[PD] PdWeekend Rampup Roundtable Brainstorming with Miller and Friends Nov 15 at UCSD
swoop. 2:30P(30m) What's new in Pd 0.43 +Sneak_Peek of Sunday CrashSpace Patching Circle Miller Puckette 3:00P(30m) Pdl2Ork + Saturday workshop Sneak_Peek Ico Bukvic At L2Ork we seek to explore new and exciting opportunities that arise from combining the quintessential form of collaboration with centuries of tradition found in the Western orchestra, with affordable and versatile contemporary technology, in this case laptops. Since laptops, unlike traditional instruments can take on many different roles, we believe that there is no single ultimate way to implement a laptop orchestra and we see this as its greatest potential. 3:30P(30m) Reflection and Recap Miller and All After a few minutes of topics whiteboarding Miller will lead a discussion the day's loose ends and promising further directions -- as well as his takeaway impressions recap: insights and/or conundrums gleaned from all the presenters and discussions. Confirmed On-Site Participants (partial list) *Braun Hans-Werner Braun hwb at ucsd dot edu **BukvicIvica Ico Bukvic ico at vt dot edu Daniels Michelle Daniels michelledaniels at ucsd dot edu Deken Joe Deken joe_deken at newblankets dot org *+Haefeli Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail dot com Kraan Fred Jan Kraanfjkraan at xs4all dot nl MengChristopher Meng empmeng at gmail dot com **+Puckette Miller Puckette msp at ucsd dot edu *SeldessZachary Seldess zseldess at eng dot ucsd.edu Trowbridge Theron Trowbridge theron dot trowbridge at gmail.com *Vania Rustomji H Vania gvania at siu dot edu **+Vetter Katja Vetter katjavetter at gmail dot com **WilkesJonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo dot com Video Participants (logistics-in-progress) BrooksJulian Brooks mail at julianbrooks dot net Farnell Andy Farnellpadawan12 at obiwannabe dot co.uk Guillot Pierre Guillot guillotpierre6 at gmail dot com McCormick Chris McCormick chris at mccormick dot cx OliverJaime E Oliver jaime dot oliver2 at gmail.com ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] New Blankets names Jonathan Wilkes Artist in Transit Fellow + *PdWeekend* in California November
New Blankets Inc. is a non-profit Foundation dedicated to the the
re-invention of the Free Community Public Library in the realms of new
media. Specifically New Blankets develops the dimensions _of_
-- free/open communities
-- _circulation_ and _sharing_ mechanisms
-- technology innovations
which together weave and support new benevolent cultural communities.
New Blankets is pleased to announce today the recognition of Jonathan
Wilkes as our latest Artist in Transit Fellow.
. New Blankets has provided Jonathan with an initial honorarium of
$500 to support his work.
. In addition to the initial honorarium support, New Blankets has
also launched a 1 : 1 matching mini-fundraiser during the
coming month (October 14 - November 14, 2013), to further support
Jonathan and the Artist-in-Transit Fellowship:
1) That is, any contributions to New Blankets during Oct 14 - Nov 14
which you kindly care to make and designate for Artist in Transit
will be matched 1 for 1 by New Blankets -- up to a $500 matching
limit.
2) At the end of the one month mini-fundraiser, the total sum
(your contributions + NB matching amount) will be presented to
Jonathan at *PdWeekend* -- to be held Nov 15-17, 2013 with Miller
Puckette Friends in San Diego and Los Angeles CA.
***
If you would like to make a contribution -- small or large -- to the
New Blankets Artist-in-Transit fundraiser, please send e-mail ASAP to
New Blankets, using the special fundraiser address :
wilkes_...@newblankets.org
When we hear from you, we will arrange a convenient way for you to
send your check or electronic payment to New Blankets, by whichever of
several available methods may be most convenient for you.)
***
** PdWeekend**
If you would like to participate in PdWeekend with us in
California on Nov 15-17, you are cordially invited and most
welcome!
