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Our expert-led courses provide a supportive environment for learning and growing your skills — whether you're a complete beginner or looking to build professional interactive installations.
From fundamentals to advanced real-time visuals, learn TouchDesigner with practitioners working in live performance, architecture, and generative art.
TouchDesigner Courses
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An Introduction to Visual Sensors
Working with the Kinect in TouchDesigner to track joint positions and bone rotations, and to use depth data, point clouds and blob tracking for sensor-driven interactive work.
Ask Me Anything: Programmable Lighting
An open Q&A session with Kyle Duffield on programmable lighting, covering practical audience questions about tools, workflows and getting started.
Audio Reactive Shaders with Shader Park + TouchDesigner - On-demand
Creating audio-reactive 3D shaders with Shader Park and bringing them into TouchDesigner, covering signed distance functions, noise displacement, audio analysis and recording a video output.
Audio visual creation & performance with TDAbleton - On demand
Linking TouchDesigner and Ableton Live with TDAbleton to build audio-reactive visual networks, trigger them from clip slots and run an audiovisual live performance set.
Chagall Unlocked: Masterclass TouchDesigner Meetup
Watch Chagall's TouchDesigner masterclass, recorded live at the Barbican. Chagall shares her approach to real-time control of sound and visuals in one of London's most iconic venues.
Create Music Visuals with TouchDesigner / Fundamentals - On-demand
Getting started with TouchDesigner for audio-visual work, covering the UI, SOPs, a 3D setup and building reactive visuals with an audio switcher.
Create Music Visuals with TouchDesigner / Going Further - On-demand
Extending TouchDesigner skills with instancing, audio-spectrum analysis, PBR materials and 3D asset import, and particle systems for richer reactive music visuals.
Generative Art with Feedback Systems in TouchDesigner
Working with feedback systems in TouchDesigner offers a vast range of possibilities. In this workshop series of 2, we’ll look at how to create generative art via a myriad of […]
Getting Confident with CHOPs in TouchDesigner
Work fluently with CHOPs in TouchDesigner: building blocks, referencing and exporting, instancing, time slicing, and bringing in sensors and input devices to drive your networks.
Getting Confident with SOPs in TouchDesigner
Model and edit geometry with SOPs in TouchDesigner: points, vertices and primitives, drawing curves, working with groups, and using Clip, Carve, Boolean, Hole and Facet operators.
Getting Started With Python in TouchDesigner
Learn Python scripting inside TouchDesigner, from data types and expressions to referencing operators, with hands-on exercises to drive and automate your networks programmatically.
Instancing for Generative Art in TouchDesigner - On-demand
A four-session series on instancing in TouchDesigner for generative art, covering TOP instancing, phasing, grids, texture instancing, 3D noise and audio-reactive setups for patterns like mandalas and spheres.
Interaction with Arduino & TouchDesigner / On-demand
Create immersive interactive experiences. Combine Arduino with TouchDesigner, a powerful node based programming environment with endless possibilities for interactive installation, marketing activations, generative art, multimedia performance, and more!
Interactive Applications with TouchDesigner
Build real, interactive TouchDesigner applications — an idle/screensaver system and a playable game — using scene logic, Python and Execute DATs. For users ready to go beyond the basics.
Introduction to beat detection and audio-reactive visuals in TouchDesigner - On demand
TouchDesigner is a powerful tool for creating live performances, installations, real time visuals and complex digital systems.
Introduction to Interface Design in TouchDesigner
Design custom control interfaces in TouchDesigner, covering concept and structure, building UI elements and connecting them to your networks for performance-ready control panels.
Introduction to Live Visuals with TouchDesigner
TouchDesigner is the industry standard tool for interactive visuals in live performance, broadcasting and art installations. Cycling 74’s Max / MSP offers a vast playground of programming opportunities to create […]
Intro to Visualizing Sound with TouchDesigner
Get started in TouchDesigner, building audio-reactive visuals by exporting CHOPs, animating effects with an LFO CHOP, driving parameters from sound input, and applying palette and image-filter effects.
Simple Systems for Live Performance: A TouchDesigner Primer - On-demand
Whether at a concert or in a music video, visual effects can do so much to enhance the listener/viewer’s experience and create a lasting impression.
Switches and Sensors with Arduino and TouchDesigner
Wire pushbuttons, toggles, potentiometers and force/light sensors to an Arduino and feed their readings into TouchDesigner, covering Firmata, Ohm's law and pull-up resistors to drive interactive visuals.
