample-and-hold modules with superfactory[tm]

Jelly neurons, noise modules and microphones will be integrated with etched audio memory devices under the skilled direction of Martin Kuentz from superfactory[tm]. A DIY micro-sampling kit (based around the ISD recording integrated circuit for looping, sampling and some granulation) will be assembled by all participants using circuit board etching techniques and simple electronics skill-set. The workshop also functions as an introduction to these DIY techniques.

http://superfactory.biz/

examples:

http://www.kh-gps.de/unitalk.htm http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/pdf/ggg_mobius_trip_pcb_lo.pdf http://www.nescivi.de/research/index.html

Most tools supplied but feel free to bring a soldering iron or any interface electronics

RSVP m@1010.co.uk with interest as places/kits are very limited

Course fee (inc. sampling kit 18 Euros)

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28th April 2PM. ap/UNIX process: dd, cat, FIFO, pipes for PD, jekyll, i_am, leaks with ap/xxxxx

An artistic exploration of the UNIX philosophy chaining small software artefacts together with code and data pipes to form new, active noise structures. The roster of core programs such as dd and cat with pipe symbols at the commandline will exploited for audio and visual programming alongside ap/xxxxx custom code such as jekyll, i_am, leaks and others within a workshop engaging promiscuous noise generation.

http://www.1010.co.uk/software.html

http://1010.co.uk/promiscuOS.html

http://1010.co.uk/unix.html

pluggability: you've got pluggability (pdf) and html