{A.} Algorithmic Music and Animation - Chun Lee (TW/London)

• Intro : Pure Data, also named PD, is a real-time graphical programming environment especially focusing on sound, image and graphic processing. It is also an open source software mainly initiated by Miller Puckette who is also the developer of Max/MSP. PD and Max/MSP are very similar and usually are used in electronic music field. The difference is that PD can do image and audio processing simultaneously by using GEM extension. Besides, PD provides an experimental function of database definition and accessing. The main spirit of Pure Data programming is to treat the data in open-ended way. Therefore, the data can be processed into image or graphic, not only can be processed into sound or MIDI. The functions of Pure Data can be easily extended and the PD developer community is growing rapidly to let PD grow very soon. During the growing time, there are many artists use PD to create interactive work or electronic music.

• This module is going to explore algorithmic music/animation, using algorithm and its relevant knowledge to create medium, generative structure and variations, realtime modulation by controlling and interacting with parameters, data morph and exchange, etc. Aiming in process of experimentation to guide participant's motivation in order to understand digital art by using Pure Data. Encourage participant to demonstrate AudioVisual performance as form of expression.

• Module Language : Mandarin
• Tools : puredata (software)
• Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, extension power cable.
• Level of technical difficulties : ★★
• Required knowledge : ★★
  • basic understanding of graphical programming environment
  • Not afraid of math
  • please go to dl page >>
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{B.} Urban Invader - Keith Lam (HK)

• Intro : Year 2050, 70% of the world's population will be living in cities, the city has become a tremendous yet highly compressed substance of human life; physically, in space, action and contemplation, etc., city's life is a microcosm of the future of human life. This module entitled “City Invader” is an art form of guerrilla, teach participants how to invade city through a variety of electronic technology and mobile devices, create intrusion into the city, awaken people's awareness on resisting being swallowed by our mega-city, or highlight any individual/groups from uneven distribution of wealth of the city, justice and social issues.

• Module Language : Mandarin
• Tools : processing (software), webcam, pico-projector, GPS (hardware)
• Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, extension power cable, electronic or non-electronic gadgets or backpack to modify.
• Level of technical difficulties : ★★★
• Required knowledge : ★★
  • Like to be a city explorer, sensitive to public issues.
  • Experienced with some programming skills, like DIY mobile devices.
  • please go to dl page >>
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{C.} sound symbolism & audiobook - pei (TW/Basel)

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• Intro : Story-teller is the pre-ancestor of audiobook, it is the carrier of time-space transformation and the media itself. Later on, printing replaced the popularity of such important role of storyteller. When metropolitans became busier and busier in daily life, once again, with the helps of electronic medium, a story was to be listened by ear rather than read by eye. The content and narrative structure of audiobook is then created by a new generation of storyteller. Books, or literature in some cases were simply transformed to an audible speech that read out with a flat tone, of this new generation of storytell. The referential yet semantic conception of sounding constructed a layer of decipher. Give a sentence as example “Vast Ocean of lover's earnestly whispering...” Those words can be read plainly without expressive emotion, allow listener's imagination flying above and engaging with the story. “Vast Ocean” could be a floating sound of waves, “earnestly” tells the soft and eager voice that exchanged between lovers, “'whispering” is a tiny amount of volume firmly, “lover”; the sweetness. If description of each phrase above replaced by an acoustic symbol, each phrase would very much like a movement of piece of music, perhaps, the background jingo of radio drama, or even further, as receptor of listening's feedback, and not merely a rational semantic analysis of phrase or word, the consequences of chained up auditory memory and abstract sensory experiences, listener's personal experience may alter the story itself, of one's very own perception, such additional personal information however can detour from the initial spirit of the story. Both semantic and acoustic symbol has its signifier and signified that indispensable, a moment of soundscape teem with insightful and playful significations are worth of one's further investigation and recomposition. This module involved with listening, soundscape composition, culture of field recording and contemporary music, using four themes to listen to know sound symbols and its application, participator can try to compose audiobook other than early storyteller.

