(Apologies for cross-postings)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is
pleased to announce the 2013 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Commissioning
Program.
The purpose of this program is to stimulate student participation in SEAMUS
activities, and to encourage young composers to pursue creative endeavors in
electro-acoustic music. The program is administered by SEAMUS and funded by
the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
<http://www.ascap.com <http://www.ascap.com/> >.
The submission deadline is October 15, 2012.
For more information, and the online application, please visit the SEAMUS
web site at http://www.seamusonline.org/
RULES FOR SUBMISSION
Note that the rules and procedures have changed as of this year. All
submissions are to be made online, through the seamusonline.org
<http://seamusonline.org/> website. Only one work of electroacoustic music
may be submitted, which must adhere to the following guidelines:
Music submissions must be prepared as a single LastnameFirstname.MP3 or
LastnameFirstname.ZIP archive.
Audio Files: music submissions should include a representative audio
recording of the work. If a concert work, it must be the complete
composition. Installations may be represented by an excerpted recording not
to exceed 10 minutes in length. Judging of music submissions for
ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Competition will be from audio files in the MP3 format.
Multichannel works will be judged from a stereo mix, also MP3. Please assist
us by submitting in MP3 format.
Scores: for submissions involving a score, please submit an anonymized PDF
score for review. Please do not mail in printed scores at this time.
Video Submissions: note that for works involving video, only the audio
portion will be considered for judging purposes. You must be the composer of
the music for the video. Please submit an MP3 of the music as specified
above.
Only one (1) entry per student.
This same work may be submitted to the SEAMUS 2013 National Conference via
the conference submission page. All finalists in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student
Commission Competition must attend the SEAMUS 2013 National Conference.
AWARDS
A maximum of two prizes may be awarded. The decision of the judges will be
final.
First Prize
Commission of $1250 for a new work of electro-acoustic music
Performance of commissioned work at the 2014 SEAMUS National Conference
Recording of the commissioned work in the SEAMUS Compact Disc Series
Certificate of recognition
Second Prize
Commission of $750 for a new work of electro-acoustic music
Performance of commissioned work at the 2014 SEAMUS National Conference
Certificate of recognition
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants to the 2013 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commissioning Competition must
be student members of SEAMUS and must be either currently enrolled in an
academic program in the United States (high school through doctoral studies)
or a United States citizen studying abroad. All completed submissions will
be verified for student status against current SEAMUS membership records.
Per Bloland
SEAMUS Member-at-Large
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.2.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License.
From the NEWS file:
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Changes:
HPI Enhancements. Support for setting input modes for AudioScience
adapters has been added (requires support in the hardware as well).
Scripting Enhancements. The rdcollect(1) script has been modified
to allow multiple source files to be used.
Report Enhancements. It is now possible to filter data for reports
by Group membership as well as Service and Host. A new 'Music Summary'
report has also been added.
New Traffic System Preset. A preset for 'WideOrbit Traffic' has been
added.
New Rivendell Loadable Module. An 'rlm_padpoint' RLM has been added
that can be used to send PAD data to a PadPoint processor system.
Multiple bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details.
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 207, and will
automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema
version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo.
As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow
any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.
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Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
Cheers!
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The "I went on a diet and look at me now!" version. There's been a lot of fat cut out in this version, namely floor modulation. I tried to remove the things that really weren't making much of a difference in regards to the breadth of sounds that are capable of being generated.
Changes in v0.6:
- removed floor modulation altogether; wasn't getting enough bang for the buck, sound-wise
- removed Gravity Readjust
- removed Switch Velocity
- removed Channel Separation
- removed patched Stk source code from code-base, now it compiles against dynamic lib
- added limit to velocity
- made stereo synthesis optional in UI
Next version will probably focus on some new ideas, but if any given control doesn't make a big difference in the sound being made, it won't make the cut.
The Newtonator is an LV2 soft synth that uses a unique algorithm based on simple ideas of velocity and acceleration to produce some unpredictable sounds. More documentation can be found on the project website athttp://newtonator.sf.net/.
