Calling all developers, designers, makers, mixers, mashers, tinkerers, philosopher-mechanics and sales engineers! Join us in helping to define and build the Internet of Things on Global Internet of Things Day! Use Pachube if you want, or build on other APIs – make something physical, or virtual; hardware or software; conceptual or practical – the point is for us to spend 24 hours connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to US!

Participation is free after registration. Food and drinks in open contribution format. Register as individual or team by sending a mail to info@madlab.nl.

There will be also a hackathon in London but it is expected that Pachube‘s global community will host sister events around the world. The idea is for us all, in countries throughout the world, to spend 24 hours on Global Internet of Things day building new devices, applications, and tools, and experimenting with bleeding-edge (beta) Pachube features, connecting to each others’ devices and environments in realtime across the planet, and building up a repertoire of innovative applications and services for the Internet of Things that make the vision of a connected planet a reality!

The transmediale Open Web Award is a new platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that: are on the web and about the web; that use open source, free, libre or other non-proprietary technology (may they be soft- or hardware); and that incite participation

They can be critical, celebratory or both. Projects should have the potential to demonstrate and/or objectively critique the potential of open web issues, and those employing the creative use of HTML5 and other developing ‘open’ technologies will be given specific consideration. The point is to play with both the idea and materiality of the (open) web in ways that spark new thinking and practice.

The winner(s) of the Open Web Award 2011 will receive a total prize of 5000 EURO, and be given the opportunity to have supported status on Drumbeat http://drumbeat.org. Beyond the specific Open Web Award criteria, the same rules, conditions and application procedures apply as the transmediale Award 2011 http://www.transmediale.de/en/awards2011.

The Deadline for Entries for the transmediale Open Web Award 2011 is July 31, 2010 (2400 CEST / UST+2)

Please read the Conditions of Entry before applying. Submit your work to the Awards competition using the online form. In order to do so you must register by creating your own personal and unique user account or, if you have registered in the past, login to transmediale.

VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential. The competition wishes to respond to the shifting context of online environments — from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond — and to draw attention to the dynamic potential of the web as a research, production and presentation platform for the specific context of art. It invites individual and collaborative proposals by programmers, software engineers, designers and artists alike, that combine creative and critical thinking, technical solutions with practical competence.

ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO aims to enable the development of a powerful tool or web environment for art context, and to promote creative, original, innovative and speculative thinking in a fast developing field, reflecting new social sensibilities and art’s ability to surprise.

VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid invite proposals for innovative and experimental online platforms or effective web tools to foster and stimulate the presence, exhibition, communication and management of art on the Internet. The selected proposal will be awarded with a production budget of 15,000 euros (taxes included) to realize the project.

The competition wishes to encourage research in the field of social technologies and artistic practice, and more specifically to identify current needs and provide suitable solutions for art galleries and art market more generally in the context of the Internet. The intention behind the competition is to enhance communication and exchange between the field of art and wider society.

The proposal - a complete web concept, environment or a tool - shall offer an application to be implemented by individual art galleries and / or ARCO Fair.

The winning proposal will be selected by an international Jury, made up of two experts in the field of art and technology: Dr. Joasia Krysa (KURATOR/University of Plymouth, UK), CSDVA (winner of the 2009 edition with the project WAAP, Croatia) and a representative of VOCENTO (Spain). LaAgencia will act as coordinator of the award and jury secretary.

Production of the award-winning proposal has to be completed in a maximum period of nine months. Once produced, a complete web concept, or environment, or tool, will be freely distributed for implementation by the participant galleries at ARCOmadrid´s 2010 edition and the galleries participating at ARCOmadrid´s 2011 edition.

Conditions for entry to participate: The competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO is open to any individual or group, of any nationality or legal entity. It is an open and international award contest. The proposal must be submitted through an online application form available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php

Proposals sent by e-mail, post or any other way will not be accepted. Each individual or group is allowed to submit only one proposal. In case of the submission of more than one proposal, only the first proposal will be considered. Applications for the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition can be submitted in English or Spanish. We highly recommend submitting bilingual versions of the proposal.

The participating proposals must be for projects realizable for the value of the prize money, i.e. €15,000 (including taxes), within a maximum production period of nine months from the date of the Jury’s decision.

The Jury reserves the right to accept or reject any of the projects, and its decision is final. Accepting the prize implies the transfer of property rights of the awarded project to VOCENTO, after the termination of its free distribution among art galleries participating at ARCOmadrid 2010 and those taking part in the 2011 edition. VOCENTO agrees not to commercialize nor distribute it in any other form than that described. After two years VOCENTO may make the project available to the public under the license CreativeCommons, Attribution 2.5 Spain.

