Software over the rainbow

For those of you who don’t know, L.A.’s dublab.com is simply the best radio station of the internets.

I still remember that glorious day that my brother told me “hey you must come and see that!, I’ve discovered a radio station and they’re playing Sun ra’s ‘Space is the Place’. Full length!!” (gracias nono). That was like 5 or 6 years ago, and in this time my debt for them has only grown. I’ve discovered there tons of my favorite musicians…

So I thought that you could go there, tune in to the stream or download some podcasts, fall in love with their music and donate some money to support their expenses, could you?

Zach Lieberman will be presenting (talking and performing) his work tomorrow at the University Pompeu Fabra. He will be talking, among other things, about openframeworks, his “open-source library to help other artists produce works through coding.” in c++, which I’m totally in love with.

Details:
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ink & c++ for dinner
a performance and talk by zach lieberman
Friday 15th, 6pm

Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Auditori Edifici França

Estació de França
Passeig de Circumval·lació, 8
08003 Barcelona
Bus: 14, 39, 51
Metro: L4 (Barceloneta)

Map

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See you there!

After the recent workshop by joan soler-adillon in hangar, we’ve known of two more forthcoming workshops:

• on October the 16th, 19th, 23th, 26th, 30th and November the 2nd, gerald kogler will teach one at the centro cívico Golferichs of barcelona. + info
• on October the 24th, 25th and 26th, federico joselevich will give another one in Granollers, at La Fàbrica de les Arts. + info

I don’t remember how I arrived at sonenvir, a

research project that investigates applying sonification in a number of scientific disciplines, in order to develop a general sonification software environment.

but after seeing Psycollider , I’m really glad I did.

Psycollider is a windows port of the popular Supercollider real time audio synthesis programming language. As far as I know, it used to be only for the mac. Then there was a Linux version and someone was working on a Windows one, but this port seemed too outdated and inactive for me to bother trying it.

Yesterday, when I found it with a nice installer and simple instructions, I couldn’t resist installing it, and after figuring out a couple of oddities, I’ve been able to make some noise…

More on this to come soon, I guess.

Gerald Kogler ha traducido el clásico Processing Tutorial for Macromedia Minds de Josh Nimoy al castellano. Tal y como su nombre indica, si vienes de entornos como flash o director es de lo mejorcito para hacerte con la herramienta. Igualmente, dado que es un tutorial de iniciación, es una buena lectura para los que quieran dar el salto:

Tutorial de Processing para Mentes Macromedia.

Agradable sorpresa del siempre agradablemente sorprendente keith peters:

Brevity:

Brevity is a new language, based around ActionScript 3.0. It provides a very simple syntax to create ActionScript 3 based SWFs. Think “Processing for Flash”. In fact, Brevity is very much inspired by Processing

El concepto es exacto al de processing: Conforme el actionscript 3.0 se va conviertiendo en un lenguaje de programadores de verdad, se vuelve más difícil de aprender para los que no tienen ninguna idea, así que brevity pretende devolver al flash una sintaxis simple para aprender o hacer prototipos o experimentos rápidos.

Otro proyecto interesante de pedagogía y programación (y van…). Veamos como se desarrolla.

Más info.

Via brendandawes, quien también nos prepara una sorpresa pronto.