Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Ingo
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: pd-list-boun...@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-boun...@iem.at] Im Auftrag von martin brinkmann Gesendet: Montag, 20. Juni 2011 22:12 An: pd-list@iem.at Betreff: Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED On 06/20/2011 01:43 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote: Ingo, thanks

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:05:01 +0200 Ingo i...@miamiwave.com wrote: BTW these take years of practicing! Its an important point IMO. One cannot invent a new instrument or style without becoming proficient. You have to stand as an example to what is possible and it takes a long time. Many

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Ingo
Sorry Marco, but I can see that you have never played jazz! Marco, Unfortunately not Ingo. Would love to. I play regularly electroacoustic free improv.  So perphaps we are talking a different language? Definitely! Could you elaborate your answer? If I'm missing something about the

Re: [PD] Cannot compile Gem on Linux (Ubuntu)

2011-06-21 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-06-20 22:01, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: Any idea? you might want to get the SVN-version of 0.92 [1], which has all these bugs fixed. this SVN branch is really only a bug-fixing branch, so it is quite safe to use it (rather than the

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Ingo
Marco's disappointment is understandable (sorry if I misinterpret this Marco). When I watched Top of the pops as a teenager, like many kids of that age I was outraged that the performers mimed. Sometimes you could see their instruments were just props. It is amazing that even most poeple in

Re: [PD] kinect external

2011-06-21 Thread Budi Prakosa
i think ftgl and libfreetype should be removed from the binary On 6/21/11, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-06-20 23:53, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Ah, yes, I have fink installed and use it for Pd builds. I included FTGL

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread J bz
I think it's a shame that in this day and age we are still promoting the concept of high and low culture and so protective of peoples narrow definition of what Pd is and for. I do a fair amount of improv with Pd and it's a hell of a simpler gig playing to 18 chin-scratching middle class people

[PD] loading patches much faster with -realtime

2011-06-21 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Hi, I've found out that Pd takes a lot longer to load big patches when run without the -realtime option (or if you prefer, it is a lot faster in loading patches if run with the -realtime option). A lot means an order of magnitude and a half. This is on Linux. Does this happen on Mac too? I

[PD] image doesn't work after clearing big patch

2011-06-21 Thread Mirko Maier
hi list, i have a patch window with a (big) image, using günther geigers image external (win xp), and with some data structures. using the clear message for the window a couple of times and then reloading the image (between 10 and 25 times of clearing and reloading), it doesn't load anymore.

Re: [PD] loading patches much faster with -realtime

2011-06-21 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-06-21 11:43, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: I guess this is because realtime gives it a higher overall priority, but I wouldn't expect this to affect the loading of patches, would you? I no, i wouldn't have guessed that either. don't know if

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Marco Donnarumma
glad the provocation went through. You also used that word when posting an unrelated url on LinkedIn today. Seems to be a mood that you are in. sorry Mathieu, don't know what you are talking about. I even checked my Linkedin and there's no provocation in there. You might be confused with

Re: [PD] Pd-list Digest, Vol 75, Issue 66

2011-06-21 Thread Marco Donnarumma
In TED performance we see how interfaces would be used to interpret electronic music, unfortunately the player doesn't seem to have a lot of culture in electronic music, but maybe someone else with a lot more experience and knowledge would show a performance like great improvisators we know,

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Marco Donnarumma
I think the problem is really a simpler one. It applies to all kinds of technological music. It is the understanding that the audience has of the performance. [snip] It's great how you explain simple problems.. thanks :) -- Marco Donnarumma Independent New Media and Sonic Arts

Re: [PD] Pd-list Digest, Vol 75, Issue 67

2011-06-21 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Well, I really don't know why there is a reason fort he audience to know what is going on. They do not need to know. They want to know. The performer and audience seek an emotional relationship. Maybe Kraftwerk have already answered this, but if at the end of the TED performance they

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Marco Donnarumma
What I have seen on your videos is very good and interesting but has absolutely nothing to do with jazz - obviously! Obviously not, I believe the two thing to be not even comparable because deeply different in terms of creative outcome and perspective. When playing jazz [snip] In case

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Ingo
Onyx, I really appreciate you chiming in here! I just happened to read your blog after I wrote what I've described to the pd-list what you are doing with your controller. Luckily I was 100% right. I have been thinking about a controller very similar to your's since several years. I know exactly

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Greg Schroeder
I dare someone to show me something more entertaining than that built around pure data and pduino. Greg On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Ingo i...@miamiwave.com wrote: Onyx, I really appreciate you chiming in here! I just happened to read your blog after I wrote what I've described to the

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Onyx Ashanti
I figured that I would chime in at this point. Every single note you hear, is being played, as in one at a time, as a horn player does, into a looper which I use to layer everything very quickly into an arrangement then deconstruct and reconstruct on a musically relevant trajectory. There was

[PD] Arduino : multiple boards? Wireless?

