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mobile research//topology of a future city

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:19:00 GMT

'Temporal bandwidth,' is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar '[delta-] t' considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. [Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow] _____-micro-research announces the launch of a mobile research laboratory devoted to the use of free software and open hardware within the field of psychogeophysics. Field trips, working groups and occassional workshops are planned for 2010. The first expedition will be titled Topology of a Future City and takes place in early February in Berlin as part of Transmediale10. Topology of a future city proposes a speculative working group divining, describing and thus constructing a future city in ruins; a series of descriptive urban vectors extrapolated from ghosted electromagnetic, signal and literary traces. Borrowing techniques from geophysical archaeology (revealing and mapping of geophysical properties), narrative displacements (filmic manipulations of temporality, science fiction), and coded psychogeographics (tracing signs of underground networks), Topology sketches a model for the future city flaneur. <a href="http://www.1010.co.uk/org/topology.html">http://www.1010.co.uk/org/topology.html</a> <a href="http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/11027">http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/11027</a> renewed siting: <a href="http://www.1010.co.uk/org/">http://www.1010.co.uk/org/</a>

_____-micro_research workshops_finale: November 28th 2PM: Irrational Computing with Ralf Baecker

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:10:00 GMT

The last in a series of regular workshops at _____-micro_research . In 2010 we will initiate an interdisciplinary mobile research laboratory devoted to the use of free software and open hardware within the field of psychogeophysics. Field trips, working groups and occassional workshops are planned. To celebrate this transition a small party will be held on the 28th (8PM+) - all old and new researchers are invited. Drinks will be served. //November 28th 2PM: Irrational Computing with Ralf Baecker Irrational Computing is a loose collection of ideas that includes non-traditional logic gates, non-applied computing, minimal computing, DIY transistors and homebrew CPUs. During the workshop we will build elementary arithmetic and logic units that enable us to realise expandable, networked and looped digital circuits with complex behaviour. We will feed our circuits with binary patterns and explore their visual and auditive responses. The major component of this workshop is the transistor and its switching capability. In addition the workshop will give an introduction and guidance into building handcrafted macroscopic mechanical logic gates. Feel free to bring some potential material (old toys, junk, springs, levers etc.) for logic investigations. Ralf Baecker (1977) lives and works in Bremen, Germany. After studies in computer science he attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. In 2007/2008 he taught at the department for "Design of Medial Environments" at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Baecker builds kinetic installations and sculptures which interlink symbolic and physical spaces. His epistemological machines explore our imagination of digital processes. <a href="http://www.no-surprises.de/">http://www.no-surprises.de/</a> No experience required Fee: 10 euros (includes food) Please email <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> to reserve a place (strictly limited) ---_______ Background: 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. Practitioners at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz (<a href="mailto:prd@scrying.org">prd@scrying.org</a>), Julian Oliver (<a href="http://julianoliver.com">http://julianoliver.com</a>), Derek Holzer (<a href="http://soundtransit.nl">http://soundtransit.nl</a>), Jeff Mann (<a href="http://jeffmann.com">http://jeffmann.com</a>), Martin Howse (<a href="http://1010.co.uk">http://1010.co.uk</a>), Kathrin Guenter (<a href="http://www.fotokatie.com">http://www.fotokatie.com</a>), Alice Miceli (<a href="http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2">http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2</a>), Fredrik Olofsson (<a href="http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/">http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/</a>), Florian Cramer (<a href="http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/">http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/</a>), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(<a href="http://tob.de.vu/">http://tob.de.vu/</a>), mikomikona <a href="http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html">http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html</a>, Antony Hall (<a href="http://antonyhall.net">http://antonyhall.net</a>), Gijs Gieskes (<a href="http://gieskes.nl/">http://gieskes.nl/</a>), Alexei Blinov (<a href="http://www.raylab.com">http://www.raylab.com</a>), Valentina Vuksic (<a href="http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/">http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/</a>), Dave Griffiths (<a href="http://www.pawfal.org">http://www.pawfal.org</a>), Marc Boon (<a href="http://www.marcboon.com">http://www.marcboon.com</a>), Christian Faubel, Cordula Körber, and Ralf Schreiber (<a href="http://ralfschreiber.com/">http://ralfschreiber.com/</a>), Roman Häfeli and Olsen Wolf (<a href="http://www.netpd.org">http://www.netpd.org</a>), Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen (<a href="http://www.goto10.org">http://www.goto10.org</a>), Danja Vassiliev and Gordan Savicic (<a href="http://moddr.net/">http://moddr.net/</a>), Linda Hilfling _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html</a>

