We are proud to host Lawrence Casserley for a special performance at Harvestworks as part of his 70th birthday US-tour. Lawrence has devoted his professional career, as composer, conductor and performer, to real time electroacoustic music. He is best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing… Continue reading
This show is dedicated to the discovery of new media artists living in the US and China. Some of the selected artists have the experience of living in both countries while others have never been to the other side of the world. Nevertheless, they all use digital media as part… Continue reading
Max/MSP allows for infinite possibilities in sound design and synthesis, but how to control all of this information? In this 3 hour course, different approaches and principles for sequencing will be explored, allowing beginning and intermediate users to have a toolbox to draw from for controlling their patches! Building a… Continue reading
Full-week, 40-hour crash course in the basics of Max/MSP and Jitter, run by Harvestworks programmers Adam Rokhsar and Harvestworks’ Deputy Director Hans Tammen. The course is designed for beginners who want to get a head start with this software package. The course may be especially appealing to artists living outside… Continue reading
Verdensteatret currently ranks amongst the most innovative art groups in Norway. Eirik Blekesaune will give an introduction to Verdensteatret’s latest production And All The Questionmarks Started to Sing, recently shown at EMPAC and DTW, and present an overview of the computer systems they use in their work. Lecture: Verdensteatret’s “Questionmark”… Continue reading
A video installation that uses footage of intermittent sunlight on cresting ocean waves, analyzed by custom-written video tracking software which detects the patterns of light on top of the waves. These points and their corresponding length and angle from an origin point change volume and filter parameters of audio recordings… Continue reading
Eleanor Dubinsky, Vita Tanga and Nick Garofoli collaborate in an evening of hybrid music and video performance. Eleanor and Vita will play original songs in English, French and Spanish while Nick manipulates video projections to create an interactive environment using the music, pre-recorded projections of people traveling through New York,… Continue reading
As part of our University Partnership Program several students & faculty from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music have been at Harvestworks for three weeks, studying interactive arts and developing their own projects. Following a performance at The Tank a day earlier, this is their final project presentation! Oberlin Workshop Final… Continue reading
This class will introduce how to access camera data in Max, and then transform that stream of numbers into something more useful. We will cover face detection, motion tracking, gesture recognition, and the very powerful Computer Vision Library for Max. Everyone will leave with a set of files to help… Continue reading
We will cover realtime audio analysis to create “smart” visuals that change and grow in response to music, ways to get away from the laptop and build new interfaces for playing your visuals live (and use your whole body to do it), as well as powerful generative techniques for creating… Continue reading
