Knock on the Sky
(2005-6), electronic music and sensor programming for Myra Melford
CNMAT Spectral Tutorials
A large collection of tutorial patches that help explain additive and resonant synthesis in the context of CNMAT Max Objects. Download the current version from CNMAT.
Lamp, Candle, Lantern, & Firefly
semi-permanent installation for enhanced solar garden lamps (2006)
Beneath a Liquid Paper Sky
string orchestra and percussion (excerpt) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Pawel Przytocki: Penderecki Festival Orchestra Warsaw Opera House, 1999
Tablet Workshop
This is a workshop for people who want to get started with tablet-based interfaces or who want to teach others to use tablet interfaces for music. It is based on my method book (in progress, see paper).
Max/MSP/Jitter Day School
CNMAT, Summers 2005-2009 2009 Syllabus Max/MSP/Jitter is a graphical environment for music, audio, and multimedia that runs on both Macintosh (OSX) and Windows XP platforms. In use worldwide for over fifteen years by performers, composers, artists, teachers, and students, Max/MSP/Jitter is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and …
Musical Applications of CNMAT Technologies
2007: Sound Installation Technologies An overview of aesthetic and practical issues of long running, installation-based sound and media artworks. Sound installations are compared to concert music, and site-specific works are examined. Strategies for developing and maintaining robust, reliable, and effective pieces are covered. Archived webcasts course website 2006: CNMAT Spectral Tutorials An introduction to CNMAT …
short bio
Michael Ferriell Zbyszyński is a composer, sound artist, and performer in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music. He is Director of Electronic Music at San Francisco State University. Playing flute, saxophones, clarinet, Yamaha WX-5, live electronics, or things made from coffee cans and PVC, he has appeared with Respectable Citizen, Roscoe Mitchell, Myra Melford, Frank …
selected publications
Intergalactose Scream: Make a milk-bottle megaphone in Buckley, Patrick and Lily Binns, eds. The Hungry Scientist Handbook (HarperCollins Publishers: New York, 2008) pp. 74-82. An Elementary Method for Tablet (NIME Genoa 2008) Molecular Gastronomy: Spherify your food for a new culinary experience (Make Magazine, Vol. 14 pp. 149-152, 2008) Design and Implementation of CNMAT’s Pedagogical …