Presented by createdigitalmusic.com and Mindpirates, Laptops on Acid is a three-day exploration in which you’ll make your own free DIY tools for beats and visuals. Peter Kirn, Berlin-based audiovisual artist and founder of the well-known online community Create Digital Music, holds an open lab and workshop, culminating in a jam session and party, covering free and open source computer performance and open to all.

Whether you’re an artist, musician, designer, DJ or VJ, or if you have always have had the itch to create, you can now mobilize the tools that you already have to make your own device for audiovisuals entirely from free software – no previous coding background required.

Peter will provide hands-on instruction on how to develop your skills in producing electronic music and visual concepts by creating your own custom tools for making beats, noises, and live visuals in Pure Data and Processing. Bring a laptop or netbook running OS X, Windows, or Linux and you can transform it into a synth, drum machine, noisemaker, visualizer or VJ tool.

>> From workshop to performance
Throughout the three days, Laptops on Acid will combine three components:

1. LEARN: hands-on lessons in the software, and a demonstration of simple examples.
2. HACK: in an open lab format, try your own projects. If you have any, bring controllers and input devices like MIDI keyboards, joysticks or tablets.
3. PLAY: an open jam on the final day will let you try playing music and visuals together, with projectors and PA. Non-participants are welcome to join in as well.

On Saturday night, all of our participants will pool their skills together in an open jam from 19h. The workshop will come to a close at the VOID x Offline party – also featuring a live performance by workshop instructor Peter Kirn and Benjamin Weiss in the NERK/KIRN formation. Entry is free for all workshop participants from 23h.

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Mindpirates Projektraum
Thursday:
19:00 – 23:00 Learn
Friday:
19:00 – 23:00 Hack

Mindpirates Vereinsheim
Saturday:
15:00 – 19:00 Hack
19:00 – 23:00 Play: open jam session
23:00 – open end VOID X Offline party

The event will be held in English.

Three-day workshop incl. dinner each day and entrance to the party on Saturday: €40
For Mindpirates members: €35 (€5 of your €40 ticket will be reimbursed at the door). To become a member, write to info@mindpirates.org.

>> SIGN UP and get your ticket before May 21st on laptopsonacid.eventbrite.com
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PETER KIRN (US)

Peter Kirn is a Berlin-based audiovisual artist, technologist, and journalist. Classically trained in composition and piano, his music and visuals meld minimalist and experimental dance music influences with a focus on texture and abstraction. He also writes about technology and creativity, primarily as the founder of widely-read daily sites Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion. He has also contributed to Popular Science, Make, Keyboard, Macworld, and DE:BUG, among others. He teaches and develops free technologies for creative coding and creation, and is co-creator of the open source MeeBlip hardware synth.

Kirn’s work has been presented at venues including B-Seite (Mannheim), Live Performers Meeting (LPM, Rome), Patch A/V Festival (Krakow), Frequency Festival (Lincoln, UK) CommuniKey Festival (Boulder, CO), Devotion Gallery (New York), In/Out Festival (New York), InterAccess Gallery (Toronto), LEAP – Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (Berlin), Dance Theater Workshop (New York), Boston CyberArts Festival Ideas in Motion (Boston), Vorspiel at Supermarkt (Berlin), and others. He is a PhD Candidate in Music Composition at The City University of New York Graduate Center.

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They thought they had escaped the war, but fate decided otherwise. In order to survive, Komona will need to return to where she came from and make amends with her past.

Around them, war rages on….

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VOID joins forces with Offline Samizdat to launch the first issue of their Berlin-based, globally focused zine. Offline collaborators will provide music and visuals on the night. Disciplinary house, stern techno, and generally strict vibes.

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Privacy (VOID)
Moon Wheel (Not Not Fun)
Lower Order Ethics (Technokunst)

Live visuals by:
NZNZ (FxLD)

Denver-based Brittany Gould, aka Married In Berdichev, melds and multiplies her voice with echoing, noisy electronic loops and static as well as bells and singing bowls. Gould has taken a concept long mined for harsh vibes and created some of the finest pieces of music we’ve ever heard.

Fellow Denverite SFTSTPS, now based in Berlin, brings his joyous glitched-out electronic pop into the fray, together with the experimental psychetronics of Memory Foam. With a backing soundtrack of ritualistic sounds and drones provided by BlackBlackGold (UnReaL/PURGE), it promises to be an unforgettable night of beauty and strangeness.

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Married In Berdichev

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Memory Foam

BlackBlackGold