November 19th 8PM salon: Flankierende Massnahmen im Schienenersatzverkehr with Olsen Wolf

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:58:00 GMT

micro research salons on the last Thursday of each month (and occasional other dates) for local and international researchers to gather to discuss common research themes and endeavour. November 19th 8PM salon: Flankierende Massnahmen im Schienenersatzverkehr with Olsen Wolf - Accompanying arrangements at rail replacement bus service - acousthesia upgrade 'Accompanying arrangements at rail replacement bus service is a sound installation performed by a robot named Hyper Line Tracer. In residency at _____-micro-research we'll be exploring an acousthesia upgrade to expose the robot into a feedback actuated orbit: The robot is carrying a radio transmitter and a microphone on its back and is surrounded by various radios, receiving the signal emitted from the robot. As the microphone is transmitting the signals coming from the radio speakers back to the radio receivers, feedback noise is generated. Hence by passing the series of radios, with their different positions & characteristics a composition of feedback noise emerges. With the applied sensitivity to sound the robot is guided by the noise created upon its own movements. In the end the robot generates and moves within its own labyrinth of noises and feedback tones. For the salon various 'Accompanying Arrangements' will be performed and examined. With drinks and conversation. Free. RSVP. <a href="http://hasa-labs.org">http://hasa-labs.org</a> Details: _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/salon.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/salon.html</a>

Reminder: Remote Control//workshop and broadcast on TV programme programming with Linda Hilfling 14th Nov

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:49:00 GMT

In this workshop we will try to go beyond the general notion of democratic media as a matter of access and instead re-examine the concept by itself. When broken apart, it raises questions around systems of organization and means of control. The workshop is on one side a conceptual framework for the discussion and exploration of participatory media production and the relation between code, content and execution, but also a 'hands-on' introduction to simple commandline video editing. We will develop TV programmes - small scripts that executes video content in different ways. At the end of the day we will turn the space into a pirate TV channel and make a collective transmission out of our TV programming efforts. Please bring video material and computer. Fee: 5 euros (includes food!) Please email <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> to reserve a place (strictly limited) _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html</a>

_____-micro_research workshops_31//news: November 14th 2PM: Remote Control � a workshop on TV programme programming with Linda Hilfling

