Pure Data

Pure Data (or Pd) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. Pure Data is commonly used for live music performance, VJing, sound effects, composition, audio analysis, interfacing with sensors, using cameras, controlling robots or even interacting with websites. Because all of these various media are handled as digital data within the program, many fascinating opportunities for cross-synthesis between them exist. Sound can be used to manipulate video, which could then be streamed over the internet to another computer which might analyze that video and use it to control a motor-driven installation. (Source)

Pages

• Tim Blechmann
• Michal Cáb
• Peter Gonda
• Pepa Henzl
• Derek Holzer
• Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics UMDA Graz
• Chun Lee
• Sjoerd Leijten
• Alberto Novello
• OpenLab
• Kubo Pišek
• Miller Puckette
• Pure Data Convention
• Ulla Rauter
• Malte Steiner

Resources

• PD wiki
• PD community website
• PD user forum

Literature

bang. Pure Data, 2006, Log.

Johannes Kreidler, Loadbang: Programming Electronic Music in Pd, 2nd ed., 2013, PDF.

• bang. Pure Data, ed. Fränk Zimmer, Hofheim: Wolke, 2006, 175 pp. With DVD.

• FLOSS Manuals: Pure Data, 2006ff.

• Johannes Kreidler, Loadbang: Programming Electronic Music in Pd, Hofheim: Wolke, 2009, 278 pp; 2nd ed., rev., Hofheim: Wolke, 2013, 278 pp. [1]
  • translations

• Miller Puckette, "Étude de cas sur les logiciels pour artistes: Max/MSP et Pure Data", in Art ++, ed. David-Olivier Lartigaud, Orléans: HYX, 2011, pp 178-191. (French)
  • "A Case Study in Software for Artists: Max/MSP and PD", 5 Jul 2016.

• Michal Cáb, Pure Data: rukověť postdigitálního umělce, Prague: Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, 2014, 224 pp. PhD dissertation. (Czech)

• Publications on Pure Data at Monoskop Log

See also

SuperCollider, Max/MSP, Sound art, Live coding

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