Peter Kirn _ Photo: Thomas Piper
Open Source Design and Music: MeeBlip
von Peter Kirn (US/DE)
Lecture (ENGLISH)
14/11/2012 19:00   « Zurück zu den Veranstaltungen
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Open Source Design and Music: MeeBlip
Beginn:
14/11/2012 19:00
Ende:
14/11/2012 21:00
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Peter Kirn (US/DE)
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Peter Kirn _ Photo: Thomas Piper

Fundamentally, music is sharing at its most essential. The act of performing music together, hearing music, and the common knowledge of how music is patterned and communicated, is communal.

If musical knowledge is shared, then, why not knowledge about the tools that make music, too?

Electronic musician Peter Kirn is the editor of Create Digital Music, an online chronicle of music and technology, and co-creator of the open source MeeBlip hardware. He will speak to the broader question of what open design can mean for music in general – as economic tool, collaborative design catalyst, and how it can transform musical instruments. His own hardware then becomes a case study in how shared design culture might become explicitly open source.

Music’s unique place in culture adds to the discussion of what the significance of open design can be. Musicians and music lovers have a unique relationship with their tools. While much recent technology has been proprietary in nature, makers have also had a long history of sharing common knowledge about how circuits and code can produce sound. Recently, that has led to more explicit sharing, as industry giants (Korg) and innovative newcomers (monome) share schematics and code. As digital musicians fabricate new ways of playing, this shared community can become vital, as artists modify both the mechanics of their instruments and techniques of their performance and production.

MeeBlip is the first open source music hardware to attempt the transition to broad usage as an end user product, not just a boutique item or hobbyist project. In two years in production, over a thousand units have gotten into the hands of musicians. That has meant some hard-earned lessons in manufacturing, shipping, support, and scaling. It has also yielded surprising developments in user modifications and DIY projects around the synthesizer.

Now, we get to discuss some of those lessons, how a business model can embrace complete openness while maintaining sustainability, and where the MeeBlip – and other such musical instruments – can go in the future.

 

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www.meeblip.com

 

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Project initiator:
Gerin Trautenberger
Realized by Verlag Neue Arbeit
Project manager: Nataša Sienčnik / Bernhard Tobola
Curator (exhibition):
Moya Hoke
Curator (lectures/workshops):
Nataša Sienčnik
Curator (store):
Bernhard Tobola
Exhibition design:
Franz Piffl / Lukas Bast
Graphic design: Emanuel Jesse
Website by Vincent Bauer
Printed locally with printpool, Vienna

 

Beim Vienna Open Design Contest geht es um das Gestalten und Teilen von Produkten, Mode und Dingen, die durch digitale Fabrikation gefertigt werden können. Alle teilnehmenden Designer publizieren ihre Werke unter einer Creative-Commons-Lizenz (CC-BY-NC-SA), damit jeder die Pläne der Produkte downloaden kann, um sie zu adaptieren und zu verwenden und um wiederum die veränderten Designs auf die Plattform zu stellen.


 Es gibt sechs Möglichkeiten, am Wettbewerb teilzunehmen:

 1. ReDesign – Gestalte dein eigenes Produkt oder (re)designe eines der bereits eingereichten.

2. Digitalisiere dein Design (auch nicht digitales Handwerk mit eingeschlossen).

3. Fertige dein Produkt. Nur fabrizierte Prototypen sind zugelassen, reine Ideen/Skizzen können nicht bewertet werden. 

4. Baue dein Produkt und dokumentiere das Ergebnis und den Fertigungsprozess.

5. Reiche deinen Plan oder Bilder, Bauanleitungen und Fertigungspläne (Blueprints) ein.

6. Share your design with others! - Teile deine Ideen mit Anderen!


Der Vienna Open Design Contest ist in vier Kategorien unterteilt: FORM, FOOD, FASHION und FUSION. Jeder Gestalter, der seine eigenen Produkte fertigen oder bereits existierende Produkte verändern möchte ist eingeladen, teilzunehmen. Zeig uns dein Talent – zeig uns deine Ideen! Zur Erinnerung: Jeder kann jedes publizierte Produkt redesignen oder seine eigenen Ideen und Produkte auf der Plattform jederzeit publizieren.


Einreichformular für dein Projekt: http://vienna.opendesigncontest.org/user/register


In cooperation with Waag Society und dem internationalen open design contest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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