Dear all,
A four day SuperCollider summer school will be held at the University of Westminster, Room 206 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW, Tues July 15 to Friday 18th 2008.

If you don’t know SuperCollider, it’s a powerful audio programming language for generative and interactive music, with full realtime sound synthesis facilities (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/)

Both beginners and more advanced students are welcome and will be catered for. The course will culminate in a public gig for participants at Public Life in Shoreditch on the Friday night.

The organisers are John Eacott and Nick Collins, who will also be the main tutors.

The course is being run at minimum costs on a basis of pay-what-you-like (you pay once at the workshops). In order to avoid time wasting, a minimum of £10 is required, and a £20 course fee is suggested as a basis for students, benefits etc (pay more if you can). However, bear in mind how much other workshops of this nature tend to cost, and you’ll get an idea of how we’re going out of the way to make this as non-commercial a venture as possible. The tutors are accepting no fee apart from travel expenses, and any excess will go to subsidising the Friday night performance opportunity, and if we go beyond that, to a dementia charity.

The maximum number of participants we can take is 30. Please email John Eacott off list in order to register (john atsymbol informal dot org). Note also that the organisers are not responsible for finding London accommodation for international participants; travel and lodging would have to be dealt with by you.

best wishes,
John and Nick

2008 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

AUGUST 4 – 24 , 2008      (Application Deadline: April 4, 2008)      RESIDENCY #130

         CARSTEN NICOLAI, electronic musician/artist
         JOHN F. SIMON, digital media artist
         CAMILLE UTTERBACK, interactive installation artist
Since 1982, Atlantic Center’s residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers’ studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates – talented, emerging artists – through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently on their own projects. The relaxed atmosphere and unstructured program provide considerable time for artistic regeneration and creation. Atlantic Center for! the Arts provides housing (private room/bath with work desk), weekday meals (provided by ACA chef) and 24 hour access to shared studio space. Financial Aid is available to qualified applicants.

For more information on how to apply, please telephone (386) 427-6975 or (800) 393-6975 (domestic US only) or visit www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org or email us at program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org.

* All applications must be postmarked by the application deadline date.

* Atlantic Center for the Arts is pleased to announce, through the generous support of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, all painters and sculptors accepted into the 2008 Master Artists-in-Residence programs who demonstrate need will be recommended to receive full financial aid to attend the residency program. Artists from other disciplines may apply to ACA’s Financial Aid program.

“The ACA residency program is unique… great care is taken to create the right social and living conditions in a friendly environment where a small community of creators can come together for three weeks to interact on a high level. It is an invigorating, inspiring, and life-changing experience.”
Denis Smalley, composer (Master Artist, 2007)

“Being in residence at ACA has been a wonderful experience both professionally and personally. Becoming acquainted with peers from various parts of the world and with distinct perspectives has generated a lot of dialogue and fresh ways of thinking about both my work and art as a larger practice. The time and space to allow new ideas to incubate in a setting that supports research and experimentation has nurtured me at a transitional point. The environment has enabled me to take risks, to be extremely productive, and to better understand both my work and goals.”
Michelle Kong, visual artist (Associate Artist, 2007)

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Please help by distributing this further.

Thanks,
Vaughan
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We are very happy to announce that Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008 (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/)! GSoC is “a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects”.

We are now seeking student participants. As we wrote in our application, “At student selection stage, we look for evidence that the student has a real interest in our project, ‘Do they actually use it?’ rather than just choosing some project that is part of GSoC.”

If you are an interested student, please follow these steps:

1. Review the GSoC FAQ
(“http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html”,
especially from
“http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_student_apply”).

2. Make sure you are eligible
(“http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_eligibility”).

3. On the Audacity Wiki, check the project ideas page,
“http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas”.

4. If you find an interesting idea, or have one of your own, also
check
“http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Writing_GSoC_Proposals”.

5. Then be in touch with us — far better to discuss plans with us
  before applying.

If you know any students who might be interested, possibly those already involved in music/audio research, please point them to our website (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) for this information.

Thanks!

– Vaughan Johnson