As part of our annual electronic music festival (see here http://www.electricspring.co.uk/), the The University of Huddersfield will be hosting the 6th MSP Power Users Symposium. This is a free public event with an opportunity to hear about and discuss a range of exciting work in MaxMSP from both creative and "nerdtalk" perspectives.

Date: Saturday 18th FebruaryTime: 1PM-5.30PMVenue: The Creative Arts Building (ROOM CAM G/01), University of HuddersfieldCost: FREE

This year we are very pleased to present an international set of invited guest speakers to talk about their work. Below is an outline.

Hope to see lots of people there

Alex Harker MSP Symposium Co-ordinator Research Fellow @ The University of Huddersfield

Timo will discuss the process of creating audiovisual software in MaxMSP, both from the perspective of overall project design, and also particular details of implementation in his recent work.

Luke will be talking about the benefits that Max offers in an environment where rapid programming, modular approaches and physical interfacing are key. He will be discussing alternative control interfaces, multi-speaker installations, wireless technologies, iPads, RFID, DMX lighting control, motion tracking and interactive floor projection with a SEN focus. Luke has a background in creative music technology and interactive sonic art and became involved in special needs education almost by accident. He is now researching for a PhD and crusading about the opportunities that Max offers in the Special Education arena whenever he gets the chance.

bach: automated composer's helper is a freely downloadable, cross-platform set of patches and externals for Max, aimed to bring the richness of computer-aided composition into the real-time world. It provides Max with two new data types: rational numbers and lllls (an acronym for Lisp-like linked lists), the latter being a list capable to contain other lllls in itself, somewhat like a Lisp list. In addition to that, it includes a large collection of tools for operating upon these new types and a number of advanced facilities and graphical interfaces for musical notation, with support for microtonal accidentals of arbitrary resolution, measured and non-measured notation, polymetric notation, MusicXML files and much more. In this talk, an introductory overview of the features of bach, as well as some real-life usage examples, will be presented.

I am a composer, improviser and soloist with laptop, my sound-centric projects focus on encounters between computers, people and places. Based in Edinburgh, I perform and compose work involving computers, I develop sound installations and sound design projects with a range of theatre companies, symphony orchestras, visual artists and ensembles. At this MAxMSP symposium, I will talk about several recent and not-so-recent projects in which MAX played a fundamental part in both the work's conceptual development and its realisation.