Software over the rainbow

This was going to be a blog post about how sometimes I discover a new music scene that I have no clue about and get into hunter mode, looking for more about the context, label, whatever in a glutton, semi-intoxicated state, and how this week this has happened with emeralds, and the not-new-york-not-california usa experimental music scene, which release mostly on tape and cdr, and how a couple of months ago it was experimental turntablism, via dj sniff, steim, erikm, paul bell, james kelly and the itchy muzik forum which extended my rather traditional philip jeck/christian marclay culture in that area.

But it ended being a linkless, 5 minute post because it was getting long, and was going to get lost as always, and the only thing that I really wanted was an excuse to plug a concert by erikm & ferran fages next week (wednesday 4th, 21:00) at cccb (bcn). organised by l’ull cec, a collective that is arranging lots of concerts that I usually haven’t attended because I didn’t know the artists, but end up invariably regreting 2 or 3 months later when I discover them.

Not this time.

An openFrameworks workgroup has started this week at Hangar. Every thursday until March, the wise Arturo will be there helping you with any doubt that you have. From 19 to 21 pm. +info

The equally talented Chris Sugrue will be doing the same in Madrid’s Medialab. Every friday from 19 to 21pm. +info

Last, and this has been going on for some months now, the incombustible Alba Corral has created an increasingly active spanish speaking processing community, with forum, wiki and more cool projects on the way.

Edit: I almost forget that there is also an introductory workshop to computer sound synthesis taught (with chuck) by Eduard Aylon. In a couple of weeks also in hangar.

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!

Charming, brilliant, crazy, amazing…

Almost like this, you get the idea. If you have a chance of seeing him, don’t say that i didn’t tell you.

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

So yesterday I gave a talk about my experience with processing at the begining processing workshop which is being held at Hangar by Joan Soler.

First part was about my reasons for learning-using-loving processing and how I’ve managed to use it in a commercial context. Then I went into a tutorial explaining the ascii video sketch. Finally i improvised an explanation of a del.icio.us information visualization project I had done at a previous workshop, which i think turned to be the most interesting thing for the audience.

It was my first experience as a speaker and although i don’t think it went too bad, the ascii tutorial didn’t work as I expected. Going too deep into code details doesn’t seem to be approppriate for a one hour session. Lesson learned.

Anyway, here are the slides (in spanish only) and the source files for the ascii tutorial.

Thanks very much to Joan for inviting me and to all the assistants for not leaving the room.

Otro taller interesante que llevarnos a la boca aquí en Barcelona. Me ha ayudado a que se me pase el disgusto por no vivir en la capital (tenía una pinta…).

Creo que sobran las presentaciones, así que…

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EXTEND: Taller de Trabajo Avanzado sobre Processing
Impartido por Casey Reas, Ben Fry, Marius Watz y Zachary Lieberman

Barcelona, HANGAR 8 - 12 de Mayo.
Un proyecto de OFFF y HANGAR con ocasión de OFFF 2006

HANGAR y el festival OFFF anuncian en colaboración un taller de trabajo de una semana de duración alrededor de Processing en el que los inscritos colaborarán con algunos de los nombres más importantes de su comunidad de artistas en el desarrollo de proyectos propios. El taller será impartido por Ben Fry y Casey Reas , creadores de Processing, junto a Marius Watz y Zachary Lieberman .

A lo largo del taller se tocarán técnicas y áreas como: visión por ordenador, técnicas avanzadas de movimiento, visualización de datos, sensores y gráficos en 3D. Se pondrá además un especial énfasis en cómo aumentar las posibilidades de Processing a partir del desarrollo de librerías y herramientas adicionales.
Los participantes trabajarán en grupo o individualmente, en colaboración con los profesores, que les ayudarán a explorar sus ideas y desarrollar su proyecto.

El nivel del taller se determinará en función de las solicitudes recibidas, pero en ningún caso se tratará de un taller de iniciación. Los inscritos deberán tener un conocimiento previo de Processing y, si es posible, haber desarrollado algún proyecto en este entorno anteriormente.

El taller tendrá lugar todos los días entre el l unes 8 y el viernes 12 de mayo . El 13 de mayo se presentarán los resultados del taller en el Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona , como parte de las actividades del festival OFFF .

La fecha límite de recepción de solicitudes para participar en el workshop es el 21 de Abril . El precio del taller será de 50 Euros y el número máximo de participantes será de 20 personas.

Los interesados pueden enviar sus solicitudes de inscripción a: i nfo@hangar.org

Incluyendo:

* Una breve biografía personal y profesional.
* Información sobre su experiencia previa con Processing, y , en caso de haber desarrollado proyectos con la herramienta, enlaces a éstos.

OFFF
www.offf.ws

HANGAR
www.hangar.org

Processing
www.processing.org