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Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center is a pioneering nonprofit founded by artists in 1977 to support the creation and presentation of technology-driven art. Through residencies, commissions, education, and production services, Harvestworks fosters innovation at the intersection of art and evolving digital media.
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Wearable Beats
Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center See all classes by this school @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY
This workshop will serve as an introduction to soft circuits, to learn how to translate your circuits into wearable projects and create your own soft controllers for visuals or audio. Wearable Beats are soft control for your visual & sonic experiments. Soft circuits, or electronic textiles, are electrical circuits created using flexible conductive materials such as conductive threads and fabrics altogether with discrete electronic components....
Exploring Audio in OpenFrameworks
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Learn to program rich interactive audio applications. A workshop for those who love sound, music, and computing. Put away your patch cords and see how it feels to type a signal chain. This two day workshop will acquaint participants with the glorious fusion of audio units with openframeworks. About audio units/core audio: The Audio Unit Framework is a Mac OS X architecture for audio plugins similar to VST. Audio Units can be audio file players,...
Pure DatrocessorduinoMOS
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This is a really fun way of learning how to integrate software based interfaces, custom code, and physical hardware through music. A crash course in building connections between Pure Data or Processing and DIY CMOS circuits using Arduino. Don’t worry if you’re not a seasoned expert in any of these areas. Examples will be provided and explained along with brief introductions to the systems/environments and how to explore them further...
Mapping Movement to Video Effects & Sound with Kinect 1
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This class is for video and installation artists, musicians, dancers and others who are interested in creating video or audio effects using the movement of the body. You will learn how to capture data from the kinect and use motion tracking methods to map movement into parameters that can affect video and audio. Have you ever wanted to modulate the speed of a movie as you move from left to right in front of a video wall? Do you want to mix...
Methodology:Sound Recording & Documentary Sound Writing
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This series of workshops is intended to people having already a practice of the sound writing and sound recording. It is conceived to give methodological bases concerning sound recording, sound sampling, editing and mixing to carry out sound creations documentary or more musical forms, radio drama, hörspiel or electroacoustic pieces. At the end of the session, the participants acquired a work method which they will be then able to use...
A Practical Approach to Developing Large Audio Projects
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This workshop is geared towards artists who have already a professional or semi-professional practice in radio drama, sound art or sound installations. After the overwhelming success of our current workshop with French sound documentarian Benoit Bories, we decided to offer a special workshop for artists, to work closely with Benoit on their individual projects in a small group setting. Full Course Title: A Practical Approach to Developing...
Spatialization at New Adventures in Sound Art
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Darren Copeland will present a performance/talk detailing spatialization practices that have been undertaken at New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in Toronto since 1998. Through performing his own works and works by other Canadian artists, he will demonstrate and discuss two contrasting approaches to performance spatialization used by NAISA. The first method was a fully automated system using the Richmond Sound Design Audiobox and the control...
Natures and Numbers in Music
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Partnering with Composers Now Festival, Harvestworks presents a “behind the scenes” look at how algorithmic systems and data inspire and shape new music by these contemporary sound art and experimental music composers. It will feature presentations by Liz Phillips with Butoh Dancer Mariko Endo Reynolds, plus Tom Hamilton, followed by a panel discussion. Composer and interactive artist Liz Phillips with Butoh Dancer Mariko Endo Reynolds will...
Sabine Gruffat + Paul Geluso: A Kiss of The Earth
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Utilizing real-time weather data and text messaging as a driver for the animation, this work reconceives the The Rite of Spring as a commentary on a real contemporary sacrifice: the increased exploitation of our planet and its natural resources in the face of economic and political pressure. A Kiss of the Earth is a responsive three-screen computer-animated video and sound installation inspired by Sergei Diaghilev’s first production of The Rite...
Jenn Grossman: Quantum Echoes
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Both “musical” and “non-musical” recordings taken from unrelated times and places will be compiled into a singular, but evolving composition. A variety of processing techniques that “stretch” sound will be applied as to give the illusion of expansion, reflecting the perceptual shift from “focal” to “global” attention. “Quantum Echoes” will explore the notion of the eternal through a multi-channel sound installation. How...
David Galbraith: Density
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Density is a generative installation of abstract animation with six-channel sound based on a vintage mathematics reference text. Reversing the traditional visual music mapping from musical pitch to color hue, Density structures the sonic realm through constraints derived from the visual domain. The animation is created with Galbraith’s custom software which simultaneously generates sound via granular synthesis controlled by the image track,...
Allison Berkoy: Company
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Allison Berkoy presents Company, an interactive multimedia experience of stories, games, and performances. Guests enter an installation environment suggesting a living room. They meet a life-sized figure protruding from a canvas, enlivened through video projection, with an invitation to stay. The figure makes requests of guests, discloses stories and secrets in absurd and sometimes uncomfortable progressions, and entertains. Company creates an...
VoxNovus 60×60 Surround Sound Works
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60×60 is a one-hour-long show made by sequencing 60 pre-recorded pieces by 60 different composers, each piece a minute in length or shorter. A unique collaboration between VoxNovus / Robert Voisey and Harvestworks in New York City to create a 5.1 surround sound mix. Vox Novus and Harvestworks invited composers and sound artists to submit recorded works as 5.1 audio 60 seconds or less in length to be included in a special 60×60 project collaboration...
David Blair:The Telepathic Place-The Telepathic Machine
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Using a variety of screens, speakers, and moving/static objects, the Manchu Edison Film Corporation presents a form of the Telepathic Cinema, as a telepathic film which includes a history of its own invention. This will include the strangely multinational Phenakistoscope of 1832 [literal translation, "deceitful wheel"], and other geometric animation machines designed by the blind color theorist Joseph Plateau. Using a variety of screens, speakers,...
Meridian7: Intercept Tone/Vacant Level Surround
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Meridian7 presents Intercept Tone/Vacant Level, a multi-channel audio installation inspired by archival recordings of the electromagnetic terrain that captivated early telephone network explorers. As an AIR at Harvestworks, Meridian7 completed three instruments that bring obsolete telephone equipment back to a life of patching audio signals. The piece explores the sonic terrain of analog switching networks punctuated with rhythmic signal pulses,...
Art Jones: Hypercartogram
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Art Jones’ Hypercartogram is a sound installation with 3D projected video. It is a multichannel, interactive audio map of several cities, punctuated by live action and animated video projected onto a sculptural collage of urban spaces. Hypercartogram is a sound installation with 3D projected video. It is a multichannel, interactive audio map of several cities, punctuated by live action and animated video projected onto a sculptural collage...
Daniel Temkin: Light Pattern
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Learn Daniel Temkin’s Light Pattern which is a language where the programmer communicates with the machine through photos. The source code, rather than appearing as text (perhaps of the “goto 10″ variety) is encoded in changes in color and exposure from one image to the next. In a daily photo practice, Temkin attempts to communicate with the machine by producing images according to the specifications of the compiler. The Hello, World!...
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Methodology:Sound Recording & Documentary Sound Writing
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Creative Coding: Introduction To "Processing
Andy was great! He's a very patient and extremely knowledgeable guy. I'd take the class again just for fun.