DSCN3503.JPG: Frank Barknecht (left) discussing with Josh Green
DSCN3504.JPG: Fernando and his wife Carmen
DSCN3505.JPG: Christoph Eckert (left) and Julien Claassen
DSCN3506.JPG: Götz, Stephane Letz, Yann Orlarey, Pau Arumi
DSCN3507.JPG: Paul Nasca (left) and Frank van de Pol
DSCN3508.JPG: Dave Phillips and Christoph Eckert, obviously amused
DSCN3509.JPG: Götz Dipper, someone and Frank Barknecht
DSCN3510.JPG: First day, the audience is waiting (and listening)
DSCN3511.JPG: Ludger Brümmer, head of Music&Acoustics Dept, opens the conference
DSCN3512.JPG: The audience, and our live video stream system
DSCN3513.JPG: Götz Dipper and Fernando, ready for the keynote
DSCN3514.JPG: Fernando, holding the keynote
DSCN3515.JPG: Peter Brinkmann on "MIDIKinesis"
DSCN3516.JPG: Victor Lazzarini on extending the Csound language
DSCN3517.JPG: Albert Gräf about Q
DSCN3518.JPG: Frank van de Pol showing somewhat legacy sequencer software on his laptop
DSCN3519.JPG: Albert Gräf and his Q system
DSCN3520.JPG: Yes, Albert has brought a lot of hardware
DSCN3521.JPG: ..really a lot of hardware
DSCN3522.JPG: Stephane Letz on jackdmp
DSCN3523.JPG: John ffitch on Csound
DSCN3524.JPG: John ffitch talking to Julien Claassen
DSCN3526.JPG: Pau Arumi on CLAM
DSCN3527.JPG: Again Pau
DSCN3528.JPG: Dave Phillips and Victor Lazzarini do an extra Csound demo
DSCN3529.JPG: again Victor and Dave (blurry pic)
DSCN3530.JPG: Yes, that's Csound in the background, obviously
DSCN3531.JPG: Our trusty chat operator/camera man/all-around good guy, Eric "edrz" Rzewnicki
DSCN3532.JPG: More Victor and Dave
DSCN3533.JPG: Mathias Lundgren and Robert Jonsson (MusE)
DSCN3534.JPG: Dinner time (greek). Left-most is Jan-Jacob Hofmann, one of the composers
DSCN3535.JPG: More dinner. 'twas about time.
DSCN3536.JPG: Still more dinner pics. Paul likes photos, and seems to also like being on photos :-)
DSCN3537.JPG: More dinner.
DSCN3538.JPG: Still more dinner fun. The alcohol seems to start kicking in.
DSCN3539.JPG: More dinner people. They came last and received their dishes first, simply because they sat close to the kitchen.
DSCN3540.JPG: Day two starts: Ico Bukvic on "Linux: The Next Step"
DSCN3541.JPG: Christoph Eckert about "Linux Usability Issues"
DSCN3542.JPG: Again Christoph
DSCN3543.JPG: Once more Christoph, clearly improving on his german- english accent - right, Dave? ;)
DSCN3544.JPG: Marije Baalman on new developments of "WONDER"
DSCN3545.JPG: Again Marije
DSCN3546.JPG: Georg Bönn on "Development of a Composer's Sketchbook"
DSCN3547.JPG: Dinner time on day 2. Thomas Charbonnel, strangely lit
DSCN3549.JPG: Same as before, with Martin Rumori on left and Yann Orlarey on right
DSCN3550.JPG: Same, but finally in acceptable sharpness
DSCN3551.JPG: More blurry dinner photos with long exposure time
DSCN3552.JPG: Georg Holzmann (composer) talking to Stefan Kersten
DSCN3556.JPG: Day 3, Media theatre: Julien Claassen on "Linux as a text-based studio (please note: I have no pictures from the lecture room for this day)
DSCN3557.JPG: Again Julien
DSCN3558.JPG: Once more Julien, with his little squeaking friend that served as a "next paragraph" indicator
DSCN3559.JPG: Frank Eickhoff on "terminal rasa"
DSCN3560.JPG: Paul Nasca about his soft synth "ZynAddSubFX"
DSCN3561.JPG: Again Paul, with a partial screenshot
DSCN3562.JPG: More Paul, playing demo sounds
DSCN3563.JPG:...and again Paul
DSCN3564.JPG: A last one.
DSCN3565.JPG: Fons Adriaensen, asking a question about ZynAddSubFX
DSCN3566.JPG: The audience during Paul Davis' demo of Ardour
DSCN3567.JPG: Paul Davis, showing off Ardour.
DSCN3569.JPG: Again Paul. This demo was pretty successful.
DSCN3570.JPG: Sebastian "freak" Raible and Erik during Paul's demo. Too bad the encoding machine crashed several times this day.
DSCN3571.JPG: Once more Paul. Did I mention there were *no* Ardour crashes this year? ;)
DSCN3572.JPG: Very nice shot of Paul and a full-blown Ardour session behind him. Hm, eye candy!
DSCN3573.JPG: One more.
DSCN3574.JPG: The audio mixer was pretty impressive.
DSCN3575.JPG: Some more slides, just before the remote demos.
DSCN3576.JPG: Paul, during live chat with Ron Parker in the US. 'Sir Paul, consider thy honor restored."
