Openframeworks & ObjC & libPD for sounds application workshop?
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Openframeworks is a really nice .. frameworks!
I’m actually using it with pure iOS SDK.
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The combination of those two is very powerful.
Especially, to have access to low-level stuff with C/C++ routines AND to high-level view controllers & UI bits is a real advantage !
Maybe a workshop about that in Marseille could be nice 
Should I book the little conference room in Alcazar for “OpenFrameworks & ObjectiveC’s iOS sounds application design patterns” workshop ?
Please let your comment en français or english !
Laurent interviewing me on his blog
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Laurent Boghossian is a great friend and one of this guy who could build a world with 5 kg of sand only.
I already talked about him here, and I’m doing again today because he made and published an interview of me.
(if you cannot wait for reading my interview on his website, the link is .. a bit below )
I’m very moved by his words and he described very well how our both new lives have begun several months, years ago.
I’m inviting you to go there to read the interview entitled:
Design the media : Design your music like you’d like to design your life
I’m also inviting you to browse his blog 35nextyears.com
It is full of a lot of nice life design tips & tricks which can teach you a lot!
How to summarize my 2011 ?
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It is the day to write & post this article, today.
2011 was the real first year of my existence as Design the Media owner/founder/developer & Protofuse digital artist.
In another article, I’ll write more about me quiting my last job, but I quit it November 2010.
About Design the Media
I created, developed and made Design the Media company in order to support my technology activities here, there & inside the wired.
I have been contacted, targeted for a lot of projects, selecting the best to fit with my lifestyle, contracting, denying, accepting, deciding all over the year.
Certified by Ableton end of 2010, I gave Continue reading »
This is just me
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Thanks to my friend Denis for this video footage cut made in 2010.
This is just me before & during an electronic performances festival in Marseille.
It was a nice moment.
Design the Media & Protofuse LIVE in Paris
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Dimanche rouge invited me in Paris on next weekend (19 & 20 november 2011)
First event: Saturday Streaming Labs
+ November the 19th, (SATURDAY) 13:00 to 14:00
+ La Cantine, 151 rue Montmartre, Passage des Panoramas, 12 Galerie Montmartre, 75002 Paris
+ http://dimancherouge…011/10/25/1666/
I’ll make a short performance, probably full noise/ambient live.
Then, I’ll present Design the Media and talk about Max6 as an alternative to pure C++ coding.
Second event: IDM live performance
+ November the 20th, (SUNDAY), 21:00
+ Petit Bain, 7 Port de la Gare, 13th (between Batofar and the Josephine Baker swimming pool) , 75013 Paris
+ http://dimancherouge…10-november-20/
I’ll make a longer performance more rythmed and more syncoped IDM and glitch
I hope to see you there.
The FB event is:
https://www.facebook…115790898531224
Pourquoi choisir un formateur certifié par Ableton ?
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Ableton Live
Vous êtes de plus en plus nombreux à utiliser la fantastique station de travail audio-numérique Ableton Live.
En effet, cet environnement extraordinaire, maintenant dôté en son sein de Max MSP avec l’addon Max for Live, est adapté à l’ensemble des utilisations possibles de la composition en utilisant des boucles, à l’arrangement en timeline, du mix en live type DJ/Mix à la performance de jeu en temps réel.
Le réseau de formateur officiellement certifié
Ableton fédère un réseau de formateur qu’elle certifie elle même par le biais de tests et d’épreuve allant jusqu’ à la mise en situation pratique.
Il est très intéressant de voir qu’Ableton soigne tout particulièrement son programme de certification par des sélections non seulement sur les aspects théoriques de la théorie du signal numérique mais aussi sur l’utilisation pratique de telle ou telle fonctionnalité dans telle ou telle situation.
L’ensemble des certifiés est composé d’acteurs majeurs de la scène musicale mainstream & underground.
Pourquoi choisir un formateur certifié ?
C’est très simple et il y a 5 raisons:
1/ Ableton certifie les personnes qui connaissent les métiers du sons en général
Un formateur certifié aura donc non seulement TOUTES les connaissances dont vous pourrez avoir besoin pour comprendre telle ou telle fonctionnalité de Live, mais aussi pour comprendre globalement le traitement du signal et appréhender les concepts connexes et indispensables à votre futur de musicien, compositeur, dj, producteur, sound designer.
2/ Ableton certifie les personnes qui connaissent la théorie MAIS aussi la pratique
Un formateur certifié connaît aussi les traitements DSP (Direct Signal Processing) et leur fonctionnement que la manière dont le son est encodé à l’intérieur de Live.
Cependant, il est capable d’occulter la machinerie interne et les équations pour se concentrer sur tel ou tel aspect de l’interface graphique (GUI) de Live, si c’est ce que vous recherchez.
3/ Ableton certifie la pédagogie du certifié
Un formateur certifié sait enseigner Ableton Live. La plupart ont d’autres certifications (Logic) et sont très à l’aise pour expliquer leur logiciel préféré à des stagiaires de niveaux très disparates.
