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[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] Workshop: Beyond Hacking
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STEIM presents:
Beyond Hacking – Building New Instruments with the CREATE USB Interface
A workshop in designed interactions using sophisticated, yet simple
hardware.
By Dan Overholt & Daniel Schorno (day 3&4).
Date: May 31 - June 3 2006
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam NL
Cost: 120 euro
Registration can be done only through the STEIM website: http://
www.steim.org/steim/workshops.php
Bring your favorite real-time software tool, be it LiSa, ImX, Max/MSP/
Jitter, SuperCollider3, Pd, or … and an inspiration for a delightful
way of getting your hands on the digital domain. Learn how to control
music and visuals with a flexible new sensor system, the CREATE USB
Interface. The CUI can be either wired (USB bus-powered) or wireless
(Bluetooth), and will be available to workshop participants to buy
(50 Eur for the USB version, ready-to-use, please contact
dano@create.ucsb.edu to reserve one). Register early, space is limited.
Grasping the Sound, Caressing the Image:
Participants will be introduced to the CREATE USB Interface through
lecture, demonstration, and discussion, including short exercises in
connecting it to different sensors, and how to use it with various
software applications. As artists, we are always faced with the
challenge of investigating/incorporating new technologies into our
work while finding our own voice or approach to expression within
them. In this workshop, we will explore new metaphors for artistic
interactivity that connect the physical world with the virtual realm,
and vice versa.
Anyone who is interested in the artistic possibilities offered by
electronics and sensor technologies should sign up for the workshop –
musicians of all backgrounds, composers, performers, artists,
installation artists, instrument builders, dancers, teachers, etc.
The workshop will be delivered during 4 full time days. The morning
sessions (9am-Noon) will cover theory and research components along
with listening, video, and other demonstrations. The afternoon
sessions (1pm-5pm) will focus on practical work and individual
projects. No programming experience is required, but participants
should be familiar with their software tool of choice, and expect to
get first hand experience working with sensors, interfaces, and
mapping techniques for musical or visual interactions.
The workshop was developed in response to the challenges faced
researching and building digital instruments, installations, and
interactive works at the Center for Research in Electronic Art
Technology at UC Santa Barbara, and is offered there in its full form
as an interdisciplinary course between the MAT, Music, and Art
departments (http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/594O/). Workshop content will
include access to valuable source material including where to look
for technical information, and the world of electronic instrument
builders and installation makers today. For more information about
the CUI, see http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/#CUIv1.
Dan Overholt is a PhD candidate and Lecturer in the Media Arts and
Technology program and the Center for Research in Electronic Art
Technology at UC Santa Barbara. He studied electronics engineering
and music (violin performance) at CSU, Chico, and has a Masters from
the Media Laboratory at MIT, where his thesis focused on the
development of a novel interface called the MATRIX. He has published
and presented work at many academic conferences, such as ICMC, NIME,
AES, CHI, and SIGGRAPH, and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in
2004, and a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship at UCSB. He
composes and performs internationally with new human-computer
interfaces and musical signal processing algorithms, and has also
worked as a consultant in the industry for companies such as
Eventide, E-mu, and Echo Audio.
Daniel Schorno was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied
composition in London and electronic music in the Netherlands and
lives in Amsterdam with a cat and a collection of unusual instruments
in his street window. He lead STEIM, the renown Dutch Studio for
Electro Instrumental Music – and home of ‘New Instruments’ as
Artistic Co-director until 2005. Numerous (ongoing) projects bind his
passionate approach towards realtime sound integration with new
electronic sensor instruments and live-electronic music. His concert
work, workshops and media collaborations have lead him as far afield
as Johannesburg’s Soweto, Iceland and the street kids & artists of
Guatemala City, as well as all over Europe. He collaborates with
musicians, video artists, choreographers and dancers the likes of Jon
Rose, Netochka Nezvanova, Alain Pelletier, José Navas and Frank van
de Ven. Currently he is performing with the latest series of hand
held ‘mini controllers’ out of STEIM’s ‘kitchen’, and develops a new
media ‘Pocket Opera’.
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Achtergracht 19
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Tel: 020-6228690
Fax: 020-6264262
Email: knock@steim.nl
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