DSCN3577.JPG: View from the balcony down at the ZKM's "canteen" area
DSCN3579.JPG: The "SurfStation"
DSCN3580.JPG: Building up for the Linux Sound Night.
DSCN3581.JPG: Sound Night begins, Jörn and Eric work busily to get the audio and video streaming to run (with *live* VJ'ing from Italy)
DSCN3582.JPG: Thomas Charbonnel and Tim Blechmann
DSCN3583.JPG: ..again.
DSCN3584.JPG: Frank Barknecht, playing his "Mondbass" track live.
DSCN3585.JPG: Again Frank.
DSCN3586.JPG: Trying to catch the audience from the artist's point of view...
DSCN3587.JPG: ..but due to the cheap digital camera, no real success.
DSCN3588.JPG: You can almost spot the Pd patch from here.
DSCN3589.JPG: Some of the audience.
DSCN3590.JPG: Pretty blurry picture of the mixing console with Jörn still busily hacking.
DSCN3591.JPG: Even during party time, some people can't stop hackin'.
DSCN3592.JPG: Oliver Thuns as a "virtual DJ" (mixing fragments of music that were collected "somewhere out there in the Internet")
DSCN3593.JPG: Dave Griffiths (aka nebogeo) live-programming a techno-like beat.
DSCN3594.JPG: Again Dave. High geek factor here!
DSCN3595.JPG: Relaxed audience: Frank, Georg, Sebastian, Marije
DSCN3596.JPG: More audience.
DSCN3597.JPG: Next performer: Gerard van Dongen (also composer)
DSCN3598.JPG: Again (blurry) Gerard. In the background, live VJ'ing by kysucix from Italy.
DSCN3599.JPG: Again Gerard. Too bad you cannot see how madly his Force-Feedback joystick was moving all the time :-).
DSCN3600.JPG: Again Gerard.
DSCN3601.JPG: Jörn Nettingsmeier, greeting kysucix and letting the audience know that this is in fact *live* *remote* VJing (with a latency of just 1-2 seconds).
DSCN3602.JPG: Again Jörn.
DSCN3603.JPG: Victor Lazzarini, creating Csoundish bird chirping.
DSCN3604.JPG: Again Victor. I really like this picture for its colors and clarity!
DSCN3605.JPG: The jam part of the night begins, after a short break.
DSCN3606.JPG: Combined forces of Csound and Pd.
DSCN3607.JPG: ..with additional stomping beats from Frank van de Pol's laptop.
DSCN3608.JPG: No need to explain who is operating this laptop.
DSCN3609.JPG: An..uhm.."artistic shot".
DSCN3610.JPG: More arts. Hm,I even like it.
DSCN3611.JPG: Almost completely blurry. Though I only had 5 beers.. or was it 6? or..
DSCN3613.JPG: No, he's not trying to eat the keyboard. He's after the laptop's built-in microphone for some feedback sounds.
DSCN3614.JPG: Again, "visual arts". Can you feel the mood in the air?
DSCN3615.JPG: Yes, arts. Sure.
DSCN3616.JPG: Arts, with a blurry IRC log in front.
DSCN3617.JPG: Sunday: Andrea Glorioso about "AGNULA Libre Music" (ALM)
DSCN3618.JPG: Again Andrea.
DSCN3619.JPG: Dave Phillips: "Where are we going and why aren't we there yet?"
DSCN3620.JPG: More Dave for your money.
DSCN3624.JPG: Almost the whole MusE team in one spot: Me, Joachim Schiele, Mathias Lundgren, Robert Jonsson, Werner Schweer.
DSCN3625.JPG: Same team again. Would you buy a sequencer from these friendly guys?
DSCN3626.JPG: SurfStation: Stephane Letz working together with Rui Nuno Capela.
DSCN3627.JPG: Same as before. The first visitors are waving good-bye.
DSCN3628.JPG: Final dinner on Sunday evening. Still, a nice crowd is left and will only depart the next day.
DSCN3629.JPG: People don't seem to get tired. On the right side, with the orange pullover, is Jürgen Reuter ("SoundPaint").
DSCN3630.JPG: Paul Davis amongst his fans. Left of him: Kjetil Matheussen
DSCN3631.JPG: More final dinner fotos.
DSCN3632.JPG: ..and more.
DSCN3634.JPG: Enough of that fun part. Back to serious work.
DSCN3635.JPG: *Really* serious work.
DSCN3636.JPG: I can spot the bug in the redraw code from here.
group.jpg: The whole posse (at least those who were still there on Sunday afternoon).
Standing, left to right: Sebastian Raible, Eric Rzewnicki, Jürgen Reuter, Paul Davis, Fons Adriaensen, Ico Bukvic, Dave Griffiths, Christoph Eckert, Gerard van Dongen, Paul Nasca, John ffitch, Josh Green, Frank van de Pol, Ludger Brümmer, Robert Jonsson, Free Ekanayaka, Werner Schweer, Kjetil Matheussen, Alexandre Cominu (correct?), Mathias Lundgren, Stephane Letz
Sitting on desk: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Andrea Glorioso, Marije Baalman, Dave Phillips, Emiliano Grilli (correct?)
Sitting on floor: Götz Dipper, Frank Neumann
See you again at the ZKM in 2006!
Frank Neumann, May 7th, 2005