4/ Ableton certifie des personnes actives sur la scène actuelle
Tous les formateurs sont des musiciens ou ingénieurs du sons actifs artistiquement.
En effet, et on le comprend bien, Ableton ne souhaite pas certifier des personnes peu impliquées dans la musique et le son en général.
5/ Ableton fait confiance à ses certifiés
En effet, les Certified Trainers sont tous dans le premier cercle de betâ testers.
Ainsi, ils peuvent tester les évolutions majeures de Live et faire ainsi participer à ses évolutions même en faisant remonter vos remarques et souhaits.
Le réseau des certifiés
Un seul réseau officiel: http://www.ableton.com/education/certified-training/france
Une dizaine en France.
Un seul à Marseille !
Protofuse’s interview by Jordan from Ventilo
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Today, noone ignores Design the Media is driven by me and, noone ignores that I am also a digital artist named Protofuse
Indeed, this blog is my only one blog, probably predicting website’s design the media & protofuse merge, one day.
Here is my latest interview:
It has been made by Jordan Saïsset from Journal Ventilo.
It can be read here too.
Thanks again to support me and to spread the word.
Where can I work with my laptop in Marseille ?
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I wanted to make this post since a long time.
CHECK MY SHARED MAP ON GOOGLE MAPS
Indeed, I used to work with my laptop in many places in Marseille.
It is everytime a great thing to work with fresh air, with constant little town’s noises.
Sometimes, it helps to be more focused too.
Outside, I’m working a bit better.
When I do that, I can work on many things, like I could do at office:
- I make my entrepreneur’s tasks (administrative, orders, etc)
- I code my programs
- I compose my music
- I prepare the next plugins design
etc
In order to work correctly, what you need is:
- a nice place with people to watch sometimes, to talk sometimes too,
- a safe place to use your laptop safely without having to have your eyes looking at around you,
- a wifi hotspot near from you, if you don’t have a 3G key or you can’t use your Android device like that,
- a place where you can drink something.
But I everytime fight with a problem:
Probably, some of you would say: “ahah, strange post, you can work everywhere”.
For sure, if you are in that case, you never try to do that even for only 4 hours outside.
Even if we can easily find nice places, we have to find at least power supply.
Of course, whatever the laptop you have, you have a battery which can last at least a couple of hours.
BUT:
- when you have to code, program & test with the CPU warming,
- when you have to use wifi because you found a nice free spot,
- when you have to use your screen at almost highest brightness to see something even if the sun shines
… at one moment, probably the most critical, you’ll need a power supply!
So, in this post, I’d like to list all the places where I found power supply, in Marseille.
The best solution is 3G Key with almost unlimited amount of data.
Another nice solution is: using your Android Phone as a 3G “MODEM”. This is called tethering
Bandwidth are VERY acceptable and if you don’t need to play with your friend to the last FPS, it is VERY enough.
You can also want to use a fastest wifi-like connection.
So, in this post, I’d like to list all the places where I found wifi, in Marseille.
This is the easiest criteria, especially here in Marseille (even if sometimes I want to move from Marseille)
Several ideas of type of place could be:
- parc
- cafés
- librairies
The main areas where I used to go are:
- near from Vieux-Port,
- near from the beaches (Pointe Rouge, but Escale Borély too)
- Alcazar & Bonneveine Librairies
So here is the big list of places where I worked.
I’d love to make this list growing with your experience, your ideas.
BIG Max5 installation Musee de la Buzine
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Design the Media & I have been targeted & approached about a big Max5 installation project for a permanent exhibition (check this post)
This work has been featured on the cycling 74 website too:
For newbies, I used the Max5 framework provided & edited by those gurus at Cycling 74
Big up to them!
Now, I can name the place/museum.
The Museum is: Musée de la Buzine – Maison des cinématographies de la Méditerranée
It involves:
- 24 systems with OS Windows 7 64bits + 1 server with Windows 2008 server.
- 1 Gigabit Ethernet Network
- 7 touchscreen
- 10 video-projectors
- 20 rfid readers
- 7 arduino boards with 8 buttons + 8 ultrasonic sensors
- 2 multichannel (>4) sound system
I designed the whole system, integrating visuals from a graphic designer, videos from footage makers, sounds from sound designers.
I had to create several tricky systems like:
- a dynamic subtitler for video (using basic .srt files for easy maintenance & change by the customer)
- a scheduler (using UDP datagrams to shutdown the whole exhibition at particular hours all along the years & using Wake On Lan UDP datagrams to wake up all in the morning too)
- a database integration (it provides a system to make Max5 patches knowing what is the language of the visitor’s RFID Card)
- full network connections to remote control all patches with UDP datagrams (put the installation stand by mode to save energy, etc)
- specific Arduino firmwares (input reading + output writing)
This Museum has been inaugurated by the french Ministry of Culture, 2 days ago.
You can see more about this museum and about what we made on this video:
I’m proud about this big project.
I hope to make & build systems like that in a (close) future but actually, I’m on many other amazing projects and probably more personal projects.
Indeed, on my own, I wrote and sent a state of intent for a personal installation system.
