If you plan to visit Liverpool in the coming days, don’t miss the Open Source City festival. This micro-festival of open source practice in the production of media art and music will take place from 17 to 22 June 2008 (Mello Mello, The International Gallery and Tito’s, Liverpool).
FLOSS offers opportunities to developers and users at every skill level to participate in the creative process, starting from the writing of code all the way up to the final mix of your masterpiece. These are tools that have the power to bring people together through creativity, collaboration, knowledge sharing and, importantly,technology. So, how will Open Source play a part in the music and art scenes of the future? Maybe the answer lies in your hands? Take part.
Most of workshops and talks will be dealing with the topics connected with sound processing. Here’s the programme:
- From a Tin Can Antenna to a Mesh Network
- Creating Open Source Projects - with the Random Information Exchange Alpha 0.2
- Making Music with Pure:Dyne
- Video Sniffin
- Broadcasting with Jack and Icecast
- 0xA -Performing Music Live with Pure Data
- Controlling SuperCollider in 3 Dimensions
- Digital Artists Handbook
- Linux Audio in the Mainstream
- Copyright and freedom - a brief philosophical tour
- Grow Your Own Media Lab - The Graphic Novel
- Live: Binary Jam OSC
- The OSC Brunch
The info about Open Source City festival was also posted at Free Your Media website.
