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Florence, 11 April 2004
+++ AGNULA @ Week of Freedom (Siena, Turin)
The AGNULA project will join the Week of Freedom (17-22 April 2004) in
Siena and Turin, where it will give a presentation/workshop on
AGNULA/DeMuDi and on AGNULA Libre Music.
+++
The AGNULA project will join the Week of Freedom (17-22 April 2004)
[0] in Siena and Turin, where it will give a presentation/workshop
respectively on AGNULA/DeMuDi and on AGNULA Libre Music.
The Week of Freedom is an event promoted and organized by Hipatia [1]
and Free Software Foundation Europe [2] with a plethora of local
associations and organizations - a 6-days long tour around Siena,
Florence, Milan, Turin and Rome with conferences, workshops, speeches
on free (as in free speech) knowledge.
As the conference's organizers say:
While leaving behind the industrial society and entering into the
information and knowledge society the concept of liberty
changes. Defending our liberty today means defending the freedom of
knowledge.
Moreover: free knowledge has already proved, through free software
and publishing, to be able to promote social, economic and
development models that produce wealth, growth and wellness.
This is the topic of the week of meetings that will take place
between Siena, Florence, Milan and Turin. During the week freedom of
knowledge will be discussed from the juridical, social, artistic and
technical perspectives.
AGNULA will be in Siena [3] on April 17, when Andrea Glorioso will
give a speech on AGNULA Libre Music, Free Ekanayaka and Damien
Cirotteau will make a presentation and host a "hands-on" workshop on
AGNULA/DeMuDi; and in Turin on April 21, when Andrea Glorioso will
give a speech on AGNULA Libre Music.
We hope to see you in Siena and Turin, and we hope you will joing any
of the events of the Week of Freedom!
+++
About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until
April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer based project, aiming to spread Libre Software in the
professional audio/video arena.
Best regards,
--
The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org
Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
[0] http://liberamente.hipatia.info/
[1] http://www.hipatia.info/
[2] http://www.fsfeurope.org/
[3] http://siena.linux.it/pagine/corte.shtmlhttp://siena.linux.it/pagine/tavola.shtml
WORKSHOP PURE DATA
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts
26 - 29 May 2004
Fee: E 150,-
Guests: Aymeric Mansoux, Derek Holzer, Frank Barknecht and Jaromil
This workshop is meant for beginners and will focus on Open Source
software for the real-time manipulation of audio and video. The dual
package of Pure Data and GEM, offer a complete set of tools for sound,
multimedia and VJ purposes. Topics will include: real-time audio and
video processing with PD and GEM, RRADical PD, PDP and an overview of
other free and open source audio and video tools for Linux.
PD and GEM The dual package of PD [Pure Data] and GEM [Graphics
Environment for Multimedia], developed under an open source model by an
international community of programmers, offers just such a set of tools.
Running under Windows, Linux or OSX, PD and GEM can be used in commonly
available, inexpensive hardware as a complete multimedia environment.
Both applications allow for the real-time manipulation of sound and
image data within a visual programming environment which does not
require any previous experience in traditional computer languages.
PDP is a set of external objects to PD developed by Tom Schouten, runs
under Linux and OSX, and are based on the idea of processing data in
packets. While it is primarily used for video, the basic structure of
PDP allows any kind of data to be processed into any other kind of
data. Images can be converted to textures, which can be mapped onto 3D
objects, converted back to images, changed into sound, re-rendered
again as image, and so on. The possibilities are endless.
RRADical PD (Reusable and Rapid Audio Development) is a set of patches
created by Frank Barknecht in order to make Pure Data easier and faster
to use for newcomers and for people who are looking for a collection
of standardized music tools similar to what commerical software
packages such as Reason or Reaktor offer.
The workshop is for beginners. The level will go up while the week
progresses. The first day will be dedicated to basic PD and for those
who bring their own machine, an installation session.
For applications please contact Marloes de Valk
marloes(a)montevideo.nl <mailto:marloes@montevideo.nl>
Purpose
While many tools exist for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes, few of
them are designed with an open architecture which allows artists to
configure the tools they use themselves. Fewer still are free. The
importance of an open source development model may seem academic at
first, but in fact there is a strong need for a workshop of this kind.
The fees, licenses and restrictions that come with commercial software
become more and more restrictive every day, and the knowledge in the new
media community of free and open source software is extremely limited.
Coupled with this is the stigma that open source software, such as
Linux, is "too difficult" for artists to use. This workshop aims to
provide the tools which can be taken away and put to use immediately and
the knowledge of how to use them productively.
Details
The workshop sessions will be held in the Netherlands Media Art
Institute. Over the 4 days of the workshop, 12 participants will learn
about PD, GEM, and PDP, working under the Linux operating system.
