Open Instruments
The LAC2007 - 5th International Linux Audio Conference, held from March 22-25 in Berlin, will be mostly about audio on linux systems, but there is also at least one workshop on “open instruments”. Read the workshop description here:
From resistors to samples: Developing open hardware instruments using Arduino, Pure Data and Processing - Workshop
Recursive Dog collective (Dolo Piqueras, Emanuele Mazza and Enrique Tomás)The advent of Arduino, a simple open-source hardware system for data acquisition and prototyping, has made it possible for anyone to design musical instruments. No experience in electronics or programming is required and, more importantly, there is no need to invest large sums of money in commercial interfaces.
By combining Arduino with Pure Data, a free audio and visual programming environment in real time, we have the tools needed to make electronic musical instruments based on interacting with the physical world. Based on these technologies, but also as part of the Experimental Music Instruments (EMI) project, RecursiveDog has designed some complex instruments for live performance that you can download from our website (http://www.recursivedog.org).
In this workshop, the technical knowledge needed to design and produce electronic musical instruments will be taught, using the free open-source tools mentioned above: Pure Data, Arduino and EMI. RecursiveDog will show you how to become a digital luthier for some hours and design a small music instrument to perform with. Each one of the instruments and prototypes produced will be used in the Sunday’s final jam session.
When: Thursday, 13h00 - 14h30, MacPool (H3014), at other times that the MacPool is open, work on the instruments can be continued.
This workshop will be done by Recursive Dog, who are also part of EMI (”Experimental Music Instruments”) (has nothing to do with the abbreviation in the domain name of this weblog ;-).