Going further with cheat codes 2: A sample playground for norns – LIVE Session
Date: Sunday 28th Feb 2021 5pm GMT Level: Beginner Cheat codes 2 is a sample playground built for monome norns to explore live and pre-recorded audio. It extends traditional slicing and looping workflows to create playful music-making experiences with exciting results. This workshop will help uncover extended techniques for working with the script, including external controllers, creating dynamic soundscapes with the delay, recording patterns,... Read More
Getting started with cheat codes 2: A sample playground for monome norns – LIVE Session
Date: Sunday 21st Feb 2021 5pm GMT Level: Beginner Cheat codes 2 is a sample playground built for monome norns to explore live and pre-recorded audio. It extends traditional slicing and looping workflows to create playful music-making experiences with exciting results. This workshop will introduce you to the script including recording audio and loading clips, building loops and slices, making adjustments to timbre and tonality, and exploring different... Read More
Melody Generation in Max – LIVE Session
Date: Sunday 7th February 2021 / 6pm – 8pm GMT Level: Intermediate The importance of the melody in traditional musical composition is difficult to understate. Often one of the first components the ear latches onto, being able to write a good melody is something of an artform. Producing basic algorithmically-generated melodies using Max/MSP is quite easy, but in order to produce something more ‘musical’ we must refine the generation process. In... Read More
Getting started with Max – LIVE Session 2nd Edition
-SOLD OUT- Head over to to this link for Thursday sign ups Getting started with Max – LIVE Series #3 – Music Hackspace Session 1: Saturday 6th February 2021 Session 2: Saturday 13th February 2021 Session 3: Saturday 20th February 2021 Session 4: Saturday 27th February 2021 Level: Beginners curious about programming Getting started with Max – LIVE Session Get started with interactive audio and video, and discover the possibilities... Read More
Video Synthesis with Vsynth for Max – LIVE Session
Dates: Thursdays 4th / 11th / 18th / 25th February 2021 6pm GMT Level: Intermediate + Overview In this series of 4 workshops, we’ll look at how to interconnect the different 80 modules that come with Vsynth, exploring video techniques and practices that can create aesthetics associated with the history of the electronic image but also complex patterns founded in some basic functions of nature. Vsynth is a high level package of modules for Max/Jitter... Read More
Max meetup – Europe Edition 2
FREE Date: Saturday 30th January – 3pm UK time / 4pm CET Level: Open to all levels Overview Join the Max meetup to share ideas and learn with other artists, coders and performers. Showcase your patches, pair with others to learn together, get help for a school assignment, or discover new things. The meetup runs via Zoom. The main session features short presentations from Max users. Breakout rooms are created on the spot on specific topics,... Read More
Abstract Performance in Ableton and Max For Live – LIVE Session
Date: January 29th 2021 6pm – 8pm GMT Level: Intermediate Ableton and Cycling 74’s Max For Live offer a vast playground of opportunities to create unique and rich electronic music performances. In this workshop you will create a performance instrument. This workshop aims to provide you with suitable skills to begin exploring improvised performance in Ableton Live and Max For Live. Session Learning Outcomes By the end of this session a successful... Read More
Max meetup – US Edition 1
FREE Date: Saturday 23rd January – 3pm PST / 6pm EST Level: Open to all levels Overview Join the Max meetup to share ideas and learn with other artists, coders and performers. Showcase your patches, pair with others to learn together, get help for a school assignment, or discover new things. The meetup runs via Zoom. The main session features short presentations from Max users. Breakout rooms are created on the spot on specific topics,... Read More
Abstract Composition in Ableton and Max For Live – LIVE Session
Dates: January 22nd 2021 6pm – 8pm GMT Level: Intermediate Ableton and Cycling 74’s Max For Live offer a vast playground of programming opportunities to create unique compositions and rich sound designs. In this workshop you will create musical and sonic ideas using abstract techniques of composition. This workshop aims to provide you with suitable skills to begin exploring generative composition and complex sound design. Session Learning... Read More
Digital Windchimes / An Introduction to Generative Music – LIVE Session
Date: Sunday 17th January 2021 / 6pm – 8pm GMT Level: Beginner Brian Eno once described a set of chimes being blown in the wind as an example of generative music. Adapting this philosophy of music-making to a digital setting, we can create environments where a series of musical elements can be triggered semi-randomly, akin to the blowing of wind. In this workshop you will learn to create such a system in Max/MSP, building a simple synthesised... Read More
