Saturday, January 23, 2016

APRIL 23rd & 24th 
Freemason's Hall
17-19 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2

A Festival of Synthesized Sound
This festival will include a ‘Modular Synthesizer Car Show’, concerts, workshops, meet-ups, and public talks. Following on from the first Ideopreneurial Entrephonics (Middletown, Connecticut, 2015), the ‘Car Show’ invites amateur and professional makers of custom-built synthesizers to share ideas, sounds, and musical spaces in Dublin’s historic Freemasons’ Hall. Demonstrations and workshops will present boutique instruments to the audience, and facilitate experimentation. Instruments will be available for inspection, with short informative declamations and audio demonstrations by presenters. A selection of participants will be chosen for a collaborative group concert. The London-based Vocal Constructivists will perform music for ‘natural’ voices, including historic and experimental works by Pauline Oliveros, Charles Céleste Hutchins, and Meredith Monk.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1646695558923235/

Monday, February 16, 2015

2015 Dublin Pd mini-Con: performance+

thanks to all participants and performers for making the mini-Con so much fun!!

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Bohlen Pierce stuff

Here's a little 60-second miniature called Dr Bohlen's Fantasy. It uses the Bohlen-Pierce scale and a variety of timbres which range in harmonicity. The piece explores the dissonance space between harmonicity and inharmonicity by using shifting partials driven by physical modeling processes. The B-P tunings, the voices and the musical events are created in Pure Data and exported to a mixer for final production. 










Thursday, May 3, 2012


Dept. of Music presents 
Pure Data mini-Conference
May 11th and 12th, Dept. of Music, House 5, TCD.
Pure Data is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video and graphical processing. It is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works.  http://puredata.info/
Schedule of events: 
Friday, May 11th, 10AM - 5PM: Papers
Ricky Graham, Andy Farnell, Mikael Fernstrom/Sean Taylor, David Collier, Keith Hennigan and Rich Duckworth. 

Friday, May 11th, 8PM: Performance night in the Boydell Recital Room
Free admission - (((Quadraphonic sound)))
Acts include: Endphase - Softday - Ricky Graham - Kerry Hagan - Rich Duckworth
Note: Endphase 18-4 PIGS performed with live collaborators in Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. 
Saturday, May 12th, 10AM - 5PM: Workshops
 Andrew McGovern - libpd on Android workshop: install libpd on your Android device and create libpd project.  
 Andy Farnell  Composition with Pd: team-based workshop
Saturday, May 12th, Evening 
Pd mini-Con social meet-up
Kindly supported by the Provost's Visual & Performing Arts Fund and the Dept. of Music. 
Contact details
Blog: http://bluespetroleum.blogspot.com/
Info: duckwor (at) tcd (dot) ie    

Thursday, April 5, 2012

2012 Pure Data mini-Con at TCD Dublin update

The 2nd Pd mini-Con will take place in the Dept. of Music, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland on the 11th and 12th of May, 2012. There will be a performance night as well in the Music Dept. recital room at 8PM on Friday the 11th. There will be an end-of-'Con dinner and/or event on Saturday, so do plan to stick around, if you can.....This years 'Con brings some old friends back and a host of new faces, including (in no particular order):
João Pais (+Endphase by remote hookup),
Softday (Seán Taylor + Mikael Fernström),
Andy Farnell,
Kerry Hagan,
Ricky Graham,
Andy McGovern,
David Collier,
Music Dept. student pd projects,
Rich Duckworth (host, MC, & mixmeister).  

We still have room for papers, demonstrations, performances (maybe...call?), workshops, and /or any Pd-related endeavour. Simply make contact with submissions (include your tech spec), or if you have any questions. 

Thursday, March 1, 2012

2012 Pure Data mini-Con at TCD Dublin

The 2nd Pd mini-Con has been given the green light: it will take place in the Dept. of Music, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland on the 11th and 12th of May, 2012. There is wriggle room to spill over to the 10th and/or 13th if needs be. 

This years 'Con promises to be bigger and better since we have forged mutual alliances with other Irish-based Pd-er camps & circuit-bender groups. There will be a performance night as well in the Music Dept. recital room and break-out room(s) as necessary for workshops etc.    

There is a call is for papers, demonstrations, performances, workshops, and /or any Pd-related endeavour. Simply make contact with submissions (include your tech spec), or if you have any questions. 

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Pd Convention - Weimar: "So Pure - so Data"

Well, finally made it! It's been totally worth the wait. Quote of the day (and perhaps of the week) has to be: "So Pure - so Data" (Kyriakos Tsoukalas).