Please pardon cross postings and feel free to distribute this announcement.
ICMC 2006: Extended Deadlines
Y'all are invited to submit your best, finest, or even craziest works to
the 2006 ICMC conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA from
November 6 - 11, 2006. To facilitate the submission of your works we
have extended the deadlines:
Music/Video/Installations: March 18 (Sat), 2006
Papers: March 11 (Sat), 2006
This conference is not only a historic collaboration between ICMA and
SEAMUS (Society of Electro Acoustic Music in the US) but is also a
conference that will help with the recovery of a city, its people, and
its culture.
We have also further updated performance resources which includes the
Ensemble Surplus from Germany, NextEns from Cincinnati, Cat 5 from
Mississipi, the infamous Convolution Brothers, dancers from the Tulane
Theater and Dance Department, our own Tulane Music Department Musicians,
Korean traditional instrumentalists from Seoul, and much more.
During the conference we'll be giving away gifts and prizes (as well as
lots of beads!) made possible by generous donations by our corporate
sponsors such as Bias(numerous copies of Peak Pro XT), Parallax (10 BS2
boards with on board bread-boards), Mixmeister (more than $1000 worth of
products), Maxim-IC (no not the magazine!), Electrotrap ($800 worth of
sensors for your HCI needs), empreintes DIGITALes (special "ICMC" CD for
all registered participants), Soundhack (5 copies of spectral shapers),
fxpansion (one of each software type) and many more goodies.
Please visit www.icmc2006.org regarding updates and details. Laissez les
bon temps roulez!
Sincerely,
Tae Hong Park, ICMC 2006 Conference Chair
Please pardon cross postings and feel free to distribute this announcement.
ICMC 2006: Extended Deadlines
Y'all are invited to submit your best, finest, or even craziest works to
the 2006 International Computer Music Conference to be held in New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA from November 6 - 11, 2006. To facilitate the
submission of your works we have extended the deadlines:
Music/Video/Installations: March 18 (Sat), 2006
Papers: March 11 (Sat), 2006
This conference is not only a historic collaboration between ICMA and
SEAMUS (Society of Electro Acoustic Music in the US) but is also a
conference that will help with the recovery of a city, its people, and
its culture.
We have also further updated performance resources which includes the
Ensemble Surplus from Germany, NextEns from Cincinnati, Cat 5 from
Mississipi, the infamous Convolution Brothers, dancers from the Tulane
Theater and Dance Department, our own Tulane Music Department Musicians,
Korean traditional instrumentalists from Seoul, and much more.
During the conference we'll be giving away gifts and prizes (as well as
lots of beads!) made possible by generous donations by our corporate
sponsors such as Bias(numerous copies of Peak Pro XT), Parallax (10 BS2
boards with on board bread-boards), Mixmeister (more than $1000 worth of
products), Maxim-IC (no not the magazine!), Electrotrap ($800 worth of
sensors for your HCI needs), empreintes DIGITALes (special "ICMC" CD for
all registered participants), Soundhack (5 copies of spectral shapers),
fxpansion (one of each software type) and many more.
Please visit www.icmc2006.org for details on updates and conference
information. Laissez les bon temps roulez!
Sincerely,
Tae Hong Park, ICMC 2006 Conference Chair
Announcing Shelljam 0.0.3.
Almost everything is broken in this release. I am providing it to
demonstrate how absolutely, admirably, extensively, beautifully and
fantastically plain wonderful the new MIDI interface, RtMidi is. It is
so fast you won't believe it. And it does NOT even use low latency
scheduling yet.
Also, as a sneak peak, the rudiments of a plugin architecture are
present. Instruments may be created deriving off a base class that has a
virtual callback function (see shelljaminstrument.h in the source for
API... it is NOT frozen)
There are also two cutish pictures of myself on the web site now.
Thanks for your interest.
Carlo
>===== Original Message From Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie(a)rfa.org> =====
>On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:43:01AM +0000, Daniel James wrote:
>> Hi Ico, hi Eric,
>> >That being said, in my department (Virginia Tech) I've got an ok to offer
>> >hosting for LA purposes which would mean direct physical access to the
>> >mainframe, virtually unlimited data storage (I am not sure how much we
>> >have right now but we should have probably close to 1TB and there is
>> >plenty of empty slots left on the mainframe for more disks to be added),
>> >and most importantly unlimited bandwidth
>>
>> That would be a great improvement, and would allow us to host or stream
>> a lot of music files or offer software downloads. I can easily set up
>> linuxaudio.org DNS to point to that.