Kindly RSVP yes and let us know your plans to participate
with us in San Diego (Nov 15) or Los Angeles (Nov 16-17)
by sending e-mail ASAP to:
pdweek...@newblankets.org
We will then send you a confirming e-mail immediately,
and we will keep you advised as our *PdWeekend* plans
and the details of events move forward, from now until
November 15.
The *PdWeekend* events are quite informal, but they also
will include four structured workshops on Saturday Nov 16
-- in co-operation with CrashSpace LA:
* Miller Puckette: Pd+Raspberry Pi
* Katja Vetter: DIY Live Sampling Microphone-Build
Slice//Jockey
* Ico Bukvic: Laptop Orchestrating with your Friends
* Jonathan Wilkes: Your Computer, Your Creativity
** Registration is required each of the above workshops **
You may wish to peruse our (very much in-progress) plans
for *PdWeekend* and the stellar list of participants --
including Miller, Jonathan the other workshop presenters
above -- at:
http://newblankets.org/nov15.html
** Join us in CA in November! Invite your friends, too! **
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[PD] netiquette (and the phenomenology of learning Pd)
If you are interested about how people learn Pd it is informative to peruse the video of Miller's introductory course for undergraduates at UCSD, possibly also the written transcript of the course and all the patches which Miller developed and used in presenting his lectures * http://pd-la.info/pd-media/miller-puckette-mus171-videos/ * http://newblankets.org/MUS171_supplements/MUS171_objects_used.pdf * http://newblankets.org/Miller/MUS_171_patches.zip Apropos the thread of the subject: line here -- One thing that struck me was the repeated number of times that the question of scaling appears Miller's lectures, and how long it takes (at least for a portion of the audience) until the algebra/mechanics of the scaling formula become at all familiar, or feel natural to these students, if ever. It seems to me that many people have been mis-educated in mathematics, and have an uphill battle to incorporate any formula into their thinking -- even if the formula has only a few steps and just a few variables involved. To watch Miller's lectures and know/appreciate this fact about simple formulas seems worthwhile knowledge about Puredata and about math/science education in general. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Technical Agenda invitation: Geeks Peek warmup for Dec 7 Pd+RPi Box Lunch at SDSC
This is an open invitation for people in the Pd community who have interest in the potential of Pd+Raspberry_Pi . (Others can pass by now in serenity hopefully.) On December 7 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center there will be a Pd+RaspberryPi Box Lunch event. This is the second in what will likely be a national (international) series introducing all sorts and ages of people, and their friends and families, to Pd (and to computing sung large) via the Raspberry Pi. It seems impossible to talk about Pd except to talk about the Pd community and involve that community as well. On Thu December 6, as a warmup to the Box Lunch next day, we will be having a Geeks Peek event targeted to those who will be developing hardware and software for the Pd_RPi environment. I believe that the attendees will include Miller, Gi Vania, SDSC illuminati and so on. So what? 1) You are cordially invited to submit technical items and issues for Pd_RPi that you yourself are working on and/or which you feel deserve the attention of those geek-likes who have the talent to make progress in these sorts of technical areas. (I would not restrict your imagination, but I'll just say that cheap homemade mics, samizdat video, or GPIO free-for-all are things that would not be off topic.) If you think in terms of what would make PdRPi into a universal crayons-set, rather than as your beloved art museum or BMW, you're on the right track. If you believe as I do that it isn't possible to understand Pd without understanding the Pd community, you're on the wavelength. Send your items to me directly if you like and/or send ideas to pd-list if no one seems to be complaining. In any case, there will be a web page built up before Dec 6 where this do it yourself geeks agenda is collected and presented. 2) I cannot guarantee, but we have tested ustream from random venues, and I would hope there would at least be a bit of discussion corner created on December 6 and 7 where folks from Pd-land could drop in virtually, catch a bit of conversation and/or leave a comment etc. via ustream. No guarantees on ustream connectivity quite yet, though, for either Thu or Fri events. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Updated Resources for Miller's Intro Videos