Thanks,
Michael Bechard
Hi,
The first "cab of the rank" in the new series called "Featured Artists" is
up now at:
http://linux-audio.com
We have several more contributions planned and will roll them out as they
are ready :-)
Please contact me directly if you would like to take part in this project
too.
*******************
Background info
*******************
The idea behind the new "Featured Artists" section at the Linux Audio
Users Guide is to provide a promotional vehicle for the artists in our
vibrant community to showcase their work and to entertain and educate our
audience at the same time. Think of it as an exhibition or installation
where the "Art Gallery" is 450x800 pixels and the audience is people who
are genuinely interested in Linux Audio and multimedia.
If you are an artist and you would like to participate in this project we
will assist with programming and planning to help you realise your vision.
Cheers
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Lisalo - Linux Sampler Loader - is a command line program that loads entire directories of sample files, a single .sfz file or takes instructions from a meta .lsl file with relative paths to samples. Now you can quickly and easily load sampled instruments without even starting a GUI.
This is release 1.5, grab it here, no installation required
git clone git://github.com/nilsgey/Lisalo.git
[New Feature: Automatic Audio Busses]
After loading hundreds of .sfz files in Linuxsampler I did not even attempt to manually connect them in QJackCtl but instead modify Lisalo to help me.
If you use an .lsl file to load you'll get bus channels for each section (the same that create the midi-in ports, you already have them, no new syntax, no extra typing).
Example .lsl file
!Stringduo
=Violin
vi-legato.sfz
vi-staccato.sfz
vi-pizz.sfz
=Viola
vla-legato.sfz
vla-staccato.sfz
vla-pizz.sfz
will create the following Jack audio output ports as device name "Stringduo":
- One pair master sum, left and right. Autoconnected to system in (or whatever you gave as commandline argument)
- 2 bus pairs (new), unconnect. "Violin" and "Viola". You want to connect these to your recording device.
- 6 unconnected pairs, one for each instrument (that would be 12 channels already you would have to connect manually in QJackCtl). These are only for very detailed tasks.
Final note: You don't want to know how much work it is to create even this small example in QSampler or Fantasia.
[Contact]
https://github.com/nilsgey/Lisalo
info at ...
irc.freenode.org #laborejo
Feedback and chatting are welcome!
Nils
And now, for something completely different:
Lilv is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins in programs simple.
Sratom is a library for serialising LV2 atoms to and from Turtle.
Sord is a library for in-memory storage of RDF data.
Serd is a Turtle syntax reader and writer library.
Together, they form a lightweight, fast, portable, well-tested, and
dependency-free LV2 host implementation.
This round of releases contains many bug fixes as well as performance
and functionality improvements. Upgrading is suggested, but not urgent.
Notable additions include the ability to build the entire stack
statically, reduced memory consumption, and the new lv2bench utility.
All APIs remain backwards compatible with all previous versions.
Changes:
Lilv 0.14.4:
* Fix documentation for ui_type parameter of lilv_ui_is_supported()
* Fix crash when lv2info is run with an invalid URI argument
* Gracefully handle failure to save plugin state and print error
message
* Reduce memory usage (per node)
* Simpler node implementation always backed by a SordNode
* Make all 'zix' symbols private to avoid symbol clashes in static
builds
* Add lv2bench utility
* Fix various hyper-strict warnings
* Do not require a C++ compiler to build
* Add option to build utilities as static binaries
* Upgrade to waf 1.7.2
* lilvmm.hpp: Deprecate old flawed Lilv::Instance constructors
* lilvmm.hpp: Make Lilv::Instance handle features and failed
instantiations
* lilvmm.hpp: Add Lilv::Instance::get_handle()
* lilvmm.hpp: Add Lilv::Instance::get_extension_data()
Sratom 0.4.0:
* Correctly read objects with several rdf:type properties
* Support writing Object Atoms as top level descriptions if subject and
predicate are not given.
