Here is a quick overview:

1. The symposium will begin with a keynote address by James McCartney and a presentation on the forthcoming SuperCollider Book by a panel drawn from the collective of editors and authors of the book.
2. Proposals for conference talks, workshops performances, and installations have a deadline of January 30 and will be accepted on-line via link on the supercollider.wesleyan.edu page.
3. Preconference workshops will be hosted by Harvestworks in NYC. Proposals for pre-conference workshops should be sent as soon as possible to Harvestworks. Put “Supercollider Workshop” in the subject heading and email to hanst@harvestworks.org
4. Discounted hotel rooms ($110 a night) will be available from The Inn at Middletown. (The hotel is a short walk from campus and close to a variety of restaurants and bars. Rooms have two queen-size beds and can be shared.)

Ron Kuivila

We’ll build a device that will represent changing network connectivity as audio. Several of the core concepts important to the free audio language SuperCollider will be explained as the device is being put together. You can see the result here.

Requirements for participation:

1. A laptop with wifi capability and headphone output
2. Headphones
3. Download SuperCollider. Follow the instructions contained in the download to install it
4. Check that your install works correctly by running the ‘hello world’ examples here 

No previous experience with audio programming is necessary, but some familiarity with scripting or programming in general will help you get the most out of the project. Ideally you should be familiar with the following terms: variable, function, array, class and instance.

I run SuperCollider on OS X. If you use Linux or windows it should be possible for you to follow the project, but it’s advisable that you work through some platform-specific tutorials beforehand to ensure you have a good understanding of the basics of navigating SuperCollider on your OS.

The workshop will take place as part of a group of interesting live acts, installations and workshops on Saturday 20th December at De Fabriek in Rotterdam. NB. The exact time of the workshop is not yet known and will be published nearer the 20th.

There are 15 places available. If you’d like to participate, please email your name to info@defabriek.nu with “Registration for SuperCollider workshop” as your subject line.

LiveCoding : « personnes réparties, distribution des données »
Séance de travaux pratiques : Just in time programming music in networks
Intervenants : Julian Rohrhuber, Alberto de Campo

http://forumnet.ircam.fr/713.html?&L=0&event=742
(not free of charge unfortunately)

• More info (in Spanish)

location: Listaháskólanum í Laugarnesi, Reykjavik (I believe that stands for the Iclandic Academy of Fine Arts)
Sat Nov 08, 10.00-13.00
Sun Nov 09, 10.00-13.00

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in October in Palma de Mallorca during the festival “ping!08″

21. - 23.10.2008, 17 - 21h   (3×4 hrs)

location: Estudi UBIK, C/Tomàs Forteza, 11, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares / Spain

fee: 60 Euro

more information
pingfestival@gmail.com

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in November in Hamburg as part of the CAMPUS program during the festival ”Hamburger Klangwerktage 08″

Tuesday, 25.11.2008, 16 - 18h
Thursday, 27.11.2008, 10 - 13:30h  (2 + 3.5 hrs)

location: Kampnagel Hamburg, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, Germany

free entrance

More information

http://sf.net/projects/scgraph

more info…
http://tapas.affenbande.org/wordpress/?page_id=76

SuperCollider is an audio programming language which is known for its beautiful sound and special functions to produce algorithmic musical events.
It will be a practical and hands-on workshop focusing on quickly getting familiar with the SuperCollider environment and how to code small but very noisy programs.

Also examples of sc works will be shown by sc users.

And after the workshop we’re planning to have dinner together with Fredrik.

* Basically, this workshop is only for students of a school but a few people may join us if you’d like. Please mail to : tn8[a]supercollider.jp before, because of security things.

Brief interpretation will be given, please feel free to join us if you’re interested in.

Sat. July 5 14:00 - 17:00
at IAMAS (Gifu, Japan)
BRING your laptop and headphones
* please install SuperCollider 3.2 before. download from :
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads

Presentations
　umbrella_process “SC and Networking”… Introduce his loop sequence which can be controlled by multiple players via UDP/IP network and a performance piece with Wii remote controller.
　otophilia “Amusing Toy box”… Introduce unique ways to use supercollider.
　tn8 … some music examples works with SC.

best wishes & hope to see you soon,
tn8

4 days 6hrs/day spanning 2 weekends:
May 24 & 25 13-19h
June 7 & 8 13-19h

with Andre Bartetzki
www.bartetzki.de/en/sc_kita08.html

location:
K:ITA - Kunstprojekt: International Temporary Art Weidenweg 44-46 / Bersarinplatz,
10249 Berlin Friedrichshain
http://www.k-ita.de/?page_id=3
http://www.k-ita.de/?page_id=7

The workshop languages are English and German.
The number of participants is limited to 15.

The workshop fee is 100 Euros, to be payed at the beginning.

Please reserve your place by sending an email to hat...@drfz.de until May 18.

contact and further information:
hat...@drfz.de (Farah Hatam, K:ITA)
and...@bartetzki.de

Description of course topics:

SuperCollider for Beginners

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It has a large and growing library of sound synthesis modules and supports structural concepts in composition as well as new approaches to musical design like live coding.
The architecture of SuperCollider is optimized for working in real time and for networking with other softwares and machines via Open Sound Control.

SC3 is free and open source, runs under OSX, Linux and Windows.
Binaries as well as sources of SC3 can be downloaded from http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

The participants must bring their own computers with SC installed.
The main platform for the course will be OSX.
In general, Linux or Windows will work as well but you have to install SC by yourself in advance!
In order to run SC under Linux you need to configure emacs as an editor and to install SwingOSC as GUI for SC.
For Windows you need Psycollider and SwingOSC as GUI.

