[PD] [PD-announce] SuperCollider workshops in New York, early April; SC Symposium 2009 at Wesleyan

[Nick Collins]

Since the PdCon09 details just got posted directly to the  
SuperCollider list, you obviously won't mind notice of the workshops  
below, nor notification of the SuperCollider symposium at Wesleyan,  
CT, April 9-12th (http://supercollider.wesleyan.edu/),

cheers,
Nick


[apologies for cross postings]

SUPERCOLLIDER WORKSHOPS APRIL 2009

All details and sign-up at:
http://tinyurl.com/harvestcollider

SuperCollider workshops will be offered at Harvestworks in New York  
in early April, in the run up to the 2009 SuperCollider Symposium to  
be held at Wesleyan (http://supercollider.wesleyan.edu/). This is a  
rare opportunity to learn from some of the SuperCollider developers  
themselves. SuperCollider is an incredible environment and  
programming language for music and audio. It provides an interpreted  
object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a  
state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server. SuperCollider was  
written by James McCartney over a period of many years, and is now an  
actively maintained and developed open source project. It is used by  
musicians, scientists, and artists working with sound and audiovisuals.

All workshops require attendees to bring their own laptops; tutors  
will assist with installation on OS X (10.4 or later recommended) and  
Windows as necessary (SC also runs on Linux but it's assumed you'd  
have compiled and installed it yourself in advance of the workshop if  
you're using that platform).

The workshops being offered are:

1) Saturday 4th April: Beginners day (11am-6pm). A friendly  
introduction to SuperCollider for absolute beginners, aimed at  
artists and musicians. Aside from a little familiarity with the  
digital arts, no prerequisites, though some prior exposure to  
computer music (perhaps through Max/MSP or Csound) may be helpful.  
(led by Nick Collins, Dan Stowell, Jan Trützschler) $100

2) Sunday 5th April: Intermediate workshop day (11am-6pm). For those  
with some experience, but wanting to refresh and broaden their SC  
skills. Topics will include sound synthesis and analysis, interaction  
via GUI and controllers, generative and network music, SC programming  
tips and tricks and SC architecture. We will also be adaptable to  
participants needs, can take requests for topics, and have some  
general question and answer sessions. (led by Nick Collins, Dan  
Stowell, Jan Trützschler) $100

3) Monday 6th April evening (7-10pm). Beginner's evening session. A  
friendly introduction to SuperCollider for absolute beginners, aimed  
at artists and musicians. Aside from a little familiarity with the  
digital arts, no prerequisites, though some prior exposure to  
computer music (perhaps through Max/MSP or Csound) may be helpful.  
(led by Nick Collins, Dan Stowell, Jan Trützschler)

4) Tuesday 7th April daytime (11-6). Abstract pressure cookers and  
virtual steam machines: Just in time programming in networks.
Not tweaking machines, but writing letters: Programs that program  
programs, machines that recombine structures. Replacing their parts,  
in effect writing their user manual at runtime. Instead of giving in  
to pressure to become virtuosos, we listen how the machines take the  
pressure - from spooky action at a distance to new exploring logics  
of distributed noise music. A collective workshop for live coding,  
sound synthesis, randomness in order. (led by Powerbooks Unplugged:  
Alberto de Campo, Echo Ho, Hannes Hölzl,  Jan-Kees van Kampen, Julian  
Rohrhuber, Renate Wieser) $100

5) Tuesday 7th April evening (7-10pm). Compact version of Tuesday  
daytime session (led by Powerbooks Unplugged) $50

6) Wednesday 8th April daytime (11-6) SuperCollider Clinic. Flexible  
topic sessions, following participant needs, adaptable to all  
intermediate levels (beginners would find Saturday or Mon night  
helpful before this workshop). Developers will be on hand to answer  
questions, to present on special topics, and to demonstrate projects  
and works built with SC. (led by an all star cast of developers) $100


workshops at:
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, #602
New York, NY 10012

































		
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