TouchDesigner for Professional Interactive Design Careers
A ten-class professional programme building scalable TouchDesigner systems: modular components, real-time MIDI/audio and DMX/Ableton inputs, VJ mixers, motion tracking, Python state machines and portfolio-ready deliverables for interactive-design careers.
TouchDesigner meetup 15th May
A TouchDesigner community meetup with three talks: Caroline Reize on design for new media, Just Jash on the 36 Days of Type project, and Hugues Kir on his 'Frog Effect'.
TouchDesigner Meetup / Ableton
From live audio and video performance to generative art and interactive installations — watch this meetup exploring how TouchDesigner and Ableton complement each other.
TouchDesigner meetup - AI & Machine Learning / November 20th
Watch back this TouchDesigner meetup on AI and machine learning, featuring expert talks and a Q&A session.
TouchDesigner meetup - AI / September 3rd
Watch back the recording from this TouchDesigner meetup, which took place on 3rd September 2022.
TouchDesigner meetup / Arduino and Sensors
The TouchDesigner meetup in April, hosted by Bileam Tschepe, brought together experts to share knowledge and experience with the community.
TouchDesigner meetup / Audio visualisation - On-demand
Watch back this TouchDesigner meetup on audio visualisation, recorded April 2021.
TouchDesigner meetup - August 28th
With Scottie J. Fox – The Live-Edited Experience, Karyn Nakamura – Interactive Experiments With Kinect and Elburz Sorkhabi – Your Career In Interactive & Immersive Media
TouchDesigner meetup December - NFTs
Watch back this TouchDesigner meetup on NFTs, recorded December 2021, featuring Harsha Biswajit, Alida Sun, and Pablo Alpe.
TouchDesigner meetup / Dome Projections
Explore 360° projection techniques in TouchDesigner, focusing on dome installations — how to create, deploy, and experience immersive projected environments.
TouchDesigner meetup - Exploring New Media Projects / June 30th
Watch back this meetup from June 2022 featuring Matija Erceg and other practitioners exploring new media projects with TouchDesigner.
TouchDesigner Meetup - Interactivity
This meetup has now finished and the recording is available on the Music Hackspace YouTube channel
TouchDesigner meetup June - On-demand
Watch the recording of the TouchDesigner Meetup on interactivity featuring top experts in the field. – Crystal Jow will guide you through the creation of meditative spaces – Germán Greiner […]
TouchDesigner meetup / Lasers
Watch Ana Herruzo, Daniel Dalfovo, and Tyrell Studio explore the world of TouchDesigner — incorporating lighting, audio, video, physical spaces, and human interaction.
TouchDesigner meetup - LIVE Session / 31st July
Watch back this TouchDesigner meetup recorded on 31st July 2021, featuring Josef Luis Pelz on real-time cloth simulation in GLSL and Louise Lessél on converting shaders.
TouchDesigner meetup / Music Visualisation - July 30th
Watch back this TouchDesigner meetup on music visualisation, recorded July 2022.
TouchDesigner meetup October 16th - TouchDesigner and Unreal
Watch back this meetup exploring the combination of TouchDesigner and Unreal Engine, recorded October 2021.
TouchDesigner meetup - Open Session / 29th April
Watch back this open session TouchDesigner meetup, recorded April 2022.
TouchDesigner meetup / Open Session - May 28th
A TouchDesigner open session for all levels — a great opportunity to experiment, ask questions, and connect with the community.
TouchDesigner Meetup - Shaders
Discover the transformative power of GLSL shaders and improve your visual projects with advanced integration techniques and effects in TouchDesigner.
TouchDesigner Meetup - System Architecture
Watch expert presentations on TouchDesigner system architecture, followed by an insightful Q&A session on cutting-edge techniques.
TouchDesigner meetup / VJ tools
Watch this TouchDesigner meetup on VJ tools, hosted by Bileam Tschepe, exploring dynamic visuals for live performances and events.
TouchDesigner meetup - Web Installations via Twitch and TouchDesigner / 27th Feb
Watch back the recording from this meetup, which took place on 27th February 2022.
TouchDesigner meetup - Working with 3D / March 25th
Watch three expert speakers explore the world of 3D in TouchDesigner, sharing their creative processes and techniques.
Visualizing Sound with TouchDesigner
Create audio-reactive visuals in TouchDesigner, driving generative graphics from sound for live visual performance and installation work.
We Move Session, Chagall - BTS on the “Unlocked” Tour
During this session Chagall shared the process of creating her live performance 'Unlocked', in which she controls her light-art installation named B.A.B.Y. with the movement of her body in…
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