Exploring MC ~ in Max 8 – On demand

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Cycling 74’s Max/MSP offers a vast playground of programming opportunities to create your own audio effects. In this workshop you will build your own audio effects that utilizes multi-channel (mc~) for complex audio processes. This workshop aims to provide you with suitable skills to begin exploring the mc~ environment.

Session Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session a successful student will be able to:

  • Explore the basic concepts of mc~ and how we can apply them to signal processing via delay lines

  • Build multi-tap delay/resonator/reverb FX using various mc~ objects

  • Deploy feedback processing using filters such as mc.lores~ and mc.svf~

  • Apply UI elements to gain access to the various mc~ processes

  • Applying modulation sources such as mc.cycle~ to create a polyphonic/multi-voice chorus effect.

Session Study Topics

  • mc concepts and mc.tapin~ and mc.tapout~
  • Building FX via mc~ objects
  • UI objects and the mc~ messaging system.
    • mc~ modulation sources

Requirements

  • A computer and internet connection

  • A good working knowledge of computer systems

  • An basic awareness of audio processing

  • Good familiarity with MSP

  • Access to a copy of Max 8 (i.e. trial or full license) or Live Suite (M4L)

About the workshop leader

Ned Rush aka Duncan Wilson is a musician, producer and performer. He’s most likely known best for his YouTube channel, which features a rich and vast quantity of videos including tutorials, software development, visual art, sound design, internet comedy, and of course music.

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Max meetup – Europe Edition 1

FREE

Date:  Saturday 16th 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, and you can request a new topic at any time.

 In the breakout rooms, you can share your screen to show other participants something you’re working on, ask for help, or help someone else.

What if I can’t get in?

The number of participants is limited to 100. The main session is live streamed on our YouTube channel for those who cannot attend or want to watch it later.

Ready to present your work?

Everyone is welcome to propose a presentation. Just fill in this short form and you’ll be put on the agenda on a first come first served basis.

Presentations should take no more than 5 minutes with 5 minutes Q&A and we’ll have up to 5 presentations at each meetup.

Topic suggestions but not limited to:

  • MIDI
  • Jitter
  • Signal processing
  • Sequencing
  • Hardware
  • OSC
  • Algorithmic composition
  • Package manager modules

Berlin Code of Conduct

We ask all participants to read and follow the Berlin Code of Conduct and contribute to creating a welcoming environment for everyone.

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Getting started with Max – LIVE series

-SOLD OUT- Head over to this link for the February sign ups 

Dates: 

Session 1: Wednesday 6th January 6pm GMT

Session 2: Wednesday 13th January 6pm GMT

Session 3:  Wednesday 20th January 6pm GMT

Session 4: Wednesday 27th January 6pm GMT

Level: Beginners curious about programming

Get started with interactive audio and video, and discover the possibilities of the Max environment. In this series of workshops, you will learn how to manipulate audio, MIDI, samples, oscillators and program your own interactive canvas.

Connect together Max’s building blocks to create unexpected results, and use them in your music productions.

Learn from guided examples and live interactions with teachers and other participants.

This series of online workshops aims to enable you to work with Max confidently on your own.

Session overview 

  • Session 1 – Understand the Max environment
  • Session 2 – Connect building blocks together
  • Session 3 – Master the user interface
  • Session 4 – Work with your MIDI devices

Requirements 

  • A computer and internet connection

  • A good working knowledge of computer systems

  • Access to a copy of Max 8

About the workshop leader

Phelan Kane is a Berlin & London based music producer, engineer, artist, developer and educator. For over twenty years he has been active in both the music industry and the contemporary music education sector, with a focus on electronic music and alternative bands.

He specialises in sound design and production techniques such as synthesis and sampling, alongside audio processing and plug-in development.

He is currently running the electronic music record label Meta Junction Recordings and the audio software development company Meta Function, which specialize in Max for Live devices releasing the M4L synth Wave Junction in partnership with Sonicstate.

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Bishi: a journey in music & technology

Bishi‘s talk explores her journey in music & technology, stemming from her cultural roots, charting the steps between being a musician, composer & performer to founder and technologist. The talk will feature some live Sitar midi-mapping performance.

Singer, electronic rock- sitarist, Composer, producer and performer BISHI was born in London of Bengali heritage. A multi-instrumentalist, BISHI received musical training in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles, including the study of the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar.

She has written & recorded two albums, produced by Matthew Hardern: Nights at The Circus and Albion Voice. Bishi co-produced her third album, ‘Let My Country Awake,’ with Jeff Cook.

Bishi is the founder of WITCiH: The Women in Technology Creative Industries Hub, a platform elevating Women & Non-Binary in tech, through commissions, performances & podcasts. She fronted a documentary for BBC Radio 4 exploring the future of technology in music.

Bishi’s collaborations & commissions for the stage have included The London Symphony Orchestra, The Kronos Quartet, Yoko Ono’s Meltdown, The Science Gallery, Nick Knight’s Showstudio & session work with Sean Ono Lennon, Luke Vibert, Richard Norris, Daphne Guinness & Tony Visconti. Bishi was recently a Tanpura soloist for the City of London Sinfonia, performing Jonny Greenwood’s ‘Water.’

Bishi was lead commissioned artist for Delia Derbyshire Day, who commissioned her to compose a piece of music, celebrating 50 years of White Noise ‘An Electric Storm.’ This resulted in ‘The Telescope Eye,’ an EP she co-produced with Richard Norris. Bishi fronted a documentary for Radio 4 centred around the groundbreaking tech company, ROLI. Her most recent EP ‘Of Rituals & Rites, with composer, Neil Kaczor is out on March 20th 2020, for Spring Equinox.

 

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Music Hackspace Performances Night – 13th December-

Part of the 2014 UK Tour of Simon Whetham, Seth Cooke and Paul Khimasia Morgan , the event in London is curated by Blanca Regina. Join us in this special evening

LINE UP

SIMON WHETHAM
SETH COOKE
PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN

MATTHIAS KISPERT & BLANCA REGINA

Activating objects and surfaces with found sounds and actions, Simon Whetham creates a shifting sonic environment that is comfortably disorientating. Seth Cooke is an improviser and sound recordist based in Bristol, UK. His music is frequently location or process oriented and he often works with material happened upon by chance. As a percussionist he plays traps and waste disposal sink. Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improviser, currently working with electronics, zither and the sonification of low voltage. “…a weft of mysterious hums and clicks that creeps organically across the intervening space between the speakers and my ears, never quite identifying itself but always offering tantalizing glimpses…” – Brian Olewnik, Just Outside Matthias Kispert is a sound artist living in London, founder of ‘Material Studies’ group along the mixed media artist, Blanca Regina. The duo with play an improvised set using voice, electronics, objects and visuals.

Where: 132 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8DY

From : 20.00-23:00pm Tickets on the door 5 pounds/ 4 pounds concessions

There will be special food with special prices offered by TROYganic

Links

SIMON WHETHAM www.simonwhetham.co.uk
SETH COOKE www.sethcooke.eu
PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN  http://slightlyoffkilterlabel.blogspot.co.uk/

MATTHIAS KISPERT  www.matthiaskispert.com

BLANCA REGINA www.whiteemotion.com

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