2011-06-21 Thread Pierre Massat
Hey List, (I've been looking at what Onyx does with his BeatJazz. This annoyingly cool and exciting.) One simple question about arduino : can I use more than one board on the same computer? If I can, is there any drawback (slower speed, etc.)? Another question : do you think that using a

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread J bz
Tee hee Welcome to the list Onyx, and well done for cracking open yet another super-juicy can'o'worms for the list to chew on. Props, Jb On 21 June 2011 13:10, Onyx Ashanti onyxasha...@gmail.com wrote: I figured that I would chime in at this point. Every single note you hear, is being

Re: [PD] [GEM-dev] Gemwin help patch

2011-06-21 Thread Benjamin ~ 01xy
nice update, thks a few suggestions : in the exemple section basic create, +turn on renderering +turn off rendering, destroy window in [pd more window properties] + [border $1 border 0/1 create a window with/out borders + [create remotehost:8.0 when using X-windows, you can also create a

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Marco Donnarumma wrote: It's not about having cables or not, it's about claiming to have discovered the future. quote from his video read we MAKE the future. Ah, well, when you were complaining about the cables, you see, I thought you were talking about the cables. It

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, J bz wrote: Welcome to the list Onyx, and well done for cracking open yet another super-juicy can'o'worms for the list to chew on. Worms are quite nourishing : they are a tremendous source of proteins.

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Andy Farnell wrote: Marco's disappointment is understandable (sorry if I misinterpret this Marco). When I watched Top of the pops as a teenager, like many kids of that age I was outraged that the performers mimed. Sometimes you could see their instruments were just props.

[PD] pix_film ignoring alpha channel on Mac OS

2011-06-21 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Hi, On Mac OS, pix_film seems to ignore the alpha channel of videos encoded with the Apple Animation codec. It works fine on Linux (same patch, same video files), but on Mac OS transparent pixels are displayed as opaque black. I have already sent [pix_film] the colorspace RGBA message. Is

[PD] SORRY forget about it Re: pix_film ignoring alpha channel on Mac OS

2011-06-21 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
On 06/21/2011 03:16 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: I have already sent [pix_film] the colorspace RGBA message. No I hadn't :$:$:$:$ sorry for the noise ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread hard off
welcome to the list onyx, i liked your performance, and commend you for getting exposure for it. my only question is, how annoying must it be to get asked to play Throw Ya Guns at every gig ;) ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread João Pais
Worms are quite nourishing : they are a tremendous source of proteins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSjPdhK2z5g ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, J bz wrote: I think it's a shame that in this day and age we are still promoting the concept of high and low culture and so protective of peoples narrow definition of what Pd is and for. Reminds me of the idea that a social problem can't be solved by technological

Re: [PD] pix_film ignoring alpha channel on Mac OS

2011-06-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: On Mac OS, pix_film seems to ignore the alpha channel of videos encoded with the Apple Animation codec. It works fine on Linux (same patch, same video files), but on Mac OS transparent pixels are displayed as opaque black. I have already sent

Re: [PD] image doesn't work after clearing big patch

2011-06-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Mirko Maier wrote: i have a patch window with a (big) image, using günther geigers image external (win xp), and with some data structures. using the clear message for the window a couple of times and then reloading the image (between 10 and 25 times of clearing and

[PD] advices needed to track dancer (kinect, osceleton, tuio, pidip)

2011-06-21 Thread manecante
hi, i need to track a dancer to project and map videos on him (one of the video is a human body on a black background). I am trying the kinect at the moment thinking first that it would be the easiest solution because it has the infrared camera and no need of infrared light. So, I have made a

Re: [PD] advices needed to track dancer (kinect, osceleton, tuio, pidip)

2011-06-21 Thread Pagano, Patrick
Perhaps look at the pix_/pdp opencv libraries, they might help you more pp On 6/21/11 10:28 AM, manecante maneca...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i need to track a dancer to project and map videos on him (one of the video is a human body on a black background). I am trying the kinect at the moment

