Installation and Performance Automated design and visuals. Interview created and produced by Sue Costabile for Cycling '74.
Installation and Performance Fabricating the interfaced machine. Links Ultrafuzz.net California College of the Arts, Media Arts program Interview created and produced by Sue Costabile for Cycling '74.
David Wessel is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley where he directs the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Wessel worked at IRCAM between 1979 and 1988; his activities there …
San Francisco resident Carl Stone has composed electro-acoustic and computer music exclusively since 1972. He has been commissioned to compose and perform his works in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and …
jhno, a.k.a. John Eichenseer, is the culprit responsible for many of the plug-ins in the Pluggo collection. A musician and programmer living in San Francisco since 1994, jhno can be found DJing chill rooms in …
With a set of experiences that includes playing with Tito Puente, touring with Peter Brook's theatre ensemble in the 70s, and recently playing percussion with Rickie Lee Jones for the opening of the Experience Music …
Bob Ostertag is a music school dropout who has since performed all over the world and has collaborated with the likes of John Zorn, Fred Frith, drag diva Justin Bond, and the Kronos Quartet. In …
Luke DuBois is a teacher at Columbia University in New York City, and a member of the famous Freight Elevator Quartet, whose "Fix It In Post" CD is making waves as the first release on …
Amnon Wolman creates music with technology and for instruments with two distinctive features: first, a subtle and complex relationship with popular culture and second, a concern for the dramatic nature of sonic evolution. His first …
Kim Cascone has worked as a synth tech, edited music for David Lynch films, founded San Francisco's first ambient electronic music label, and helped design new systems of audio for video games. In this conversation with …
In the last 20 years William Kleinsasser has received national and international recognition in competitions, conferences and festivals by pushing technology to its limits. The c74 CD Available Instruments showcases the composer's …
Barney Haynes has been working in the fields of reactive installation and invasive media for 10 years. As a Professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts in the Film/Video/Performance department, Barney is helping …
The third installment in the inVeSTigations series added effects crossfading to our VST instrument/audio effect hosting possibilities, and demonstrated the use of the disable message that lets us load an effect and save on CPU …
In inVeSTigations part 2, we looked at how we can load VST instruments using the vst~ object to load VST audio plug-ins in Max, and how to format and send MIDI messages to a …
One quick way to start having fun with Max is to use the vst~ object to host audio plug-ins or VST instruments; you can load plug-ins you already have (or find some free plug-ins) and …
One quick way to start having fun with Max is to use the vst~ object to host audio plug-ins or VST instruments; you can load plug-ins you already have (or find some free plug-ins) and …
As you read the Max list, you'll probably see something that looks like this: max v2; #N vpatcher 10 59 414 293; #P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.; #P comment 97 56 53 196617 tap here!; #P number 55 129 …
One of the more difficult things for many beginning Max/MSP users is dealing with polyphony. So I thought I'd write up a few articles about the poly~ object, and …
When I started this series of short "advice" pieces to Max/MSP/Jitter beginners, I also decided to ask a number of my friends and colleagues about what their ideas of what good advice might be so …
You, the beginner, are living in a golden age. There are three things out there in the world that didn't exist when I was a beginner that will improve the quality of your Maxing life. Oh, …
I learned Max, MSP, and Jitter as a non-student, which meant that I pretty much taught myself by reading and making patches and then trying to make them work. That means that my following two …
I qualify as a beginner because I've been one. Three times, in fact. If you really are a beginner, then you'll never have to face learning Max, then learning MSP a bunch of years later, and …
Welcome to the beginner's corner. I will be your designated beginner for the duration of this journey. At the conclusion of your journey, I will be telling you really boring things you already know. I have …
Dismembering the morning New York Times and spilling Honey Nut Cheerios all over some random section is one of life's little pleasures, but it's always best to take a quick run through the whole paper. How …