Hi all.
On Wednesday the 7th of March the monthly Berlin meeting is taking place at c-
base. I'll as usual be in the mainhall from 20:00.
See you there! :-)
Cheers
/Daniel
FFADO version 2.4.1 is now available, a package of userspace drivers for
firewire audio interfaces. This is a bugfix release with many of the
changes associated with the use of python3 and distribution packaging.
This is a source-only release which can be downloaded from the ffado.org
website at
http://ffado.org
or via the direct link:
http://ffado.org/files/libffado-2.4.1.tgz
Issues addressed in this release include:
* Fix some python syntax which was not compatible with python3. These
were missed during the preparation of FFADO 2.4.0.
* Modify the SCons build system to allow for scons running under python3.
As of this release there seem to be a number of issues in scons itself
when running under python3, so building FFADO in this environment is not
yet guaranteed.
* Merge distribution patches provided by package maintainers.
* Address some difficulties experienced by package maintainers when
compiling FFADO.
* Improve the output of ffado-diag.
Thanks to the developers and users who contributed to this release: Nicolas
Bouleng, Benoit Delcour, David Kastrup, Hector Martin, Orcan Ogetbil, Dave
Plater, David Runge, Jano Svitok and Jonathan Woithe. If an omission has
been made please contact us through the ffado-devel mailing list so this can
be corrected.
[Apologies for cross posting, please circulate widely.]
*New submission deadline: March 26, 2018*
1st International Faust Conference - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
(Germany), July 17-18, 2018
The International Faust Conference (IFC-18: http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de)
will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg University
<http://www.uni-mainz.de/> of Mainz (Germany) on July 17-18, 2018. It aims
at gathering developers and users of the Faust programming language
<http://faust.grame.fr/> to present current projects and discuss future
directions for Faust and its community.
Participants will be able to share their work through paper presentations.
A series of round tables on various topics will serve as a platform to
brainstorm on Faust's features, semantics, tools, applications, etc. to
determine future directions for this language. Open spaces for demos and
workshops will be available for participants to openly share their ongoing
projects with the rest of the community.
As a special event, the winner of GRAME's Faust Open-Source Software
Competition will be announced during IFC-18.
IFC-18 is free and everyone is welcome to attend!
*Call for Papers*
We welcome submissions from academic, professional, independent
programmers, artists, etc. We solicit original papers centered around the Faust
programming language <http://faust.grame.fr/> in the following categories:
- Original research
- Technology tutorial
- Artistic project report (e.g., installation, composition, etc.)
Paper should be up to 14 pages in length, non anonymous, and formatted
according to this template
<http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de/misc/IFC-18-templates.zip>. *Submissions
should be carried out via our EasyChair portal
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifc18>*.
All submissions are subject to peer review. Acceptance may be conditional
upon changes being made to the paper as directed by reviewers.
Accepted papers will be published on-line as well as in the IFC-18
proceedings paper version. They will be presented by their author(s) at
IFC-18 as 15 minutes presentations (+ 5 minutes for questions).
Feel free to contact us if you have any question.
*Important Dates*
- Papers submission deadline: March 26, 2018 March 2, 2018
- Notification of Acceptance: May 5, 2018 May 1, 2018
- Camera-Ready Version: June 1, 2018
*Call for Round Table Topics*
A series of round tables on the following themes will take place both
afternoons of IFC-18:
- Faust Tools (e.g., Architectures, IDE, Faust Code Generator, On-Line
Services, etc.)
- DSP in Faust and Faust Libraries (e.g., New Algorithms, New Libraries,
Missing Functions, etc.)
- Faust Compiler and Semantics
- Other Topics/Open Session
We solicit topic suggestions from the Faust community for each of these
themes. Topics can be submitted by means of this Google form
<https://goo.gl/forms/0fBYxk28jlRdtqRM2>. They will be introduced during
the round tables by the session chair.
