Let’s turn photographs into music, use our motion to generate images, and turn the songs of Taylor Swift into three-dimensional animated landscapes. Welcome to the world of Digital Synesthesia: the experience of mixing up your senses so that you hear what your eyes see, and see what your ears are listening to. Continue reading
Make Max make music for you! Make Max make music like you! Make Max make music without you! Do the beginnings of your performances always start with you predictably building layers? Get the party kicking *immediately* with Markov chains! Are you sick of making music with static loops that never ever ever ever ever change? Not with Markov chains. Do you tweak one thing at a time while everything else just sits there repeating over and over and over and over? Never again! Maybe you just want a friend to jam with when there’s no one around. This weekend ONLINE class will teach you to make your Max patch improvise on it’s own! You’ll walk out with ideas and strategies for making melodies, chords progressions and especially drum parts write themselves and only repeat when you want them to! Continue reading
MakeMusicNewYork is a live, free musical celebration on June 21, the longest day of the year, with over 1,000 concerts on streets, sidewalks, and parks across the five boroughs. For this year’s MakeMusicNY MASS APPEAL, we’re looking for performers of circuit bent instruments, noise makers and smartphones. Conducted by Hans Tammen, this Third Eye Make Music NY Orchestra uses Earle Brown’s open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece. Continue reading
Javascript is one of the only programming languages where relative novices can have their code running on billions of devices in a matter of moments. This workshop focuses on getting students creating applications with Javascript and uploading them to the internet right away. Once students have a familiarity with the mechanics of the language, we will start building javascript-based web pages and uploading them to the internet using using github as a web-server. We will move onto making these applications interact with the mouse using jQuery and have graphical output using HTML5 Canvas. Continue reading
This workshop will investigate the relationship between sound, touch, movement and technology. The participants will engage various wireless technologies in creating short interactive performance projects. The particular focus will be given to the investigation of sound-action pairs and the role of touch in their formation. The workshop will culminate into the project presentations and feedback discussion. Continue reading
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of audio object design for Max/MSP, and serves as a practical head start into Eric Lyon’s book Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd. We begin by reviewing the architecture and basic functionalities of an audio object, viewed from the user interface of Max/MSP. We then consider cases where it would be advantageous, or even necessary to implement certain DSP schemes in C code, rather than as Max abstractions. Eventually the class will create two simple Max objects in C, one implementing a simple filter, and the other implementing sample-accurate timing. Continue reading
This hands-on workshop will focus on the video and animation features in Adobe Photoshop, expanding participants expectations of the possibilities of this widely accessible software. Class will discuss approaches to importing and exporting video and audio with Photoshop, compression, common files types, animated GIFs, and 3D .obj keyframe animations. Continue reading
THIS CLASS IS SOLD OUT! — This is the second installment of our 2 day workshop, that serves as a comprehensive introduction to methods for creating projection mapping. The tools used in the workshop are MadMapper and Modul8. The students will get fully-functional 30-day trial versions of the software to create a collaborative projection mapping installation for the end of class.
This workshop is intended for the students who want to learn how to develop projection mapping projects for future events, art installations, and performances. Continue reading
Whether you are a beatboxer who wants to layer sounds on the fly, a multi-instrumentalist who wants to build songs from scratch on stage, or a singer who wants to create terrifying walls of sound with only your voice, this workshop will provide you with the tools and knowledge to get you started with seamless live looping and design a performance rig that best suits your style of music, instrumentation and creative flow. Continue reading
The Kinect camera provides three dimensional data of a person’s movement in physical space. How can this movement be translated into video effects and sound? This class focuses on mapping movement to parameters of video and audio effects. Using jitter and the cv.jit library, kinect data is scaled to create interactive video and sound. Continue reading
