Learn the fundamentals you need to enter and successfully navigate the NFT world as a creative.

Date & Time: Tuesday 16th November 2021 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC

Level: Beginner

Overview of what you’ll learn: NFT brings new opportunities for creators to build audiences, promote products & profit from their creations. 

In this interactive session, we will explore the fundamentals of NFTs, how to navigate the space safely and mint your first NFT!  

• Why NFTs?
• What is an NFT? 
• Intro to cryptocurrency
• Who are NFTs for?
• Where to buy/sell NFTs?
• Activity: Make an NFT Together!

 

Level of experience required: Workshop best suited for anyone who would like to better prepare themselves for the inevitable NFT world. No experience required. All curious-souls are welcomed!

Who is this workshop for?

Musicians & Artists who want to understand the basics of NFTs.

Developers who want to understand how NFT technology is unfolding itself in the creative space.

Session Learning Outcomes

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

• Explain the 5 W’s of NFTs (Why, what, who, when, where)

• Navigate the NFT world with confidence

• Explore both established & new NFT marketplaces

• Mint their own NFTs on OpenSea

Session Study Topics

• Cryptocurrency intro

• NFT Fundamentals

• NFT Marketplaces

• NFT Risk, Security & Safety

 

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• A webcam and mic

• A Zoom account

• Have Metamask extension installed in Chrome.

About the workshop leader 

Heen is a London based music producer, artist and NFT educator.

As a creator himself, he is a classically trained pianist who has spent his life exploring sonic possibilities with classical, jazz, electronic and cinematic music. He joined ROLI as a full time product specialist after studying a degree in Computer Science, and since then have continued to combine his passions to his growing portfolio. 

Outside of ROLI, he is currently co-running Originally:Creative – a digital marketing consultancy for creatives, with a mission to help creators navigate & win in the digital space. So far they have worked with artists including: Tomfoolery, Wharf, CRISP&CLASSY… as well as working closely with Jordan Rudess on his upcoming NFT project.

Date & Time: Saturday 30th October 4pm UK / 5pm Berlin / 8am LA / 11am NYC

Meetup length 2-hours

Level: Open to all levels

Meetups are a great way to meet and be inspired by the Notch community.

What to expect? 

The meetup runs via Zoom and will be approx. 2-hours in length.

This session focuses on Notch for live performances and will feature presentations from expert practitioners.

• Mikkel G.Martinsen & Lorenzo Venturini: NOTCH Imag FX integration in live concerts productions

www.roofvideodesign.com
www.mikkel.it
www.lorenzoventurini.com

 

• More speakers to be announced this week!

Following these presentations breakout rooms are created where you can: 

• Talk to the presenters and ask questions

• Join a room on topics of your choice

• Show other participants your projects, ask for help, or help others out

• Meet peers in the chill-out breakout room

The list of presenters will be updated and announced before the meetup.

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection
• A Zoom account

 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.

Supported by Notch 

Date & Time: Monday 1st November 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 11am LA / 2pm NYC

Level: Beginner

The master of all genres, Lars Soederberg, is a song-writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Lars gives a sneak peak into his production process and how he uses UJAM effects from the Finisher series. Lars will share his best practices for getting to incredible results fast. Bring your notepad!

Requirements

• A Zoom account
• A computer and internet connection

Date and Time: Monday 25th October 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC

Level: Beginner

Mixing engineer and producer Richie Beretta (Beyoncé, Jillionaire, Diplo) walks you through the guitars and bass for his track “Whatever”. How did he produce the guitars? And what role do Virtual Guitarist and UJAM Finisher FX play in his workflow?

Requirements

• A Zoom account
• A computer and internet connection

Level: Beginner

Mixing engineer and producer Richie Beretta (Beyoncé, Jillionaire, Diplo) walks you through his mix for his track “Whatever”. How did he produce the drums with Virtual Drummer BRUTE? How does he approach arrangement and mix? Find out for yourself!

 

Requirements

• An Internet connection

Level: Some experience of norns required

In the second Flora workshop, you will build your own custom L-system algorithms using Flora’s UI and sequence the script using the preset (PSET) sequencer. The script’s community gardening feature will also be covered to give you a new way to share your sequences with a worldwide audience.

Flora on Vimeo

By the end of the second workshop, you will be able to:

• Design custom L-system algorithms with the Flora UI and maiden

• Share your custom L-system algorithms using Flora’s community gardening feature

• Sequence presets using Flora and other norns scripts

• Use Flora as a sequencer for your external synthesizer(s) using crow and/or midi

Session study topics

• L-system algorithm properties

• Sharing L-system algorithms

• Meta-sequencing Flora and other norns scripts

• Norns integration with midi and/or crow

 

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• A norns device with Flora installed

• Optional: A midi-enabled controller and/or synthesizer

 

We have a number of sponsorship places available, if the registration fee is a barrier to you joining the workshop please contact laura@stagingmhs.local.