*Contact*
Please, address your questions to: ifc18(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
Conference website: http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de
--
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
Email: aggraef(a)gmail.com
WWW: https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef
Dear all,
We just enabled all mail services for linuxaudio.org again. All mailing
lists are working again and mail can be sent and received for the
linuxaudio.org domain.
A short recap of what happened is that linuxaudio.org got compromised on
January 29th, probably with a compromised private SSH key or password
from an account with shell access. The attacker checked the kernel, saw
that it was vulnerable to Dirty COW¹, pulled in an exploit and got root.
This was quickly discovered by the IT department of Virginia Tech
University that disconnected the server from the internet and started a
forensic investigation procedure. As part of their IT security policy
the server had to be reinstalled and everything had to be set up from
scratch again. In the meanwhile I built an alternative setup and after
some discussion we agreed on moving linuxaudio.org away from the
Virginia Tech server.
So linuxaudio.org got a new home after 15 years at Virginia Tech². We're
very, very thankful that we could host linuxaudio.org on their servers
and we can't stress enough how grateful we are for all the work that has
been done on the side of Virginia Tech after the hack.
linuxaudio.org now lives at Fuga³, a fully open source OpenStack⁴ cloud
based in The Netherlands. Fuga is part of Cyso⁵, the company I work for.
The linuxaudio.org ecosystem now consists of three separate servers, a
web server, a mail server and a storage server. We rebuilt everything
with portability and scalability in mind with a strong focus on
security. You can never prevent passwords or SSH keys getting into the
hands of hackers but we'll try to keep the servers as up to date as we
can to narrow down the attack surface as much as possible.
A big thank you to all those who helped out! It was quite a ride but it
seems as if most part of the linuxaudio.org ecosystem is accessible
again. If you find any web pages, downloads or other bits and parts that
don't work properly then please let us know so we can take a look at it.
Many thanks in advance and also many thanks for bearing with us!
Best,
Jeremy Jongepier
root(a)linuxaudio.org
¹ https://dirtycow.ninja/
² https://icat.vt.edu/
³ https://fuga.cloud/
⁴ https://www.openstack.org/
⁴ https://cyso.com/en/
[Apologies for cross-postings] [Please distribute]
LAC 2018: 2nd Call for Papers / Works
Conference date: 7th - 10th June 2018
The Linux Audio Conference 2018 will be hosted at c-base, Berlin -
in partnership with the Electronic Music Studio (TU Berlin) and
Spektrum:
https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The deadline for all submissions has been extended:
March 15th, 2018 (23:59 UTC)
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Submissions may include:
- Papers
- Posters
- Workshops
- Music Performances
- Multimedia Installations
For more details see the CFP on the website:
https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018/pages/cfp/
Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!
The Linux Audio Conference 2018 team
Not really sure the subgraph is so good -- one of the things JACK gives us
is the extremely solid knowledge of what it just did, is doing now, and
will do next period. If I run Pulse with JACK, it's JACK controlling the
hardware and Pulse feeding into it, not the other way around, because Pulse
is not tightly synchronized, whereas JACK is. But if you can make it work
as well, more power to you.
Concerning seeking and timing, though, I have had to wonder. My impression
of JACK for a long time (and more learned ladies and gentlemen, please
correct) is that it uses a basically round-robin approach to its clients,
with variation. I have had to wonder, especially given my need for this
<https://github.com/ponderworthy/MultiJACK>, how practical a model might be
possible, using preemptive multitasking or even Ethernet-style collision
avoidance through entropic data, at current CPU speeds. It's chopped into
frames, right? Couldn't audio and MIDI data be mapped into networking
frames and then thrown around using the kernel networking stack? The
timestamps are there...the connectivity is there...have to do interesting
translations... :-) Could be done at the IP level or even lower I would
think. The lower you go, the more power you get, because you're closer to
the kernel at every step.
