[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] Workshop: Beyond Hacking

[STEIM <robert@steim.nl>]

STEIM presents:

Beyond Hacking – Building New Instruments with the CREATE USB Interface
A workshop in designed interactions using sophisticated, yet simple  
hardware.
By Dan Overholt & Daniel Schorno (day 3&4).

Date: May 31 - June 3 2006
Location: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, Amsterdam NL
Cost: 120 euro
Registration can be done only through the STEIM website: http:// 
www.steim.org/steim/workshops.php

Bring your favorite real-time software tool, be it LiSa, ImX, Max/MSP/ 
Jitter, SuperCollider3, Pd, or … and an inspiration for a delightful  
way of getting your hands on the digital domain. Learn how to control  
music and visuals with a flexible new sensor system, the CREATE USB  
Interface. The CUI can be either wired (USB bus-powered) or wireless  
(Bluetooth), and will be available to workshop participants to buy  
(50 Eur for the USB version, ready-to-use, please contact  
dano@create.ucsb.edu to reserve one). Register early, space is limited.

Grasping the Sound, Caressing the Image:
Participants will be introduced to the CREATE USB Interface through  
lecture, demonstration, and discussion, including short exercises in  
connecting it to different sensors, and how to use it with various  
software applications. As artists, we are always faced with the  
challenge of investigating/incorporating new technologies into our  
work while finding our own voice or approach to expression within  
them. In this workshop, we will explore new metaphors for artistic  
interactivity that connect the physical world with the virtual realm,  
and vice versa.

Anyone who is interested in the artistic possibilities offered by  
electronics and sensor technologies should sign up for the workshop –  
musicians of all backgrounds, composers, performers, artists,  
installation artists, instrument builders, dancers, teachers, etc.  
The workshop will be delivered during 4 full time days. The morning  
sessions (9am-Noon) will cover theory and research components along  
with listening, video, and other demonstrations. The afternoon  
sessions (1pm-5pm) will focus on practical work and individual  
projects. No programming experience is required, but participants  
should be familiar with their software tool of choice, and expect to  
get first hand experience working with sensors, interfaces, and  
mapping techniques for musical or visual interactions.

The workshop was developed in response to the challenges faced  
researching and building digital instruments, installations, and  
interactive works at the Center for Research in Electronic Art  
Technology at UC Santa Barbara, and is offered there in its full form  
as an interdisciplinary course between the MAT, Music, and Art  
departments (http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/594O/). Workshop content will  
include access to valuable source material including where to look  
for technical information, and the world of electronic instrument  
builders and installation makers today. For more information about  
the CUI, see http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/#CUIv1.

Dan Overholt is a PhD candidate and Lecturer in the Media Arts and  
Technology program and the Center for Research in Electronic Art  
Technology at UC Santa Barbara. He studied electronics engineering  
and music (violin performance) at CSU, Chico, and has a Masters from  
the Media Laboratory at MIT, where his thesis focused on the  
development of a novel interface called the MATRIX. He has published  
and presented work at many academic conferences, such as ICMC, NIME,  
AES, CHI, and SIGGRAPH, and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in  
2004, and a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship at UCSB. He  
composes and performs internationally with new human-computer  
interfaces and musical signal processing algorithms, and has also  
worked as a consultant in the industry for companies such as  
Eventide, E-mu, and Echo Audio.

Daniel Schorno was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied  
composition in London and electronic music in the Netherlands and  
lives in Amsterdam with a cat and a collection of unusual instruments  
in his street window. He lead STEIM, the renown Dutch Studio for  
Electro Instrumental Music – and home of ‘New Instruments’ as  
Artistic Co-director until 2005. Numerous (ongoing) projects bind his  
passionate approach towards realtime sound integration with new  
electronic sensor instruments and live-electronic music. His concert  
work, workshops and media collaborations have lead him as far afield  
as Johannesburg’s Soweto, Iceland and the street kids & artists of  
Guatemala City, as well as all over Europe. He collaborates with  
musicians, video artists, choreographers and dancers the likes of Jon  
Rose, Netochka Nezvanova, Alain Pelletier, José Navas and Frank van  
de Ven. Currently he is performing with the latest series of hand  
held ‘mini controllers’ out of  STEIM’s ‘kitchen’, and develops a new  
media ‘Pocket Opera’.


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(studio for electro instrumental music)
(studio voor elektro instrumentale muziek)

Achtergracht 19
1017 WL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Tel: 020-6228690
Fax: 020-6264262
Email: knock@steim.nl
Website: www.steim.nl



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