[spectre] Piksel07 :: OPEN WORKSHOPS

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Piksel 07 Workshops
Teknikerkroen, Bergen, Norway
15 - 18 November
11:00 -15:00

Creative Coding, Hard- & Software workshops at Piksel 07.
All workshops are free to attend, but with a limited number of seats.
To participate, please send a mail to: piksel07 at bek.no
http://www.piksel.no/piksel07

Thursday november 15th

CATkit :: build your own 1-bit synth from scratch (day1)
by Tom Schouten, Marloes de Valk and Aymeric Mansoux

This is the latest evolution of what was drafted a year ago and shown at 
piksel06. We have designed a PCB, selected some components, and designed a 
complete standalone 1-bit synth that can be programmed interactively via a 
computer running GNU/Linux, connected to the kit using a TTL-232R cable.
* A laptop with GNU/Linux and MzScheme installed, or a PC laptop if you want 
to use pure:dyne. The laptop needs to have a free USB port.
* 250 NOK / 30 EUR to take home the board (not including TTL-232R cable)
  http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/CATkit
   

Friday november 16th

CATkit :: build your own 1-bit synth from scratch (day2)
by Tom Schouten, Marloes de Valk and Aymeric Mansoux

In the two day workshop we will do the following
 * solder the components to the CATkit board
 * get familiar with some basic Purrr (Forth) commands
 * incrementally create a custum 1-bit synth controller Purrr program
At the end of the workshop, the development cable is disconnected, and you go 
home with a little battery operated toy synth.
Please note that the focus of the workshop is on programming, not electronics. 
However, the Purrr language is very easy to learn, despite it being quite 
lowlevel. A little bit of programming experience might help though. The Purrr 
programming toolchain is based on MzScheme, and we urge you to install it 
before the workshop starts, or use the pure:dyne distribution provided.
  http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/CATkit
  http://purrr.goto10.org/
  http://catkit.goto10.org/
   

Building tangible interfaces with Reactivision 
by Martin Kaltenbrunner and Ross Bencina

ReacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for 
the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical 
objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking. It was mainly designed 
as a toolkit for the rapid development of table-based tangible user 
interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces.
ReacTIVision is a standalone application, which communicates via the Open 
Sound Control based TUIO protocol, which was specially designed for 
transmitting the state of tangible objects and multi-touch control on a table 
surface. The framework includes a set of free example client projects for 
various programming environments, such as Processing, Pure Data, 
SuperCollider, Java, C# and C++, which serve as the basis for the easy 
development of tangible user interface applications.
This framework has been developed at the Music Technology Group at the 
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain as part of the the reacTable 
project, a novel electronic music instrument with a tangible user interface, 
which recently made the headlines for being selected by Icelandic singer 
Björk as a key instrument of her Volta world tour. 
Since its publication as open-source software, reacTIVision has been adopted 
by many researchers and artists for the creation of their own interactive 
table installations and instruments. 
  http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/
   

Saturday november 17th

Open video editing 
by Richard Spindler

This workshop is centered around the Open Movie Editor 
(http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net/), and will go through a complete 
movie making workflow, from recording and grabbing media, to editing, and 
distribution through DVD and Internet.
What to bring:
1. A laptop with the GNU/Linux Operating System installed. Additional 
Software: Open Movie Editor, dvgrab, dvdstyler, ffmpeg, etc.
2. Optional: Camcorder, DigiCam with Movie Mode, Other kinds of Cameras
  http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/OpenVideoEditing
   

Sunday november 18th

TOB - Transmitting Object Behaviors
by Jo frgmnt Grys and Seamus O'Donnell

Experimental setup: Mini FM of transmitters and radioreceivers are positioned 
in a space, so that varied relations arise between the broadcasting and 
reception devices. Different distances of the apparatuses to each other 
generate interference between transmitters and receivers. The Transmitters 
are fed with sound material coming from selfmade complex chaotic oscillators 
as well as from available radioprograms on air.
In a soldering workshop and/or presentation i would like to show how easy 
these circuits are built from basic digital chips, now crossing the border 
from predictable to chaotic pattern production.
  http://tob.de.vu

Arduino + PureData = VJ !
by Marcos Yarza and Carlos López

Arduino, the preferred open-source physical computing platform that is 
revolutionizing the interactive arts, and PureData, the preferred open-source 
visual programming software, meets up to create an amazing set of tools for 
VJ's. Pure Data (PD) is a real-time graphical programming environment for 
audio, video, and graphical processing. It is one of the most flexible tools 
available for creators working with real-time media. PD runs on Linux, OSX 
and Windows.This presentation/workshop introduces participants in hardware 
creation, and visual programming software as PD to run visual live acts as vj 
or video artist do...
The aim of the workshop is to learn how to create your own physical interface 
to manipulate videos in real time using PD
   http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/ArduinoPureDataVJ

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Piksel07 - 15.-18. nov 2007
www.piksel.no/piksel07
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