* Fix various hyper-strict warnings
* Upgrade to waf 1.7.2
Sord 0.10.0:
* Add error callback to world for custom error reporting
* Performance and space (per node) improvements
* SSE4.2 accelerated hashing for node interning, where available
* Make all 'zix' symbols private to avoid symbol clashes in static
builds
* Remove problematic "Loaded n statements" output from serdi
* Strip down API documentation to a single clean page
* Fix various hyper-strict warnings
* Do not require a C++ compiler to build
* Add option to build utilities as static binaries
* Upgrade to waf 1.7.2
* sordmm.hpp: Add indices and graphs parameters to Model constructor
* sordmm.hpp: Remove overzealous URI scheme assertion
* sordmm.hpp: Correctly handle Sord::Node self-assignment
Serd 0.18.0:
* Support digits at start of local names as per new Turtle grammar
* Add incremental read interface suitable for reading from infinite
streams
* Add -e option to serdi to use incremental reading
* Add error callback to reader and writer for custom error reporting
* Add -q option to serdi to suppress all non-data output, e.g. errors
* Reset indent when finishing a write
* Report write size correctly when invalid UTF-8 is encountered and a
replacement character is written
* Strip down API documentation to a single clean page
* Fix various hyper-strict warnings
* Do not require a C++ compiler to build
* Add option to build utilities as static binaries
* Upgrade to waf 1.7.2
Enjoy,
-dr
I'm abandoning all lv2 related projects that I currently maintain.
Here is a list:
* zynjacku/lv2rack
* lv2fil
* ssg
* lv2vocoder
* lv2dynparam
* external ui extension
* lv2zynadd [partially, see below]
* maybe something else I dont recall right now
The zyn-rewrite project that produced lv2zynadd stays but will be
cleared from all lv2 code. If anyone wants to take over the
maintainership of any project of mine, contact me. I'll wait a month
before wiping out all online lv2-related resources I control.
I don't want to participate in the lv2 madness anymore. I admit I cannot
communicate rationally with David Robillard. If contributing is not
pleasure, then a one doesn't belong to the community. I wish everyone
inloved more luck than I had.
--
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: 5D1B58ED>
Hello fellow Linux Audio users,
A quick note to announce the final release of AV Linux. Don't let the word
'final' scare you off this is an up to date release and is chuck full of
great Open-Source apps and popular Commercial Linux Audio demos! Please
swing by the AV Linux forum and read the release announcement and watch
the Introduction screencast. If you are a Linux Audio developer I may have
even said something nice about you!
Release Announcement:
http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=2530.0
FluidSynth 1.1.6 contains a few bug fixes, such as better MIDI
End-of-track handling, broken sounds after voice overflow, and a few
platform specific fixes.
Thanks to the people who have been contributing by developing, testing
and discussing this release!
Also - if you want to increase the quality of future FluidSynth
releases, please join the new FluidSynth tester program, to make sure
your use case is still handled correctly by FluidSynth!
Relevant links:
Download at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/files/fluidsynth-1.1.6/
For more information, see the changelog:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog1_1_6
For more information about the testing program, see
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2012-07/msg00036.html
...and write an email on the fluid-dev list of what use cases you're
interested in testing.
Thanks, and enjoy the new release!
Regards,
David Henningsson
FluidSynth Developer Team
Radium is an open source music editor with a novel interface.
It's inspired by trackers, but has fewer limitations and uses graphics
to show musical data.
Homepage:
http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/
New screenshot:
http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/screenshot-0-67-0.png
Most important changes 0.65.7 -> 0.67.1:
* Ported GUI to Qt4
* Ported Editor to GTK2.
(Did this because of bad performance with QT4 2D graphics.
The editor now runs as an embedded widget in QT4.)
* More colorful default colors
* Various build fixes
* Compiles under MinGW.
(Tested in wine and Windows7, but it doesn't work very well yet.)
* RELEASE buildtype.
* Fix nodeline selection
* Antialiased lines
* Adjusted tempo colors
* Fix race condition for midi input
* Midi input editing.
* Removed the custom resize window box.
* midi: increased latency from 1.95ms to 5ms. (This should probably be
configurable)
* Various bug fixes and improvements
