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
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
We’re looking for 10 producers to step into the void as the Association of Independence in Radio (AIR), in conjunction with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City offers its popular 40-hour intensives for mid to advanced level audio producers in November. You do not have to be… Continue reading
Interactive Art is an umbrella term that includes works ranging from kinetic sculpture that reacts to the presence of viewers to a live VJ performance that automatically changes in realtime to subtleties in the music; from dancers who can make sound and images change as their bodies movies to a… Continue reading
This course is an introduction to the core principles of electronic music, including synthesis, sampling, sequencing, and routing. These topics will be introduced using Propellerhead’s Reason, an extensive program for electronic music production used by many professional artists and studios. The end of the session will elaborate on how these… Continue reading
THE SYNESTHESIA SERIES II: This class is for musicians of all levels of experience in Max/MSP who want to learn how to bring video art into their repertoires. We will discuss how to represent sound as moving images, including creating animations out of pitch and beat tracking, as well as… Continue reading
THE SYNESTHESIA SERIES I: We are going to explore how to take concepts from visual art and apply them to creation of music and sound art in Max/MSP. Topics covered will include turning photographs into music, converting motion and color from video into sound, and sculpting three dimensional soundscapes out… Continue reading