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:19:00 GMT

A series of working groups, events and workshops at _____-micro_research ; an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware. Calendar: November 14th 2PM: Remote Control a workshop on TV programme programming with Linda Hilfling November 19th 8PM: Micro-residency salon with Olsen Wolf November 20/21: part of discurse09 at General Public November 22nd 5PM: Steganographia//certain Sundays November 28th 2PM: Irrational Computing with Ralf Baecker //<----------------------------------------------- November 14th 2PM: Remote Control a workshop on TV programme programming with Linda Hilfling In 1932 Bertolt Brecht formulated a critique of the radio as a centralized mass media, and advocated a decentralized media structure with as many senders as receivers. Ever since, the general notion of democratic media has been, and still is, identical to people getting access to transmitting their own content. From independent grassroot TV makers to pirate radio stations or online digital platforms, the aim has been to create a perfect, democratic media structure by granting people access to the technology. Today though, with a media landscape made up of corporate internet service providers, Brecht's visions seem to have been fulfilled. However, paradoxically enough, by venture entrepreneurs capitalizing on so called architectures of participation. In this workshop we will try to go beyond the general notion of democratic media as a matter of access and instead re-examine the concept by itself. When broken apart, it raises questions around systems of organization and means of control. The workshop is on one side a conceptual framework for the discussion and exploration of participatory media production and the relation between code, content and execution, but also a 'hands-on' introduction to simple commandline video editing. We will develop TV programmes - small scripts that executes video content in different ways. At the end of the day we will turn the space into a pirate TV channel and make a collective transmission out of our TV programming efforts. Please bring video material and computer. Fee: 5 euros (includes food!) Please email <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> to reserve a place (strictly limited) ---_______ Background: 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. Practitioners at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz (<a href="mailto:prd@scrying.org">prd@scrying.org</a>), Julian Oliver (<a href="http://julianoliver.com">http://julianoliver.com</a>), Derek Holzer (<a href="http://soundtransit.nl">http://soundtransit.nl</a>), Jeff Mann (<a href="http://jeffmann.com">http://jeffmann.com</a>), Martin Howse (<a href="http://1010.co.uk">http://1010.co.uk</a>), Kathrin Guenter (<a href="http://www.fotokatie.com">http://www.fotokatie.com</a>), Alice Miceli (<a href="http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2">http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2</a>), Fredrik Olofsson (<a href="http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/">http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/</a>), Florian Cramer (<a href="http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/">http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/</a>), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(<a href="http://tob.de.vu/">http://tob.de.vu/</a>), mikomikona <a href="http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html">http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html</a>, Antony Hall (<a href="http://antonyhall.net">http://antonyhall.net</a>), Gijs Gieskes (<a href="http://gieskes.nl/">http://gieskes.nl/</a>), Alexei Blinov (<a href="http://www.raylab.com">http://www.raylab.com</a>), Valentina Vuksic (<a href="http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/">http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/</a>), Dave Griffiths (<a href="http://www.pawfal.org">http://www.pawfal.org</a>), Marc Boon (<a href="http://www.marcboon.com">http://www.marcboon.com</a>), Christian Faubel, Cordula Körber, and Ralf Schreiber (<a href="http://ralfschreiber.com/">http://ralfschreiber.com/</a>), Roman Häfeli and Olsen Wolf (<a href="http://www.netpd.org">http://www.netpd.org</a>), Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen (<a href="http://www.goto10.org">http://www.goto10.org</a>), Danja Vassiliev and Gordan Savicic (<a href="http://moddr.net/">http://moddr.net/</a>) _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html</a>

