Dear Friends and fellow L2Ork and Pd enthusiasts,
I would greatly appreciate it if you would please distribute the following announcement.
The spring is in the air, which means it is time for the spring DISIS (http://disis.music.vt.edu) and L2Ork (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu) events. To start the season right, this past Friday L2Ork had a sneak preview performance at Roanoke College. More so, this coming weekend we are having a truly special series of events with the return of the Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra whom we've been working with this semester. In addition, the spring DISIS event will also include guest artists and scholars Ron Coulter, Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, and Dave Phillips. The upcoming events include:
Thursday April 7 @ 3:30-4:45pm in DISIS presentation by Brad Garton
Friday 10am-1pm lectures in the Arts Armory by Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, and Dave Phillips (free admission)
Friday April 8 @ 7pm in Dumas Center (Roanoke, VA) children's concert featuring Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra and L2Ork
Saturday April 9 @ 7pm in Squires Recital Salon children's benefit concert (an Arts Fusion event) featuring Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra and L2Ork followed by a hands-on laptop orchestra demo session for kids and families ($5 general, $3 children/students/seniors, with all proceeds benefiting Boys & Girls Club)
Saturday April 9 @ 8pm in Squires Recital Salon benefit concert (an Arts Fusion event) featuring Ron Coulter, Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, Dave Phillips, and L2Ork ($5 general, $3 children/students/seniors, with all proceeds benefiting Boys & Girls Club)
This year we've also partnered up with the Virginia Tech Kids' Tech University program to expand our outreach to young audiences. For additional info on the upcoming events, please visit our Events page or our Facebook Event page (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136468179758733). To keep up with the latest updates, join us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117918141555131).
As if that weren't exciting enough, earlier this weekend we've made yet another public release of pd-l2ork (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56) with even more cool features and fixes (changelog: http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/data/pd/Changelog). Our site has been also updated with the new promotional materials and photos. Yet, in the spirit of Steve Jobs' keynote speeches we've left the best for last. Stay tuned for more exciting updates soon ;-)
For additional info on L2Ork, visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu.
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico(a)vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
Call for Abstracts, please forward:
Audio-graphic Modeling and Interaction
Workshop @ NIME 2011, Oslo, Norway
Sunday, May 29: 1PM-4PM.
This workshop focuses on recent advances and future prospects in
audio-graphic scenes modeling and rendering. The convergence of
the audio and graphic communities is fostered by the increase in
computational resources, by cognitive studies on cross-modal
perception, and by the industrial needs for realistic audio scenes.
Audio-graphic research is spreading in areas such as games,
architecture, urbanism, information visualization, or interactive
artistic digital media. We will focus on the representation, the
interaction, the rendering, and the perception of scenes in which
the audio and graphical components are clearly identified and
combined (in contrast to standard multimedia video streams).
Accepted abstracts will invited to submit an extended version
to a special issue of the Springer Journal on Multimodal User
Interfaces (JMUI)
Detailed information about the workshop can be found here:
http://www.topophonie.fr/event/1
Registration to the workshop and NIME conference can be found here:
http://www.nime2011.org/registration/
Call for Abstracts
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Abstracts (max. 1 A4/Letter page, 12 points, PDF format)
on the topics of the workshop should be sent before April 20
to Hui Ding, LIMSI-CNRS (Hui.Ding(a)limsi.fr)
The submissions will be reviewed by a program committee
and accepted communications will be given at the workshop.
The authors will be notified latest April 29, 2011.
Important Dates
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* April 20, 2011: Abstract Submission Deadline
* April 29, 2011: Notification of Acceptance
* May 29, 2011: Workshop.
Program Chairs
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Roland Cahen, ENSCI-les Ateliers
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS & University Paris Sud 11
Diemo Schwarz, IRCAM
Hui Ding, LIMSI-CNRS & University Paris Sud 11
Program committee
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Brian Katz, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Cécile Picard-Limpens, HEM, Geneva and UMONS, Belgium
Lauri Savioja, Aalto University School of Science, Finland
Topics in detail
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Beyond the question traditionally addressed in multimedia,
the workshop will cover recent advances in audio-graphic
scene modeling such as:
* - joint representation of sound and graphic spaces and objects,
* - rendering optimization for audio-graphic scenes: level of details,
o . occlusion,
o . masking,
o . beam and ray tracing,
o . shadowing,
o . space subdivision,
o . collisions...
* - audio-graphic interface design,
* - audio-graphic for virtual humans:
o . audio-visual speech,
o . cloth animation and sound rendering,
o . steps,
o . paralinguistic communication...
* - sound and graphic spatialization,
* - audio-graphic object rendering, and physically and geometrically driven
sound rendering,
* - cross- and bi-modal perceptual evaluations,
* - audio-graphic information visualization:
o . distortion,
o . zooming and panning,
o . filtering,
o . immersive rendering,
o . visual data sonification,
o . interaction devices...
* - interactive audio-graphic arts,
* - industrial audio-graphic data:
o . architectural acoustics,
o . sound maps,
o . urban soundscapes...
* - platforms and tools for audio-graphic scene modeling and rendering,
These areas are interdisciplinary in nature and inter-related.
New advancements in each area will benefit the others. This workshop
should attract young and senior researchers, artists, and corporates
in the related fields together to exchange the latest developments
and to point out current challenges and new directions.
tags NIME, oslo, conference, workshop