All 20 of the Miller Puckette's Intro to Computer Music ... video transcripts are now updated, with accurate time-codes more suitable for translation and/or use as subtitles augmenting the Intro videos. The formats of the transcripts available are: -- .txt : English original text, with 15sec time-codes embedded -- .doc: Table format with time-codes duplicated, for interlinear(synched) translation -- .html Table format with time-codes duplicated, for interlinear(synched) translation Also: 2) These English versions, the best edited available for now, are at: http://newblankets.org/MUS171_supplements/MUS171_transcripts/ 3) Added now to the URL are some very rough translation *examples* of complete lectures: Russian (1,10), Spanish(10), French(10) and German(10). These are machine/automatic translations with pervasive, systemic mistakes, but they are certainly intelligible. So they may useful, on a temporary basis, or as editable starting-points for real, human translators to work with. (Time-codes are preserved as well in these rough translations.)If there is interest, some of the rough translation sets could be filled out, at least some languages, to completely to cover all 20 lectures. 4) It would be worth knowing if there are other languages where people would find these sorts of resources helpful and/or if additional rough- translations in other languages should be added to the page. helpful. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Translator's/Subtitlers resources at http://newblankets.org/MUS171_supplements/MUS171_transcripts/
.txt : English only, with 15s time-codes embedded .doc: Table format with timecodes duplicated, for interlinear(synched) translation .html Table format with timecodes duplicated, for interlinear(synched) translation You will note that only Lectures 1,2,3 are all tidied up this way so far. The remaining lectures (4-20) will be completed ASAP and made available at this same location. Also it appears to be true that the sweep to make .doc and .html files keeps uncovering errors in the original transcrips. So we fix as we go and the files at http://newblankets.org/MUS171_supplements/MUS171_transcripts/ will be kept updates as always latest best effort. Joe ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Pi Puredata Patches Petting Zoo for November 9 Pd+RPi Box Lunch
Anyone who is running Pd on a Raspberry Pi is cordially invited to send us an interesting (and not too huge) patch that will encourage and inspire the participants on Nov 9 when they see Pd running your patch on their own RPi -- at the event or when they take their own RPi home. More info at newblankets.org/ complete Nov 9 info/flyer at newblankets.org/rpi_lunch_poster.pdf All patches safe and tasteful for all ages welcome. No royalties, no prizes. Just Free/Open fun and boosting Pd. We're planning to put the donated patches into an examples folder on the 8GB card that will be distributed to participants at the event (and which already includes Miller's system-image that has Raspbian + Pd, his MUS171 Intro ... course materials (all transcripts, all patches, and 1 video lecture) and some other goodies to fill out the the RPi-box at the Nov 9 the Box Lunch. (Ideally your patch will run also via ssh with X-forwarding eg. on a connected laptop display.) Thanks! Joe Deken ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Copies of Miller's Pd+Raspbian system-image (Oct 7, 2012) available
There are now copies of the RPi system-image that Miller made for last Sunday's workshop available for download. This system image has Puredata installed and has the latest updates to Raspbian etc. The image also includes some bonus items such as a .pdf of Miller's _Theory and Techniques ... _ book, a .pdf reader and a video player and a sample video lecture (Lecture 2) from Miller's MUS171 Intro to Computer Music /Pd course. If you make a SD card with this image, your RPi will boot up at a fixed IP address (192.168.1.2) for convenience using ssh to connect. The login/password is username: pi password: 3.14159 There are two locations for downloading the image. Both locations should have good bandwidth, but the files are large (7+ GiB uncompressed and 2+ GiB compressed). At both sites you'll find the full image and a couple of flavors of compressed image: 1) https://cloud.sdsc.edu/v1/AUTH_rpwagner/Data/raspberrypi/ (Although 0 byte is shown for the full image it's actually 7.4GiB.) 2) http://pd-la.info/pdpi/ ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Satchmo Awards (small-scale Pd+RPi SuitSup equipment awards)
