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pure data

Pure Data ? December 14 ?18 ?250.00

Course Tutors:

Derek Holzer was born in USA and now lives in the Netherlands. He is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. He was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in Hungary (Pararadio) and Czech Republic (Radio Jeleni). Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment, as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.
Aymeric Mansoux is a French digital artist and author of pure-data tutorials and articles for MusicRun. He is also co-founder of Goto10, an organization dedicated to set up and produce electronic live events.

Expensive off-the-shelf software rarely caters for the specific needs of artists who wish to work with realtime interactive environments. Increasingly artists are beginning to explore the world of free, open source software. Pure Data is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. Pd was created at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) to explore treating data in a more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video.
Whether you want to create site specific installations, interactive graphics or set yourself up as a VJ, it is easy to extend Pd by writing externals or patches. Indeed, the work of many developers is already available as part of the standard Pd packages and the Pd developer community is growing rapidly. Recent developments include a system of abstractions for building performance environments; a library of objects for physical modeling; and a library of objects for generating and processing video in realtime.
Pd is free software and can be downloaded either as an OS-specific package, source package, or directly from CVS. Pd was written to be multi-platform and therefore is quite portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new PC.
Lighthouse (in collaboration with Beta) is very fortunate in being able to offer an intensive short course that will take you through all that you need to conquer your fears of working with a programming language. The course will assume no prior knowledge of programming and cover a range of applications, including some installation clinics to help you set up your own computers if you want to bring them in.
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