_____-micro_research workshops_30: November 7th 2PM: Data carving with Danja Vasiliev and Gordan Savicic

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:15:00 GMT

A series of working groups, events and workshops at _____-micro_research ; an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware. Calendar: October 31st 9PM: aether9 in performance at Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery November 7th 2PM: Data carving with Danja Vasiliev and Gordan Savicic Forthcoming matter: tv programming, [micro-]cuisine, plotting, handmade logic //<----------------------------------------------- November 7th 2PM: Data carving with Danja Vasiliev and Gordan Savicic * information excavation, digital archeology, offline privacy During the workshop we will explore the contents of found hard-disks (hard-disque trouvé). Using methods borrowed from computer digital forensics participants will peek into the lives of others - former owners of scavenged hardware. Hard-disks as the most intimate part of any computer system. In case of a personal computer - the most intimate part of person's life. Deductively, we will try to discuss and recreate 'psyche' portraits of those strangers and restore the time-lines that otherwise would have faded away. In the times of paranoiac privacy awareness we forget that online is not the only place to loose your identity. Although more and more personal data is stored on the Internet servers it is still written to hard-disks. There were several reports about Internet server's hard-disks ending up on flea-markets, being sold for little money. <a href="http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/16402">http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/16402</a> <a href="http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/06/one_year_ago_ha.html">http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/06/one_year_ago_ha.html</a> <a href="http://homepage.cc/harddisk">http://homepage.cc/harddisk</a> <a href="http://mareichelt.de/pub/notmine/sanitizing.html">http://mareichelt.de/pub/notmine/sanitizing.html</a> By the end of the workshop all the hard-disks and/or the data will be destroyed! * Workshop prerequisites: All participants are asked to go local flea-markets or second-hand shops to pick up few old hard-disks. You may try eBay as well. Older = better, those disks don't need to be of large capacity, in fact 8-16 Gigabytes is the best size to be able to analyze it during one-day session. They also don't need to have any operating system. Make sure the disks are 3.5 and have standard IDE interface. Everybody is also expected to bring laptops (PC, Intel Macs) capable of booting from USB-sticks or CDs and equipped with USB2.0 interfaces. GNU/Linux command line knowledge will be advantageous, however it is not required. Workshop is lead by moddr_ - Danja Vasiliev and Gordan Savicic, experimentalists and interventionists on the edge of digital life and everyday technology. <a href="http://moddr.net">http://moddr.net</a> Fee: 10 euros (all materials and food!) Please email <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> to reserve a place (strictly limited) ---_______ Background: 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. Practitioners at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz (<a href="mailto:prd@scrying.org">prd@scrying.org</a>), Julian Oliver (<a href="http://julianoliver.com">http://julianoliver.com</a>), Derek Holzer (<a href="http://soundtransit.nl">http://soundtransit.nl</a>), Jeff Mann (<a href="http://jeffmann.com">http://jeffmann.com</a>), Martin Howse (<a href="http://1010.co.uk">http://1010.co.uk</a>), Kathrin Guenter (<a href="http://www.fotokatie.com">http://www.fotokatie.com</a>), Alice Miceli (<a href="http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2">http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2</a>), Fredrik Olofsson (<a href="http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/">http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/</a>), Florian Cramer (<a href="http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/">http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/</a>), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(<a href="http://tob.de.vu/">http://tob.de.vu/</a>), mikomikona <a href="http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html">http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html</a>, Antony Hall (<a href="http://antonyhall.net">http://antonyhall.net</a>), Gijs Gieskes (<a href="http://gieskes.nl/">http://gieskes.nl/</a>), Alexei Blinov (<a href="http://www.raylab.com">http://www.raylab.com</a>), Valentina Vuksic (<a href="http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/">http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/</a>), Dave Griffiths (<a href="http://www.pawfal.org">http://www.pawfal.org</a>), Marc Boon (<a href="http://www.marcboon.com">http://www.marcboon.com</a>), Christian Faubel, Cordula Körber, and Ralf Schreiber (<a href="http://ralfschreiber.com/">http://ralfschreiber.com/</a>), Roman Häfeli and Olsen Wolf (<a href="http://www.netpd.org">http://www.netpd.org</a>), Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen (<a href="http://www.goto10.org">http://www.goto10.org</a>) _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html</a>