• 1. Acoustic Sign < > Acoustic Signifier
• 2. Acoustic Sign < > Acoustic Signified
• 3. The transformation from "Whatever" to "Nevermore"

• Module Language : Mandarin
• Tools : Audacity & plugin, PD (software) Audio Recorder & Microphone (hardware)
  • Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, extension power cable & pair of (ear)headphone
• Level of technical difficulties : ★
• Required knowledge : ★
  • One is willing to accept that music is not only the notation appeared on five-line staff, and music has its unreproducible quality and moment.
  • One should know the administrator password/login of their laptop
  • One should know how to install a new driver, application on their laptop
  • One should know where to open sound card setting
  • please go to dl page >>
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{D.} the internet of real things – Tobis Hoffmann (DE/Basel)

• Intro : If you ever wanted to know, how to control a 110V plug, send data over the local network and react to messages from the internet, this course is for you. The internet of real things is about connectivity. Connect your computer and control real things.

First day Introduction Installing Software Arduino / processing / pdextended Get something running at least First “Hello World” arduino / processing / pdextended Sending and receiving in the local network with PD twitter + processing + puredata	Second day Soldering relais and extension cables the tiny LM293 H-bridge (control a motor / Fan or Toy) hook up a relay – switch with pd switch by twitter messages receive data with pd from arduino send data with pd towards arduino Design a whole setup twitter is controlling a powerplug	Third day Play around have fun talk about your findings refine	Fourth day get things running play and refine find solutions talk about your solutions	Fiith day prepare the show relax and enjoy

• Module Language : English
• Tools : open sound control, networking protocol, PD, arduino API (software), arduino, wifi router (hardware)
• Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, extension power cable, recycled toy or electronic or non-electronic motro driven gadgets.
• Level of technical difficulties : ★★★
• Required knowledge : ★★
  • One should know which version of operating system is running on their laptop (Linux / Ubuntu and other FLOSS OS, mac osx 10.5 or earlier (32 bits), mac osx 10.6 (64 bits), or windows xp, vista, 7.
  • One should know the administrator password/login of their laptop
  • One should know how to install a new driver, application on their laptop
  • One should know where to open network setting, open/close firewall setting
  • One should know where to open video/sound card setting
  • please go to dl page >>
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{E.} lo-fi soundz & synths - Marc Dusseiller (CH/Zuerich)

• Introduction into DIY electronics, audio circuits, oscillators, amplifiers, filters and sequencers. learn how to solder, how to make your own little noisy electronic musical instrument, design your own interface and play with the raw sounds of self-made electronic sound generators.

• Module Language : English
  • Participant should bring along : laptop, extension power cable, wifi card & any other tools/stationary/building material/Arduino ...
• Tools : puredata (software), various of electronic parts/kits (hardware)
• Level of technical difficulties : ★
• Required knowledge : ★
  • Soldering gun is extremely hot, please be awared of where you placed it
  • better no drink on table, espeically coffee
  • please go to dl page >>
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{F.} motion and sound - Pe Lang (CH/Berlin)

• Intro : motion in generall, vibration, kinetic designe & physical computing. The goal would be the development of a simple systems, both kinetisiche complex behavior and / or have sound variety. ie. kinetic sound objects and materials what I used in my own works.

• Focus of the workshop : Material, sound and objects.
  • Aesthetics in the design and the sound characteristics
  • Dealing with simple solutions
  • Selection of materials and their work together

Day 1 - Motion ● introduction ● basics about motors, solenoids, servos, steppers and more ● exploring methods of producing motion ● group discussion

Day 2 - Vibration & Sound ● how to produce and to use vibration ● „organic“ sounds ● built vibration/sound devices ● explore various materials

Day 3 - Kinetics ● mechanics ● kinetic design ● building basic kinetic mechanisms ● group discussion

Day 4 - New Materials ● introduction to new and smart materials ● built and design your own kinetic/sound object ● group discussion

Day 5 - OpenField ● continue working on your solo or group project ● presentations and group discussion

• Module Language : English
• Tools : puredata, Arduino API (software), various of electronic parts/kits and material (hardware)
• Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, extention power cable, electronic or non-electronic gadgets, Arduino (optional).
• Level of technical difficulties : ★★
• Required knowledge : ★★
  • Experienced with some programming and applied software.
  • One like to explore physics
  • please go to dl page >>
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{G} Leaving the Screen: Programming for Interactive/Reactive Systems - Zachary Lieberman (US/New York)

openframeworks.cc = openframeworks.tw = openframeworks.jp

• Intro : This module will be a gentle but thorough introduction to code, and how students can use computation to build new systems for interaction that move away from the screen and into physical space. It is taught using openFrameworks (openframeworks.cc), a cross-platform c++ library for creative coding, but also looks at other toolkits and frameworks that helps the creative process and how different systems are connected. We’ll cover the building blocks of code, computational logic, and object-orientated programming, then start putting those pieces to work with systems of computer vision, signal processing, and interfacing with physical devices. In the latter half of the course, participants work to code creative and expressive prototypes based on these approaches.

