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SUMMARY:Georgina Brett: live looping vocals
DESCRIPTION:In this online session Georgina will talk about the conception and actualisation of each piece she performs\, the various methods of composition she uses. With a very simple set up she creates complex rolling matrices of vocalisations and lyrics.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nGeorgina Brett’s music is created using her voice and effects pedals\, creating instant choirs of sound\, often in an hypnotic style. The point of this music is not only to captivate with extraordinary timing and melodic style but also to help the listener to relax\, in our ever-increasingly distracted world. Her double album Nonsense A and Nonsense B is of purely vocal works with no ‘deliberate’ words or lyrics. The albums show the voice as an instrument\, and as a vehicle for emotional expression. “So much music is made in order to make us feel something so as to manipulate us to buy or to follow.. this album let’s your thoughts be whatever they want to be.” The albums also play with the idea that we like to interpret\, constantly listening for meaning instead of just listening.
URL:https://musichackspace.org/event/georgina-brett-live-looping-vocals/
LOCATION:YouTube and Facebook
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SUMMARY:David Zicarelli: Fun with Complexity using MC in Max
DESCRIPTION:The patches demonstrated in this video are available here\n\nMaking and controlling complex sounds on a computer where hundreds of events are happening simultaneously can be hard work. Aren’t computers supposed to make doing complex things easier? Max has a new feature called MC that can make it fun and easy to work with large numbers of simultaneous events and audio channels. You don’t need a multichannel audio system to play with MC. All the examples shown work in mono or stereo.\n\n\nWhat is MC?\n\n\nMC stands for Multi-Channel and is a way to encapsulate many audio channels\, and manipulate them together. This is a very useful replacement for projects that have multiple channels of audio and require unique representations and flows for each of them. Check out below David’s presentation of MC at Loop in 2019.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nAbout David Zicarelli\nDavid is the founder and CEO of Cycling’74\, makers of Max. David founded Cycling’74 in 1997 to commercialise Max\, a programming language that had been invented at IRCAM in 1985\, and licensed to Opcode for commercialisation in 1989. David worked then at Opcode and acquired the publishing rights to the software in 1997. Max grew an audience in more than 3 decades\, in education and as a tool for artists. In 2007\, Ableton and Cycling’74 announced Max for Live\, the integration of Max into Live\, allowing Ableton Live users to use Max patches in their workflow.  Cycling’74 was then acquired by Ableton in 2017\, and Max for Live is seeing a lot of improvements since\, opening up possibilities for long time Max users to find new audiences among the Live user base.
URL:https://musichackspace.org/event/david-zicarelli-fun-with-complexity-using-mc-in-max/
LOCATION:YouTube and Facebook
CATEGORIES:Music software,Product discovery
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SUMMARY:Amy Dickens: Inclusive Design for Digital Musical Instruments
DESCRIPTION:The 21st May 2020 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. To celebrate this\, we are exploring in our live-stream today the design practices to help make musical instruments (hardware and software) more accessible. To find out more about GAAD\, please check their website. \nShould we make instruments easier to play? This is a question that might divide professional musicians\, who have acquired their skills through hardship. But for everyone else\, there is little doubt that the fun should start as soon as we engage with an instrument. Making instruments easier to play is also a critical issue for people with disabilities ranging from limited mobility to visual impairment. So\, if you’re thinking of making an instrument\, why not consider lowering the barriers of playing them? \nIn this talk\, Amy Dickens will shed light on the inclusive design practices for Digital Musical Instruments\,  and how to make music accessible to everyone. Amy will walk us through some of the standards and best practices for accessibility\, as well as design considerations for music technology of all kinds. For those wanting to take part at the end of the session there will be an activity in designing some digital musical instruments for different levels of ability. \nAbout Amy Dickens:\nAmy Dickens is an accessibility ambassador\, Developer Advocate\, and researcher at The Mixed Reality Laboratory\, UK. As well as being an audio engineer and musician\, over the past five years Amy has been conducting research into accessible music technologies. Currently living in London with partner and Jack Russell (Moo Bean)\, Amy is working on producing a framework for accessible musical experiences and finishing their all important PhD Thesis. \nOn the subject of accessibility and music\, check out also the great work of charity organisation Drake Music.
