[spectre] London Music Hackspace - DIY audio mixer workshop - Sunday, 8th of September 2013
DIY audio mixer workshop Sunday, 8th of September 2013 Join us at the new Hackspace Location for this DIY passive 3 channel audio mixer workshop with Kacper Ziemianin. You will learn how to make a simple but very useful passive audio mixer and at the end you will take home what you have built. All the components and housing are included in the price, unless you want to use a different box (cigar boxes are great!). Passive audio mixers don’t need power supply and are a useful extension to your standard mixer, so if you keep running out of inputs on your mixer this small device comes very handy. Here is a video of a similar device: https://vimeo.com/67142739 Based on this knowledge you can built multichannel audio mixers and matrices, mono and stereo with 3.5 mm jack inputs or 6mm jack inputs or combination of them. Some basic soldering skills would be useful but not essential, we will run a quick session on soldering. Fees: hackspace members: £40, non members £60 Register by sending mail to: worksh...@musichackspace.org DATE: Sunday 8th of September TIME: 2pm – 7pm (with an hour break) PLACE: London Hackspace, 447 Hackney Road, E2 9DY London About the workshop leader: https://vimeo.com/kacperziemianin __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] STEIM - Composing with Components, Scoring with Schematics, Sonifying Square Waves
WORKSHOP @ STEIM w/ Darsha Hewitt Composing with Components, Scoring with Schematics, Sonifying Square Waves 2-day workshop exploring approaches to composition through circuits and schematics - a really fun introduction to DIY electronics through sound. This rigorous hands-on workshop introduces the fundamentals of electronics through sound. Participants will learn to interpret electronic diagrams and build sound generating circuitry. Electronic components, hand-drawn schematics and audible oscillations will be used to compose, score and perform experimental electronic music. INCASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW… sometimes when you build circuits they don’t always work the first (or second or third) time you build them. This is a NORMAL and IMPORTANT part of the process! Sometimes a malfunctioning circuit can offer way more interesting results than what was originally intended. This workshop helps you develop solid troubleshooting techniques and shows you how to improvise with technical imperfections. You will draw schematic based scores – so be sure to bring pens, pencils, and a notebook! The workshop concludes with an informal public presentation were participants will build and improvise with live circuits, perform their compositions and show off their drawings. A prize will be given to the participant with the most fancy schematics. This workshop favours an intuitive approach to DIY electronics through free-form experimentation and pattern recognition as opposed to intensive theory based instruction and memorization. DETAILS DATE: 5-6 October, 2013 TIME: 12:00 – 16:00 (each day) LOCATION: STEIM Concert Space, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134 Amsterdam COST: €80 (includes €15 electronics kit + limited edition grid-paper music score sheets) This workshop is open to people of all backgrounds, but is best suited to beginners and intermediates. The art of drawing schematics as scores will play a big part in the workshop, so please bring pens, pencils, and a notebook. All electronics equipment will be provided by STEIM and all necessary components will be included in your kit. More info: http://steim.org/event/composing-with-components-scoring-with-schematics-sonifying-square-waves-darsha-hewitt/ -- Klangkunst Stipendiatin - HBK | Braunschweig (DE) | (05.01.13-01.11.13) Residency - STEIM Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music | Amsterdam (NL) | (09.29.13 - 10.12.13) MFA Candidate - Open Media | Concordia University - Montréal (QC) | (05.01.13) Représentation - Perte de Signal et CQAM | Québec (CAN) .·:*¨¨*:·.DARSHA.ORG.·:*¨¨*:·. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] The third pennant by Matthew Williamson at the WAG is out now!