>
>I notice Joern's mail concerning moving linuxdj content to
>linuxaudiodev.org and that somehow involving Paul ... I've been a little
>out of the loop lately. Can someone sketch in the current state of the
>various sites Ico is proposing to consolidate?
In a nutshell, the lad site is being moved to Paul's server but the domain
continues (at least for the time being) to be inaccessible. Another
consideration is the .com extension current linuxdj has which may be something
worth discussing, especially considering that most of the LA software is not
of corporate origin. As far as my proposition is concerned, you are the first
one expressing any interest in it...
Regarding moving Linuxaudio.org, I'd be more than happy to provide space for
such a move as well as any other Web-related Linuxaudio.org incentives,
including potential consolidation of project summaries into one Wiki
meta-resource, as suggested in my earlier e-mail.
Best wishes,
Ico
We are interested in getting the new Guitar Rig 2 USB foot controller
supported in Linux/Wine. It's described here:
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=guitarrig2_us
I assume from looking at it, that a USB driver would be required and
then perhaps some Wine tweaks to let the plugin open the USB driver.
Anyone interested in taking this on? We are hoping to do this as a trade
--- like you do this work and get a Receptor and/or some VST plugins for
your time.
BTW, we also have a job opening, posted here:
http://www.craigslist.org/pen/sof/132110028.html
Thanks ... mo
===================================
Michael Ost, Software Architect
Muse Research, Inc.
most(a)museresearch.com
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:43:01AM +0000, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Ico, hi Eric,
> >That being said, in my department (Virginia Tech) I've got an ok to offer
> >hosting for LA purposes which would mean direct physical access to the
> >mainframe, virtually unlimited data storage (I am not sure how much we
> >have right now but we should have probably close to 1TB and there is
> >plenty of empty slots left on the mainframe for more disks to be added),
> >and most importantly unlimited bandwidth
>
> That would be a great improvement, and would allow us to host or stream
> a lot of music files or offer software downloads. I can easily set up
> linuxaudio.org DNS to point to that.
I notice Joern's mail concerning moving linuxdj content to
linuxaudiodev.org and that somehow involving Paul ... I've been a little
out of the loop lately. Can someone sketch in the current state of the
various sites Ico is proposing to consolidate?
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Hello all,
i try to set up my audiobox and playing a little bit with realtime audio.
Today I want to setup a start script, so that jack (and some other apps)
starting, immedately after bootup.
First question: is the init script the right place, or should i use LASH.
Second (and originate) question: if i start from xterm as normal user
bash-3.00$ set_rlimits -r jackd --realtime -d alsa &
everything is perfect. but if i startet the same command in .xsession, i will
get the following
---------------------- schnipp ----------
nperiods = 2 for playback
JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 20) [for thread 49156, from
th
read 49156] (1: Operation not permitted)
cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread 65541, from
th
read 65541] (1: Operation not permitted)
---- schnipp -------------------
is the .xsession script running as a different user?
any comments are welcome
thanks c~
Hi all,
A couple days ago I sent an e-mail on this topic due to some initial positive
feedback, yet not much has happened since... (it may very well be that a lot
of people are very busy with LAC preparations (-: ). At any rate, please allow
me to reiterate what I've mentioned before in hope that this time it may
elicit some fruitful discussion on this IMHO very important topic.
Best,
Ico
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It appears to me that there were at least a few members of the LAD/LAU list
who have expressed interest in having LAD site somehow integrated in the
Linuxaudio.org. I believe that this would be a very encouraging step towards
consolidating online LA resources into one site which would IMHO ultimately
make LA users' lives a lot easier as well as make the overall LA scene look
more professional to the outsiders/potential adopters. I see this kind of an
idea as a first step towards a much more demanding goal--integration of other
online resources, i.e. Dave's LA software page. I could see this integration
happening via a single Wiki page that would contain detailed
info/screenshots/documentation/mailing-list and other pertinent info for every
LA software available out there. Naturally, linking these lists is also a
possibility, yet the very thought of having one place with unified appearance
that would provide all the necessary info, including documentation,
application-specific mailing lists etc. seems IMHO truly inspiring.