_____-micro_research news/workshops: OCT 26-30: aether9 in residency // NOV 7 data carving

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:40:00 GMT

A series of working groups, events and workshops at _____-micro_research ; an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware. Calendar: October 26-30: aether9 in residency at _____-micro-research October 27 19:00 UTC+2: aether9 in conference at rupert goldsworthy gallery October 31 21:00 UTC+2: aether9 in performance at rupert goldsworthy gallery November 7 14:00: data carving with Danja Vasiliev and Gordan Savicic Forthcoming matter: tv programming, [micro-]cuisine, plotting, handmade logic //<----------------------------------------------- Æther9, an experiment in collaborative realtime storytelling is gathering souls in a dramatically online fashion. BERLIN will host a physical reunion, a séance, workshop, conspiracy, residency, and eventually a performance. During their one-week residency at _____-micro research , the networked Æther9 members will meet in physical space for the first time to redefine the evolution of the project, develop technical applications, and re-experiment with new ideas which will explore the scenographic potential of the medium. The foundations being distributed authorship, cross-platform, and 'remote performance of streaming audio and visual material to a nomadic HTML interface. This event of live performances and video streams from vast locations will take you to the unexpected - a hyperdrive through space and inter-zones. At the heart of the Æther9 project is the desire to fulfill the "old" utopian dream of borderless communication. No frontiers. Developed by an online networked group of international visual artists/collectives working through Oceania, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and into the Americas, Æther9 is a matrix for video/audio performance, and collaborative hybrids of post-dramatic processes particular to these new modes of digital communication. Using both new and low-tech technologies within multi-disciplinary art practices, Æther9 aims to break the boundaries of spatial and cultural distances to democratize the artistic voice within communication technology. The term of reality-jamming catches the effect generated through this wildly dispersed yet intimate collaboration of live sounds and images whose fragmented glimpses of individual philosophical positions and immediate surroundings transition across the global network in one cross-planetary embrace. <a href="http://www.1904.cc/aether">http://www.1904.cc/aether</a> [rupert goldsworthy gallery, Alexandrinenstrasse 4, 10969 Berlin] ---_______ Background: 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. Practitioners at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz (<a href="mailto:prd@scrying.org">prd@scrying.org</a>), Julian Oliver (<a href="http://julianoliver.com">http://julianoliver.com</a>), Derek Holzer (<a href="http://soundtransit.nl">http://soundtransit.nl</a>), Jeff Mann (<a href="http://jeffmann.com">http://jeffmann.com</a>), Martin Howse (<a href="http://1010.co.uk">http://1010.co.uk</a>), Kathrin Guenter (<a href="http://www.fotokatie.com">http://www.fotokatie.com</a>), Alice Miceli (<a href="http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2">http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2</a>), Fredrik Olofsson (<a href="http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/">http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/</a>), Florian Cramer (<a href="http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/">http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/</a>), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(<a href="http://tob.de.vu/">http://tob.de.vu/</a>), mikomikona <a href="http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html">http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html</a>, Antony Hall (<a href="http://antonyhall.net">http://antonyhall.net</a>), Gijs Gieskes (<a href="http://gieskes.nl/">http://gieskes.nl/</a>), Alexei Blinov (<a href="http://www.raylab.com">http://www.raylab.com</a>), Valentina Vuksic (<a href="http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/">http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/</a>), Dave Griffiths (<a href="http://www.pawfal.org">http://www.pawfal.org</a>), Marc Boon (<a href="http://www.marcboon.com">http://www.marcboon.com</a>), Christian Faubel, Cordula Körber, and Ralf Schreiber (<a href="http://ralfschreiber.com/">http://ralfschreiber.com/</a>), Roman Häfeli and Olsen Wolf (<a href="http://www.netpd.org">http://www.netpd.org</a>), Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen (<a href="http://www.goto10.org">http://www.goto10.org</a>) _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html</a>

_____-micro_research workshops:28/29: 24 OCT noise_produce_7 with Martin Kuentz// 7 NOV data carving with Danja Vasiliev and Gordan Savicic

