IXI NEWS + EVENTS

SuperCollider Symposium [September 23-26, 2010]
The SuperCollider Symposium will take place in Berlin this year. As always, the programme is very interesting, with workshops, concerts and paper presentations. This year, we will present a paper on ixi lang and the user studies we conducted. (thanks to participants!). The paper will be available in the backyard soon.

ISEA [August 24th, 2010]
Live coding practice with ixi lang will be presented at the ISEA conference in Ruhr, Germany. ISEA stands for the International Symposium for Electronic Arts. This year looks really good with all kinds of presentations, installations and performances.

SuperCollider for Improvisation Workshop [August 13th-15th, 2010]
A three day workshop in SuperCollider is hosted by the very nice A10LAB in London during a long weekend in August. Further information here. All welcome!

SuperCollider Summer School [July 10th, 2010]
OpenLab are running sessions at the Morley Summer School in London on July 10th. Thor Magnusson will run this one day SuperCollider workshop, giving an entry-level course in synthesis and algorithmic composition. There will also be a short introduction to physical and virtual interface design.

SuperCollider Summer School [July 10th, 2010]
OpenLab are running sessions at the Morley Summer School in London on July 10th. Thor Magnusson will run this one day SuperCollider workshop, giving an entry-level course in synthesis and algorithmic composition. There will also be a short introduction to physical and virtual interface design.

NIME [June 15th, 2010]
A paper called "An Epistemic Dimension Space for Musical Devices" will be presented at the NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) 2010 conference in Sydney. Thor Magnusson will also give a performance with the ixi lang during the festival.

Re:New Concert [May 21st, 2010]
A performance using the ixi lang will be given at the Re:New Digital Arts Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark.

live coding workshop [May 13th, 2010]
A live coding workshop will be given at Brighton's hacklab BuildBrighton at the Skiff in the North Lanes. The workshop will primarily make use of the super-powerful SuperCollider, but examples will also be given in Impromptu and ixi lang. The workshop is free and open for all.

ixi music workshop in Roma [May 17th-21st, 2010]
A workshop on doing music using ixi apps will be held by the Spanish Cultural Center in Roma. There will be also a presentation and concert by Enrike from ixi.

Medialab Helsinki workshop [April 12th-17th, 2010]
The yearly workshop at UIAH medialab on creative technologies is aproaching again. We cannot wait to taste our favorite Nepalese restaurant in town!

Workshop at Universidade da Beira Interior, Cohvila. Portugal [March 22nd-26th, 2010]
Second part of the workshop at the Laboratorio de Instalacioes Multimedia Interactivas on building interactive installations with PD, GEM, arduino and OSC. We will also explore the basics of multitouch surfaces DIY technology with the students of the Mestrado em Design Multimedia.

ixi lang released [December 21st, 2009]
A new expermiental live coding language, the ixi lang has been released for general user testing. The release comes in the form of either a standalone application or classes for SuperCollider. Please download the application or the classes.

Livecoding @ Anatomy Museum [January 14th, 2010]
Yet another test run on the ixi lang live coding language will be conducted at the Livecoding @ Anatomy Theatre event, held in the fabulous Anatomy Theatre in Kings College, London. The event starts at 7 pm, right on time.

noise = noise [December 5th, 2009]
The 15th event in the noise = noise series will take place in the legendary concert place the Foundry in Old Street. The Foundry is about to be bulldozed so this is about the last chance to enjoy the magic of this place. Foundry is here. Or perhaps here. The concert starts at "6 or 7 pm", but the pub is open from 4 pm, so come and enjoy the beer!

sc140 [2009]
The album "sc140" has been released! This album consists of musical compositions written in SuperCollider in under 140 characters. (the limit of characters for Twitter tweets). Check (and download) the album here.

Outside the Box [November 16th, 2009]
A paper called "On Epistemic Tools: Thinking Through Technology" will be presented at the Outside the Box conference at City University, London.

Workshop at Universidade da Beira Interior, Cohvila. Portugal [November 19th-23rd 2009]
Introductory workshop to technologies for building interactive installations ( PD, GEM, arduino ) with students of the Mestrado en Design Multimedia. We will work in the development of an interactive installation together with the local theatre company "A Quarta Parede" that will be exhibited in Cohvila during January.

Live Code in Komedia [October 30th, 2009]
Further explorations of the ixi lang (a new live coding language) will conducted in a live setting at the Robot Takeover club evening in Komedia, Brighton, UK, on Friday October 30th. With talks by robot ethicist Blay Whitby, Flash Brighton's Seb Lee-Delisle, and the Theremin specialist Emily Toop. After the talks there will be live coding performances with Yaxu of slub fame, Wrongheaded (Sick Lincoln and Matt Yee-King) and Thor Magnusson. This is a fund raising night for the Build Brigthon hackerspace. Starting at precisely at 7pm, and nearest tube station is London Bridge.

Shuntcode [October 1st, 2009]
The ixi lang (a new live coding language) will be tested live for the first time at the ShuntCode event organised by TOPLAP. Starting at precisely at 10pm, and nearest tube station is London Bridge.

ixi Label presentacion at Arteleku [August 19th, 2009]
ixi label presented in the net labels meetings at Arteleku, San Sebastian.

Epistemic Tools [July 1st, 2009]
A new article by Thor Magnusson called On Epistemic Tools: Musical Instruments as Cognitive Extensions (© 2009 Cambridge University Press) is published by Organised Sound vol. 14 (2). This issue of Organised Sound, edited by Garth Paine, focuses on interactivity in musical instruments.

Raflost Reykjavik [May 5th, 2009]
Workshops, lecture and a concert at the Raflost 2009 annual festival of electronic media in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Bazterrak at GOSUB10 net label release [March 6th, 2009]
Substrate is the inaugural release from the new netlabel GOSUB10. A 12-track compilation of music from across the electronic music genre, it features friends and family of the GOTO10 collective. It features music by Bazterrak member of ixi.
GOSUB10-001 release

FLOSS+Art Book [February 3rd, 2009]
OpenMute has just published a book on open source software development, open content and art. It is edited by the good people at goto10 and there is a text by Thor Magnusson from ixi in the book. Check it out here.

InSand Gig [February 2nd, 2009]
An improv performance with InSand at London's hottest new music and poetry club Boat Thing. The concert starts at 8pm in that boat thing in front of Temple Tube, between the Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges.


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