Live Electronic Music and Multimedia
Short Course Description:
A collaborative workshop for anyone interested in creating live electronic music, multimedia performance, and sound installations. Public extension of a course currently being offered through the Video Department at MICA this Spring.
This course will provide students with an immersive laboratory in which they can experiment with new modes of sound manipulation in live performance. We will explore sound-manipulation skills in real time, using audio technology ranging from contact microphones to turntables to laptop software such as Ableton Live. DJing and audio improvisation will be practiced in dialogue with live video mixing and a variety of other performance media. Broad topics of study will include looping and evolving sonic space, dissonance and synchronicity, form and time. Creative projects will follow the students' individual interest, while also contributing to a common performance event, "The Vigil", at the Cohen Plaza at MICA (April 1, 2010). A second module, following this performance, will focus on interactive sound installations that allow an audience to perform.
Students will gain familiarity with DJ mixer techniques, MIDI mapping and controllers in combination with audio software, digital and analog effects processing, basic soldering, and a small amount of music theory. Experience with live electronic improvisation and composition will be informed by a familiarity with the work of a range of artists throughout the history of live remix.
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LIVE VIDEO OF PERFORMANCES WILL BE STREAMED ONLINE!
http://www.jasonsloan.com/courses/em/live
Date and Time:
Repeats every 2 weeks until Tue Apr 20 2010 .
February 8, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
February 22, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
March 8, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
March 22, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
April 5, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
April 19, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Where:
Comments
Confusing info on this page -
Confusing info on this page - 1st class is tonight? 4pm or 7 pm?
Thanks for the info!
I will also be there a bit later (~6pm)...I'm still in classes at 4! Looking forward to it,
Aita
Not too late to join!
Please come to our first Live Electronic Music session at the Free School on this coming Monday, starting at 4 PM! The first day will contain a lot of performances by students who have been taking the full version of this class at MICA. The first set of performances will be noise improvisations based on graphic notations. The second set of performances will be loop or drone-based performances using samples. After each performance there will be a brief discussion about performance decisions and techniques used.
In the time after the performances (which will be later in the evening, probably from 8:30-10:00), I will be giving a presentation on Ableton Live software, focusing on performance with effects processing and audio clips in the program's Session View.
We will be streaming live video of the performances on the following site:
http://www.jasonsloan.com/courses/em/live
info
This looks like an excellent course, and I'd like to attend (if I read through all the comments correctly, the first free class is starting Monday the 22nd?) Probably can't make it until later in the evening (after 7pm), is that still ok?
edit: I see it's being held at the free school site in the green room...guess it pays to look at the calendar, heh.
is it too late to sign up?
Hi - I just got an email from the free school saying that this class starts on Feb. 22. But the schedule seems to indicate that it has started already. Is it too late to join?
Do let me know!
Thanks,
Aita
Not too late to join!
See my comment I just posted about the first day of the Free School sessions, this coming Monday.
Snow
2/7/10- Tomorrow's Live Electronic Music class at the Free School is cancelled due to snow. Makeup class on 2/15, 7 PM in MICA Brown Center 217.
Session themes
2/8: Presentation by Peter Blasser on electronic instrument design; performances of noise compositions using graphic notation.
2/22: Turntablism; signal processing; improvisations using found vinyl records and processing.
3/8: Performing with Ableton Live; MIDI mapping strategies for audio clips, effects, synth parameters, etc.
3/22: Structuring the live set; sound and video interaction
4/5: Network music performance (streaming live sound from multiple locations)
4/19: Interactive sound installations
sign up here
I just got hip to the online sign-up available right here. I'm going to declare that officially open!
If you'd like to take this class, please also try to show up on the first day and talk to me about your musical and technological interests.
Best,
Erik
first class
Hey everyone! Really excited to be starting this at the Free School next week. In this first session we will have a guest presentation by local electronic instrument inventor and multi-talented artist Peter Blasser, focusing on creative work with circuits. Following this, the students who are from MICA (taking the expanded version of this class with me there) will perform short improvisations based on "graphic scores"- basically abstract drawings that are meant to indicate sounds or actions to take. The graphic scores will be projected and interpreted several times each- the first time by people seeing it for the first time, then by the author of the score. If you bring a sounding device of some sort and are interested in participating in some of the improvisations, you are more than welcome. These first improvisations will focus on the shaping of "noise"- for this context that is an avoidance of any reliance on clear tones, avoiding melody or chord changes as a structuring idea.
To register to take this class, simply come on the first day and sign up there, with me or my co-teacher Jason Sloan. 18 students are coming from MICA, and I think we can fit about 20 more people. Hope to see you there!
Here's the website for the expanded version of the class that I'm teaching at MICA:
http://www.jasonsloan.com/courses/em/