Four of the Jamoma developers are meeting in Kansas City for a one week workshop focusing on audio processing. As part of the program developers will be giving artist talks at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and an improvisational concert featuring the artists and programmers behind Jamoma at Charlotte Street Foundation.

The Movement I-V is an iPad app by Espen Sommer Eide that explores the various possible movements of the hand and the fingers in sound manipulation. Included are a set of sounds by the artist. You can also upload your own samples.

A new version of Jamoma has been released, and for the first time in a year, a Windows installer is available as well, thanks to recent work by Adrian Gierakowski.

Read the full announcement in this Jamoma blog post, and grab the installers from the Jamoma download page.

Saturday 4th at 14:00 there will be an artist talk by Sachiko Hayashi at BEK. Sachiko was Artist in Residency at USF Verftet in 2010. Now she’s back in Bergen, so please, welcome to C. Sundtsgt. 55, 8. floor for an interesting hour.
Sunday 5th Sachiko plays with MASH at Landmark.

Witte de With presents two events in May: The opening of the group exhibition The End of Money and the first two lectures in the series To Tell The Truth. Norwegian artist Torill Johannessen participates with her newest work, developed with the contribution from BEK associates.

ComputerMusic4Kids is an interactive installation for kids, inviting them to explore the history and sound of gaming consoles. The installation is included in the Bajazz Festival, Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th of April

The Jamoma team is pleased to announce the release of the Jamoma 0.5.2 implementation for Max/MSP. This second revision of Jamoma 0.5 has been in the works for the past 6 months and brings a lot of bug fixes and new features from the exchanges and efforts of all the Jamoma community members. Please visit the download section to get a copy. Enjoy this new version!

BEK is happy to host this years Jamoma development workshop with 10 developers from France, United States and Norway. The main focus will be on implementations issues for the upcoming 0.6 version, automated testing prosedures, integration between Jamoma and other platforms, and how to move forward the coming years. Of cource, the importance of intense late night discussions will not be neglected.