Topics
- basic concepts of SC3:
server (scsynth) and client (sclang),
synths and synthdefs (patches)
nodes and busses
- modules for synthesis und processing of audio signals:
unit generators (oscillators, noise, filters, delays …),
buffers and sampling
envelopes, triggers, control signals
FFT
- language basics:
objects and messages, classes and methods
functions, arguments and variables
operators
collections (arrays, lists, dictionaries …) and list processing
control structures (if, while, do, switch …)
- generation and organisation of events and sounds:
scheduler and tasks
streams and patterns
scores
recording und non-real-time recording
- synthesis and audio processing examples:
additive synthesis
granular synthesis
delay-based effects
multichannel and spatialization techniques
analysis and intermodulation techniques
presentation of projects and realizations
- control and networking:
Open Sound Control and remote servers
MIDI and HI devices
- other topics:
GUI overview
live coding
extensions

http://concours.afim-asso.org/2008

Congratulations Thor.
ixiQuarks is best installed via SuperCollider’s packet managing system Quarks.

If you don’t know SuperCollider, it’s a powerful audio programming language for generative and interactive music, with full realtime sound synthesis facilities (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/)

Both beginners and more advanced students are welcome and will be catered for. The course will culminate in a public gig for participants at Public Life in Shoreditch on the Friday night.

The organisers are John Eacott and Nick Collins, who will also be the main tutors.

The course is being run at minimum costs on a basis of pay what-you-like (you pay once at the workshops). In order to avoid time wasting, a minimum of £10 is required, and a £20 course fee is suggested as a basis for students, benefits etc (pay more if you can). However, bear in mind how much other workshops of this nature tend to cost, and you’ll get an idea of how we’re going out of the way to make this as non-commercial a venture as possible. The tutors are accepting no fee apart from travel expenses, and any excess will go to subsidising the Friday night performance opportunity, and if we go beyond that, to a dementia charity.

The maximum number of participants we can take is 30. Please email John Eacott off list in order to register (john atsymbol informal dot org). Note also that the organisers are not responsible for finding London accommodation for international participants; travel and lodging would have to be dealt with by you.

best wishes,
John and Nick

Calendar:

March 8th 2PM: Switch-from-Max! … (and other patch cable based systems)

Forthcoming matter:

Pinhole and Kirlian photography, radio telescopy, data forensics, scientific visualisation toolkits, hardware RNG, EVP, PD and HID, scrying boards and KiCad design

… contact if you’re interested in leading a related workshop.

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March 8th 2PM: Switch-from-Max! … (and other patch cable based systems)

A one-day workshop focusing on the free software SuperCollider and why programming with syntax can be both easier and far superior to the graphical ditto (aka. patching). It is unfortunate that code or syntax often scares artists and musicians at first sight. We will try to cure this fear by showing fairly simple examples of how SuperCollider can be used to produce music and sound much more dynamically than using the static and deceitfully easy patching paradigm. More particularly we will do granular synthesis, randomly generated synthesis networks and networked music - all the things that are a real pain to do in systems like Max/MSP.

Intermediate level - knowledge of basic computer music concepts like filters and envelopes is required, knowledge of some patching system (Max/PD) is a plus.

–What to bring:

1) Laptop running Linux, OS X or Windows

2) SuperCollider 3 installed (version 3.2 recommended): http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

3) Headphones

4) 10 Euros participation fee

–About the Teacher:

Fredrik Olofsson, aka. redFrik, is a musician and developer who also sometimes performs tricks with visuals and electronics.
http://www.fredrikolofsson.com
http://www.klippav.org
http://www.musicalfieldsforever.com

—_______

Background:

Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free software and GNU toolbase.

Practitioners have included Martin Kuentz (p...@scrying.org), Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell, , jo FRGMNT grys(http://tob.de.vu/)

xxxxx, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl.
U8, Rosenthaler Pl.

Telephone: 3050187482.

http://1010.co.uk/workshop.html

http://1010.co.uk/xxxxx_research_institute.html

http://pickledfeet.com

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/

A workshop on distributed stochastic composition and synthesis

Sergio Luque, Julian Rohrhuber

When

Thu 28 Feb 2008
14:30 - 17:30

Location

Klanglabor, Filzengraben 8-10 (No. 3 on the KHM map)

Description

New ways to bring back the noise into the telephone line. Instead of separating signal and noise, we will try to devise new and beautiful uncertainties, reconstruct respected old noise sources and play with the intractable. This workshop will be an experimental laboratory for finding and exchanging stochastic algorithms that run on each other’s computers in the local network. We will give a brief introduction to the programming language SuperCollider, and continue into networked live coding of noise music. Please bring a laptop.

From Nick’s announcement email:

Many thanks to all who have helped with this process, and in particular I’d like to single out Josh Parmenter for his dedicated work at getting the final builds sorted out.

The devs are happy to announce the official SC3.2:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

best,
Nick

Mac bundle and source-code downloads are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

The “release candidate” means that the developers consider it appropriate for general release, so we’re putting it out for general use and testing. If no important problems are revealed then this will be the official 3.2 release, the release on which the forthcoming book will be based.

The changelog, showing what’s new, can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/29s6eg

Mac bundle and source-code downloads are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622

The “release candidate” means that the developers consider it appropriate for general release, so we’re putting it out for general use and testing. If no important problems are revealed then this will be the official 3.2 release, the release on which the forthcoming book will be based.

The changelog, showing what’s new, can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/28nx7b