The first Satch-Suitsup Awards (4 X Raspberry Pi kits with Miller's RPi system image as a starting point) have been sent out on their merry way, and the first four teams are busily out there now doing their individual/connected things: 01: Gi Vania and SIU team 02: Theron Trowbridge and CrashSpace LA team 03: Phil Stone (UC Davis) 04: Rick Wagner and SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center) team (Of course the Satchmo Awards include an original honorary Satchmo 00 that went to Miller ... but msp has an extremely large team, and a pretty full schedule of other interests, so he gets his own list.) == NOMINATIONS/APPLICATIONS STILL WELCOME New Blankets is still keen to make a few additional Satchmo Awards to additional interested/qualified Pd folks. NB would particularly like to include some RPi SuitSup hackers who are associated with patching circles -- and in that regard it would be great to have some SuitSup patching-circle activity in other countries outside the U.S. where Pd activity is flourishing. There is now also a rudimentary mailing list for questions, (and for sharing SuitSup Pd patches, tips and SuitSup hardware tricks) available at: suit...@newblankets.org === ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Resources (transcripts, indexes) for Miller's MUS171 intro lectures
The current transcripts of Miller's 20 videos may be obtained at: http://newblankets.org/MUS171_supplements/MUS171_transcripts/ Also possibly useful are indexes to the Pd objects that Miller covers in these lectures (Pd-objects indexed by-object and by-lecture): http://newblankets.org/MUS171_supplements/indexes.html (An older transcript version, a single text file with all lectures is at: http://pd-la.info/media/MUS171/Miller_MUS171_transcript.txt ) Many people have expressed interest in helping with multilingual versions of the transcripts and/or multilingual subtitles for the videos. That work is proceeding and volunteers are welcome. We're working on a simple, lightweight crowdsourcing approach where anyone who watches a video can potentially help out (translating, timing and/or review-editing). ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Satchmo Awards forthcoming (Nominations/Proposals welcome)
New Blankets built its first Suitcase Supercomputer in 2008. SuitSup I was based on 25 Sony PSPs and a backstage co-ordinator PS/3 running YellowDog linux (and a bit of thrashing into Pd now and then). The New Blankets SuitSup has been on display around the country, at an Architecture conference in Italy and in the Harlem public schools for the last two years. Subsequent SuitSup forays by New Blankets have involved -Sylvania Meso tablet, -Personal-media-player -Android tablet components. New Blankets was incorporated in California as a public benefit non-profit 501(c)(3) in 2008. Miller Puckette has been on our board since New Blankets was first hatched. Satchmo Awards: - In addition to full-on Suitcase Supercomputers, New Blankets has always maintained a Satchmo gambit as well. (Explanation: Small suitcase = satchel; Satchmo one of the most inspiring musicians we know of.) Our Satchmo SuitSup is a 4-element test version of the SuitSup concept -- small enough to be affordable, but since Satchmo includes multiple units, it is still possible to design and test interaction-capabilities. (A backstage conductor processor may be used, or not. Some ensembles have conductors, some don't.) Based on Miller's generous initiative and effort with RPi, New Blankets will be giving a number of Satchmo Awards soon. These will consist of 4 RPi processor kits (= 4x RPi, power supply, 8GB SD card with Miller's Pd config). If you would like to suggest someone to receive a Satchmo Award we'd like to hear from you. The nominee should send us a brief description of what they'd try to do with 4xRPi You can nominate yourself; no need for false or genuine modesty to impede. There isn't any proprietariness or secrecy (or too much organization) with our Satchmo Awards experiment to Pd-list -- You can copy Pd list on any communications you like, or not, or whatever you like. If New Blankets continues get good ideas for Satchmo proposed, we'll continue to give out Awards -- until our RPi supply (or our money) runs out. Right now we have 30 RPi complete kits in preparation for a Pd/RPi workshop that Miller will be giving at CrashSpace LA on Oct 7 . We're anticipating that some, but not all, of our initial 30 units will be gobbled-up in that outing. Hit it, Satch! Joe Deken, New Blankets ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Reminder: Please join in pd_LAunch in LA (April 25 - May 1)
