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Información en castellano siguiendo los enlaces o en [ http://lullcec.org ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- last few days to sign up! 17-19.12.2010 Algorithmic and System's Music. An Introductory Seminar to Generative Systems as Applied to Art and Music. Led by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros. Over the past 30 years, and especially during the past decade, several environments and programming languages have been developed leading to a greater interest in that which is often called generative art, which – among other things – proposes an approach to the algorithm as a tool of creation. These generative practices often raise interesting questions about the nature of the creative act, blurring the essence of apparently clear concepts such as authorship, tool, work or process. This seminar will provide a historical overview, from antiquity to the computer age, on the use of algorithms and rules to generate sound and musical pieces. Roc Jiménez de Cisneros will discuss in depth several current generative musical practices, using some of his own pieces (and also some of his usual collaborators) as a departing point, while inviting participants to share their own works, experiences or concerns in the field of generative composition. This seminar will be taught in Spanish. català: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1606&lang=ca ] castellano: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1606&lang=es ] english: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1606&lang=en ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-18.12.2010 Army of Darkness. Generative sound installation by Gullibloon. Army of Darkness is a generative sound installation, in which custom-programmed minirobots act as instrumentalists, playing electric guitars and basses. The robots move freely in a room with a network of black lines laid out on the floor. They are programmed to follow the lines and to find their way back on course in case of going off track. On some special points of interest, guitars and basses are placed upside down so that the robots, prepared with a kind of plectrum, are able to play the instruments by driving underneath them. Sensors monitor these points and initiate a plucking algorithm. Each robot tries to play a guitar or bass for a certain amount of time and moves on afterwards. The robots can detune the instruments by hitting the boundaries of the installation. This triggers the detuning of one or more instruments, generating complex harmonics that evolve throughout the session. Changes in the distortion applied by a computer to the sound of the instruments before feeding the amplifiers and the decrease of the robots’ battery power configure a dramatical progression of the piece until reaching the throes of death. Nivell Zero, Fundació Suñol. Rosselló, 240. Barcelona. 16h-18h. Free admission. català: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1967&lang=ca ] castellano: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1967&lang=es ] english: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1967&lang=en ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.12.2010 Synchronator: Gert-Jan Prins + Bas van Koolwijk Aided by current digital and analogue means and drawing from the tradition of experimental video pioneers such as Nam June Paik and Woody and Steina Vasulka, the Synchronator project set out to tackle the difficulties concerning the recording of complicated, merged and distorted video and audio signals. Koolwijk and Prins' live audiovisual performance features two simultaneous projections and is the direct result of their mutual interest in converting image into sound and vice versa, making use of the methods they have developed to have analog, and sometimes disturbed audio and video signals accepted by today’s equipment. Project presentation: 19:30h Audiovisual performance: 20:30h Nivell Zero, Fundació Suñol. Rosselló, 240. Barcelona. 7 €. català: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1960&lang=ca ] castellano: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1960&lang=es ] english: [ http://lullcec.org/?p=1960&lang=en ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above-mentioned activities were made possible thanks to the kind collaboration of Mondriaan Stichting, Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts, Hangar and Fundació Suñol. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web: [ http://lullcec.org ] facebook: [ http://facebook.com/lullcec ] twitter: [ http://twitter.com/lullcec ] ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
