Chris McCormick

If yr in London, come check this out tommorrow. I am playing a set using Pd, during the performances section, which should be a lot of fun.

OpenLab 5 : Cafe OTO, 25th April 2009

Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening at Cafe OTO, Dalston. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night. The preliminary line up goes like this:

DAY: Workshops & Presentations : 12 - 5pm (free entry).

NIGHT: Performances : 7:30pm - 12:30am (5 pounds entry) - doors 7pm

Presentations

• Arduino + PD (Ryan Jordan) : Using Arduino and PureData

• SC + Processing (Daniel Jones) : Using Supercollider with Processing

• Pd/Gem + ergates (Chris McCormick) : PureData audiovisual software

• Groworld (Dave Griffiths) : Permaculture meets online games via guerilla gardening http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Groworld

• Processing/Java/Eclipse/JOGL/GLSL(Rob Munro) : Techniquies for using Processsing with the Eclipse IDE. http://robmunro.net/video

• Din (S Jagannathan) http://code.google.com/p/din, Boxar http://www.poojyum.com/boxar : A free software musical instrument for performing indian classical music live (but not just)

Workshops

• Fluxus (Dave Griffiths) : (free, 1-2hrs, max 10) The venerable OpenGL/scheme environment. http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Fluxus

• APODIO (Julien Ottavi) : (1hrs, max 20) Gnu/Linux multimedia distribution LiveDVD

• Introducing Processing for Visual Artists (Evan Raskob) : (10 pounds, 2hrs, max 20)

Performances

• dskg - Uses circuit bended machines altogether with open sources http://www.myspace.com/dskg

• Jeremah - pixelated landscapes of techno beats, music box melodies and processed street noise http://www.jeremah.co.uk/

• Rob Munro - audiovisual work exploring the world between http://robmunro.net/video

• TheNoiser - The Noiser use noise as musicality, combined to an approach of programmatic composition http://www.noiser.org

• PixelPusher - video and sound pieces; interactive art including new musical instruments http://pixelist.info/

• Ryan Jordan - Body-sensor-noise-strobe-hypnosis http://ryanjordan.org/

• Daniel Jones - generative audio-visual works http://www.erase.net

• S Jagannathan - a free software musical instrument for performing indian classical music live (but not just) http://code.google.com/p/din

• Robert Atwood - experiments with the sound created by feedback http://variseq.nongnu.org/

• Chris McCormick - uses Free Software to make bleepy crunchy music http://mccormick.cx

You are all very welcome - see you there.

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