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.
semi-permanent installation for enhanced solar garden lamps (2006)
string orchestra and percussion (excerpt) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Pawel Przytocki: Penderecki Festival Orchestra Warsaw Opera House, 1999
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).
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Music 148/248–Fall 2009Post-Tonal Theory and AnalysisTuesday/Thursday—1-2:15Professor Michael Zbyszynskimzbyszynski@mills.edu This course covers basic concepts and techniques employed in post-tonal theory and analysis. Topics covered will include pitch-class sets, combinatoriality, integral serialism, twelve-tone areas, formal, rhythmic, and motivic analysis. Students will study analytical techniques developed by mainstream music theory. The first half of the semester will cover …
To go with the Speaker Sphere, I put a four channel, class D amplifier into a lunchbox. Speakers are Go! I used an amplifier from Sure Electronics, which I got on ebay. 4×100 watts for $50. I’m pretty pleased. I’m using a similar board for my car stereo.
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.
Molecular Gastronomy: Spherify your food for a new culinary experience (Make Magazine, Vol. 14 pp. 149-152, 2008)
for choreography by Ondrea Ackerman [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
(2004), with Hugh Livingston
installed at Edgemar, Santa Monica, California, USA
saxophones and orchestra [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Adriadne.” – Nietzsche
(NIME Genoa 2008) ABSTRACT This paper proposes the creation of a method book for tablet-based instruments, evaluating pedagogical materials for traditional instruments as well as research in human-computer interaction and tablet interfaces. Keywords Wacom tablet, digitizing tablet, expressivity, gesture, mapping, pedagogy, practice