Plus you can build your own DroneSynth, and do some circuit bending. For more information, check out our class website and sign up here: http://harvestworks.org under “Classes” – If you have questions call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130 ext 2. Membership is $75/yr, and you can pay for the membership when you sign up for the class.
Using Max/MSP, Anne La Berge has created a series of compositions that work with a flexible combination of imposed musical situations where performer/improvisers are an integrated part of the music making process. Anne La Berge will talk about the evolution of her compositional work focusing on how she uses Max/MSP and external hardware in her pieces and what she has done to groom them into publishable compositions.
Field recording, or phonography, is the art of recording sounds as they are found “in situ”, rather than those created in a studio or concert hall. This workshop provides a theoretical introduction to the various microphone techniques and recording strategies, a night-time recording excursion, critical listening sessions and more.
Derek Holzer
cost: $100 (one price)
www.harvestworks.org
Data bombards us. We see it; we hope to organize it, find patterns and relationships in it, communicate it outward. Through the process of visualizing data, any form of data can tell a story and affect change. Processing has vitalized the world of data visualization by allowing artists to code (and learn how to code) and transfer their skills to the digital domain. Plus, itʼs open-source (free) and integrates seamlessly with a multitude of user-driven extensions, libraries, and classes.
Instructor: Zeeshan Lakhani Sat & Sun, May 8 & 9, noon to 6pm
cost: $220 (members) /$280 (non-members)
Sign Up at www.harvestworks.org
- Data Visualized
Living Circuits by Phillip Stearns
Current VanLier resident Phillip Stearns offers a 5-part educational lecture/workshop series on basic electronics and networked sciences. Lectures will be held on evenings during the week free of charge and be accompanied by an optional hands-on ticketed workshop held on the weekend following. Each lecture will contain a historical overview of a key topic accompanied by demonstrations and animations. The optional workshops will focus on applying the information and knowledge presented in the lecture through hands on-projects led through slide-show, animation, and direct instruction. See complete schedule at www.harvestworks.org
Lectures will be held on evenings during the week free of charge and be accompanied by an optional hands-on ticketed workshop held on the weekend following. The goal of the lectures is to provide a background and context to the contemporary use of electronics, computing, and biology in the development of neural networks. Each lecture will contain a historical overview of a key topic accompanied by demonstrations and animations. The optional workshops will focus on applying the information and knowledge presented in the lecture through hands on-projects led through slide-show, animation, and direct instruction.
If you are in the Buffalo area, please come to our workshop at Squeaky Wheel.
The Guide to Useful Technology is an ongoing project of workshops, symposia,
consultations, tutorials and problem-solving forums taught by Harvestworks staff at
art and music centers in the US and around the world.
Workshop Activities
In the first part of the session, Hans Tammen, composer and deputy director from
Harvestworks, and Adam Rokhsar, a teaching artist from Harvestworks will give a lecture about current
and recent artistic projects at Harvestworks. In the second part of the workshop they will
be available for individual Project Management consultations from workshop
participants. Consultations will outline project resources, timelines, skill needs and
financial estimates.
Sounds Elemental – Weeklong Producer Intensives
We’re looking for 10 producers to step into the void as the Association of Independence and Radio (AIR), in conjunction with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City offers its popular 40-hour intensives for mid to advanced level audio producers. You do not have to be a member of AIR to apply. This opportunity may be especially appealing to those working primarily in traditional narrative and documentary formats eager to experiment with unconventional approaches to assembling sound and telling story.
Deadline for applying to the June Session, Sounds Elemental: Earth is Monday, May 3.
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Are you looking to stretch your ears, stir the sound of your imagination?
AIR’s Sounds Elemental is for you. Back by popular demand…
We’re looking for brave producers to step into the void as AIR, in conjunction with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City, once again offers two week-long, 40-hour intensives for mid to advanced level audio producers. You do not have to be a member of AIR to apply. This opportunity may be especially appealing to those working primarily in traditional narrative and documentary formats eager to experiment with unconventional approaches to assembling sound and telling story.
We will accept 10 students through a competitive application process for each class: Sounds Elemental: Earth, to be held in June 2010, and Sounds Elemental: Sky, to be held in November 2010 at Harvestworks in New York City. The cost is $650. AIR members who are accepted are eligible for a small stipend to help underwrite the cost of the intensive and travel to NYC.
Producers benefit from intensely individualized attention from renowned sound artists-teachers, NYC-based composer and performer Michael Schumacher, Harvestworks’ Hans Tammen, and AIR member Brenda Hutchinson.
We will accept applications for both sessions now. To apply, fill out an application form. Please note: You must indicate which intensive, June/Earth or November/Sky, you wish to attend.
Where:
All classes take place at Harvestworks’ in New York City. There will be one evening event at the Diapason sound gallery in Brooklyn.
