LAC 2015 - Conference Schedule

April 9-12 @ Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany
All times are CEST = UTC+2

Day 1 - Thursday, April/9

TimeMain venue (P1)Workshop I (P2)Workshop II (P5)
9:00---
9:30Conference Welcome (30mins)
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10:00Toolbox for acoustic scene creation and rendering (TASCAR): Render methods and research applications (45mins)
Giso Grimm, Joanna Luberadzka, Tobias Herzke, Volker Hohmann
Composing Game Soundtracks - Demonstration and Discussion (100mins)
Nils Gey
Publishing plugins on the MOD Cloud (120mins)
MOD Team
10:15
10:30
10:45-
11:00-
11:15-
11:30-
11:45--
12:00---
12:15LUNCH BREAK (105mins)
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12:30--
13:00--
13:30--
14:00Keynote: Emerging Technologies for Musical Audio Synthesis and Effects (90mins)
Julius Orion Smith III
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14:15--
14:30--
14:45--
15:00--
15:15--
15:30Live 3D Sound Spatialization with 3Dj (15mins)
Andres Perez-Lopez
Audio measurement workshop (part 2) (150mins)
Fons Adriaensen
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15:45NixOS for Musicians (15mins)
Bart Brouns, Cillian de Róiste
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16:00The LAC2014 Percussion Combo (15mins)
Frank Neumann
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16:15COFFEE BREAK (15mins)
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16:30Postrum II: A Posture Aid for Trumpet Players (45mins)
Mat Dalgleish, Chris Payne, Steve Spencer
Open Educational Resources: Remixing Manuals and Tutorials for Linux Audio (90mins)
Bruno Ruviaro
16:45
17:00
17:15-
17:30-
17:45-
18:00---
20:00Opening Concert: Space/ Landscape of Sound (≈90mins) » Roter Saal
Legend
Paper PresentationLightning TalkPoster Session
InstallationWorkshopMiscellaneous

Day 2 - Friday, April/10

TimeMain venue (P1)Workshop I (P2)Workshop II (P5)
9:00---
9:30---
10:00Faust audio DSP language in the Web (45mins)
Stephane Letz, Sarah Denoux, Yann Orlarey, Dominique Fober
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10:15--
10:30--
10:45AVTK - the UI Toolkit behind OpenAV Software (45mins)
Harry van Haaren
A Musician's View: Exploring common features of Yoshimi and ZynAddSubFX (60mins)
Will Godfrey
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11:00-
11:15-
11:30Ingen: A Meta-Modular Plugin Environment (45mins)
David Robillard
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11:45--
12:00--
12:15LUNCH BREAK (105mins)
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12:30--
13:00--
13:30--
14:00Testing audio plugins and UIs with Carla (15mins)
Felipe 'falktx' Coelho
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14:15RTML: a Real-Time Machine Listening Framework (15mins)
Andres Perez-Lopez
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14:30Improvisation: FFT Analysis/Resynthesis (15mins)
Marc Groenewegen
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14:45Segment Synthesizer (45mins)
Andre Sklenar, Michal Sykora, Amir Hammad, Martin Patera
Arch Linux as a lightweight audio platform (90mins)
David Runge
Building HTML plugin interfaces for the MOD Web GUI (90mins)
MOD Team
15:00
15:15
15:30Sound Synthesis with Periodic Linear Time-Varying Filters (45mins)
Antonio Goulart, Marcelo Queiroz, Joseph Timoney, Victor Lazzarini
15:45
16:00
16:15COFFEE BREAK (15mins)
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16:30Bitwig Studio (90mins)
Heiko Weinen
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16:45--
17:00--
17:15--
17:30--
17:45--
18:00---
20:00IMA Concert: Time / Sound Machines (≈105mins) » Roter Saal

