Music Tech Workshops at Harvestworks: Xth Sense Biophysical Sensor, Real-Time Sound Processing w/FTM&Co
The NYC non-profit digital arts center Harvestworks continues to offer a unique spread of music technology workshops.
Strap on the Xth Sense at Harvestworks, and learn to make music in a whole new way.
Producers, engineers, artists and developers who push the envelope may be interested in one or both of the following, held at Harvestworks HQ at 596 Broadway:
May 19/20 The Xth Sense – Making Your Own Biophysical Sensor
Instructors: Marco Donnarumma / Atau Tanaka
Sat/Sun, May 19 + 20, noon to 6pm
The workshop offers a hands-on experience and both theoretical and practical training in gestural control of music and live video, deploying the Xth Sense (XS), a brand-new, biophysical, free and open technology. The XS was recently awarded the first prize in the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech, US 2012) as the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument”. Participants build their own XS biosensor and learn how to generate interactive music and control live videos using the muscle sounds of their bodies.
See more information on this intriguing course here.
Cost: Regular: $280, Members & Students (with ID): $250 (+ $40 Materials Cost)
Registrants are reminded to bring the $40 for the materials cost in cash to the workshop.
The workshop is limited to 10 people.
May 26 Advanced real-time sound and data processing with FTM&Co
Instructors: Diemo Schwartz, Hans Leeuw and Matthew Ostrowski
Saturday, May 26, noon to 6pm
The FTM&Co extensions for Max/MSP make it possible to program prototype applications that work with sound, music or gesture data in both time and frequency domain in a more complex and flexible way than what we know from other tools. This workshop will provide an introduction to the free Ircam libraries FTM, MnM, Gabor, and CataRT for interactive real-time musical and artistic applications.
Read the full details on this course here.
Cost: Regular: $150, Members & Students (with ID): $135
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