Chris McCormick

I am playing two gigs in London this week. The first one is a livecoding gig, which will be my first time livecoding, so I'm a bit nervous that I will be really boring. I will basically be constructing Pd patches and sequences from scratch.

The second one is an Ill FM gig which will be broadcast on the radio. I'll be doing my normal Pd-with-the-laptop-lid-closed-and-a-midi-controller set.

Wednesday night

++ PUBCODE2 ++

Part two in the first series of livecoded music events in London.

http://toplap.org/uk/

Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure.

When: 7pm - 11pm, Wednesday 5th August 2009

http://toplap.org/uk/event/pubcode2/

Featuring: chr15m (making machines that make machines make music) MCLD (beatboxing + livecoding, is it possible?) Yee-King + Click Nilson (algorithmic choreography) openSlub (crowdsourced livecoding)

Place: The Roebuck 50 Great Dover Street London SE1 4YG

Map

Door tax: Free

Tube: Borough (5 mins walk) London Bridge (9 mins walk)

More info: http://toplap.org/uk/

Thursday night

Whoa, this Creative Commons licensed album by Chun Lee rules so much! How have I not heard this before now? I have met Chun in person once just before he left for Taipei last year, and I already knew he was a great audio artist from the video he made with Olivier Laruelle, which is called 'Glass Cloud' and is also a song from this release. For some reason it's taken me until now to download and listen to the full album.

Anyway, it's really nice stuff. I am blown away by how much great music there is out there now released for free under Creative Commons licenses.

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.

MORE INFO : openlab

Wow, huge news. There is finally, after all these years, an awesome free and open source audio playing library for the Nintendo DS and GBA. Hooray! This is big news for me as Looper Advance has been built against the non-Free Krawall library for years now and it's always irked me, quite appart from making the GPL license on Looper Advance invalid, and probably illegal.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to update Looper Advance soon and then I can release it properly as 100% Free Software.

MaxMod appears to be pretty comprehensive in that its API provides for mod-playing, sample-playing, and direct access to streaming buffers. This basically means you can write apps which mix and match all three types of audio playback.

maxmod

Yo, this is a killer live set by Maddest Kings Alive who is also my periodical co-collaborator in Chrism + Fenris whenever we are in the same city. Bit-tune lurve and artfully selected chunky loops, this live set really is The Business!

Also good and recently blogged on Offworld is Leaves by Mattison. It's a wicked irie dub of chiptune source material by the artist.

Who needs the record labels? Not me.