TOSMI training in open source, multimedia instruments at InterSpace. The 2008 training will cover the fields of 3D CGI, post-production, animation and special effects, media content for the web, web TV and e-marketing. The training is mainly based on open source software and provides skills in innovative and efficient tools and distribution channels allowing for achieving quality production and/or education process at low expenses. Therefore we believe the sessions can be of advantage to professionals, managers and trainers in the audiovisual production and marketing. Continue reading

Announcing DIY sound-workshop: Constructing live electronics with Jo FRGMNT Grys (de) :: March 25 - 28, 2008 :: Kunstarkaden, Sparkassenstr.3, Munich :: Registration Deadline: March 15, 2008.

The workshop is focused on the construction of sustainable, customized and networked instruments. Participants are invited to build up to three different musical devices: 1) Powerful analog Special Noise Unit (SNU), a kind of chaos - musical - noise - generator - touch - oscillator-instrument. (It’s even produces FM radio); 2) Simple step-sequencer SEQ8 to give electricity certain patterns; and 3) Mini-FM-transmitter to conquer your proximity. Continue reading

Hardware-Hacking & Circuit-Bending Workshop - An Interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop with Nicolas Collins :: Artcenter / South Florida, 924 Lincoln Road Mall, Room 203, Miami Beach :: Dates: March 28, 2008; 10 am - 6 pm - Part 1: contact mikes, coil pickups, tape heads, bending radios and toys :: March 29, 2008; 10 am - 6 pm :: Part 2: make an oscillator from scratch :: March 29, 2008; 7:30 pm - free outdoor performance on Lincoln Road Mall. Continue reading

5TH INTERNATIONAL MOBILE MUSIC WORKSHOP 2008 :: May 13-15, 2008 :: Vienna, Austria :: Call for Submissions: Deadline: February 17, 2008.

The Mobile Music Workshop 2008 is the 5th in a series of annual international gatherings that explore the creative, critical and commercial potential of mobile music. They are inspired by the ever-changing social, geographic, ecological, emotional context of using mobile technology for creative ends. We are looking for new ideas and ground-breaking projects on sound in mobile contexts. What new forms of interaction with music and audio lie ahead as locative media, ubiquitous networks, and music access merge into new forms of experiences that shape the everyday? Can they change the way we think about our mobile devices and about walking through the city? Continue reading

AV Festival 08 is a biennial international festival of electronic art, moving image and music. This year it takes place from 28 Feb - 8 March 08 in the North East of England (Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland) and is on the topic of broadcasting! It features Marko Peljhan (Slovenia), Harun Farocki (Germany), Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), Autechre (UK), Joyce Hinterding (Australia), Yuko Mohri (Japan), Jean-Jacques Perrey (France), Chris Watson (UK), People Like Us (UK) and many many others. The full programme can be downloaded or viewed from the AV website. Continue reading

Freestyle SoundHack - a workshop and performance with Jessica Thompson :: January 26, 2008; 1 - 5 pmM :: p|m Gallery, 1159 Dundas Street East, Suite 149, Toronto, Canada.

Freestyle SoundKits are wearable sound pieces that generate and broadcast electronic beats as users move through the urban environment. Freestyle SoundHack is a collaborative performance in the form of a workshop. During the performance, the artist will give her project to the public by teaching workshop participants how to make their own Freestyle SoundKits, to distribute as they wish, using whatever sounds they choose. Material fee: $20 (full kit), $10 (kit-amp). Continue reading

CTM.08 ­ Unpredictable :: Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts, Berlin :: Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the Screen :: 24 Jan - 2 Feb, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse / [DAM] Berlin

Generator.x and Club Transmediale announce the opening of Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the Screen, a workshop and exhibition about digital fabrication and generative systems. Bringing together artists and architects who use computational strategies to produce new types of objects and spaces, the project is a hands-on laboratory for experimentation and exchange of knowledge. Continue reading

Multichannel Audio & Video Spatialization in MAX/MSP/JITTER :: Teacher: Zachary Seldess :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center :: 596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St), New York, NY 10012 :: Tel: 212-431-1130 :: Thursday, Jan 31, 6:30 to 9:30pm :: $110/$170.

Multichannel audio is well-known in the digital arts community, but multichannel video became more and more prominent in recent years. While it is easy to just project multiple videos that are not connected, using all videos as part of a connected space requires that you apply some mathematical concepts to your programming. Some of the same calculations are used in multichannel and surround sound audio spatialization as well. The following class will review spatialization for video and audio. Continue reading

VJ THEORY AND PRACTICE WORKSHOP - with Ana Carvalho :: When: January 22, 2008; 6:30 - 10:30 pm :: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St), New York, NY :: Limit: 15 Students :: Cost: $50.

Through her work Ana Carvalho explores ideas of identity, both theoretically and in her practice: she performs under the name Magenta Interior. Ana is one of the two editors of the project VJ Theory which compiles theoretical works about VJing and realtime performance and is interested in exploring ways for people to develop Artist Theory, theory based in practice, individually and collectively. Continue reading

xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance :: 29 January - 2 February 2008 :: Club Transmediale ::Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin.

xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance presents a series of constructivist workshops specially programmed for the ClubTransmediale 2008 festival, emphasising making and connection within the field of the existent. Workshops are led by international, field-expert practitioners, extending over realms of environmental code, noise, signal transmission, reception, and electromysticism. The workshops will utilise household materials and chemistry, readily-available electronics components, free software and the GNU toolbase. Continue reading