URL:https://musichackspace.org/event/amy-dickens/
LOCATION:YouTube and Facebook
CATEGORIES:Instrument design
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SUMMARY:Tweakable: a online programming environment for music and video
DESCRIPTION:We cover Max/MSP and Jitter a lot\, as it is the most popular visual programming environment\, especially if you want to hack audio and video in your own way. But it isn’t the only visual programming language out there. We found out recently about Tweakable\, and it turns out to be quite remarkable. \nFirst\, it is entirely online. No downloads\, no sign-up\, the URL above takes you directly to a web page\, where Tweakable runs. You might think that you are launching a video when you click on the usual triangle\, but in fact you’re turning the engine on\, and everything turns out to be editable. And you can build a user interface\, too! \nI’ve managed to extract an example with Julian’s help\, see below. The original patch is available here. \n[Update] Julian has added a share option that exports the code of a patch for easy embed. Wow. \n\nTweakable has a collection of simple examples to get you started\, such as the one above\, and it can get pretty complex. It’s made for musical applications so it has examples of algorithmic compositions\, canon\, fugue\, jazz etc. \nIt gets better. It also supports video\, through a similar patching system. The possibilities are super interesting. You can design your own audio/video project and encapsulate it onto your webpage\, and visitors can also experiment with it. \n\nThe author of this software is Julian Woodward. Based in Britain\, Julian (Visual Systems Ltd) began developing Tweakable five years ago as a side project\, and is now working on it full time. Julian will join us for a first public discovery of Tweakable on Monday 18th May. Ask questions on the live chat or on the forum.
URL:https://musichackspace.org/event/tweakable-a-online-programming-environment-for-music-and-video/
LOCATION:YouTube and Facebook
CATEGORIES:Music software,Product discovery
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SUMMARY:Kate Stone: interactive surfaces for music
DESCRIPTION:Kate Stone is the founder and CEO of Novalia\, a UK-based company whose mission is to create “magical” interactions. Magical is the word Kate uses to explain that she aims to hide the technology away\, and augment our analog interaction with the world with subtle and meaningful improvements. Imagine a musical instrument\, a clarinet\, say\, equipped with invisible sensors and bluetooth chip\, capturing the musician’s gestures to control video\, or audio effects. Or a printed piece of paper with conductive ink that triggers sound. \nKate imagines a world that is more like Harry Potter than Minority Report. And although she claims she’s not a musician\, most of her work revolves around music. From the McTrax she built for McDonalds to DJ Qbert’s album cover\, music interactions seem to be the perfect home for her technologies. And for the past year\, she’s been chair of the board of the MIDI Manufacturers Association. \nKate will be live-streaming on May 14th at 6:30pm UK time on our channel on YouTube and Facebook. \n \n 
URL:https://musichackspace.org/event/kate-stone-interactive-surfaces-for-music/
LOCATION:YouTube and Facebook
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SUMMARY:Ocean: a new online & collaborative sequencer
DESCRIPTION:In this 8th live-stream\, we hosted Robin Hunter who has recently launched a collaborative\, online sequencer running in the browser: Ocean. \n \nOnline collaboration for music makers has fuelled many dreams over the past 20 years\, but many of them have turned into nightmares. From Rocket Networks (acquired by AVID in 2003) to LL Cool J’s Boomdizzle or Ohm Force’s ambitious Ohm Studio\, many have tried to make it easy to collaborate online. Bandlab and Soundtrap seem to be doing quite well however and betting on growing large audiences\, in particular by targeting education. \nOcean is following on those footsteps with a very simple interface exempt of the jargon and complexity that we see in audio workstations. It’s designed to get people started immediately\, and features a fun collaboration approach that makes it a good experience. There are much more features that will be needed before anyone can make a song with Ocean\, but it’s a great first step. For those of you in education\, or in lockdown with kids\, have a try\, it’s free! \n 
URL:https://musichackspace.org/event/ocean-a-new-online-collaborative-sequencer/
LOCATION:YouTube and Facebook
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