This is an overview of the program schedule. See below for more detailed informations. All events except the concert on saturday will be held in the main building of the university of music, drama and media at Neues Haus 1 in Hannover. The saturday concert will be at Plathnerstr. 35.

Friday September 30

17:00 Welcome
17:15 Richard Boulanger: Csound yesterday, today and tomorrow
19:30 Concert session with Richard Boulanger and friends

Saturday October 1

09:00 - 11:00 Papers
11:30 - 14:00 Workshops
15:00 - 18:00 Developer-User-Roundtable I: Technology
19:30 Concert (Kammermusiksaal Plathnerstr. 35)

Sunday October 2

09:00 - 11:00 Papers
11:30 - 14:00 Workshops
15:00 - 18:00 Developer-User-Roundtable II: Community
18:00 Farewell

Location: HMTM Hannover, Neues Haus 1, 30175 Hannover, Room E 15

17:00 Welcome (Joachim Heintz)

17:15 Csound yesterday, today and tomorrow (Richard Boulanger)

18:30 Reception

19:30 Concert session
Richard Boulanger and friends playing with Csound and Wiimotes, iPads, iPhones, p5 gloves and other stuff.

Sound installations from Iain McCurdy, Clemens von Reusner and others in the Foyer.

Location: HMTM Hannover, Neues Haus 1, 30175 Hannover

Sound installations from Iain McCurdy, Clemens von Reusner and others in the Foyer during the whole day.

09:00 - 11:00 PAPERS (Room E 15)

09:00 - 09:40 Python Scripting in QuteCsound (Andrés Cabrera)

09:40 - 10:20 Csound and Object-orientation: Designing and implementing Cellular Automata for Algorithmic Composition (Reza Payami)

10:20 - 11:00 A Personal View on Teaching Csound (Gleb G. Rogozinsky)

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 14:00 WORKSHOPS

Most of the Workshops are repeated twice to give the attendees the chance to visit two of three workshops.

11:30 - 12:45  Slot I

• Writing Csound Opcodes in Lua - Part I: Conception (Michael Gogins) (Room 130)
• Csound - Max/MSP translation: Implementing a framework for Serial Composition and Frequency Modulation (Reza Payami) (Room 315)
• Composing with blue - Part 1 (Steven Yi) (Room Z 40)

12:45  - 14:00 Slot II

• Writing Csound Opcodes in Lua - Part II: Examples (Michael Gogins) (Room 130)
• Csound - Max/MSP translation: Implementing a framework for Serial Composition and Frequency Modulation (Reza Payami) (Room 315)
• Composing with blue - Part 1I (Steven Yi) (Room Z 40)

14:00 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 18:00 DEVELOPER-USER-ROUNDTABLE I: TECHNOLOGY (Room E 15)

The discussions between developers, users and the audience are initiated by a short statement (aka init-pass). The chair of this roundtable is Victor Lazzarini.

15:00 - 15:20 New Parser and Multithreading
What's the state of development, what will be possible when it's finished.
init-pass: John ffitch

15:20 - 15:40 New Language Features: Csound5 or Csound6?
Arrays, control structures and more: What can be included now; what is for Csound6.
init-pass: Michael Gogins

15:40 - 16:00 Performance Improvements
Realtime safe memory allocation. How to improve performance and optimization. What kind of compiler optimizations or vectorizing is possible. Inlining functions, introspection. debugging.
init-pass: Andrés Cabrera and Michael Gogins

16:00 - 16:20 The Csound API
Functionality, Problems and further Development
init-pass: François Pinot

16:20 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:00 Csound's design philosophy
Individual developer motivation and a clear direction of development with a common sense of purpose
init-pass: Steven Yi

17:00 - 18:00 Towards Csound6
Which decisions to take to the next major version of Csound
init-pass: Andrés Cabrera and Jacob Joaquin

19:30 CONCERT

Location: Kammermusiksaal, Plathnerstr. 35, 30175 Hannover

Luis Antunes Pena: TRÊS QUADROS SOBRE PEDRA

Giacomo Grassi: GEOGRAPHIES

John ffitch: PRAN

Reza Payami: THE ECHO

Enrico Francioni: ... ED IO STO AL CENTRO

Jan Jacob Hofmann: ZEITFORMATION

Wolfgang Motz: ... UND LÄCHELND IHR ÜBEL UMARMEN

Tarmo Johannes: CHEBYCHEV

Elke Svoboda: VINETA

Nicola Monopoli: THE RITE OF JUDGMENT

Oeyvind Brandtsegg / Bernt Isak Warstad: RAZOR CHOPPER

Location: HMTM Hannover, Neues Haus 1, 30175 Hannover

Sound installations from Iain McCurdy, Clemens von Reusner and others in the Foyer during the whole day.

09:00 - 11:00 PAPERS (Room E 15)

09:00 - 09:40 Circumspectral Sound Diffusion (Peiman Khoshravi)

09:40 - 10:20 Creating reverb effects using granular synthesis (Kim Ervik and Oyvind Brandtsegg)

10:20 - 11:00 PWGL: A Score Editor for Csound (Massimo Avantaggiato)

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 14:00 WORKSHOPS

All Workshops are repeated twice to give the attendees the chance to visit two of three workshops.

11:30 - 12:45  Slot I

• quince: new ways of modular musical editing (Maximilian Marcoll) (Room 130)
• Csound for Live (Richard Boulanger) (Room 315)
• Developing Csound Plugins with Cabbage (Rory Walsh) (Room Z 40)

12:45  - 14:00 Slot II

• quince: new ways of modular musical editing (Maximilian Marcoll) (Room 130)
• Csound for Live (Richard Boulanger) (Room 315)
• Developing Csound Plugins with Cabbage (Rory Walsh) (Room Z 40)

14:00 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 18:00 Developer-User-Roundtable II: COMMUNITY (Room E 15)

The discussions between developers, users and the audience are initiated by a short statement (aka init-pass). The chair of this roundtable is Richard Boulanger.

15:00 - 15:30 Lists, Forum, Tutorials: Is there enough help for learning Csound?
Analysis of the current state and suggestions for further improvements.
init-pass: Joachim Heintz and Menno Knevel

15:30 - 16:00 Confusion or prosperity: Different frontends for Csound
QuteCsound, WinXound, MacCsound, Blue, Cabbage - should there be any unification?
init-pass: Andrés Cabrera, Steven Yi, Rory Walsh

16:00 - 16:30 Csound and its users
Where does it excel, what role does it play in users' music making, and where are areas to further grow.
init-pass: Steven Yi and Oeyvind Brandtsegg

16:30 - 16:40 Break

16:40 - 17:10 Ways of user participation
What can users do (bug reports, sharing examples, uploading UDO's). Which participation do users look for. What is the optimal workflow between users and developers.
init-pass: Iain McCurdy, Peiman Khoshravi

17:10 - 17:30 User's wish list
A collection and discussion of features users like to see in Csound.
init-pass: Rory Walsh

17:30 - 18:00 Do we need a Csound Foundation?
Csound development between volutariness and the lack of money.
init-pass: Victor Lazzarini

18:00 Farewell (Joachim Heintz)