Bring your favorite real-time software tool, be it LiSa, ImX, Max/MSP/Jitter, SuperCollider3, Pd, or … and an inspiration for a delightful way of getting your hands on the digital domain. Learn how to control music and visuals with a flexible new sensor system, the CREATE USB Interface. The CUI can be either wired (USB bus-powered) or wireless (Bluetooth), and will be available to workshop participants to buy (50 Eur for the USB version, ready-to-use, please contact
dano@create.ucsb.edu to reserve one). Register early, space is limited.
Grasping the Sound, Caressing the Image
Participants will be introduced to the CREATE USB Interface through lecture, demonstration, and discussion, including short exercises in connecting it to different sensors, and how to use it with various software applications. As artists, we are always faced with the
challenge of investigating/incorporating new technologies into our work while finding our own voice or approach to expression within them. In this workshop, we will explore new metaphors for artistic interactivity that connect the physical world with the virtual realm, and vice versa.
Anyone who is interested in the artistic possibilities offered by electronics and sensor technologies should sign up for the workshop – musicians of all backgrounds, composers, performers, artists, installation artists, instrument builders, dancers, teachers, etc.
The workshop will be delivered during 4 full time days. The morning sessions (9am-Noon) will cover theory and research components along with listening, video, and other demonstrations. The afternoon sessions (1pm-5pm) will focus on practical work and individual projects. No programming experience is required, but participants
should be familiar with their software tool of choice, and expect to get first hand experience working with sensors, interfaces, and mapping techniques for musical or visual interactions.
The workshop was developed in response to the challenges faced researching and building digital instruments, installations, and interactive works at the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology at UC Santa Barbara, and is offered there in its full form as an interdisciplinary course between the MAT, Music, and Art
departments www.mat.ucsb.edu/594O/.
Workshop content will include access to valuable source material including where to look for technical information, and the world of electronic instrument
builders and installation makers today. For more information about the CUI, see: website
By Dan Overholt & Daniel Schorno (day 3&4).
Date: May 31 - June 3 2006
Location: STEIM (studio for electro instrumental music)
Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam NL
Cost: 120 euro
Registration can be done only through the STEIM website:
steim.org
Achtergracht 19
1017 WL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 020-6228690
Fax: 020-6264262
Email: knock@steim.nl
WWW: STEIM