Pd – open source, patches and communities
Installation

The source-audio-samples of this installation are fragments of interviews, that I've made with Pd-users. The focus
of attention of these interviews were: the working conditions, the motivation/cooperation and communication of the
Pd-community. The interviews were fragmentised and audio-coded with the sociological "open coding"-method.
Finally I got 15 different top-level codes.

There is a matrix with 15 fields in the installation space. The visitors decide with the way/fields they choose through
the installation, which audio-samples will be heard. - A slideshow shows text-statements from the different topics of
the interviews.

In a next step, the installation-library is filled with samples from Pd-users. The original interview-fragments are
accessible on a page and the transfer of the manipulated samples happens with the internet. The Pd-member
communication structure and the place for finding Pd problem solutions is used for generating the samples.

Community structures/concepts for technical problem solutions are imported in an art context. The installation-
infrastructure is filled with micro-compositions from members of the Pd-community. A collective composition,
a patchwork of many artistic ways to work with Pd is concentrated in this installation.

Fränk Zimmer concept, samples, hardware
Elli Scambor floor design, photos, sociological coaching
Michael Pinter organisation, extended sample-player
IOhannes Zmölnig mempio-PD-external
Thomas Musil extended sample-player
Pd-Interviews with: Michael Pinter, IOhannes Zmölnig, Reni Hofmüller, Harald Wiltsche, Thomas Musil, ...
Manipulated samples from: Fränk Zimmer, robonom, Michael Pinter, ...