I agree. I think that it is quite likely that there are many small groups and individual DIY artists that could be interested in Pure:dyne and related FLOSS stuff, if they aren't already. However, I haven't met many people working with those tools. Most of the people I've met are using pirated or purchased software, or they are working primarily with electronics and not much computer stuff.
I'm going ahead with a sort of Intro to FLOSS+Art workshop here in about 2 weeks if I can get myself together. I just read Aymeric's intro to the FLOSS+Art book goto10 has put out, it hit on all the points I've been slowly piecing together in my own mind. Should have read it sooner ;) ... great book so far by the way. I'm going to make the preface the reading for my first 'class'. I'm going to try and document whatever I do and maybe work with my volunteer students to help identify and find solutions to problems encountered during the initial stages of FLOSS exploration. I want to do a combination of demonstration, hands on activities, and sort of philosophical and historical discussion about art and software. I'm focusing primarily on digital audio, since that is where I come from, but ideally this should appeal to anyone with an interest in the creative capacity of FLOSS. If anyone has any tips or suggestions, I'd appreciate it. This is going to be an informal workshop, my 'students' are all friends I'm asking that will be just as much of the process of education as I as the 'teacher' will be. An experiment in open education. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Manjunan Gnanaratnam < [email protected]> wrote: > To the “Americas Group” > > Geoffroy and Grant- I apologize for not being able to be in on the > conversation. > > Just wanted to add something here quickly for thought. I thing that the > SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Art, held in Minneapolis, is > something that the we as “Puredyne Group” will be able to participate in > next year. It has been picking up a lot of interest here in the US lately. > The 2010 festival just ended. > > http://spark.cla.umn.edu/ > > > For thought. > > best > > Manju. > > -------------------------------------------- > *Manjunan Gnanaratnam* > [http://www.manjunan.com] <http://www.manjunan.com%5D> > [http://www.opensourcedance.org] <http://www.opensourcedance.org%5D> > > > "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is > Music."-Aldous Huxley > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *grant centauri <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *puredyne <[email protected]> > *Date: *Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:43:56 -0500 > *To: *puredyne <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [puredyne] OT: personal observations and ideas regarding > pure:dyne > > I think a wiki for an americas division could definitely be useful. it > could keep discussion off this list for one thing, and allow for a more > structured organization of what each of us as individuals is interested in > working on and what we as a group see the needs to be in our region. > > i've been thinking a lot about a sort of outreach program of workshops and > other educational opportunities for 'new users'. i see pure:dyne as a nice > platform for that outreach, since it gives a specific field of interest the > foreground. i'm planning on trying to develop a series of lectures or > workshops to introduce concepts of computer audio to musicians and artists > who might have an interest. my goal is to make open source software a bit > more accessible to those without the bug to dig into the world of computers > and discover it on there own. i know from my own experience coming to > computer music as an amateur musician with an interest in electronics and > synthesis, that it was a long and confusing road just to scratch the surface > of the possibilities of FLOSS. It really came out of the necessity of being > completely broke and without a nice apple laptop and commercial sound > software to play with. I've had a 3 year apprenticeship with the linux OS > and FLOSS applications. I spent over a month trying to compile my own RT > kernel (before i was aware of pure:dyne) on old laptops and craigslist > desktops, getting successfully closer to a working linux audio setup. I've > dipped my toes into Csound, Pd, superCollider, chuck, nyquist, fluxus, > processing, ardour, linux MIDI and synthesis software, and so on, trying to > find a direction or an easy way to start actually creating. i'm the type of > person who enjoys process of discovery and troubleshooting. but i think > most of the creative audience around me has no interest in hacking make > scripts in order to successfully compile a package for your particular > setup. (i had an experience the other day that made me proud of myself and > feel like all my self education hasn't been in vain when I hacked a make > script for a LADSPA vocoder plugin so that it could use my version of gcc... > a few years ago i would have just given up in despair, not even knowing > where to turn...) I'd like to play the role of missionary i suppose, I'm > not a guru, still a pilgrim, but feel like i can show others the light... to > speak metaphorically. > > this, of course, is only my experience locally. i'm not sure how this > applies to others, but my conversation with gef left me feeling like we find > ourselves in similar circumstances. > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:50 AM, geoffroy tremblay <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So we had a chat me and Grant last friday > > It was nice to connect, and we shared some of the project we had on > computer art and dev from pd to nintendo ds hacking and arduino! From > how we would like to see workshop happen to retreat in the mountain ;) > > we thought that we could start with a private wiki for the americas > group to see what we could bring together, what could be useful for > each other to share. Something simple in order to define the how, who > and why of a americas regroupment~ > > I am willing to create such a thing(private wiki), but we were also > wondering if goto10 would have some space we could use to start a > simple private wiki and see where it goes from there. If the usage > grow more than few pages edit per week we can revisit to see what > would be a next step. > > That wiki would be a first personal intro / exploration of the why and who > > let me know what you think > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Manjunan Gnanaratnam > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am out of town this weekends as well....i will check in later.. > > ------------------------------------------- > > Manjunan Gnanaratnam > > Founder/Director > > Open Source Dance > > [http://www.opensourcedance.org] <http://www.opensourcedance.org%5D> > > [http://www.manjunan.com] <http://www.manjunan.com%5D> > > > >> From: Josh Lawrence <[email protected]> > >> Reply-To: puredyne <[email protected]> > >> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:07:47 -0500 > >> To: puredyne <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: [puredyne] OT: personal observations and ideas regarding > >> pure:dyne > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Tyler Leavitt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> later friday is fine here > >> > >> I'll be out of town this weekend and might not have any Internet > >> access, but *please* continue on! I don't want to be the one that is > >> holding up the party. > >> > >> also, something hit me in the shower this morning: > >> > >> http://us.goto10.org > >> > >> or > >> > >> http://na.goto10.org (na = north america) > >> > >> ;) > >> > >> --- > >> [email protected] > >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > >> <http://irc.goto10.org/puredyne><http://irc.goto10.org/puredyne> > > > > > > > > --- > > [email protected] > > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > <http://irc.goto10.org/puredyne><http://irc.goto10.org/puredyne> > > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > <http://irc.goto10.org/puredyne><http://irc.goto10.org/puredyne> > > > ------------------------------ > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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