 

 

About the workshop leader

Jonathan Snyder is a Portland, Oregon based sound explorer and educator.

Previously, he worked for 22 years as a design technologist, IT manager, and educator at Columbia University’s Media Center for Art History, Method, and Adobe.

Level: Some experience of norns required

Flora is an L-systems sequencer and bandpass-filtered sawtooth engine for monome norns. In this workshop you will learn how L-system algorithms are used to produce musical sequences while exploring the script’s UI and features.

Flora on Vimeo

By the end of the first workshop, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Flora UI and parameters menus to build and perform your own compositions

• Create dynamically shaped, multinodal envelopes to modulate Flora’s bandpass-filtered sawtooth engine

• Build generative polyrhythms and delays into your compositions

• Use crow and/or midi-enabled controllers and synthesizers to play Flora

Session study topics:

• Sequencing with L-system algorithms

• Physical modeling synthesis with bandpass filters

• Generate multi-nodal envelope

• Norns integration with midi and/or crow

 

Requirements

• A computer and internet connection

• A norns device with Flora installed

• Optional: A midi-enabled controller and/or synthesizer

 

We have a number of sponsorship places available, if the registration fee is a barrier to you joining the workshop please contact laura@stagingmhs.local.

 

About the workshop leader 

Jonathan Snyder is a Portland, Oregon based sound explorer and educator.

Previously, he worked for 22 years as a design technologist, IT manager, and educator at Columbia University’s Media Center for Art History, Method, and Adobe.

Date & Time: Monday 10th May 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC

In this livestreamed interview, we will speak with Sam Tarakajian and Alex Van Gils, who’ve built a fantastic live-coding environment that works within an Ableton Live device called Nestup. 

The programs we use to make music have a lot of implicit decisions baked into them, especially in their graphical interfaces. Nestup began as a thought experiment, trying to see if embedding a text editor inside Live could open up new creative possibilities. We think the answer is that yes, text can work well alongside a piano roll and a traditional musical score, as a concise and expressive way to define complex rhythms.

With Nestup, you define for yourself any size of rhythmic unit, any sort of rhythmic subdivision, and with any scaling factor. These language features open your rhythm programming up to musical ideas such as metric modulation, nested tuplets, complex polyrhythm, and more. Rhythms from musical styles which would have been prohibitively difficult to program in a DAW can therefore be rendered in MIDI, such as rhythms from Armenian folk musics or “new complexity” compositions.

Overview of speakers

Sam is a Brooklyn based developer and creative coder. Sam works for Cycling ‘74 and develops independent projects at Cutelab NYC. Alex is a composer, performer, and generative video artist based in Brooklyn. 

Sam and Alex have been making art with music and code together for over 10 years, beginning with a composition for double bass and Nintendo Wiimote while undergraduates and continuing to include electroacoustic compositions, live AR performance art, installation art, Max4Live devices, and now Nestup, the domain-specific language for musical rhythms.

Where to watch?

YouTube –

 

Thursday 20th May 6pm UK / 7pm Berlin / 10am LA / 1pm NYC

In this livestreamed interview, Alex McLean retraces the history and intent that prompted him to develop TidalCycles alongside ‘Algorave’ live performance events, contributing to establish Live Coding as an art discipline.

 Alex started TidalCycles project for exploring musical patterns in 2009, and it is now a healthy free/open-source software project and among the most well-known live coding environments for music.

TidalCycles represents musical patterns as a function of time, making them easy to make, combine and transform. It is generally partnered with the SuperDirt hybrid synthesiser/sampler, created by Julian Rohrhuber using SuperCollider. 

Culturally, TidalCycles is tightly linked to Algorave, a movement created by Alex McLean and Nick Collins in 2011, where musicians and VJs make algorithms to dance to.

Where to watch – 

 

Facebook –  https://www.facebook.com/musichackspace/

Overview of speaker

Alex McLean is a musician and researcher based in Sheffield UK. As well as working on TidalCycles, he also researches algorithmic patterns in ancient weaving, as part of the PENELOPE project based in Deutsches Museum, Munich. He has organised hundreds of events in the digital arts, including the annual AlgoMech festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement. Alex co-founded the international conferences on live coding and live interfaces, and co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. As live coder has performed worldwide, including Sonar, No Bounds, Ars Electronica, Bluedot and Glastonbury festivals.

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.