Re: [PD] image doesn't work after clearing big patch

2011-06-21 Thread tim vets
2011/6/21 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Mirko Maier wrote: i have a patch window with a (big) image, using günther geigers image external (win xp), and with some data structures. using the clear message for the window a couple of times and then reloading the image

[PD] pix_image and pix_film : Unable to find files after two hours

2011-06-21 Thread david lemarechal
Hi list, I have a serious issue with a patch that loads and displays images and films sequentially in a loop of about 5 min. Everything works fine, but after two hours, we got blank screen and Pd says : [pix_image] : Unable to find file ... The path displayed is always the correct one, so the

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
LOL KLF. period. enuff said!. I don't think you're in danger of going OT, the authenticity thing is right at the heart of this worm feast isn't it? If Onyx Ashanti's showed up to make a good defence of performance authenticity, there's actually a danger of constructive debate :) We laugh at

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:16:22 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: That's why, conceptually, my favourite two performances are XTC's Making Plans for Nigel, in which they made a point of hitting a gong that doesn't sound like one, IIRC there was a similar thing with Vince

Re: [PD] advices needed to track dancer (kinect, osceleton, tuio, pidip)

2011-06-21 Thread olm-e
hi, i need to track a dancer to project and map videos on him (one of the video is a human body on a black background). I am trying the kinect at the moment thinking first that it would be the easiest solution because it has the infrared camera and no need of infrared light. So, I have

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Jean-Marie Adrien
Hi list A link that might contribute, somehow, to the debate http://www.jeanmarie-adrien.net/documentaire-inter.htm cheers JmA Le 21 juin 11 à 17:33, Andy Farnell a écrit : On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:16:22 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: That's why, conceptually, my

Re: [PD] Re : pix_image and pix_film : Unable to find files after two hours

2011-06-21 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-06-21 17:36, david lemarechal wrote: Is this a bug of pix_image ? Is there a limit of opened files somewhere ? How can I avoid that ? it's a bug in Pd, that has been fixed with 0.43 unfortunately, Gem will also have to adapt to the fix

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
To loosely echo my favourite cowboy philosopher Rick Roderick: If you have an ideology the people most dangerous are those close to you with similar ideas, because they might hold you to your own values. ( it's a great gift to those in the business of divide and conquer that minor differences

Re: [PD] Arduino : multiple boards? Wireless?

2011-06-21 Thread Pierre Massat
Awesome. Thanks Hans! P 2011/6/21 Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at Multiple arduinos is no problem. I suppose they would start to slow each other down if you had like 10+, but for 3 I don't think its an issue. If you want low jitter, reliable connection, go with wireless. .hc On

Re: [PD] Arduino : multiple boards? Wireless?

2011-06-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Multiple arduinos is no problem. I suppose they would start to slow each other down if you had like 10+, but for 3 I don't think its an issue. If you want low jitter, reliable connection, go with wireless. .hc On Jun 21, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Pierre Massat wrote: Hey List, (I've been

Re: [PD] kinect external

2011-06-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I just fixed the linking. Budi, its pretty easy to do, if you use Fink for libfreenect and libusb, then I can give you a script with makes the /Library/pd/fux_kinect package. Its the same as the one for readanysf~ .hc On Jun 21, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Budi Prakosa wrote: i think ftgl and

Re: [PD] pix_film ignoring alpha channel on Mac OS

2011-06-21 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
On 06/21/2011 03:58 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: I think I recall that you can get it with GridFlow, Never mind, it was my fault, I wasn't setting the colorspace correctly. Since in linux it worked (because the colorspace is already RGBA by default) I assumed the patch was OK and didn't

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Charles Henry
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.cawrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: --- On Sun, 6/19/11, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: What's a « technological parody » ? It's where you take something like a modern digital computer and do

Re: [PD] Re : pix_image and pix_film : Unable to find files after two hours

2011-06-21 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Oh my god that's bad news... How many files is the limit? Do text files opened with [textfiles] also count? On 06/21/2011 06:43 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-06-21 17:36, david lemarechal wrote: Is this a bug of pix_image ? Is there a

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:08:48 -0500 Charles Henry czhe...@gmail.com wrote: 2. an unwarranted degree of specialization or wasteful usage of hardware Anybody else got one? Chuck Kind of. How about a computer marketed as a intuitive people's communication tool that took me 35 festering

