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
This class dives into how to built novel art from commercial art using the graphical programming language MaxMSP. We will mix and mangle our way through Miley Cyrus and Beyonce, Walt Disney and Casablanca, all the while focusing on building a powerful set of technical skills in the art of… Continue reading
In this class, taught by composer and performer Lars Graugaard, we will have an introduction and musical demonstration of a recent realtime technique that uses multiple probability distributions. It permits creating natural-sounding melodic contours, rhythm patterns in pitches and accents as well as variations in duration and onset interval. … Continue reading
This course will simultaneously explore how computers work as we seek out ways to make playback errors, video glitches, computer crashes and other failures become tools of art. Popular glitches like data moshing (as seen in music videos for Kanye West and Chairlift) will be demystifed and made easily accessible.… Continue reading
Harvestworks in New York City offers a 40-hour crash course in SuperCollider taught by Nick Collins. SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, and lots of fun. You can live code it as you perform, or use it to build interactive systems… Continue reading
