Digital Synesthesia: Harvestworks Launches New TEAMLab Online Class Program
The dearly departed Ravi Shankar wanted his audiences to understand that they could get high without using drugs. Now the NYC non-profit digital arts center Harvestworks has the same idea about that reality-altering experience know as synesthesia.
More than just trippin’ — learn online with “Digital Synesthesia” from Harvestworks.
In that spirit, Harvestworks is launching “Digital Synesthesia”, a course that’s part of it’s new online TEAMLab class program. For $95, students in NYC and around the world can attend three intensive classes in January, taught by musician/psychologist/software artist Adam Rokhsar, that will show them how to meld music and visual art in inspiring new ways. Visit here for more information and to register.
Here’s more on this tasty (yet another sense!) new offering, as explained by Harvestworks:
“Let’s turn photographs in music, bring our favorite songs into Photoshop and mess with them, and turn Call Me Maybe into a moving three-dimensional landscape. This class is all about 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. In collaboration with Tenlegs, a network for artists to connect, collaborate, earn and learn, Harvestworks offers this class as part of it’s new online TEAMLab class program.
Digital Synesthesia Online Class
Adam Rokhsar
Saturday, Jan 12, 2013 (Assignment 1)
Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 (Assignment 2)
Monday, Jan 14, 2014 (Additional Q+A Period)
All times are 9am to 4pm EST. Since this is an online class, it is designed to accommodate students in other timezones as well.
Cost: $95
Location: This class is held online, you need to have internet connection to watch videos and engage in the forums. Shortly before the class starts you will get a link with further instructions how to take part in it.
Digital Synesthesia
You don’t need any experience in music or visual art: just come with an open mind, a willingness to try something new, and perhaps a crazy idea or two. We’re going to use software called Max to create our synesthesia art through a series of hands-on experiments. You’ll turn an image of your face into sound, capture it with a microphone and turn it back to a photo again to see what happens. You’ll learn how to remix songs just by waving your hands in front of a computer camera. And along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of how computers understand sound and vision, create new forms of art, and leave with a package of software that will let you continue with your experiments at home.
This class is being held online so that anyone can take it and make it work with your schedule. For one weekend, you’ll have access to video lectures created specifically for this workshop, a series of four hands-on challenges meant to give you experience building your own synesthetic art, and two live sessions to ask questions, get answers, and go deeper with the material.
Whether your a DJ who wants to create visual art from the music you play, a dancer who wants to make music move based on the motion of your body, or someone who just always wanted to paint by yelling really loud, come join us for this unique workshop experience.
Requirements: You need to have internet connection to watch videos and engage in the forums. You also need a computer with Max/MSP/Jitter installed — you can download a free 30 day demo from http://www.cycling74.com.”
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