Trond Lossius

In March BEK will be hosting a one-week workshop providing an 

introduction to the Ircam libraries FTM, MnM, Gabor and MnM. This one- 

week workshop will look into the basics and the advanced use of the 

FTM&Co extensions for Max/MSP for interactive real-time musical and 

The basic idea of FTM is to extend the data types exchanged between 

the objects in a Max/MSP patch by complex data structures such as 

matrices, sequences, dictionaries, break point functions, tuples and 

whatever might seem helpful for the processing of music, sound and 

motion capture data. It also comprises visualization and editor 

components, and operators (expressions and externals) on these data 

structures, together with file import/export (SDIF, MIDI, ...) 

As examples of applications in the areas of sound analysis, 

transformation and synthesis, gesture following, and manipulation of 

musical scores, we will look at the parts and packages of FTM that 

allow arbitrary-rate signal processing (Gabor), matrix operations, 

statistics, machine learning (MnM), corpus-based synthesis (CataRT), 

sound description data exchange (SDIF), and Jitter support. The 

presented concepts will be tried and confirmed by applying them to 

programming exercises of real-time musical applications, and free 

Diemo Schwarz is a researcher--developer in real-time applications of 

computers to music with the aim of improving musical interaction, 

notably sound analysis--synthesis, and interactive corpus-based 

Since 1997 at Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique-- 

Musique) in Paris, France, he combined his studies of computer science 

and computational linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, 

with his interest in music, being an active performer and musician. He 

holds a PhD in computer science applied to music from the University 

of Paris, awarded in 2004 for the development of a new method of 

concatenative musical sound synthesis by unit selection from a large 

database. This work is continued in the CataRT application for real- 

time interactive corpus-based concatenative synthesis within Ircam's 

The workshop takes place at BEK, Bergen, Norway, March 9-13 2009, and 

ends with a live event/concert at Landmark on the evening of Friday 

March 13, featuring Diemo Schwarz, Vicotria Johnson (electric violin) 

and the South-African sound artist James Webb.

Participation: Please sent a brief e-mail providing motivation and bio 

to bek[AT]bek[DOT]no by February 5 2009. Participation is free, but 

participants are expected to cover travel and stay themselves. BEK 

might be able to help arranging hotel at reduced rate for 

participants. If this is of intererest, please state so when appliying 

Participants are expected to have prior knowledge of Max.

http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/schwarz/

http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/schwarz/mtbf/

The workshop is supported by The Norwegian Art Council and The 

In March BEK will be hosting a one-week workshop providing an  
introduction to the Ircam libraries FTM, MnM, Gabor and MnM. This one- 
week workshop will look into the basics and the advanced use of the  
FTM&Co extensions for Max/MSP for interactive real-time musical and  
artistic applications.

The basic idea of FTM is to extend the data types exchanged between  
the objects in a Max/MSP patch by complex data structures such as  
matrices, sequences, dictionaries, break point functions, tuples and  
whatever might seem helpful for the processing of music, sound and  
motion capture data. It also comprises visualization and editor  
components, and operators (expressions and externals) on these data  
structures, together with file import/export (SDIF, MIDI, ...)  
operators.

As examples of applications in the areas of sound analysis,  
transformation and synthesis, gesture following, and manipulation of  
musical scores, we will look at the parts and packages of FTM that  
allow arbitrary-rate signal processing (Gabor), matrix operations,  
statistics, machine learning (MnM), corpus-based synthesis (CataRT),  
sound description data exchange (SDIF), and Jitter support. The  
presented concepts will be tried and confirmed by applying them to  
programming exercises of real-time musical applications, and free  
experimentation.

Diemo Schwarz is a researcher--developer in real-time applications of  
computers to music with the aim of improving musical interaction,  
notably sound analysis--synthesis, and interactive corpus-based  
concatenative synthesis.

Since 1997 at Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique-- 
Musique) in Paris, France, he combined his studies of computer science  
and computational linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany,  
with his interest in music, being an active performer and musician. He  
holds a PhD in computer science applied to music from the University  
of Paris, awarded in 2004 for the development of a new method of  
concatenative musical sound synthesis by unit selection from a large  
database. This work is continued in the CataRT application for real- 
time interactive corpus-based concatenative synthesis within Ircam's  
Real-Time Music Interaction (IMTR) team.

The workshop takes place at BEK, Bergen, Norway, March 9-13 2009, and  
ends with a live event/concert at Landmark on the evening of Friday  
March 13, featuring Diemo Schwarz, Vicotria Johnson (electric violin)  
and the South-African sound artist James Webb.

Participation: Please sent a brief e-mail providing motivation and bio  
to bek[AT]bek[DOT]no by February 5 2009. Participation is free, but  
participants are expected to cover travel and stay themselves. BEK  
might be able to help arranging hotel at reduced rate for  
participants. If this is of intererest, please state so when appliying  
to participate.

http://imtr.ircam.fr
http://ftm.ircam.fr
http://ftm.ircam.fr/index.php/Gabor
http://ftm.ircam.fr/index.php/MnM
http://imtr.ircam.fr/index.php/CataRT

http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/schwarz/
http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/schwarz/mtbf/

The workshop is supported by The Norwegian Art Council and The  
Municipality of Bergen.


Call for participation: FTM Workshop at BEK