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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Introduction to the Xth Sense (XS) framework (technical overview, capabilities)</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Building the sensor</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">An introduction to the open source artistic programming language PureData, tips and tricks for using PureData in live settings</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Explorations of bioacoustic sound design capabilities</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Building audio modules and signal processing chains</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Aesthetics of bioacoustic sensor-based performance</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Mapping muscle energy to control values and real-time processing</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; background: transparent;">Designing an aesthetic vocabulary for body-sensor performance</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; background-color: transparent;">ABOUT THE XTH SENSE</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">The Xth Sense (2010-14) is a free and open biophysical technology. With it you can produce music with the sound of your body. The XS captures sounds from heart, blood and muscles and uses them to integrate the human body with a digital interactive system for sound and video production. In 2012, it was named the world's most innovative new musical instrument and awarded the first prize in the Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US). Today, the Xth Sense is used by a steadily growing community of creatives, ranging from performing artists and musicians, to researchers in physiotherapy and prosthetics, and universities and students in diverse fields.</P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;"><SPAN STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background: transparent;"><A STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: blue; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; background: transparent;" REL="nofollow">http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/</A></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in sound and music. Musical background and education does not matter so long as you have a willingness to challenge your usual perspectives on musical performance.No previous knowledge of electronics and programming is necessary for this workshop, however participants should be familiar with basic digital music creation.</P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">Complete workshop details:</P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">Participants must bring their own laptop computers with headphones and external soundcards. Your computer must be running Linux** or Mac OSX (10.6 or newer). You must also have Pd-extended 0.43.4 already installed on your computer. A free download of Pd-extended is available at<SPAN STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background: transparent;"><A STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: blue; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; background: transparent;" REL="nofollow">http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/pd-extended</A></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">Musicians interested in augmenting their favorite musical instruments with body feedback are also highly encouraged to bring their instrument along for the workshop.</P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">** Those interested in using Linux for artistic purposes might want to take a look at the Apodio distribution, which we highly recommend.</P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;"></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;"><SPAN STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">TEACHER</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">Italian-born<SPAN STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Marco Donnarumma</SPAN>is a performer, musician and writer based in London. He explores the dimensions of the human body in relation to real, virtual and cultural spaces through performances, concerts and installations. In his works, sound, machines and biology are configured so to integrate human and technological bodies into new living instances. His practice is considered a conceptually elaborated combination of physical actions, intense sonic experiences and forceful sensorial stimulation.</P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">Marco has performed and spoken in over 50 countries across North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. His works have been presented at leading art and music events (ISEA, Venice Biennale, Snar+D, ISCM World Music Days), festivals (Transmediale, FILE, Panorama, NYEAF, Sound Art China, CYNETART, Piksel), museums, institutions and labs (Museo Reina Sofia, CaixaForum Madrid, STEIM, IRCAM, EMPAC, Stanford CCRMA).</P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;"></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">An integral part of his practice is the creation and sharing of interactive biophysical instruments using free software and open hardware. Recently, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and Harvestworks (US), he co-founded XTH, a New York-based company making open source biotechnologies that use sound to enable different modes of expression.</P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;"></P>
<P STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17.7777786254883px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; max-width: 99.9000015258789%; background: transparent;">Marco is a recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the first prize in the Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech, US, 2012) for the Xth Sense; the Transitio New Media Art Award (MX) for Nigredo, created with Marije Baalman; and fundings from European Commission, British Council, Creative Scotland, New Media Scotland, and the Danish Arts Council. He has received commissions from Festival Transmediale and the European Conference of Promoters of New Music, among the others, and has been an invited artist in residence at STEIM (NL), Inspace (UK), and the National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (DK). His projects have been reviewed on BBC, Forbes, Reuters, ARTE.TV, Wired, RTVE, El Pais, ResonanceFM, Weave, Create Digital Music, We Make Money Not Art and Digicult.</P>
 
 
 
 
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