PDCON:Berlin-notizen

2011-07-30T15:09:00Z

JesseScott:

=Notes for the berlin weekend=

'''THIS PAGE IS THE ORGANIZATION PAGE FOR THE BERLIN EVENTS. THE PUBLIC PAGE IS [[PDCON:Berlin-events| HERE]]'''

==Equipment==
===LEAP===
* transport PA from TU
** ~100Eu insurance, to be paid in September
** transport
* where to get subwoofer?
* $$-installation: a $$ meter by the bar shows in real time how much $$ was donated, and encourages people to donate some more.

Who can pick it up the day before or week before? And deliver on tuesday?
Who can install on saturday after Weimar trip?

=Berlin Events=
==Pd meetings “Show your patch” @[[PDCON:Venues/N.K.|N.K.]]==
===Saturday 17h/18h-20h30 + Sunday 13h-16h===

Material available at NK:

* stereo PA
* Beamer with projection wall

Crew:

* 1 to control the announcements - Hans
* 1 to give technical help

These persons can also prepare the room/PA before the meeting

==Concert #1==
===Saturday 22h, @[[PDCON:Venues/LEAP|LEAP]]===
* Ed Kelly_Synchroma Was a Broken String (15min)
* Alexandre Porres_Something Stuck in My Throat (10-20min)
* Paloma Oliveira_La grand pelea (30min)
* Giuliano Obici_Marulho Oceanico (17min)
* Jinyao Lin_Tracks (15min)

* prepare technical rider
* prepare stage setup
* people to mount the PA after arrival from Weimar

Concert + rehearsal crew:
* 1 person mixing board
* 1 person giving technical support - Hans

==Blanc sketch pages collective improvisation==
===Sunday 18h-20h, @[[PDCON:Venues/LEAP|LEAP]]===

Projection: hijacking of tcl/tk commands and redraw them in the master? regular screenshot patch? none, and everyone walks around the players?

Setup:
* tables with 8 laptops, + master with audio routing + main timer patch
* who wants to have their laptop there to play? 8 laptops needed
* who has minijack - jack cables? 8 cables needed

Concert + preparation crew:
* 1 person @ server laptop
* 1 person for technical support - Hans

==Late night open improvisation marathon==
===Sunday 22h-open end, @[[PDCON:Venues/LEAP|LEAP]]===

* performers register a time slot (doodle?)
* define which type, audio, video, both

Concert + preparation crew:
* 1 person @ mixing board
* 1 person for technical support - Hans

==Brunch==
===Monday 11/12h, @[[PDCON:Venues/LEAP|LEAP]]'s rooftop===

* Hans - Café

If $$ from donations are left, we can buy some supplies - drinks, bread, spreads, ...

=Installations=

==@ LEAP==

* Who wants to make part of the comittee to decide which works are presented?
* Crew to help with assembly at saturday afternoon / before Weimar week

==IAMDISPLAY call for content (patches and music)==

* transport & montage: 2+3.8.
* who has a transporter? Servando
* who wants to help with montage?
Object will be mounted and working from 3rd, anyone can go there and try out patches, etc.

==DISCO KUGEL call for content (patches and music)==

* when is montage? Help needed?
* help needed with selection?
* patch not very elegant/efficient. improvements?
* improvement in control GUI?

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2011-01-18T20:36:51Z

JesseScott:

'''Disclaimer: this is not the official Website for the [[Pure Data]] convention 2011''' instead it is a page to collect information for and about Weimar's application to host this event in 2011. To my knowledge London is the only competition. Priority at this point is to find partners and secure funding for the event.

== What is Pure Data? ==
[[Image:Pure Data-Icon.png|thumb|right|100px|Pure Data Icon]]
Pure Data (abbreviated: Pd) is a dataflow programming language. It is inspired by the way early telecommunication switchboards and modules of analogue synthesizers were interconnected by patch cords. Programs written in Pure Data are flowcharts visualizing their function. Musicians and artists are using Pd to perform, create music and artworks. Pure Data is free open source software and developed by University of California, San Diego's Professor Miller Puckette and a global community. It runs on Linux, OS X, Windows and even mobile devices.

=== What is a Pd-convention? ===
A Pure Data convention is an event where users and developers meet, discuss and present their research and artworks. It consists of
* A '''Conference''' program where developments are presented,
* '''Workshops''' for in-depth instructions from professionals aimed at interested beginners, ambitioned users and specialists.
* '''Concerts''' and '''Performances''' with music made with Pure Data
* An '''Exhibition''' of artworks/installations

Previous conventions have been in [http://puredata.info/community/projects/convention04/ Graz] (2004), [http://puredata.info/community/projects/convention07 Montréal] (2007) and [http://puredata.info/community/projects/convention09 São Paulo] (2009). The upcoming convention would be the fourth installment of this venue.