DIAMOUSES provides a generic platform that aims at encouraging diverse applications and services relating to networked music performance, such as:
• Distributed music rehearsals
• Live distributed music performances
• Network broadcasting of music events
• Remote music master classes
• Network cooperative music improvisations

Specific innovations of the platform include:

1. A scalable architecture supporting synchronous and asynchronous music collaboration among heterogeneous network infrastructures.

2. The support of novel forms of music expression such as electronic and electroacoustic music through sensor-based interaction.

3. The provision of a web portal that allows for registered musicians to schedule their network performances and exchange information through announcement boards, web forums and chat rooms, etc.

4. The exploitation of a DVB-T platform for live broadcasts and Video-On-Demand services about distributed music performances to a broad audience of digital TV subscribers.

VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, interviews, networked performance and collaborative polemic. Through simple and accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others’, to remix existing media. Providing a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts. Designed so anyone in the world can access it from a 56k modem. Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3, flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other’s compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors.

As John Hopkins, a member of the Netorg jury, remarked in his comments on the site: The interface is intuitive and straight forward, and without a steep learning curve, anyone can playfully create works in no time.

About Furtherfield: Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Providing platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.

Email frances.bossom [at] arnolfini.org.uk with your applications. Places will be allocated on the basis of the strength of the case you make to take part. Notification of outcome: November 21.

The workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own software sound synthesiser and different chat bots that will be used to manipulate and turn your chat into a music score. To achieve this, we will use free software such as Python, Supercollider, Puredyne, Emacs and more!

The workshop is aimed at participants with basic experience in programming, scripting, or markup languages, even if it’s just (X)HTML/CSS. You do not have to be an experienced programmer, but if you are, that’s good too. As long as you are not afraid to work in a terminal, you’ll be fine! In general, we are looking for people who have already experienced the “culture shock” of using plain text to describe a process and want to take this further or discover creative programming using free software.

The workshop will be adapted to the participants’ experience and profiles, but do not hesitate to contact us for extra details or if you are not sure you will fit. You will go home with the software and code you wrote during the workshop, and encouraged to share it and develop it further!

GOTO10 are a collective of international artists and programmers, dedicated to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and digital arts.

At the end of the workshop, everything will be left on site in the gallery and available online as part of the Craftivism exhibition at Arnolfini (12 December 2009 - 14 February 2010). http://www.craftivism.net

Freesound is a sound repository rather than a music or audio repository. It contains samples of noises rather than of music or spoken word recordings. If you do want music there are several excellent music sites elsewhere on the Internet, from an artistic point of view notably Sal Randolph’s OpSound. But these focus on completed tracks rather than raw sound materials, and are limited to music. Freesound has no such limitation.

Digital recording technology is so cheap and of such high quality that recording found sound or sampling musical instruments is easier than it’s ever been before. But to record that sound you must have the experience to do so and you must have access to it. Setting up the right recording conditions for water going down a plug or travelling to a location where wolves are howling will be beyond the ability of many otherwise capable individuals. Freesound means that you can share whatever sound you can find or produce and access sounds that you could not even think of recording yourself.

The sounds on Freesound are amazingly diverse and imaginative. The first samples that I chose randomly from links on the front page were of tin cans being hit and of office background noise. There are musical instruments among the samples, and sounds that could be used musically, but there are also many more sounds that you probably didn’t imagine you would ever hear recorded. Clicking the “Random Sample” link in the navigation bar at the left of the site can be quite addictive…” Continue reading Freesound by Rob Myers, Furtherfield.org.

Sensory Response Systems is an exploration into audio-visual performance using an array of sensors responsive to physical movements in order to control the audio-visual output in programmes such as pd and Max/MSP. It also looks at reshaping and replicating the body through the use of fabric, textiles and technology. We draw from inspiration and definition through reference to embodiment, phenomenology, post-modernism, post-humanism, performance, physical computing and computer sound.

Ryan Jordan is currently studying MFA Computational Studio Arts at Goldsmiths College, London and developing a large scale dance performance integrating the human body and technology. He is also setting up a research network based around this area and working part-time with a community music project. Jordan is member of OpenLab - London.

To run the client software properly you need to have Java installed and a Standard MIDI Synthesizer. The Public Sound Objects Software is Open Source under a GPL Licence. Source code can be downloaded. A video essay can be found here.

The project was created by Álvaro Barbosa during his visiting research period at the Music Technology Group (MTG) in Barcelona. The Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, part of its Department of Information and Communication Technologies and of its Audiovisual Institute, is specialized in sound and music computing. With more than 40 researchers coming from different and complementary disciplines, the MTG carries out research on topics such as sound processing and synthesis; music content description; interactive music systems; computational models of perceptual and music cognition; and the technologies related with music social networks.

The instructional videos for Jig Sound can be found here and here.