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First Five Max Certified Trainers Introduced 

Today, Cycling ’74 announces their new Max Certified Trainer Program by introducing the first five Max Certified Trainers. This program enhances the Max community by offering more independent learning opportunities.

These Max Certified Trainers or Max CTs are a group of diverse independent educators who are not only knowledgeable but can instruct others to become better Max programmers. The Max CTs have strong general knowledge and will bring their experience of specific areas of Max's offerings, whether it be topics like advanced MSP, Jitter, or I/O interactions.

Melody Loveless - Brooklyn
Melody Loveless is an artist, musician, performer and educator who works with creative and interactive technologies. Her expertise includes teaching first-time users and programmers, consulting other educators on curriculum, and showing artists how to incorporate Max into their practice to create interdisciplinary projects. She believes in technology’s potential to empower others to create art and enjoys sharing techniques and ideas with others. 

Phelan Kane - Berlin
Phelan Kane is a Berlin and London based music producer, engineer, artist, developer and educator. For over twenty years, he has been active in both the music industry and the contemporary music education sector, with a focus on electronic music and alternative bands.

Kyle Duffield - Toronto
Kyle Duffield is a Toronto based Interactive Experience Artist and Designer who makes immersive installations and brand activations. His decade-plus teaching and consulting expertise spans audio, video, creative coding, electronics, interaction design, and spectacle creation in the form of university courses, workshops, and tutoring sessions.

Andrew Robinson - Tempe
Andrew is an Interactive Experience Designer with a focus on creating real-time audiovisual animations and lighting installations. His design work has been featured in live experience settings such as music performances and museums across the country. He also has a passion for learning and sharing knowledge of design and Max MSP and runs a Youtube channel where he documents his installation builds and shares Max programming techniques.

Chloe Thompson - Brooklyn
Chloe Alexandra Thompson is an interdisciplinary artist and touring sound designer whose works and workshops have been featured in galleries and performance spaces domestically and internationally. Using Max, Thompson creates unique sonic environments and interactive performance tools.

“It has been a dream for many of us at Cycling '74 to see the Max Certified Trainer Program realized. We're excited to see what the first 5 Max CTs and the program as a whole will do to empower Max users.” said Josh Weatherspoon, Cycling ’74 Certified Trainer Program Lead.

“We have been working with the first cohort of Max certified trainers to curate online courses and meetups. They are a group of diverse, talented and passionate teachers who can support beginners with their first steps with Max, as well as teach advanced users.” said JB Thiebaut, Music Hackspace founder and CEO.

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If you would like to set up a one-on-one lesson or hire a Max CT for a workshop, please head over to our Certified Trainer page .

Cycling ’74 creates software for the specialized needs of artists, educators, and researchers working with audio, visual media, and physical computing. Our visual programming tool Max serves as the creative engine behind thousands of innovative projects. Its iPad app Mira allows the user to expand beyond the Max environment for increased flexibility. 

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First Five Max Certified Trainers Introduced

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Cycling ’74 Announces New Max Certified Trainer Program

Music Hackspace and Cycling '74 team up to deliver a monthly series of 4 workshops to help people learn the fundamentals of music programming with Max, and 4 monthly meetups where participants can share their work and learn from one another. 

The course and meetups are free for all. Cycling '74 offers a free trial of the software (download here), making this accessible to anyone who is curious about programming. There is no obligation to buy the software to participate in a workshop.

David Zicarelli, CEO of Cycling '74, says “We’re excited to partner with Music Hackspace to allow anyone to learn programming and music technology with Max for free. From our experience, it can have a big impact for beginners to learn with real time guidance and be able to ask questions. Music Hackspace has built a great online learning framework that our users will benefit from.”

All events are led by a certified trainer who has years of experience teaching music technologies.

JB Thiebaut, CEO of Music Hackspace, adds “Max is one of the best tools to learn music technology. Being able to access free courses is a fantastic opportunity for thousands to acquire new skills. The new influx of participants will also help our ongoing research to improve online learning. ”

The first of the free course series will start on January 6th and will be replicated each month throughout 2021. Timings are adapted on a bi-monthly basis, so that attendees from all over the globe can find a time that suits them. There will be limited places on each course so sign up is essential.

Getting started with Max Workshops
The monthly workshops will have 4 sessions of 2 hours each. Participants will learn how to get started with interactive audio and MIDI, and discover the possibilities of the Max environment.  They will learn how to manipulate audio, MIDI, virtual instruments, and program their own interactive canvas, and will learn from guided examples and live interactions with teachers and other participants. 

Session 1 – Understand the Max environment

Session 2 – Connect building blocks together and work with data

Session 4 – Work with your MIDI instruments

Max Meetups 
Online Max meetups are an open forum where the community can share ideas and learn from other artists, coders and performers. All are invited to showcase their patches, pair with others to learn together, get help for a school assignment, or discover new things.  

Participants can sign up and propose a presentation topic, which are accepted on a first come, first served basis. Max meetups offer breakout rooms for specific topics such as music, interactive installations or MIDI. More categories will be created at each meetup. See here when the next online meetups are taking place.

Music Hackspace’s mission is to develop the largest online learning platform  for music technologies. It was founded in 2011 by Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut in London, as a collective of artists and engineers. Starting with weekly meetups and seminars, Music Hackspace now curates over 20 live and online workshops every month on music programming, instrument design, and DIY electronics, for a growing number of artists and hobbyists. 

For more information:  www.musichackspace.org/learnmax 

Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut; Founder & CEO @ Music Hackspace

Lilli Wessling Hart; Director of Events @ Cycling '74

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Music Hackspace and Cycling ’74 team up to deliver free monthly Max workshops and meetups. 

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