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11

TimeMain venue (P1)FoyerWorkshop I (P2)Workshop II (P5)
9:00----
9:30----
10:00Low Delay Audio Streaming for a 3D Audio Recording System (45mins)
Marzena Malczewska, Tomasz Żernicki, Piotr Szczechowiak
-Ten years of Qstuff*: Is it good enough already? (120mins)
Rui Nuno Capela
Building custom hardware controllers using the chain controller interface and the Arduino microcontroller (120mins)
MOD Team
10:15-
10:30-
10:45Timing issues in desktop audio playback infrastructure (45mins)
Alexander Patrakov
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11:00-
11:15-
11:30-Poster Session (60mins)
11:45-
12:00---
12:15LUNCH BREAK (105mins)
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12:30---
13:00---
13:30---
14:00Embedded Sound Synthesis (45mins)
Victor Lazzarini, Joseph Timoney, Shane Byrne
-MIDI Player Pro (60mins)
Hans Petter Selasky
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14:15--
14:30--
14:45MobileFaust: a Set of Tools to Make Musical Mobile Applications with the Faust Programming Language (45mins)
Romain Michon, Julius Orion Smith III, Yann Orlarey
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15:00---
15:15---
15:30A Taste of Sound Reasoning (45mins)
Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, Oliver Hermant, Pierre Jouvelot
-Playing live with Carla (45mins)
Filipe Coelho
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15:45--
16:00--
16:15COFFEE BREAK (15mins)
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16:30First Faust Open-Source Software Award (45mins)
Yann Orlarey
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16:45---
17:00---
17:15Quo Vadis? Open Discussion (45mins)
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17:30---
17:45---
18:00----
20:00Live: Sound at Play (≈105mins) » Roter Saal
22:00Sound Night (>3h) » Baron


Concerts & Installations

Concerts

At LAC'14, there are three electro-acoustic concerts and a club-night. The electro-acoustic concerts take place in the "Roter Saal", and club-night in the "Baron"

All concert venues are within 5min walking distance of the main venue on campus. Entrance is free.

Concert Line up

Day 1 - Thursday, April/9 
Concert
20:00 Topos Concrete
  Clemens von Reusner » Location: Roter Saal

Day 1 - Thursday, April/9 
Concert
20:00 Klinga
  Helene Hedsund » Location: Roter Saal

Day 1 - Thursday, April/9 
Concert
20:00 Benjolin
  Patrick Gunawan Hartono » Location: Roter Saal

Day 1 - Thursday, April/9 
Concert
20:00 Voce231114
  Massimo Fragalà » Location: Roter Saal

Day 2 - Friday, April/10 
Concert
20:00 speaking clock
  Mari Ohno » Location: Roter Saal

Day 2 - Friday, April/10 
Concert
20:00 Selva di varie intonazioni
  Michele Del Prete » Location: Roter Saal

Day 2 - Friday, April/10 
Concert
20:00 The Hidden and Mysterious Machinery of Sound
  Fernando Lopez-Lezcano » Location: Roter Saal

Day 2 - Friday, April/10 
Concert
20:00 Coloured Dots And The Voids In Between
  Jan Jacob Hofmann » Location: Roter Saal

Day 2 - Friday, April/10 
Concert
21:30 Embedded Artist
(30 min)  Wolfgang Spahn, Malte Steiner » Location: Installation Space

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Concert
20:00 Spielzeug #1 - poco a poco accelerando al sinus - for two Wii-Remotes
  Jonghyun Kim » Location: Roter Saal

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Concert
20:00 Cancelled: Duo Improvisation for Live-Coding and Motion Gesture-Following
  Jonghyun Kim, Sungmin Park » Location: Roter Saal

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Concert
20:00 TBA
  Matthias Grabenhorst, Jörn Nettingsmeier » Location: Roter Saal

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Concert
20:00 Dance I
  Jaeseong You » Location: Roter Saal

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Sound Night
22:00 Vagabundo Barbudo meets Listening Lights
  Andres Perez-Lopez » Location: Baron

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Sound Night
22:00 Hallogenerator
Site  
  Jakub Pisek, Roman Lauko » Location: Baron

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Sound Night
22:00 Superdirt² - cello & live linux electro
Site  
  Vincent Rateau, Daniel Fritzsche » Location: Baron

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Sound Night
22:00 visinin
  William Light » Location: Baron

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Sound Night
22:00 Pjotr & Bass
  Pjotr Lasschuit, Bass Jansson » Location: Baron


Installations


Day 1 - Thursday, April/9 
Installation
15:30 Interactive virtual audio-visual concert simulation with TASCAR
(150 min)  Giso Grimm, Joanna Luberadzka, Tobias Herzke, Volker Hohmann » Location: Installation Space

Day 2 - Friday, April/10 
Installation
10:00 The Sound Of People
(135 min)  David Runge » Location: Installation Space

Day 2 - Friday, April/10 
Installation
14:00 Cancelled: acoustic cluster (video presentation)
(135 min)  Mari Ohno » Location: Installation Space

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Installation
11:30 3Dj (software demonstration)
(45 min)  Andres Perez-Lopez » Location: Installation Space

Day 3 - Saturday, April/11 
Installation
14:00 C/K/P
(135 min)  Adam Neal » Location: Installation Space

The schedule is a major guideline. There is no guarantee events will take place at the announced timeslot.