Topics of the workshop will include:
* Crash course 'Installing PD and GEM for beginners' with invited guests
* Basic PD with Derek Holzer
* Basic GEM with Aymeric Mansoux
* Intermediate PD with Derek Holzer
* RRADical PD with Frank Barknecht
* PDP with Aymeric Mansoux
* Clinic
* Presentation and jamm session
At the end of the fourth day a short presentation of the workshop will
take place. This presentation will be open to an audience invited by the
participants. The workshop will finish with a "Jam Session", in which
the participants can share the creations they have made with each other
and with the audience.
Invited Guests
Frank Barknecht (D)
Open source developer, sound artist and the creator of the End-User
Abstractions project (RRADical PD, Reusable and Rapid Audio Development)
which makes it possible to learn using Pd in a top-down way, making PD
more accessible and open.
<http://footils.org>
Aymeric Mansoux (F)
Artist and author of pure-data tutorials/articles for MusicRun,
Co-Founder of a group dedicated to alternative digital art study and
Co-Founder of Goto10, an organization dedicated to set up and produce
electronic live events.
<http://www.bleu255.com>
Derek Holzer (NL/US)
Sound artist currently based in Utrecht. Initiated the Acoustic Space
Lab Project, an "open source sampling project" which invites artists to
use a database of samples gathered at a former Soviet spy station to
create a common body of work.
<http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab>
<http://www.umatic.nl>
Jaromil (I)
Jaromil is an italian GNU/Linux programmer, author and mantainer of
three free softwares and a operating system: MuSe (for running a web
radio), FreeJ (for veejay and realtime video manipulation), HasciiCam
(ascii video streaming) and dyne:bolic.
http://rastasoft.org/ <http://rastasoft.org>
Marloes de Valk
Educatie
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T 020 6237101
F 020 6244423
E marloes(a)montevideo.nl
www.montevideo.nl
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Florence, 08 April 2004
+++ AGNULA @ Webb.It 2004
The AGNULA team will be at Webb.It 2004 (Padua, Italy) sharing a booth
with OpenSourceLabs and the OMS Team from Politecnico di Torino. The
team will also give a speech/seminar on the AGNULA/DeMuDi
distribution.
+++
The AGNULA team will be at Webb.It 2004 [0] (Padua, Italy) sharing a
booth with OpenSourceLabs [1] and the OMS Team [2] from Politecnico di
Torino [3]. The team will also give a speech/seminar on the
AGNULA/DeMuDi distribution. [4]
You can find us at our booth in the "Community" area during all the
duration of the event - from May 6 to May 8. We will show you how
AGNULA/DeMuDi works, install AGNULA/DeMuDi on your laptops/computers,
help you fix your audio/sound/synthesis problems and so on and so
forth!
Our seminar will take place on Saturday, May 8, at 17:30. Here is the
abstract, for all you non-italian readers:
The AGNULA project was born as an EC financed project in the IST
(New and Emerging Technologies) program; amongst its goals, building
a Debian-based distribution completely made with Libre Software,
dedicated to professional audio/video: AGNULA/DeMuDi.
In this seminar the current status of AGNULA/DeMuDi, as well as our
projects for the future, will be shown.
If you happen to visit Italy during May 6-8, we hope to see you at our
booth or at our seminar!
+++
About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until
April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer based project, aiming to spread Libre Software in the
professional audio/video arena.
Best regards,
--
The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org
Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
[0] http://www.webb.it/
[1] http://www.opensourcelabs.it/
[2] http://streaming.polito.it/
[3] http://www.polito.it/
[4] http://www.webb.it/event/eventview/3336/
Hi
I released sfc-0.016 (SoundFontCombi) a MIDI router who emulates a
synthesizer, storing routes as sounds using MIDI soundfonts or other MIDI
capable devices.
News on v0.016
-----------------------
MIDI channel for own programs
Route MIDI Program Change
Refresh MIDI data when activate section.
MIDI Change Bank improved.
Fixed bugs in command line, MIDI BankLSB message, control messages and
auto-connect ALSA sequencer port.
Reduced the amount of memory needed.
sfc is available in:
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-0.016.tar.gzhttp://www.telefonica.net/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-0.016.tar.gz
Hello Everyone!
Announcing for the last time this year the new release of Wav Composer Not
Toilet. Wcnt is of course, the not-real-time modular synth, sequencer,
sampler, wav file generator. Get it from wcnt.sourceforge.net.
This release is wcnt-1.1z (read wcnt-1.1260) and here are the new features
and changes:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BIG CHANGES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*** Updated website to be more helpful + online example.
*** Sets of data which are not module parameters or module inputs (shape of
an adsr, notes in a riff, riffs in a sequencer, etc) have now been
generalised into a base class. Specialised data reading routines have been
replaced, which make it easier to program new data sets. This also means
that data definitions are now more tappy tappy on your keyboard, my
justification for this extra user effort is readability.
*** Riffs inserted into sequencer can be transposed at point of insertion,
and the note lengths can be modified.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMMAND LINE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*** Now has short options too.