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:54:00 GMT

October 17th 8PM exact: /mode +v noise with/and GOTO10 at General Public

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:38:00 GMT

October 17th 8PM exact: /mode +v noise with/and GOTO10 at General Public Organised by ____-micro_research and Institute of Algorhythmics, General Public will host one evening of performances from members of the GOTO10 collective. Free entrance. General Public garage in the backyard Schönhauser Allee 167c 10435 Berlin ÖPNV / Public transport U2 > Senefelder Platz <a href="http://www.generalpublic.de/current/events/article/19/mode-v-noise-by-goto10.html">http://www.generalpublic.de/current/events/article/19/mode-v-noise-by-goto10.html</a> 8PM exact! === /mode +v noise jam === A mini tiny micro nano impro from the participants of the "/mode +v noise" workshop. If you want to be on stage too, come to the workshop (last day saturday at Linienstrasse 54) to build your own ASCII based software instrument! <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html</a> === Karsten Gebbert - "Monsoon" === Karsten Gebbert (DE/US) is an '''un'''trained musician, recording artist and software developer with a passion for the realm of the unexplored corners of ones own mind and the challenges those frequently produce. He has been making music in various formations since 1996 - now he is part of the GOTO10 collective and also plays with a nameless (but awesome) Berlin band project. His newest favourite project is building a FLOSS recording studio together with his comrades from the band. This new performance is an attempt to mix a few divergent practices in sound creation and manipulation in order to explore the vast space of possible modulations between the organized, structured and quantized space of music and the fluidity of sound scapes from chaotic sound generators, recorded material and more conventional synthesis. The results are spectrally rich (or poor) sound-scapes, rotten, aliasing wav files of walks through parks and streets as well as deep sinusoidal bass-lines and beats influenced heavily by instrumental rap music. All his music is realised in the SuperCollider 3 environment. === Adrian Vacca - "Why Is It?" part 1-2-9 === Jan-Kees van Kampen(NL) is a software enthusiast, who spends some of his time doing sound programming and composition with SuperCollider, and additionally works as teacher, technician and farmer. He is part of the GOTO10 collective, PBUP (a network music band) and the Schreck Ensemble for electro-acoustic music. "Why Is It?" is a series of thematic sound pieces that was started in 2000. Adrian Vacca will play pt.1 and 2 and the new pt.9: " Why Is It we don't move to the other, walk in circles, gobble the fodder ?". Improvising with typical stage artefacts like hum, ground loop, and known examples of vocal virtuosity from down under. A generative set of rhythmic simplicity, pop ambience and happy noise, exploring harmonicity in a nonharmonic context. === Aymeric Mansoux - "4NX" === Aymeric Mansoux is a founding member of the GOTO10 collective. His main artistic and research interests revolve around online communities, open and distributed practices, software as a medium and the influence of FLOSS in the development and understanding of software art. He currently lives in the Netherlands and teaches at the Networked Media Master of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. '''4NX''' is an audiovisual noise sculpture, starting with the panic of a flat signal, turning it into image then back into sound, the bootstrapping of a stochastic noise generator, the search for structure and frozen moments of accidental beauty. A cornucopia of clicks, pops and glitches. 4NX is violent but draws you into this world of chaos through its black and white aesthetics, melancholic atmosphere and unexpected shaping of raw noise into hypnotic patterns. 4NX is an ongoing research on noise aesthetics.

