Heya!

Doing (audio) infrastructure work on Linux? If so, please make to sure
to join us at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2009 in Portland/Oregon in
September. I will be doing an Audio track there and would like to make
sure that everyone who does audio infrastructure work submits a
paper, or at least attends, or maybe just knows about this conference!

It's a conference about the kernel-userspace interfacing, about the
lower levels in our software stack.

Last year we had a very successfuly track about Audio and this year we
will hopefully have a successfuly track again. Last year among the
speakers we had Takashi Iwai (ALSA), Jonathan Woithe (FFADO) and me
(PulseAudio). This year, we'll hopefully have YOU as well!

To get an idea of the conference, here's a writeup of last year's
track available from LWN:

http://lwn.net/Articles/299211/

More details about the conference you can find here:

http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

The full CFP is available here:

http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/2009/ ... proposals/

Spread the word,

The new edition of Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, is out! Lots of new circuits and illustrations, more examples of artists’ designs, and a DVD with 87 1-minute video clips by hackers from all over the globe, as well as a series of step-by-step video tutorials.

The book should be available shortly from CDEmusic (http://www.cdemusic.org/) and other fine stores everywhere.

Here are some upcoming events planned around the release.

Chicago
On Saturday April 11 at 9PM I’ll be presenting my first Chicago concert in four years at Lampo (216 W. Chicago Ave., 2nd floor). I’m be splitting the bill with the fabulous hans koch from Cologne. We’ll be doing works for laptop and circuit orchestras. Trombone-propelled electronics, backwards electric guitars, candle-powered oscillators, smart-bomb video and a Blippo Box will also be featured. See http://www.lampo.org/ for more information. Then on Saturday, May 2, at 3PM, Quimby’s Bookstore (1854 W. North Avenue) is hosting a book release party. I’ll screen some video, demo a few projects, and the Chicago Symphacking Orchestra (CSO) will perform. See http://www.quimbys.com/ .

New York City
On Friday evening, April 17, from 6-7PM we’ll celebrate the book release at Bent 2009 at The Tank (354 West 45th Street.) Books will be available for purchase (I’ll sign them with my illegible scrawl), I’ll screen some of the video from the DVD, demonstrate a few projects, and maybe give a brief performance. Check the Bent website: http://www.bentfestival.org/#Event/Nic_ ... ase_Party.

Berlin
April 20 and 21 I’ll be presenting a 2-day hacking workshop at NK (Elsen Str. 52, 2. Hof.) The workshops will run from 11AM until 7PM, and we’ll have a concert, party, and book signing on Tuesday evening. For more information see http://www.ausland-berlin.de/hardware-h ... s-collins.

Amsterdam
STEIM, the Vatican of hacking, is offering a 3-day workshop with me from April 24 to 26. The workshops run 10AM to 5PM. See http://www.steim.org/steim/workshops.ph ... 1&r=1. Then on Tuesday evening, April 28, we’ll have a little concert and book party at STEIM.

I hope to see you at one of the parties or workshops. (Please let me know if you wish to be dropped from future announcements.)

Nic Collins


Nicolas Collins
Professor, Department of Sound
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 South Michigan Avenue
Room 301
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 345-3633 (office)
ncollins@saic.edu
http://www.NicolasCollins.com

Editor-in-Chief
Leonardo Music Journal
http://leonardo.info/lmj

Este sábado pasado (21 de Marzo) visitamos uno de los estudios más reconocidos de la Argentina, Estudios Panda. Los asistentes pudieron apreciar en detalle el equipamiento y el sonido del control room de Panda, con una charla técnica a cargo de Indio Gauvron y el Ing. Daniel Sinnewald.

Nuestra próxima visita es el próximo sábado 28 de Marzo a las 9:30 AM en los Estudios El Pie, propiedad de Alejandro Lerner, cuya dirección es Quesada 5137 (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires). El costo de la visita es de 40 pesos argentinos para no miembros AES y gratuita para miembros AES.

Les recordamos que la membresía tiene un costo de sólo 18 dólares por año, (descuento del 50% exclusivo para América Latina) así que los invitamos a hacerse miembros de AES a través del siguiente link: http://www.aes.org/info/join-developing.cfm

Si desean renovar su membresía (también con con 50% descuento) pueden hacerlo a través de este link: http://www.aes.org/dues/developing.cfm

Les recordamos que por razones de seguridad no se permitirá el acceso a quienes no se hayan registrado previamente a la casilla directorio@argentina.aes.org. Los miembros AES deberán acreditar su condición enviando su número de miembro para verificar su validez.

Nuestras próximas visitas incluyen Estudios ION (sábado 04/04), Estudios Del Abasto Al Pasto (General Rodriguez - fecha a confirmar) Estudios Los Pájaros (Luján - fecha a confirmar).

AES

There are less than six weeks to go before the world’s biggest international trade fair for musical instruments, music software, computer hardware, sheet music and accessories opens its doors for you from 1 to 4 April 2009. The Musikmesse is one of the foremost meeting places for the sector and has constantly attracted thousands of music lovers from home and abroad for the last 30 years.

We cordially invite you to gain a personal impression of the latest trends of the national and international market at Musikmesse 2009. To help ensure that your visit to the Musikmesse is a complete success, our 2nd Music Mail contains a host of information about the international trade fair. Until the next issue of Music Mail.

With best wishes from Frankfurt,


Wolfgang Lücke (Director, Musikmesse)