== Why Weimar? ==
The close collaboration between Bauhaus-University and Music Academy Franz Liszt where computer science, music, media-arts and media-culture meet is the perfect situation for a Pure Data convention. Weimar has a solid tourist infrastructure with accommodation from budget hostels to 5 star. Weimar is a small place which has many venues and places of interest but is small enough not to get lost or to loose much time in transportation from one place to another.

=== Involving the public ===
To interact with the public and integrate the citizens of Weimar a number of initiative-projects should be developed. For instance Radio-Lotte could host a live concert with possibilities for interaction. The porcelain bells of the town-hall could be played remotely in some way. A call for works could be issued to encourage the production of artworks which open up ways to interact with the general public.

== When? ==
The convention should take place after the summer semester 2011, in August, parallel to the Bauhaus Summer school with which we collaborate for the workshops: 2011-8-8 to 2011-8-14 ([[wikipedia:Iso time#Calendar dates|ISO]]).

== Production costs ==

{|{{Template:Prettytable}}
|Travelling for non-institutional participants||style="text-align:right"| 20,000.-
|-
|Lodging for invited participants in budget class||style="text-align:right"| 750.-
|-
|Production cost/support for artists||style="text-align:right"| 2000.-
|-
|Equipment for exhibition and performaces||style="text-align:right"| sponsored
|-
|Venue SeaM Werkstattstudio||style="text-align:right"| sponsored
|-
|Venue e-werk||style="text-align:right"| sponsored?
|-
|Printing, PR: Flyer, Posters, Bags, Accessories||style="text-align:right"| 3,000.-
|-
|Catalogue||style="text-align:right"| 2,000.-
|-
|Website||style="text-align:right"| 200.-
|-
|Translations/proof reading of website and print||style="text-align:right"| 600.-
|-
|Contract work (Werkvertrag) 4 x 1,500||style="text-align:right"| 6,000.-
|-
|Secretary||style="text-align:right"| 1,300.-
|-
|Postage and communication||style="text-align:right"| 1,000,-
|-
|Catering, Referentenessen, Buffet||style="text-align:right"| 3,000.-
|-
|'''TOTAL estimated production costs'''||style="text-align:right"| '''39,850.-'''
|}

When talking to the organizers of the previous Pd-conventions I realized that the costs calculated here are probably too low as the previous venues spent almost double the budget.

=== Funding ===
The funding situation seems difficult. Volkswagen Stiftung for example only fund conferences to one specific question with speakers focussing around this. May be that one panel can be condensed something what the Stiftung is willing to support. [http://www.dfg.de DFG] only funds conferences according to how many speakers have PhD or equivalent. In the last Pd conventions there were only a few. Kunststiftung Thüringen might be another possible partner. [http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/culture/funding/2010/call_strand_136_2010_en.php EU Funding for Festivals]. Sponsors could help to keep the costs at a low level. A travel agency should be among them.<br />
Examples of similar conferences (and their funding) are [http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2008/?page_id=2 LAC Köln], [http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2007/partners.shtml LAC Berlin], [http://lac.zkm.de/2005/exhibitors.shtml LAC Karlsruhe], [http://supercollider2010.de/credits-thanks.html SuperCollider Symposium Berlin]<br />
[http://www.miz.org/suche_3_100_d.html Musikalmanach index of german trusts for funding]

==== Funding barometer ====
{|border:"0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width:600px"
|width:10% bgcolor="green"|
|width:90% bgcolor="red"| not yet funded
|}

== Partners ==
* Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
* Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, [http://www.hfm-weimar.de/v1/studium/institute/fk2/neue_musik/studio.php Studio for electro-acoustic music]
* [http://www.degem.de DEGEM] Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Elektroakustische Musik e.V.
* Bauhaus Summer School

== Potential Partners ==
* Kulturmanagment HfM, Prof Höhne
* [http://www.weimar.de City of Weimar]
* [http://www.sparkassenstiftungen.de/inhalt/stiftung73/ Sparkassenstiftung Weimar] Förderung Deadline 15.2.
* [http://www.radio-lotte.de Radio Lotte]
* [http://www.rjdj.me Reality Jockey Ltd.] RjDj
* [http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/forschung/foerdermoeglichkeiten-bauhaus-universitaet-weimar/kreativfonds.html Kreativfonds]
* Electronic Arts (Maxis)
* De:Bug
* tlm
* dnt
* bpb
* rme-audio
* Klangprojekte Weimar, Michael von Hintzenstern
* TU-Ilmenau
* [http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de IDMT Fraunhofer], [http://www.iosono-sound.com IOSONO]
* VST Erfurt
* <s>Club Mate</s> Bionade
* Ehringsdorfer

== Social Media + Promotion ==
* Hashtag #PDC11

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