Scott Hewitts Personal Blog

Holidays

Holiday time is upon me and for once Im going to try and have a real holiday; ok so I going to take my laptop with me but only so I can Facebook my holiday pics.

However it does seam a good moment to review on the last few months and give your all something to check out while I am away;

My portrait project continues though I have found it impossible to do one a week just been to busy.

http://twp.scotthewitt.co.uk

www.livecoding.co.uk continues to go from strength to strength

My Facebook dokuwiki plugin has seen some use.

http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:fbsp

The next set of inclusive improv projects are being planned and I am happy to report that it is far to big for me to look after it all any more. One really cool project is the #creativepact

http://www.inclusiveimprov.co.uk/creativepact-2010

Finally I have been able to establish the International Association of Laptop Orchestras (IALO) with the aim of providing a centralised reference point about laptop orchestras.

www.ialo.org

So see you when I get back

Scott

Facebook Plugin for Dokuwiki

So if you are a DokuWiki user you might find this interesting.

Facebook Social Plugin for Dokuwiki

Is a dokuwiki plugin which makes it easy to include Facebook box comment and like plugins on a dokuwiki site quickly and easily.

How easily you just need to type or and the syntax plugin does all the rest of the work.

Is my first ever dokuwiki plugin I have released publicly so expect a couple of quick revision after I get some feedback.

Hope people find it useful and if you don't know of Dokuwiki it is an easy to use powerful wiki platform that does not need a SQL database.

Blog Distractions

So allowing my distractions to overwhelm me I have started two new blogs.

The first one blog.inclusiveimprov.co.uk is the blog for the inclusive improv. Will be a mix of improv related things, admin for ii stuff and hopefully an easier way to communicate. It will also generate a better kind of rss feed than the wiki site.

Also supporting a wiki is the new blog for livecoding.co.uk you can read it at blog.livecoding.co.uk. Intend it to be a blog about live coding in general with some reference to the live coding videos on the site. Incidentally if you have not checked out livecoding.co.uk you should do.

And as exciting as all that is after deciding not to establish my own form of currency I have another project for the rest of the week. More on that soon.

New York ICMC Thursday

Train ride to Stony Brook including double decker train!

More good papers

Sense/Stage - low cost, open source wireless sensor infrastructure for live performance and interactive, real-time environments Marije Baalman

Tea in Fort Jefferson at The Catch very good fish and chips

Evening concert on the water edge so lots of nighttime shooting.

Late night stuff enjoyed Radio Wonderland by Joshua Fried

and its my paper Friday

New York ICMC Wednesday

More good papers

Toward Understanding Human-Computer Interaction In Composing The Instrument by Rebecca Fiebrink

Then lunch in China Town Dim Sung GoGo

Then a stroll in central park in the sun,

More papers

The Mobile Ambisonics Equipment Of The ICST P. Faerber

The Show Must Go On: Dependable Audio Computing J. Loviscach online document.

Then across to Brooklyn to see Scott Mc Laughlins Shoals performance featured in the New York Times Blog.

Another Cheese Burger for tea at Pete's Tavern with the company of Steve Bull.

Finally icmc late night with a great performance by Chikashi Miyama.

Off to Stony Brook Thursday.

New York ICMC 2010 Tuesday

Busy day of presentations personal highlights,

An Embedded Hardware Platform for Fungible Interfaces. by Avrum Hollinger

Argos: An Open Source Application For Building Multi-Touch Musical Interfaces. by D. Diakopoulos

and enjoyed todays Huddersfield papers

A Wireless, Real-Time, Social Music Performance System For Mobile Phones. by Ian Gibson.

and

SpectralConway: Cellular Automata Off The Grid. by Scott Mc Laughlin.

Enjoyed really good pizza for lunch.

Then an excellent Cheese burger from the Chelsea Gallery Diner 7th Avenue and some fine Jazz at Arthurs Tavern Sheridton 57 Grove Street just off 7th Ave.

Finally late night icmc gig at the City Winery followed up by walk back through Times Square.

New York ICMC 2010 Monday

Arrived at the International Computer Music Confrence 2010 in New York very excited to be back in New York and looking forward to the presentations and concerts to come.

Had an enjoyable meal in Little Korea and a trip to times square as well, all good� and the Hotel Pennsylvania is all right though a bit dated inside and with a shower for short people.

Three performances this week

Three performances this week...

Firstly as part of HELO PG playing in the Future Everything Laptop Prom Manchester 2pm Saturday 15th May

More details
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118657771491105.

Then a performance on Tuesday as one of the One Man Laptop Bands, Sleepers 8pm Huddersfield

More details
http://www.inclusiveimprov.co.uk/doku.p ... -18-iigig4

Finally Saturday 22 May a mammoth live code as part of the Week of Speakers more about that soon.

Going to be a busy week :)

Happening this week.

Wednesday 10th March miniWofS at Huddersfield University including a performance of my most recent composition Monome Swirls and an untitled experiment by Adam Jansch.

Then I am performing at Interlace a series of concerts curated by Sebastian Lexer, Saturday the 13th March, Goldsmiths College London.

And as if that was not enough the latest inclusive improv podcast was just released 'WofS so far' presented by myself.

Going to be a busy week.

ChucK at the MSP Power User Symposium

Currently working on a presentation about ChucK for some Max/MSP power users at the Huddersfield Uni GEMdays festival. Will be fun being the odd person out and there are a lot of other interesting presenters including,

� Oli Larkin will talk about some of his latest work, including new effects designs and externals.

� Alex Harker will discuss recent approaches to making complex and dynamic patches in MaxMSP - strategies include the development of reusable and reliable externals for MaxMSP.

� Dave Bessell will talk about convincing physical models for real time performance in Max/msp, with some illustrations from his piece Ophidian, for flute physical model.

� P.A. Tremblay will talk about his use of ftm-based concatenative synthesis (Diemo Schwartz's CataRT) in the design of his new laptop+bass instrument Sandbox#3.

and that was copied out of the email I was sent :)

The event is free, it is in the Creative Arts Building at the University of Huddersfield, at 1pm on Saturday 30th January. As part of GEMdays.