samedi 24 juin 2017

20 years of Open Source Audio : Success, Failure and The In-Between - Paul Davis - Université Jean-Monnet Saint-Etienne (UJM) 2017


 
Paul Davis is the lead developer of the open source Ardour digital audio workstation, as well as the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Before his18 years involvement with audio software, Paul moved between academia and the corporate computing worlds, including 4-1/2 years at the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering department, and then becoming the 2nd employee at Amazon.com. In 2008/2009 he taught at the Technische Universitat, Berlin as the Edgar Varese Visiting Professor. Paul normally lives near Philadelphia, PA, but can also be found living and working in a solar-powered van. To his regret, Paul does not play any musical instruments.

LAC proceedings : http://musinf.univ-st-etienne.fr/lac2017

Linux Audio Conference 2017 / Conferences, concerts, multimedia installations and more...
May 18 – 21, 2017/ Jean MONNET University, Saint-Etienne – France

For many years the UJM music department and CIEREC have developed teaching, research and production around electronic music and the use of digital technologies for musical and artistic creations. During the last ten years, we can mention the opening in 2011 of a specialized master for Computer Music Producers and in 2016 a new master for Computer Art Producers, the creation of several computer music classrooms, an auditorium, and two recording and mixing studios at the university. The University and the French National Agency for the Research have funded several research projects on DSP technology and on the development of Open-Source software, in partnership with GRAME.

In 2011, we have organized the JIM2011 (French-speaking computer music days) and several other international conferences have already been held during the last decade and have been published. So we have a rich experience in organizing and hosting international events.

Today, it seems to us important to focus on digital practices on free software, especially Open-Source tools that put together communities on common projects.

May 2017 is situated at the end of the semester, and we can therefore have many classrooms, amphitheaters to host the conferences, installations, demos, workshops and concerts.

Audience expected: students (in music, arts, DSP, computer science), musicians, researchers, developers …

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