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Slub - realtime coding performance
Date: 4 June 2005
Duration: 2 hours
Venue: Tate Modern

Introduction

Slub is a collaboration between Adrian Ward and Alex McLean. Together they write generative software applications and perform them in realtime. Slub performed live in the Starr Auditorium Foyer as part of the Curating Immateriality Systems conference.

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Performance - Track Downloads

Listed below are five selected exerpts from the live performance at Tate Modern.

Track 1 - 7 mins 128kbps MP3 Download
Track 2 - 8mins 128kbps MP3 Download
Track 3 - 5mins 128kbps MP3 Play
Track 4 - 5 mins 128kbps MP3 Download
Track 5 - 7 mins 128kbps MP3 Download

These files are in 128 kb MP3 format. Clicking once on the download button will download the file to your default download folder. To select where to download the files to your computer on a (PC) right click and select save target as / on a (Mac) ctrl click and select download link to disk (download will take a few minutes). Then open the files in any mp3 compatible player.

Creative Commons License These 5 tracks by Slub, are licensed under an Attribution-Non-Commercial Share-Alike 1.0 (UK) Creative Commons Licence. As licenced via a contributors agreement with the original author. Terms of the Licence: You are free to copy and distribute the work in conjunction with this licence. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. See here for further information on Creative Commons.

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Entire live performance

Below is the entire live performance, recorded live at Tate Modern. The file may take some time to download - for smaller track samples see above under Track Downloads.

Full performance - 1 hour 13 minutes 128kbps MP3 Download

These files are in 128 kb MP3 format. Clicking once on the download button will download the file to your default download folder. To select where to download the files to your computer on a (PC) right click and select save target as / on a (Mac) ctrl click and select download link to disk (download will take a few minutes). Then open the files in any mp3 compatible player.

Creative Commons License This performance recording by Slub, is licensed under an Attribution-Non-Commercial Share-Alike 1.0 (UK) Creative Commons Licence. As licenced via a contributors agreement with the original author. Terms of the Licence: You are free to copy and distribute the work in conjunction with this licence. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. See here for further information on Creative Commons.

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Code + Software Download

Slub perform live, generating real time sound with command line code. Here you will find samples of code used live in performance. Slub have also contributed some of their source code, used in performance, to the kurator.org database.

Code Samples and PD software download - 9 mb zip file Download

To download the zip file:
To select where to download the files to your computer on a (PC) right click and select save target as / on a (Mac) ctrl click and select download link to disk (download will take a few minutes). Once the file is downloaded you will have to unzip the file with Winzip which you can download here. To run the code you will need a copy of Pure Data (PD) which you can download and install by following the instructions below.

Software Installation:
Pd is a free real-time computer music software package resembling Max. You can get Pd for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, or IRIX from: http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html or ftp://felix.ucsd.edu

Installation instructions are in the html documentation:
http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/index.htm

The following terms (the "Standard Improved BSD License") apply to all files associated with the software unless explicitly disclaimed in individual files. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

Except as otherwise noted, all files in the Pd distribution are Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Miller Puckette and others.

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