New year, new me(etup dates)!! As always, facilitated by our friends at Notam, the online meetings will take place approximately once a month on Zoom at 7pm CET (Oslo Time):
At these meetups, SuperCollider users (usually 2 per meetup) present a project, class library, instrument, or artistic practice featuring our favourite audio programming environment. These presentations are informal, vary in their format, and are intended to showcase the diversity and flexibility of expression our beloved SC permits.
If you’re interested in presenting a project/workflow/tool/whatever at one of the Meetups, send me a DM and I’ll find a slot for you - absolutely everyone is welcome to share!
All community events at Notam fall under the NOTAM Code of Conduct to make them as inclusive as possible. Please follow read the full Code of Conduct before joining an event. If you have accessibility related requests or questions about the meetup, please send me a message and I’ll do what I can to address them!
In the week before each meetup I’ll return here to present info about the forthcoming presenters, so be sure to follow this thread via the on the right!
Just thought I’d send a quick note to inform that I’ve rescheduled tomorrow’s planned meetup; I was having some trouble finding presenters, as I think a lot of users are preparing for the upcoming symposium…so I decided to move the meetup to June 18!
Looking forward to see some of you at the symposium, and we’ll meet again online on April 2nd!
Hello again - I hope everyone is well! Dropping in to remind you about our first Meetup of the spring, happening on 2025-04-02T17:00:00Z! Our first presenter is @Sergio_Luque - looking forward to see many of you there!
Sergio Luque is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, and a researcher in computer music. He lives in Madrid, where he directs the Master’s program in Electroacoustic Composition at the Katarina Gurska Higher Education Center and curates the VANG new music festival at the Cybele Palace. He is also a guest lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
He holds a PhD in Musical Composition from the University of Birmingham. His research focused on extending Iannis Xenakis’s stochastic synthesis, developing methods for algorithmic composition, and implementing the BEASTmulch software—a tool designed for presenting electroacoustic music in multichannel systems. He earned a Master’s degree with distinction in Sonology from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and a Master’s in Composition from the Rotterdam Conservatoire.
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SuperCollider has been integral to my work for almost 25 years, and I have been teaching it since 2004. I use it to compose instrumental and electroacoustic music with the help of stochastic and deterministic algorithms. In this presentation, I will talk about my experience with SuperCollider, how I use it in my work, and share sound examples.
In my instrumental music, I explore chords with intervallic relationships at both ends of the consonance/dissonance continuum, combinations of pitches with internal consonances and interferences. These chords, their connections, and their unfolding over time are created using algorithmic methods in SuperCollider, guided by an intuitive, ear-driven process.
For my electroacoustic pieces, I employ non-standard synthesis techniques, primarily based on my extensions to Xenakis’s stochastic algorithms, which I have been developing for over 20 years in SuperCollider and C.
And our second presenter on Wednesday will be @skmecs!
Gil Fuser is an artist exploring the intersection of art and technology, crafting open-ended meanings. His work blends sensors, cameras, everyday objects, discarded materials, plants, fungi, and computers running open-source and custom software. He creates generative and live-coded music and visuals for solo and collaborative performances, along with interactive objects, instruments, and installations.
From 2014 to 2017, he studied Generative Art / Computational Art at UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in Germany. Based in São Paulo, he collaborates with artists worldwide and engages with local and online communities focused on livecoding and generative art, including Algorave Brasil and Roda de Código.
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I’ll share how SuperCollider has been my primary tool and medium for the past ten years. I’ll discuss fostering the art collective and study group, Roda de Código, in São Paulo, focusing on livecoding and generative art, and how to introduce SuperCollider in that context. We’ll explore projects such as the Band of Plants, which translates plant stimuli into sound, and the Algomagical Box of Follies, designed to recombine rhythms inspired by Brazilian folk festivities. Additionally, I’ll discuss the Maritrola, a gadget merging functionalities of a mixer, turntable, and music selector for children experiment scratching. We’ll also delve into Active Listening, an audio-visual instrument developed for deaf students to facilitate musical engagement through visual feedback and gestural interactions. Furthermore, I’ll present Liebesbrunnen, an audiovisual instrument that shows how love looks and sounds inside of us. Most of those works can be found in gilfuser.net
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