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Ingo
As Ingo said in a PM to me (sorry my bad on the cc Ingo), Ooops! That wasn't ment to be a private mail. I thought I had it sent to the pd-list, also. I guess I pushed the wrong button! Sorry! Ingo ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:29:55 +0200 Jean-Marie Adrien j...@jeanmarie-adrien.net wrote: Hi list A link that might contribute, somehow, to the debate http://www.jeanmarie-adrien.net/documentaire-inter.htm cheers Thanks for sharing this. I loved the starting remarks on connecting,

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:10:00 +0200 Onyx Ashanti onyxasha...@gmail.com wrote: If that sounds like it is hard to do, you're right. How long did you practice with that arrangement of controllers Onyx? Did you become human cyborg unit six of seven, tertiary adjunct of unimatrix twelve-O-five?

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:15:12 +1000 Richie Cyngler glitch...@gmail.com wrote: We could look at TED as a kind of media iceberg. The ideas showcased may often be interesting but the substance of their presentation is often lacking, Seems a fair and insightful point. TED is populist. The

[PD] Re : pix_image and pix_film : Unable to find files after two hours

2011-06-21 Thread david lemarechal
Hi, The limit seems to be 1024. However I think I fixed the problem using [pix_buffer] for all the image I need to load a lot of times. Thanks. David De : Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistise...@gmail.com À : pd-list@iem.at Envoyé le : Mardi 21 Juin 2011

Re: [PD] CVs

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:15:01 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: Is it bleeding or is that just something said from the perspective of innocence, as if in a previous world, logic would have been complete ? If a complete and consistent self-referential logic system is

Re: [PD] Re : pix_image and pix_film : Unable to find files after two hours

2011-06-21 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/2011 07:11 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: Oh my god that's bad news... How many files is the limit? dunno, probably depends on your system Do text files opened with [textfiles] also count? no. the problem is, that pd and an external

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Charles Henry
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Charles Henry czhe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.cawrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: --- On Sun, 6/19/11, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: What's a « technological parody »

[PD] [PD-announce] Gangplank workshop on Saturday 25th at les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (F)

2011-06-21 Thread Oli44
Hello, Gangplank is a nomadic workshop involving independant/freelance European artists and technicians from the dance/theatre/performing arts scene, sharing a common interest for the shift happening in dramaturgy due to the rise of digital tools, removal of hierarchy, free culture as well as

[PD] PPA for libpd?

2011-06-21 Thread august
Has someone already made a PPA for libpd? If not, I might have a go. -august. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED

2011-06-21 Thread Pedro Oliveira
I think it is super nice that Onyx joined the list and explained himself his device. Still in the subject of performance authenticity and validation of performance... and also about audience/performer... Onyx, do you think that perhaps all these questions that were raised about what exactly you

Re: [PD] Arduino : multiple boards? Wireless?

2011-06-21 Thread Tyler Leavitt
Sorry to make you repeat yourself if it wasn't a typo Hans, but did you say if you want low jitter, reliable connection, go with wireless? This sounds counter-intuitive to me and I'm interested in the answer Thanks, Tyler On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Pierre Massat pimas...@gmail.com

Re: [PD] PPA for libpd?

2011-06-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I haven't seen one, I say go! .hc On Jun 21, 2011, at 6:26 PM, august wrote: Has someone already made a PPA for libpd? If not, I might have a go. -august. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] Arduino : multiple boards? Wireless?

2011-06-21 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Ha, yes, thanks for catching that. go with WIRES! :-D .hc On Jun 21, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Tyler Leavitt wrote: Sorry to make you repeat yourself if it wasn't a typo Hans, but did you say if you want low jitter, reliable connection, go with wireless? This sounds counter-intuitive to me and

Re: [PD] PPA for libpd?

2011-06-21 Thread august
Is there a version number for libpd? I see you guys have added a pd.pc in http://gitorious.org/~aalex/pdlib/aalexs-libpd should I use pdlib git repo or aalexs repo? I haven't seen one, I say go! .hc On Jun 21, 2011, at 6:26 PM, august wrote: Has someone already made a PPA

Re: [PD] kinect external

2011-06-21 Thread Budi Prakosa
could you send me the script? thanks On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote: I just fixed the linking.  Budi, its pretty easy to do, if you use Fink for libfreenect and libusb, then I can give you a script with makes the /Library/pd/fux_kinect package.