Such a project obviously bears a huge overhead. I can also see devs objecting
to the redundancy of information that may be already available on their
software's dedicated website. The solution to both problems would be asking
devs and/or their project maintainers/helpers to assist with the generation of
their software's Wiki page which should adhere to certain predetermined
standards and then also providing a link to their original project's page.
Yes, there would be some redundancy, but a vast number of projects could
greatly benefit from such a consolidation, including one of the most
important, yet often neglected aspects--proper documentation.
For this reason, I would like to use this opportunity to possibly elicit a
discussion on this matter and hopefully get the ball rolling :-).
END-OLD-MESSAGE
Well, I'm about to crack open a can of worms, but let me just say that
I'm 100% not interested in starting any debates/fights/riots/states-of-
emergency. All I'm interested in is hearing where people stand and why
--- I don't want to persuade people one way or the other, and I'd like
to ask that everyone restrain themselves when feeling the urge to tell
someone that they're wrong.
I'm doing this because, after having been a part of this community for a
while, and a developer for some time, I'm having an "is it all worth
it?" moment. I personally like the Linux environment more than Windows
and Mac --- I find it to be better suited to a technically inclined
person like myself. And with each iteration of the distros and desktop
suites, it comes closer to meeting and surpassing the competition in
core computer functions. It's already got the server side of things
dominated, and when it comes to surfing the web, checking your email,
burning cds, listening to music et al, it's definitely a contender.
Better in some areas, worse in others, and mostly only suffering because
of proprietary technologies that have become standard.
But, and this what it's all about, when it comes to my personal reason
for living --- music --- I'm forced to admit that on technical merits
alone, I have a hard time arguing for Linux. I'm personally a "just for
fun" kind of guy. I'm basically from the utilitarian-libertarian
school, and while I did try the "free as in freedom" thing for a while,
it was a poor fit.
I happen to have some very significant qualms with the way "intellectual
property" (if RMS was right about anything, it's that this is a poor
term for non-rivalrous creative goods) is currently being handled ---
there is a huge and easily observable disparity between what the laws
say and what people do, and common sense tells you that that probably
means the laws are messed up. So, for me, open source and creative
commons are a way to sort of skirt the issue, or at least push things in
a better direction. Also, there's something just sexy about open
source. But for me, that's where the non-technical merits of it stop.
What I'm saying is, I think we can all agree that, when an open source
solution is technically superior to, or on par with, a proprietary
solution, then the open source solution is the way to go. But what
about when the proprietary solution is better? If the open source
solution is good enough, then it makes sense to use it since it's bound
to be cheaper. But if you really need the best tool for the job, then I
don't see the justification for using the open source solution.
Things obviously change when you're a developer, since you can bring the
open source solution up to, or beyond, the level of the proprietary
solution. The question, then, is will you get more pleasure out of
doing so than pain? That's where I am right now. I really, really want
to get an album out --- and I also want it to be really, really good. I
want to use the best tools for the job, and in my evaluation, those are
proprietary tools.
OTOH, with a little work, I think the LMMS + Ardour can actually be the
best, or at least good enough. I also happen to enjoy doing open source
development, so this wouldn't be a bad path to pursue. But ultimately,
I want to get back to making the best music that I can make --- it's for
that reason that I think I'm going to finally go back to a dual boot
machine for the first time in 6 years, and take a vacation in Windows
land.
None of this is to say that I'm through with Linux and open source as
music making solutions --- far from it. And I'm certainly *not* trying
to encourage any body to follow my lead. In fact, I hope people get
pissed reading this and double their development efforts :-) It's just
that, right now, rolling proprietary sounds more appealing than rolling
open.
This email is way, way longer than I intended it to be, and for that I
apologize. Remember that I'm not looking to stir up any hostilities, I
just want to hear where people stand on The Issues and get a sense of
the community. I predict that there are people here on a moral mission,
and there are people here because they get a chubby out of openness and
collaborative development and such. But I don't think I'm going to see
anybody who's primary interest is making music --- although I'd love to
be proved wrong, and I certainly think that things will be different in
the future as the tools get better.
So let's hear it!
WHAT is your NAME?
WHAT is your QUEST?
WHAT is your FAVORITE ALBUM?
--
Pete Bessman
http://gazuga.net
"So this baby seal walks into a club."