Photos from Studio 300 Festival at Transylvannia University

Here is Tim Northcut playing Mara Helmuth's "Expanding Space."

Mara Helmuth at the computer doing live processing

The student group, CiCLOP, led by Joel Matthys, performs a piece by Matthys with Lindsay Jacob, saxophone

Pictures from the IUPUI Intermedia Festival

Joseph Hyde- Vanishing Point

This is a fantastic audio-visual piece that visual-music artist Joseph Hyde made especially for CCRMA. A really great correlation between audio and visual gesture, married as a "tactile plastic entity divorced from its point of origin."
More information is available on Joseph's Website: http://www.josephhyde.co.uk/video/vanishing-point/

vanishing.point from Joseph Hyde on Vimeo.

http://www.josephhyde.co.uk/video/vanishing-point/

Pictures from Sonic X Part I

Pictures of L2Ork

An Ecole for DJs and Kitteh haz Theremin

As mentioned in the WSJ this morning, the French have a school for DJs.



Also, this kitteh plays with a theremin.

Lukas Ligeti at the CAC

This was one of the best weekends I had in a while. The weather in Cincinnati was fantastic (not overcast), and I was able to see Lukas Ligeti for the first time. (Also, I splurged on a Cincinnati Contemporary Art Museum (CAC) annual pass, but that's for another post.)

I first read about Lukas Ligeti in this New York Times article, which mentioned his background in percussion and composition AND how he was influenced by African music. Translation: he seemed like a pretty cool dude.

The battle rages!

Yesterday was my first day of teaching object-oriented programming to my Intro to Electronic Music class. My approach is pretty open and we are taking very slow steps in what will snowball into some creative programming ideas by the end of the quarter. With the open approach, I'm allowing the students to choose for themselves whether or not they'd prefer to use Pd or Max/MSP. (This is especially nice with cycling74's 30 day trial period and student rates.) I, however, am stuck in my ways and feel I can best approach the subject through my knowledge and experience with Pd. With the maxlib in Pd, I'm also finding that many objects and ideas translate well between the two. Thanks to my friend Greg Surges and a programming class on C, I'm even getting inside the 'Contents' folder into that unknown abyss of code that lurks behind my favorite objects, though we're not quite ready to go there in Intro. (Maybe a summer class? )

Anyhow, I thought this article was an interesting look at the Pd vs. Max/MSP debate that seems to forever hover at the surface of those who are interested in computer music and these programs.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/29/pd-vs-maxmsp-results-in-a-battle-of-multimedia-tech-nerds/

Needless to say, I'm delighted that Pd was victorious I realize that this 'battle' was all in fun and the real winners are those who utilize these very powerful tools to create great art. Not to mention the GEM vs. Jitter kittens are just soo damn cute!