--
*Jonathan E. Brickman jeb(a)ponderworthy.com
<http://login.jsp/?at=02e47df3-a9af-4cd9-b951-1a06d255b48f&mailto=jeb@ponder…>
(785)233-9977*
*Hear us at http://ponderworthy.com <http://ponderworthy.com> -- CDs and
MP3s now available! <http://ponderworthy.com/ad-astra/ad-astra.html>*
*Music of compassion; fire, and life!!!*
Call for Applications:
Workshop-in-Exposition: Thresholds of the Algorithmic
Bergen (NO), June 2018.
**Reminder and extended deadline: 23 February 2018**
(sorry for x-posting -- please distribute)
Algorithms have been used in music and sound art even before the
emergence of “computer music” in the 1950s, but today we witness an
entire new wave of interest, reflected in festivals, genres,
publications and research projects. It is the very notion of algorithms
that is shifting. They are no longer an abstract formalisation, but
emerge from artistic praxis and experimentation and become entangled in it.
Almat and BEK are happy to announce a call for participation in a
workshop-in-exposition taking place in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This
will be a part of BEK and Notam’s ongoing series of workshops for
advanced users. It is a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an
exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form the basis
of the workshop’s activity. Instead of “closed works”, what is exposed
to the general public are objects, sounds or installations that are open
to engagement and reconfiguration during the workshop.
Algorithms that Matter (Almat) is an artistic research project funded by
the Austrian Science Fund FWF, PEEK AR 403-GBL, and based at the
Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) in Graz, Austria.
BEK and Notam are centers for innovation and use of technology in music
and the arts in Norway. Both Notam and BEK have a strong focus on
education, and strive to establish new goals and provide new impulses
for current music technologists and artists.
- https://almat.iem.at
- http://www.bek.no
- http://www.notam02.no
- Full text of the call:
https://almat.iem.at/assets/downloads/almat-bek_call2018.pdf
- Application form:
https://almat.iem.at/assets/downloads/almat-bek_form2018.pdf
## Theme and Format
Thresholds are locations of transitions, points where one modality
becomes another, where a qualitative change occurs. In physics the point
where an aggregate state changes—the phase transition—is a distinguished
transitional location were the properties of the adjacent states become
evident. Similarly, in this workshop-in-exposition we want to study the
properties of the algorithmic by putting ourselves in threshold
positions and actively shape them. More than merely separating two
sides, one can spend time on a threshold, move along a ridge, performing
a tightrope walk while trying not to fall to either side.
Situated within the Almat artistic research project, this event aims at
bringing together practitioners and researchers in the field of digital
art, sound art and computational aesthetics. The hybrid format of
workshop-in-exposition puts on display works of the participants
pertaining to the theme, and at the same time avails them for
interrogation, discussion and reconfiguration during the week long workshop.
The full call embeds a list of three different ‘thresholds’ from which
the applicants should point out a specific one, that they recognise as
being addressed by their own artistic work. This will act both as a
point for further exploration during the workshop and as a bridge
towards audience perception.
## Application
Please read carefully the call and fill out the form provided at
https://almat.iem.at/call2018.html and send it to almat(a)iem.at along
with the required accompanying documents.
We aim at a balance of gender and background of the applicants.
Conditions:
- Duration of exhibition: from 08 June to 17 June 2018
- Start date (in situ): 04 June 2018
(preparation and set up from 04 June to 08 June 2018)
- End date: 17 June 2018
- Applicants must be present during the workshop.
- Workshop fee must be paid by confirmed participants (see form)
**Application deadline: 23 February 2018** (e-mail reception, 24:00 CET)
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at
almat(a)iem.at.
---
iem.at | kug.ac.at | bek.no | notam02.no | fwf.ac.at
I need to connect ALSA MIDI programmatically, and will prefer to use
Python. I perused a number of libraries, did not find an obvious great
or best. Recommends?
--
Jonathan E. Brickman jeb(a)ponderworthy.com (785)233-9977
Hear us at http://ponderworthy.comcom -- CDs and MP3 now available!
Music of compassion; fire, and life!!!