Dear friends & colleagues, the third-penultimate pennant by Matthew Williamson (every week a new one!) for the Widget Art Gallery on IPhone, IPod touch and IPad, is OUT now! Form August 20th to September 20th, 2013 http://www.chiarapassa.it/upcoming.html About the WAG: The “WAG" is a mini 3-dimensional, single room gallery that fits into your pocket 'cause I've developed it for IPhone, IPod Touch and I Pad. Every month, directly on your mobile, The “WAG” hosts a solo digital art exhibition related to the dynamic site-specific contest. So, the Widget Art Gallery works both as a sort of kunsthall showing temporary exhibitions and as a permanent collections museum because conserves all the past exhibitions inside an online archive. For IPhone and IPod touch, just copy this url http://www.chiarapassa.it/wag/mobile/ in Safari and choose: “add to home” and the WAG's icon will be saved on your IPhone. Do the same for IPad but paste this other URL: http://www.chiarapassa.it/wagipad/mobile/, or download the widget version for Mac osx dashboard at: http://www.chiarapassa.it/TheWidgetArtGallery.html Past exhibitions at: http://the-widget-art-gallery.blogspot.com/ About the exhibition: Matthew Williamson: "New Pennants" Wandering down a narrow pathway you spy in the distance a banner fluttering lightly in the wind. As you get closer, you notice the message written on it "follow me for more soft grunge". Enjoy this set of pennants, specially made for WAG, featuring quotes from a variety of blogging community self- promotional tags. matthew-williamson.com Enjoy the show! Best regards, Chiara. -- Chiara Passa - multimedia artist chiarapa...@gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara_Passa (Ita) Find me also: http://www.chiarapassa.it/socialnetworks.html __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] reSource 006: Overflow - 12-14 September 2013
reSource 006: Overflow - 12-14 September 2013 Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Berlin Concert at Mindpirates e.V. ## Discussions, workshops & performances In the current development of digital culture we are experiencing a condition of overflow, where more information is being transmitted than machines can process, and humans can handle. The urgent pressure of issues such as ownership and privacy related to data overflow makes us wonder if producing more data means generating more control. The way complex data is going to be distributed and shared requires urgent analysis. Increasing information brings additional waste, which interferes with our physical resources. But this condition of overflow also represents the growing desire to be part of an extended connectivity that generates more opportunities of networking, communication and grassroots participation. How do we find conscious ways of activity/activism, both in the digital and the physical, without just becoming part of a system of abundant accumulation? This event highlights various strategies for rethinking our digital and physical spaces, and imagining a more sustainable and conscious online/offline presence by bringing together artists, activists and cultural producers active in Berlin and beyond. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. www.transmediale.de/resource ## Programme ## Thu, 12 September 16:00-19:00 # Open Debate: reSource Chats - Networking Berlin's transmedial culture # Screening and presentation of the video: "Art Account Deutsche Bank" (2013) By Carsten Lisecki A glimpse on the adverse economic environment, where the artists have to survive. On 5 April 2013, on the occasion of the opening of the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle in Berlin, artists were invited to bring an artwork to be exhibited in the new DB Gallery in Unter den Linden. Hundreds of artists queued for hours in the cold to have the “opportunity” to show their works. The video highlights the conditions of artistic production that lead to such desperate and politically uncomfortable choices, reflecting on the precarious role of the artist and the difficulty of acting collectively. # Conversations with independent cultural producers and curators. With: Christian de Lutz / Art Laboratory Berlin, Dr. Podinski / CiTiZEN KiNO, Ela Kagel / Supermarkt, John McKiernan, Kai Kreuzmüller and Daniel Franke / LEAP, Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri / Gegen, Erika Siekstelyte / Panke e.V., Allega Solitude / Liebig12. Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. This debate wants to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the condition of being trans-genre in the cultural landscape of Berlin, the hybrid character of activities that are mixing media, practices and languages, which often result in lack of political and cultural recognition and of sustainable funds. The discussion is based on the reSource Chats project, a creative montage of interviews with various culture producers and local spaces in Berlin curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. # Presentation: "Mapping the reSource network" By John Wild, Ph.D. Programme in Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary University of London. From May to September 2013 John Wild worked in collaboration with the reSource transmedial culture berlin, to map the reSource network of independent technology-based art and hacker spaces in the city. This presentation gives an overview of the project's outcomes: a functional Android Mobile Phone application with the aim of increasing the visibility of the independent art/hack spaces in Berlin, and sonic abstractions of the network. # Agents Recruiting for deadSwap // Numbers Station. By the Telekommunisten network. Activists. Whistleblowers. Spies. Covert action requires clandestine networks. Data hidden in public space. Seemingly random numbers spoken on the radio. What does it mean? There must be a system! How do you join the network? Can you be counted on? Are you committed? Do you have what it takes to join the network? Telekommunisten will be recruiting agents for deadSwap during reSource 006. deadSwap: a game of cloak and data. The edge of intelligence... 19:00-21:00 # Launch of the transmediale Magazine Introduced by Kristoffer Gansing. DJ-Set by Lukas Grundmann. Buffet & Drinks transmediale/magazine is a new format of transmediale, a magazine on art and digital culture which marks the continued presence of transmediale in the city and internationally beyond the festival itself. A highlight in the first issue is a montage of our ongoing “reSource chats” series of conversations that have focused on the changing conditions of cultural practices in the city. The magazine also features a new visual identity for transmediale and introduces afterglow as the theme of the 2014 festival. ## Fri, 13 September 13:00-16:00 # Workshop Leakage Current By Jamie Allen & David Gauthier (restricted to 12 participants) Part of "Critical Infrastructure: reSource/transmediale R
