Max Advanced Level Courses - Summer 2009
Course dates
The Max Advanced Level Courses run from 10am - 5.30pm each day (lunch break from 1 - 2pm) in the Electronic Music Studios (Room 159), Richard Hoggart Building (the main red brick building) at Goldsmiths.
Both Advanced courses are identical in content.
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Max Advanced Level Course #2
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Tutor: SEBASTIAN LEXER
Sebastian Lexer is
currently working on his PhD in the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths
specialising in the research & application of realtime signal
processing for live performance. He is a freelance teacher and Visiting
Tutor at Goldsmiths College, Thames Valley University, the University
of Brighton, and Trinity College of Music in London.
Sebastian is a regular live performer, organising the 'Interlace' concert series, which features free improvisation, live electronics, and interactive composition. Sebastian has collaborated with artist Emmanuelle Waeckerle and pianist John Tilbury, amongst others, developing video instruments and interactive music systems in MaxMSP and Jitter.
Course prerequisites
The Advanced Max courses will be taught through a combination of
lectures and practical work over four full days, and are limited to
a maximum of 8 participants per course in order to ensure individual
tutorial time.
As a prerequisite for the course, it is expected that you will be fully conversant with the following :
- functionality of Max - i.e. bangs, objects, numbers
- operation and creation of basic Max patches
- playing & recording sound files
- knowledge of MIDI & use of MIDI controllers
- familiar with the content of the Max and MSP tutorials
Course content
- Lists -
sequencing, control structures, stochastic, generative approaches
- FFT -
the theory, audio analysis, spectral filters & effects, convolution & cross synthesis
- Looping & Granulation -
strategies to avoid clicks, windowing looped playback, concept of granulation, creating a granulator
- Interfacing -
advanced controller design, USB controllers (Game Pads, Joysticks, Track-Pads), working with sensors (including sensors in performance/installation systems - tilt, bend, pressure, distance & light sensors)
- Introduction to Jitter -
playing movies, basic video effects, working with matrices, matrices as data containers, building sequences in Jitter, building GUIs in Jitter
- Brief introduction to Java coding
Course participants will have access to Apple Mac computer workstations for their use during the course running the latest Max 5 software. You are also welcome to bring their own laptop computers for use during the course if you wish, but please advise us by checking the relevant box on your application form.
A range of external audio and MIDI interface equipment will be available. Full details of studio facilities are available on the Resources page.
Tea, coffee and sandwiches are available from 'Loafers' cafe in the Main Building from 9am - 3pm. There are several local cafes, restaurants & pubs with lunchtime menus.