_____-micro_research workshops:27: October 16/17th: /mode +v noise with GOTO10 and performance

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:56:00 GMT

A series of weekly working groups and workshops at _____-micro_research ; an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware. Calendar: October 16/17th 2PM/12PM: /mode +v noise with GOTO10 October 17th 8PM: GOTO10 at General Public Forthcoming matter: tv programming, micro-cuisine, data carving, plotting, handmade logic //<----------------------------------------------- ** October 16/17th 2PM/12PM: /mode +v noise with GOTO10 /mode +v noise is a project of GOTO10, a collective of international artists and computer programmers. It is based on IRC, the oldest text-based Internet chat environment. This intervention will transform an IRC chat room/channel into a simple, collaborative, text-based online system for making music. Since IRC allows chat bots- computer programs that pretend to be human conversation partners -, we will program such a bot to create a collective musical composition environment based on Internet chats. In this workshop, participants will explore two parts of the project: designing sound generators in Supercollider that they can control via a simple IRC bot written in Python. Workshop is taught by Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen from GOTO10. PREREQUISITES: This workshop is aimed to beginners, no previous knowledge is required but a basic understanding of computers and an unconditional love for command line and text based interfaces is mandatory! To bring: * bring your own Laptop (PC based, macbook/mactel, recent imac, etc. We can't provide support for PPC based Mac such as the old G3-4-5-...) * bring your own headphones Cost: 20 per participant for both days (this includes food) Please email <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> to reserve a place (strictly limited to 8) ==== Day 1 ==== * 14:00 - 15:00: hands on demo of the "/mode +v noise" platform and experiment, using the Puredyne GNU/Linux live distro. * 15:00 - 17:00: Intro to Supercollider's project botsynth, how to change patterns and synths, explanation of different hardcoded synthdef (from super simple, to more complicated examples). * 17:00 - 17:30: break * 17:30 - 19:50: make your own synth + play it through chat using local default bot * 19:50 - 20:00: vote for the best synthdef and win a pack of stropwaffel ==== Day 2 ==== * 12:00 - 13:00: python crash course * 13:00 - 15:00: reviewing the IRC bot features including OSC, IRC and mode+v classes * 15:00 - 15:30: break * 15:30 - 17:50: pimp your bot by combining existing code or writting your own * 17:50 - 18:00: vote for the best bot and win a pack of stropwaffel The workshop will be followed by performances at General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c: <a href="http://www.generalpublic.de/current/events/article/19/mode-v-noise-by-goto10.html">http://www.generalpublic.de/current/events/article/19/mode-v-noise-by-goto10.html</a> Details to follow! === About Supercollider === SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. Since then it has been evolving into a system used and further developed by both scientists and artists working with sound. It is an efficient and expressive dynamic programming language which makes it an interesting framework for acoustic research, algorithmic music and interactive programming. We will deal with practical sound-synthesis, jitlib (rapid prototyping), and get ourselves sounding ready for the irc-jam on the second day. === About Python === Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to " remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive. === About Puredyne === Puredyne is an operating system developed to provide media artists with a complete set of tools for realtime audio and video processing. Puredyne is a live distribution, you don't need to install anything. Simply boot your computer using the live CD or USB and you're ready to start using software such as Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound, Fluxus, Processing, Arduino and much much more. === About GOTO10 === GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital art projects and tools for artistic creation, located on the blurry line between software programming and art. GOTO10's members have backgrounds in visual arts, sound art, music technology, physical computing and programming. They have worked around the theme of FLOSS+Art since 2003, using performances, workshops, installations, print, and code repositories as their medium. * <a href="http://goto10.org">http://goto10.org</a> * <a href="http://identi.ca/goto10">http://identi.ca/goto10</a> * irc://irc.goto10.org channel: #goto10 ---_______ Background: 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. Practitioners at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz (<a href="mailto:prd@scrying.org">prd@scrying.org</a>), Julian Oliver (<a href="http://selectparks.net/">http://selectparks.net/</a>), Derek Holzer (<a href="http://soundtransit.nl">http://soundtransit.nl</a>), Jeff Mann (<a href="http://jeffmann.com">http://jeffmann.com</a>), Martin Howse (<a href="http://1010.co.uk">http://1010.co.uk</a>), Kathrin Guenter (<a href="http://www.fotokatie.com">http://www.fotokatie.com</a>), Alice Miceli (<a href="http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2">http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2</a>), Fredrik Olofsson (<a href="http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/">http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/</a>), Florian Cramer (<a href="http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/">http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/</a>), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(<a href="http://tob.de.vu/">http://tob.de.vu/</a>), mikomikona <a href="http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html">http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html</a>, Antony Hall (<a href="http://antonyhall.net">http://antonyhall.net</a>), Gijs Gieskes (<a href="http://gieskes.nl/">http://gieskes.nl/</a>), Alexei Blinov (<a href="http://www.raylab.com">http://www.raylab.com</a>), Valentina Vuksic (<a href="http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/">http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/</a>), Dave Griffiths (<a href="http://www.pawfal.org">http://www.pawfal.org</a>), Marc Boon (<a href="http://www.marcboon.com">http://www.marcboon.com</a>), Christian Faubel, Cordula Körber, and Ralf Schreiber (<a href="http://ralfschreiber.com/">http://ralfschreiber.com/</a>), Roman Häfeli and Olsen Wolf (<a href="http://www.netpd.org">http://www.netpd.org</a>) _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. <a href="mailto:m@1010.co.uk">m@1010.co.uk</a> _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 <a href="http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html">http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html</a> <a href="http://www.1010.co.uk/org/">http://www.1010.co.uk/org/</a> <a href="http://pickledfeet.com">http://pickledfeet.com</a>

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