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Linux Audio Conference 2015 - Call for Participation
(Due to exceptional circumstances, this announcement comes a bit late, so please note the early deadline of Feb 1st for submissions. We apologize.)
We are happy to announce the next issue of the Linux Audio Conference (LAC), April 9-12, 2015 @ JGU | Johannes Gutenberg University, in Mainz, Germany.
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/
The Linux Audio Conference is an international conference that brings together musicians, sound artists, software developers and researchers, working with Linux as an open, stable, professional platform for audio and media research and music production. LAC includes paper sessions, workshops, and a diverse program of electronic music.
*Call for Papers, Workshops, Music and Installations*
We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing and media creation based on Linux and other open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic and scientific issues and should target developers or users. In our call for music, we are looking for works that have been produced or composed entirely/mostly using Linux and other open source music software.
The online submission of papers, workshops, music and installations is now open at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/participation
The deadline for all submissions is Feb 1st, 2015 (23:59 HAST).
You are invited to register for participation on our conference website. There you will find up-to-date instructions, as well as important information about dates, travel, lodging, and so on.
This year's conference is hosted by the Computer Music Research Group (Bereich Musikinformatik) at the IKM (Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft) of the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) at Mainz. Being founded in 1991, our research group has been among the first German academic institutions in this interdisciplinary field at the intersection of music, mathematics, computer science and media technology. In our media lab students are working almost exclusively with Linux, and in our research we are also devoted to contributing to the growing body of open source audio and computer music software.
http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/Musikinformatik/
We look forward to your submissions and hope to meet you in Mainz in April!
Sincerely, The LAC 2015 Organizing Team
Crossfade GNU/Linux 0.90 is a cross-platform digital DJ system for USB flash and portable hard drives. Crossfade GNU/Linux allows you to use a USB drive with your music collection to DJ on any modern PC (with an x86 or x86_64 CPU), including Apple Macs, using the DJ program Mixxx customized however you like. USB drives with Crossfade GNU/Linux installed on them show up in Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux as normal USB drives that music or any other data can be copied onto. Unlike ordinary USB drives, they can also be used to boot Crossfade GNU/Linux. After rebooting, the PC will be back to how it was before. See the manual included in the torrent for installations instructions.
Get the torrent here: http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=054465878ca40308a585654d3859786dfd79... Please seed the torrent! :)
Crossfade GNU/Linux and Mixxx are free software--free as in artistic freedom, not just price. You are free and encouraged to use, copy, *share*, and modify this software however you wish and share your changes with the community here. Sharing Crossfade GNU/Linux can be a great way to encourage friends to start DJing or introduce DJs who use proprietary software such as Traktor, Serato Scratch, Serato Itch, or Virtual DJ to free software without having to commit to installing anything on their PC.
Crossfade GNU/Linux is setup with a realtime Linux kernel for optimal performance. It includes the Xfce graphical desktop environment, Midori web browser, and Clementine music player. It has a number of other programs for live musical performance including the Hydrogen drum machine, SooperLooper and Giada loopers, Guitarix electric guitar amplifier, Rakarrak guitar effects board, Ardour digital audio workstation,Audacity wave editor, and many LV2 and LADSPA audio effects plugins. Additionally, Crossfade GNU/Linux includes utilities that make it useful as a computer rescue system, such as the GParted partition manager, GNU GRUB bootloader, TestDisk data recovery program, FSArchiver filesystem backup program, and MATE Disk Usage Analyzer. Crossfade GNU/Linux is a Fedora Remix containing software from sources other than Fedora, namely RPMFusion and PlanetCCRMA, as well as scripts and configuration specific to Crossfade GNU/Linux.
To do: -Confirm that USB drives are readable by CDJs. I do not have CDJs so help would be appreciated! (DJ Pegasus also mentioned it should be readable by his car stereo... o.O) -A logo and desktop background. I have a sketch on paper for a logo. Now I need to learn how to use Inkscape. -Internationalization. Does anyone want to volunteer to translate the liveusb-install script and manual?
I am thinking about ordering custom USB drives with the logo printed on them to sell with Crossfade preloaded. They would be either 16, 32, or 64 GB, depending on how much it would cost to make each of those. They would be metal cylinders with tight screw-on caps. The caps would be able to attach to key rings. I will try to get USB 3.0 drives if possible. I don't know what the price would be yet, but I am thinking somewhere from $10-25 USD. Would anyone be interested in buying that? How much would you be willing to pay for it?
On 03/16/2015 06:05 PM, Be wrote:
Crossfade GNU/Linux 0.90 is a cross-platform digital DJ system for USB flash and portable hard drives. Crossfade GNU/Linux allows you to use a USB drive with your music collection to DJ on any modern PC (with an x86 or x86_64 CPU), including Apple Macs, using the DJ program Mixxx customized however you like. USB drives with Crossfade GNU/Linux installed on them show up in Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux as normal USB drives that music or any other data can be copied onto. Unlike ordinary USB drives, they can also be used to boot Crossfade GNU/Linux. After rebooting, the PC will be back to how it was before. See the manual included in the torrent for installations instructions.
Get the torrent here: http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=054465878ca40308a585654d3859786dfd79... Please seed the torrent! :)
Crossfade GNU/Linux and Mixxx are free software--free as in artistic freedom, not just price. You are free and encouraged to use, copy, *share*, and modify this software however you wish and share your changes with the community here. Sharing Crossfade GNU/Linux can be a great way to encourage friends to start DJing or introduce DJs who use proprietary software such as Traktor, Serato Scratch, Serato Itch, or Virtual DJ to free software without having to commit to installing anything on their PC.
Crossfade GNU/Linux is setup with a realtime Linux kernel for optimal performance. It includes the Xfce graphical desktop environment, Midori web browser, and Clementine music player. It has a number of other programs for live musical performance including the Hydrogen drum machine, SooperLooper and Giada loopers, Guitarix electric guitar amplifier, Rakarrak guitar effects board, Ardour digital audio workstation,Audacity wave editor, and many LV2 and LADSPA audio effects plugins. Additionally, Crossfade GNU/Linux includes utilities that make it useful as a computer rescue system, such as the GParted partition manager, GNU GRUB bootloader, TestDisk data recovery program, FSArchiver filesystem backup program, and MATE Disk Usage Analyzer. Crossfade GNU/Linux is a Fedora Remix containing software from sources other than Fedora, namely RPMFusion and PlanetCCRMA, as well as scripts and configuration specific to Crossfade GNU/Linux.
To do: -Confirm that USB drives are readable by CDJs. I do not have CDJs so help would be appreciated! (DJ Pegasus also mentioned it should be readable by his car stereo... o.O) -A logo and desktop background. I have a sketch on paper for a logo. Now I need to learn how to use Inkscape. -Internationalization. Does anyone want to volunteer to translate the liveusb-install script and manual?
I am thinking about ordering custom USB drives with the logo printed on them to sell with Crossfade preloaded. They would be either 16, 32, or 64 GB, depending on how much it would cost to make each of those. They would be metal cylinders with tight screw-on caps. The caps would be able to attach to key rings. I will try to get USB 3.0 drives if possible. I don't know what the price would be yet, but I am thinking somewhere from $10-25 USD. Would anyone be interested in buying that? How much would you be willing to pay for it? _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
Be,
I am familiar with this thing, "linux", and really your little distro sounds interesting and, as I have a need for something like this for a party coming up in two weeks, I might just try it out.
Two questions:
1. is it Fedora-based or are you just promoting it here based on the music aspect? 2. where can I find your logo sketch? I can't make any promises, but I know my way around inkscape.
Cheers,
Klaatu
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