Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of libre software projects and artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors using Linux kernel-based systems and allied libre software for audio-related work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, production, recording, and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, offer programs beneficial to members and subsequently its mission, and provide a single point of contact for prospective industry partners.

Organisations, institutions, companies, and projects of all sizes as well as individuals are involved in audio development on Linux kernel based platforms. Until the launch of Linuxaudio.org, there has not been a formal organisation to assist and promote the development of this technology. Linuxaudio.org takes its inspiration from the Open Source Development Lab, where Linux kernel development is co-ordinated, and the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum. Both of these organisations have attracted broad support from the leading companies in their respective fields.

Motivations

For many years the UJM music department and CIEREC have developed teaching, research and production around electronic music and the use of digital technologies for musical and artistic creations. During the last ten years, we can mention the opening in 2011 of a specialized master for Computer Music Producers and in 2016 a new master for Computer Art Producers, the creation of several computer music classrooms, an auditorium, and two recording and mixing studios at the university. The University and the French National Agency for the Research have funded several research projects on DSP technology and on the development of Open-Source software, in partnership with GRAME.

In 2011, we have organized the JIM2011 (French-speaking computer music days) and several other international conferences have already been held during the last decade and have been published. So we have a rich experience in organizing and hosting international events.

Today, it seems to us important to focus on digital practices on free software, especially Open-Source tools that put together communities on common projects.

May 2017 is situated at the end of the semester, and we can therefore have many classrooms, amphitheaters to host the conferences, installations, demos, workshops and concerts.

Audience expected: students (in music, arts, DSP, computer science), musicians, researchers, developers….

Dates

Conferences:

Thursday, May 18, Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20, 2017. 9:30am-00:30pm and 02:00pm – 06:30pm.

Concerts:

Thursday, May 18 – 06:30 pm
Friday, May 19 – 08:30 pm
Saturday, May 20 – 08:30 pm

Scheduling

Call for Participation: December 10, 2016
Deadline for submissions: February 10, 2017
Acceptance notification: March 10, 2017
Final deadline for ‘camera ready’ paper: April 10, 2017
Author registration deadline: April 20, 2017
Final program: May 1, 2017
LAC 2017 conference: May, 18-20, 2017

Lac2017 Committees

Organizers

CIEREC (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Étude et de Recherche sur l’Expression Contemporaine), director: Danièle Méaux, directors of the Electronic Team: Laurent Pottier & Vincent Ciciliato.
Music Department of Jean Monnet University (UJM), director: Anne Damon- Guillot.
GRAME (National Center for Musical Creation), director: James Giroudon, scientific director: Yann Orlarey
Random-Lab, Center for Open Researches in Art, Design and New Media at ESADSE (Art School of Saint-Etienne), director: David-Olivier Lartigaud.
Association « Le son des choses » (Acousmatic Music).
Contact

Laurent Pottier –
Organizing committee

Vincent Ciciliato, Lecturer (Digital Arts) at CIEREC (UJM)
Thomas Cipierre, PhD student (Musicology) at CIEREC (UJM)
Sébastien Clara, PhD student (Musicology) at CIEREC (UJM)
David-Olivier Lartigaud (Director of Random-Lab)
Yann Orlarey, Scientific director of GRAME
Laurent Pottier, Lecturer (Musicology) at CIEREC (UJM)
Lionel Rascle, Professor (Musical School – St Chamond & Rive de Giers)
Scientific committee

Marije Baalman, Artist, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alain Bonardi, CICM Paris VIII University France
Guilherme Carvalho, UPV Montpellier University, France
Vincent Ciciliato, CIEREC Saint-Etienne University, France
Thierry Coduys, Le Hub, IanniX, Nice, France
Myriam Desainte–Catherine, LABRI, Bordeaux University, France
Catinca Dumitrascu, GRAME Lyon France
Philippe Ezequel, CIEREC Saint-Etienne University, France
Dominique Fober, GRAME Lyon France
Robin Gareus,audio/video post-production and hardware/software development
Albert Graef, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz – Germany
Madeline Huberth, CCRMA, Stanford University, United States
Pierre Jouvelot, MINES ParisTech, Paris France
David-Olivier Lartigaud, Art School of Saint-Etienne, France
Victor Lazzarini, Maynooth University, Ireland
Romain Michon, CCRMA, Stanford University, United States
Frank Neuman, Ettlingen, Germany
Yann Orlarey, GRAME Lyon France
Laurent Pottier, CIEREC Saint-Etienne University, France
Miller Puckette, University of California San Diego, USA
Elodie Rabibisoa, Saint-Etienne France
Lionel Rascle, Music School, St Chamond, France
Julius Smith, CCRMA, Stanford University, United States
Partners

ESADSE (Superior Art and Design School of Saint-Etienne).
CRR (Music Conservatory of Saint-Etienne).
FIL (Popular Music Scene of Saint-Etienne).
Association « Electro-M » (Electronic Music Students at UJM)
Association « Le son des choses » (Acousmatic Music).