*** two conversion options to convert a note name to a frequency, and a
frequency to degrees per sample and samples per cycle.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NEW MODULES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*** dynamic
Maps amplitudes of input signal to a set of output amplitudes/ratios. Of
course it has two sets of which the output can be modulated between.
*** spreader
Spreads the output of a number of wcnt_signal modules along an imaginary
line and outputs that which the modulation input lands upon.
*** note_tran
Translates notes into values. The note range used depends on being
triggered by a note_on, or note_slide. Four output triggers so you can tell
if the note was in one of the two note ranges or not. (see online example:
wcnt.sourceforge.net/drumex01.wc )
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MINOR CHANGES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*** adsr got a couple new params regarding shape modulation
*** logic trigger's xor mode definately works now (dunno if it did before)
*** trigger now behaves in a note_on/note_off type operation gleaned from
the input signal.
*** wcnt_signal has a level param
That's All Folks, same time next year, see ya! see ya! see ya. see ya,
see ya see yaseeyacyacyacycaaa...
James.
~(sirromseventyfive)~
_________________________________________________________________
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http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/
The JACK bitscope is a diagnosis tool for JACK audio software on Linux (and
perhaps other systems which have JACK and GTK+ 2.x). As its name might
suggest, the bitscope operates at the bare metal of JACK's I/O layer,
looking at the 32 binary digits in each individual sample. It's basically
functional, and its release and subsequent announcement were delayed most
by the need to provide some adequate examples in the documentation.
JACK bitscope can be downloaded from the URL above, and is documented here...
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/bitscope/
The GL Mixer is a 3D widget for mixing up to eight JACK audio streams down
to stereo, providing a somewhat intuitive interface to level & pan controls
through the ability to move sources (represented as columns) on a 2D plane.
No points for identifying the inspiration for this toy, and no bug reports
yet please unless accompanied by a patch; screenshot at..
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/glmix.png
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/
XMMS LADSPA is an Effect plugin for XMMS that provides (some of) the power
of the Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API to your everyday MP3
and all-around media player.
This version adds save & restore functionality so that if you use XMMS
LADSPA with the same plugins all the time you don't need to laboriously
re-start those settings when you restart XMMS, they will be remembered
as will all their parameters.
Nick.
Announcing ClearScale:
Open Source Commercial-Grade Time Stretching/Pitch Shifting Project
ClearScale is an open source GPL-based project to bring high quality
time stretching and pitch shifting to the Linux platform. The goal is
to create an open standard for a commercial grade algorithm that allows
changing the pitch and speed of music and sound independently of each
other. It should achieve this in an artifact-free, sonically pleasing
manner, comparable to commercial algorithms on the MacOS and Windows
platform available today.
The algorithm should work equally well with musically monophonic and
polyphonic material over a wide range of scaling ratios, and it should
encompass a way to compensate for the formant shifts ("Mickey-Mouse
effect") that occur during pitch shifting.
It is hoped that an open standard for such an immensely important
integral part of audio processing will make Linux-based audio
processing both easier and more popular. The algorithm should be
designed to serve as a quality reference for other algorithms in the
field, and a suite of audio files and test signals will be provided
with it to serve as a testbed for other future algorithm designs.
The project is initiated by Stephan M. Bernsee (formerly Stephan M.
Sprenger) who maintains a highly popular educational web site about
time stretching and pitch shifting and related topics at
http://www.dspdimension.com. He has authored several commercial
solutions on the MacOS and Windows platform and his papers and
algorithms are part of lectures on DSP at several universities and
online courses.
The project has initially been funded by a private research grant and
its running costs will be financed through PayPal donations to its
maintainer. More information on its current status, design goals and a
FAQ can be found on the project web site, http://www.clearscale.org
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Stockholm, 4 April 2004
+++ New AGNULA/DeMuDi laboratory at KTH
Four new AGNULA/DeMuDi machines have been set up in the SMH
(Speech. Music and Hearing) department at KTH.
+++
Four new AGNULA/DeMuDi machines have been set up in the SMH [0]
(Speech. Music and Hearing) department at KTH [1].
This setup marks the birth of a GNU/Linux and Libre Software based
laboratory for KTH students who will be able to turn the theory taught
at the SMH courses into reality, without having to resort to
proprietary software.
The machines are running AGNULA/DeMuDi 1.1.0 [2] and have been
carefully tuned to suit the hardware commonly used at SMH, including
the various external sensors - to be interfaced with Pure Data - that
are used in the Music Acoustics research area at SMH.
These machines will also be a precious help for testing and debugging
AGNULA/DeMuDi in a live (and quite heterogeneous) environment. Last,
not least, we all know that if an operating system can resist
students' attacks, it's ready for prime time.
A big thank you goes to Roberto Bresin, Kjetil Hansen, and Damien
Cirotteau who made this achievement possible with their help and work.
+++
About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until
April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer based project, aiming to spread Libre Software in the
professional audio/video arena.
Best regards,
--
The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org
Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
[0] http://www.speech.kth.se/
[1] http://www.kth.se/
[2] http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_1_0_apt