Colliding Realities – Performance, Controllers, Code
This workshop explores the possibility space of Just In Time programming with SuperCollider and its manifold uses for performance-oriented approaches to computer sound/music. We will study flexible, extensible and reliable integration of JITLib-based instruments with a wide variety of controllers. Each coding session is complemented by a practice session to evaluate the performance of our programs under live conditions in solo or ensemble constellations.
SuperCollider experts welcome!
SuperCollider beginners welcome!
Schedule
Day 1: Continuous sounds with JITLib – NodeProxy, ProxySpace, Ndef
- quasi analog synthesis
- exploring UGens and combinations
- using effects chains
- storing results as code and sound
- Play !
Day 2: Tasks and patterns with JITLib – Tdef, Pdef, SynthDefs
- writing event based sounds (SynthDefs)
- playing structures in time with controllable parameters
- using patterns as sound sources that can be processed
- storing results as code and sound
- Play !
Day 3: Performances interfaces with JITLib in hard- and software – GUIs, MIDI, HID devices, GamePads, Manta etc.
- attaching controllers to sound processes, tasks, and patterns
- Extension Libraries (Quarks): JITLibExtensions, MIDIKtl, GamePad, Manta,
- BRING YOUR OWN FAVORITE CONTROLLERS!
- - or anything that sends OSC, HID, or MIDI -
- Play !
Day 4: Performance setups – Putting it all together:
- finetune sounds/instruments;
- adapt scalings, ranges, fixed params for playing with controllers;
- ways to switch between different uses of the same controller;
- integrating instruments and controllers into one easy to use and extend setup.
- Play !
Alberto de Campo studied classical composition, jazz guitar and electronic/computer music in Austria and the U.S. He has worked as Research Director at CREATE, UC Santa Barbara, and taught computer music and sound art at Music Univ. Graz and KHM Cologne. After being Edgard Varese guest professor for Electronic Music at TU Berlin, he led the SonEnvir project, an interdisciplinary research venture on sonifying scientific data from different domains.
In 2007, he became Professor for Music Informatics at RSH Duesseldorf, and since 2009, he is Professor for Generative Art/Computational Art at UdK Berlin. Here, he explores a wide range of topics with students: Network music performance in the style of powerbooks_unplugged, biologically informed/inspired art such as Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum (a project on communication between deep sea creatures), hybrid audiovisual performance systems, improvisation strategies in di! fferent contexts, and whatever students choose to explore as their individual projects.
He plays internationally with powerbooks_unplugged, Quiet Noise Quartet, Elisabeth Harnik, Mario de Vega, and in varying ensembles playing improvised network music and analog electronics.
Hannes Hoelzl works in various disciplines and constellations, always orbiting around the central focus of sound; with digital sound treatment and particulary the Open Source environment SuperCollider being his fundamental working tools.
His developments in music aim at improvisation interfaces that enable the computer to keep up with the directness of the instrumentalists; at sound spatialisation with a similar improvisational approach, and at pseudo-intelligent sound objects that might be able to surprise the performer with unforeseen turns.
Beyond acting as a performing musician, he works as a sound artist, designer, composer, software developer and instructor.
He has played internationally in Europe, China and the US, and his installative works have been exhibited, amonst others, in the Venice Biennale (2001, 2006), in ZKM Karlsruhe (D, 2006), and in Manifesta 2008.
He has held lecures and workshop! s at Universities and Conservatories in Wesleyan/Connecticut, Prague, Oslo and Beijing and lectures at Duesseldorf Music Academy.
A SuperCollider workshop by Alberto de Campo and Hannez Hoelzl
STILL A FEW PLACES LEFT!
Dates: October 20 – 23
Cost: € 150
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam
STEIM
(studio for electro instrumental music)
(studio voor elektro instrumentale muziek)
Achtergracht 19
1017 WL Amsterdam
Nederland
tel 00 31 (0) 20 6228690
fax 00 31 (0) 20 6264262
http://www.steim.nl
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