16th-17th October 2009 – Berlin
“/mode +v noise” is a project 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 m@1010.co.uk 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 3 performances from GOTO10 members Jan-Kees van Kampen, Karsten Gebbert and Aymeric Mansoux + an IRC Jam from the workshop participants! Where?: at General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c: http://www.generalpublic.de 17th october, 8:00 PM – contact m@1010.co.uk for details.

=== 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 “[combine] 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.

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.

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