Electromedia Works 2008 took place in Athens, Peiraios str. and Lamias 6 in May 14-18. Four days packed with electroacoustic music and media art works of all sorts. The technical preparation ( P. Tsangarakis and others) and organization (M. Manoussakis, A. Diktyopoulos, M. Aloupi and others) was quite a marathon, to present such a dense program. 16 channels of sound, 8 of these with speakers suspended on the ceiling at ca 8 m. height, at least 4 simultaneous large video projections, and an upper floor with installations.
Workshops and Seminars by Joel Chadabe, Carla Scaletti and Kurt Hebel (Kyma) and IZ. My workshop was on Sunday, Orestis Plakias and Kyriakos Tsoukalas presented their circuit bending on an old Yamaha synthesizer, with some quite incredible sounds; then Fani Konstantinidou talked about her planned installation with balloons, driven by air fans from below, driving sound; then we looked at programming the Arduino, loops, multitasking (co-routines i.e. Routines in SuperCollider made by { }.fork), and communication with Processing via Open Sound Control. There were 8 participants in all. Following the workshop, Francisco Colasanto presented the CMMAS center (Morelia, Mexico).
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