In addition to the technical side, students weave through examples of the aesthetic and practical applications of the medium, looking for sources of inspiration and challenging our notion of what is possible. Students are recommended to have some familiarity with code (i.e., know what a variable and a function is), but beginners, who are prepared to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, are totally welcome.

• Module Language : English
• Tool : openframeworks (software), Arduino (optional hardware)
• Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, extention power cable, tools for interaction, Arduino (optional)
• Level of technical difficulties : ★★★★
• Required knowledge : ★★★
  • One need to know install OF package and able to set up a new OF file
  • please go to dl page >>
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{H.} Generic Infrastructures Community & Tools – Venzha Christ & Irene Agrivina, Tommy Surya (HONF, Yogyakarta, ID)

www.natural-fiber.com

How to built a generic infrastructures of an open community. HONF is located in South East Asia, coming from a developing country which is no support from the local government. Since 10 years ago HONF has been tried to self funded their activities, working with other institutions and facilitating many young communities movements with DIY concepts, inter disciplines and open communities through EFP ( Education Focus Program) The workshops will explain how to built an analog circuit that produce aesthetic works. How to make a works that use full for the environments around, and it will built from the environment it self. The central topics included "Social Chaos", "Data > Information Techonology" & "Knowledge > Wisdom"

• SOCIAL CHAOS – DESTITUTE COUNTRY ( Circle of Satan (COS)– Indonesia)

Circle of Satan is a platform for exchanges, meetings, sharing, discussions and common thinking. It expresses the struggle and disadvantage of a developing country. Whenever opportunity arises, another obstacle defeats progress, in either the form of natural disaster or human corruption. Indonesia still remains one of the poorest nations, with a substantial lack of technology for the public. Is there still a dream possible in the face of chaotic infrastructure, corruption, deforestation, illegal loging, the Pacific ring of fire, sweatshops and globalisation.

• DATA – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ( Education Focus Program (EFP) - HONF)

EFP is a project conceived of by people from and for a developing country. The main goal of the project is to build a modern conception of a future between technology and people. It thus includes activities and research focusing on people, technology, communities and beyond. In order to be effective we must concentrate our efforts on the understanding of the diversity of communities, which are implicated in the relationship between art and technology. This will rely on the effort not only of artists, but also of members of the community. This mutual understanding will in future encourage a positive effect for the community, in general, but particularly concerning new technologies among young people and the public in general.

• KNOWLEDGE – WISDOM ( Lab>>2>>Lab)

We have to learn how to manage those situation especially in the third world countries. We need to put in place rules, protocols, methodologies codes of behavior, cultural facilities, means of governance, treaties and institutions of many types that will enable us too cooperate. A deep wisdom about today situation will be essential. Science and technology are accelerating furiously but wisdom is not. We are brilliant at creating new technology but are not wise in learning how to cope with it. Today, deep reflection about our circumstances is eclipsed by a frenzy of ever more complex techniques and gadgets preoccupation with how to increase shareholder value. The skill/wisdom gap is made greater because the skills offer the ways to get wealthy. Society’s best brains are saturated with immediate issues that become ever more complex.

1. Generic infrastructure >> HONF develop some social devices, and participants can choose one to develop to suit for the local issues.

2. Analog Circuit Structures >> more info soon

3. Under 50$ prothestic >> co-operation between HONF, fablab Amsterdam & Yakkum Rehabilitation Centre, Tommy will conduct a possible solution, bring not only the idea but also actual material and soluction of how to build a prothestic for handicap people. (more about Under 50 prothestic >>)

• Module Language : English
• Tool : Pd (software), Self-Built Electronics (hardware)
• Participant should bring along : laptop with wifi, electronic or non-electronic tools
• Level of technical difficulties : ★
• Required knowledge : ★
  • You attentively care about social - environmental issues around you, or some little details about those issues, you hope to through co-operative project to resonate, to create attentions to focus on those issues.
  • please go to dl page >>
  • reference >>

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