This is just a reminder of the pd_LAunch events in San Diego and (mostly) in Los Angeles for the week of April 25 - May, to launch a new patching-circle in LA. Current info can be found at: http://puredata.info/community/LAPatchingCircle http://pd-la.info/pd-launch-schedule/ http://pd-la.info/ If you're in the vicinity, hope to see you sometime that week! ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] pd_LAunch: A Week of exhibits/workshops/performance events in LA April 25 -30
== During the week of April 25-30 in Los Angeles, CrashSpace LA and New Blankets Inc will be hosting pd_LAunch -- a gala-grassroots festival of events to celebrate the launch of a puredata/Max patching circle in LA. This new LA patching circle will be hosted by CrashSpace LA. == We will be providing regular updates about pd_LAunch on pd list and elsewhere -- many arrangements are still in-progress. But please spread the word to those you know who may be interested -- whether they live in LA and may become patching-circle regulars -- or if they live anywhere in the world and just want to be part of the pd_LAunch launch-fest. The main purpose of this preliminary/early announcement is to help you in making travel plans, etc. if you need to. We especially welcome members of other patching circles (from other cities, other countries) to join us in LA and share your experience and inspiration. At the moment, we have set up an an e-mail address: lau...@pd-la.info where you can express your interest, support, plans-to-attend and other helpful ideas. Because the physical facilities at CrashSpace are fairly small and other venues are still being negotiated, it's VERY IMPORTANT that you RSVP yes right away if you plan to join us April 25 - 30 in LA.(Kindly make your RSVP via the email address: lau...@pd-la.info) We request that you also use the launch e-mail address especially to express interest in topics for workshops and/or demonstrations that you would be interested in attending. (See suggestions below.) Or you can use the e-mail to ask particular questions, to request travel and lodging advice and assistance etc.) All pd_LAunch events will be free and open to everyone, as much as space and facilities permit. For some events that will be limited by space, we will be providing some signup lists -- details forthcoming. We would also request that when you RSVP yes you would consider making a contribution to secure some of the spaces and amenities we will need. A suggested contribution is $50 USD. We welcome your contribution to this effort, with money or ideas or other help, even if you cannot get to LA in person. We can all support the new patching-circle there. (Money contributions, of whatever amount, should be made to New Blankets Inc. which is a U.S. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization; so your contributions are tax deductible if/as those laws apply to you.) Some events and highlights already planned: - VIP guests: Miller Puckette, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Chris McCormick, Natacha Diehls ... more invitations are in the hopper as well. - Opening reception/build/video-slam at UCSD with Miller Puckette Monday April 25 (San Diego) - puredata gym-full Family Night at the Long Beach Boys and Girls Club Wednesday Apr 27 - panel discussion with Miller Puckette and puredata developers Saturday afternoon Apr 30 - concert/party/reception Music with Miller Puckette and Friends Saturday evening Apr 30 (Miller Puckette, Natacha Diehls, Chris McCormick and more ...) - workshops and demonstrations by Hans Steiner, Chris McCormick, Miller Puckette and others are being arranged ... These will be based on what the interest/registrations indicate and depending on what spaces/venues in LA can be arranged. (Some spaces larger than the CrashSpace location may be required.) - A goody bag and other items available for pd_LAunch sponsors/RSVP'rs/contributors to include a 20-lecture puredata video course by Miller Puckette, pd_LAunch souvenirs made on the CrashSpace Makerbots, live-USB sticks ready to boot-up and run Linux/pd on any computer etc etc. - Store-front music a transformation of the street-front of CrashSpace into an interactive puredata experience, following up on the CrashSpace smash-hit effort for VIMBY. (Get your patch out on the street ...) Mark your calendars. Plan to join us in LA. All your efforts to help start a successful patching circle in LA are welcome. Let us know if we can help with travel, lodging or other arrangements if you are coming to LA from afar. Workshops/demos being planned (Please suggest others if you like; all involve pd/Max patching): - pd for beginners tutorials - homemade-computer instruments petting zoo at the Boys and Girls Club - GEM and interactive graphics - WebPd -- pd with your web browser - android -- pd on your phone/handheld - motion-interfacing with the Kinect 3D camera - arduino/pduino for real-world interaction and robotics
