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CNMAT Summer Workshops – 2011

Monday, April 25th, 2011

This summer, the CNMAT Summer Workshops will be held similarly to last year, with intensive courses throughout the morning and evening.
There is a single fee for all workshops, as students are invited to attend whichever sessions they will get the most out of. This could be all, or some depending on how much outside help they might require. One could, for example, focus on the morning lectures for Monday and Tuesday, then on Wednesday work on brushing up their skills during the morning lecture slot. The schedule is generally going to be 10am to 10/11pm each day, with breaks in between sessions for food, socializing, and one-on-one instruction.

I will be teaching the day school this year, which is an honor, as Michael Zbyszyński has been the former teacher of the course, and has always inspired me to get the most fun out of Max.
John MacCallum will be teaching many of the advanced topics for the evening sessions, alongside other talented educators and users of the language.

Schedule:

    July 18-22, 2011


    10am-12pm: Beginning/Intermediate Max/MSP Programming
    12-1pm: Lunch
    1-3pm: Beginning/Intermediate Lab
    3-5pm: Open Lab/Special Topics (topics will include Max for Live, gestural controllers and eTextile sensing)
    5-6pm: Dinner Break
    6-9pm: Advanced Max/MSP Programming

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spark 2010 / 10-01-10

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

spark 2010. performance at 1am in LPC with oliver grudem in MPLS.

vid work

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marimba lumina visualization

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

A still from the performance

I recently worked with Jules Espinau on a demo involving the visualization of the marimba lumina, a MIDI-based gestural controller. Because MIDI isn’t the dominant protocol at CNMAT, the goal was to create wrappers around both the MIDI input of the Marimba Lumina and my video patch that needed to accept generic input.

I found it quite easy to be able to create generic input from OSC packets so that all Jules and I had to do was agree on a given name-space and pass it back and forth between computers via wireless peer-to-peer. This method of working proved not only to be time-efficient but allowed for more focus of the details of the creative process. And of course, if one computer goes down, the other is still sitting there ready to transmit the same i/o it previously was.

I would like to develop this piece further in the future; I’ll see what Jules thinks of that.
We were able to create the details of our work in private and finesse the details of how gestures would translate across this name-space in a single session. I think it took us all of a single day to get the OSC-communication up and running in order to work with the setup as a live performance instrument.

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cnmat summer closure (MaxDev_CNMAT2)

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

2nd round of dev courses this week to finish up the Summer’s curriculum.
I was impressed most with how thoroughly John (the primary instructor) was able to navigate to/from the various asides and to constantly maintain a nice transition from topic to topic. Again this course was led by John, Andy, and Adrian.

Ali Momeni, who is also an outstanding purveyor of pedagogy, gave his 10th (!) year of night school class.
Congratulations, Momeni.

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electronic d.e.b.r.i.s. @ recordBar

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

equilet in KC on May 27th with Tyrone Blea, and Yellow Lab.

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MaxDev_CNMAT

Monday, April 27th, 2009


Amazing class going on this week at CNMAT. I’m attending a workshop hosted by John Maccallum, Andy Schmeder, and Adrian Freed, which focuses on the development of C Externals in MaxMSP. Very useful info that I’ve wanted to dive into for some time now.

This was the first of two summer classes; I would highly recommend the 2nd one, which is going to occur at the end of July. Check CNMAT’s site for details.

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CCA classes; SP 2009

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Teaching 3 days of an Experimental Sound course at CCA. The students are engaging and have much going on w/r/t their installations and performances. For the most part, they are using Max and interfacing boards. I’ve been helping developing patches, including some basic/advanced patching techniques, demo-ing examples and I’ve created, and working out details of their sensors’ inputs. Much headway here, and a great class.

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