[LAU] LAC2010, some thoughts

[Folderol]

On Thu, 06 May 2010 20:42:52 +0200
"rosea.grammostola" <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> LAC2010 some thoughts:
> 
> 
> Great organization and kudos for Marc and others for getting this
> conference to The Netherlands. The advantage of having this conference
> in a different country each year, is that more different people are able
> to join and get enthusiastic. 
> 
> The disadvantage of having one LAC each year on one continent is that
> most people are from Europe, a few from USA. You could think of having
> one LAC conference in Europe and one in USA. 
> 
> I've spoken to a lot of kind, special and smart people on LAC, that was
> great.
> 
> I've been inspired by art projects like those of Marije and I saw how
> interesting the combination of technology, computers and art can be.
> 
> The live performances where great. I especially liked the piece of
> Fernando.
> 
> All the performance where 'experimental music' or livecoding. As
> mentioned in the 'future of LAC meeting' I would like to see more Jazz,
> Rock etc. 
> 
> Also most people I met on LAC where developers, I'd like to see more
> users and more workshops like the ones from Lieven, Jorn and the
> beginners workshop Supercollider from Marije and others.
> 
> I agree though that the main goal of LAC should be for developers to
> meet and present what they're doing. But once that goal is set firmly,
> without discussion, I think there should also be more space and
> interesting stuff for users. The mentioned alternatives for users like
> Pixel festival and Creative Commons festivals, don't fill in the need
> for the average Linux audio rocker imo. They are more aiming on
> technology and art or has to little to do with Linux. 
> Maybe the users (LAU, LinuxMusicians, LinuxMAO etc.) should organize
> their own festival and get their place on (or call it around) the
> regular LAC to organize workshops and concerts. 
> 
> Interesting was also the confrontation between the OSX users from HKU
> and the open source advocates. In this I agree both with Fons (and
> others) and Marc. The focus should be Linux audio and so we want to see
> live music made on Linux. But I think it's also a good think to let
> students arts meet open source software and let FLOSS developers meet
> artists who like to make bread with their art.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> \r

The only one I've managed to get to so far was the one in Cologne 2
years ago. I greatly enjoyed it even though I didn't know anyone there,
and had no idea what to expect.

I've been dipping into this years vids. and am delighted that this seems
to go from strength to strength.

I too would like more of an artistic/user content. I think that what
would be absolutely fabulous would be a developer/artist team up,
maybe as some form of competition. I think both would gain a lot of
insight, and the audience would get great performances.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.