>> THE DEADLINE FOR APPLYING FOR THE JUNE SESSION, SOUNDS ELEMENTAL: EARTH MONDAY, MAY 3. <<
Who is eligible?
We are looking for mid to advanced level producers from all walks of the public radio industry and beyond who have demonstrable expertise in digital sound gathering, editing and mixing. AIR membership is not required, though AIR members who are accepted are eligible for a small travel stipend. Those who have participated in AIR’s Harvestworks intensives in past years are eligible to apply.
An audio sample will be required with your application. A panel will review applications, and 10 participants for each intensive will be chosen. For more information, go here. To apply for Sounds Elemental, go here.
If you’d like to join AIR (Association of Independence and Radio), go here to fill out an application.
Costs:
- The fee for each intensive is $650, with a non-refundable deposit of $150 due upon acceptance to the program and the balance payable in advance of the intensive.
- AIR members who are accepted are eligible to receive a small stipend to help underwrite fees and travel.
- If you’d like to join AIR to become eligible for the travel stipend, go here.
- Participants coming from outside NYC are responsible for their own transportation and room and board during the intensive. Harvestworks can provide assistance in locating housing and guidance for getting around town for those not native to New York.
If you have questions, contact AIR’s Membership Director, Erin Mishkin at
Curriculum:
Each morning of the intensive Michael Schumacher and Brenda Hutchinson will offer lecture-demonstration on the history and landscape of contemporary sound art. Students will have up to 15 hours of individualized “lab” time listening to and drawing on a rich archive of sound to assemble a piece inspired by the respective themes – Earth, or Sky. Participants will have the option to bring with them audio they have previously gathered that supports the theme of their respective intensive (Earth or Sky), but it is not required. Brenda Hutchinson will work with students to produce a final sound piece representative of the week’s work, to be distributed by AIR as a podcast. Each daily session will be punctuated with critiques and discussion. Lest there be all work and no fun, the class will gather for an evening of socializing at Michael Schumacher’s Diapason sound gallery in Brooklyn.
Instructor biographies:
Michael J. Schumacher is a composer/performer, installation artist and curator. He works predominantly with electronic and digital media, specializing in computer generated sound environments that evolve continuously for long time periods. Schumacher’s sound installations have been heard at festivals and venues in North America, Europe and Asia. He is founder and director of Diapason, a gallery devoted to sound art located in Brooklyn, NY, which has produced exhibitions by David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young and other pioneering sound artists. Schumacher’s composition “Grid,” a computer generated score that unfolds in real time, has been in exhibitions in New York, Barcelona and Houston. His CD “Room Pieces” was rated best of 2003 for “modern composition” by The Wire magazine.
Hans Tammen is a composer/guitarist whose music has been described as a journey through the land of unending sonic operations, and his playing as reverse engineering of the guitar. Tammen’s music is documented on almost 20 CDs, and he’s worked with dancers, light designers and video artists on numerous site-specific projects. From 1997 to 2000 he hosted a weekly 2-hour radio show in Germany, devoted to new and experimental music and sound art. Tammen has a degree in Adult Education, and as a technology consultant from 1992 to 2000 he led more than 120 seminars to advise practicioners about new technologies in the workplace. Tammen is currently Deputy Director at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, where he is responsible for the studio projects and the education program.
Award-winning radio producer, musician, and sound artist Brenda Hutchinson covers a broad range of media, including performance and composition for dance, opera, film, video, public radio, and interactive installations. Her work is based on the cultivation and encouragement of openness in her own life and in those she works with. Hutchinson encourages participants to experiment with sound, share stories, and make music. She has spent almost 2 decades singing into a 9 1/2 foot tube and has designed a gestural interface for the Long Tube and MAX/MSP. Hutchinson’s most recent work — the dailybell – reflects her large-scale experiments in socially based improvisations. Several of her radio documentaries have been showcased on public radio’s series SoundPrint and her work featured at festivals in New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and Canada, and venues such as the Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall and The Kitchen in New York City, and New Langton Arts, The Lab and The Exploratorium in San Francisco. Hutchinson has been recognized with a Gracie Allen Award from American Women in Radio and Television, Ucross Residency Award and a Montalvo Artist Residency. Her recordings are available through TELLUS, DEEP LISTENING, THE AERIAL, O.O. DISCS, FROG PEAK MUSIC and Leonardo Music Magazine.
harvestworks: Juan Rubino and crew were working on a second life project in the lab today . Hisao Ihara was in the video studio working in After Effects.
harvestworks: Nick Hallet and crew are in the studio tonight with engineer Ray Sweeten. Barcelona’s Konic Theater Lecture is in our lab.
Harvestworks offers small personal classes in our newly designed classroom. Classes classes come with 8hrs of lab time in our computer lab. For inquiries or
