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Hanyang Max/MSP/Jitter Workshops - June 22-26, 2009

2009 Workshops

Our 2009 Max/MSP/Jitter workshops were held from June 22 - 26, 2009. They were divided into Daytime Workshops for beginning and intermediate users, and Evening Workshops for intermediate to advanced users focusing on video, image and OpenGL processing with Jitter. We were fortunate to have two invited guests from Cycling '74, Inc., Gregory Taylor and Wesley Smith, who provided insightful information based on their long-time involvement with the software.

The idea of offering two different workshops in the same week allowed beginners to have a starting point for learning the software during the daytime sessions, as well as offered advanced users (who may have daytime jobs) the option of attending the evening seminar sessions for the purposes of continuing education.

The Workshops were based around the latest release of the software - Max 5 - and covered some new techniques and features of the program.

Due to the international nature of the workshops, with invited guests from abroad, the workshops were primarily in English with some translation into Korean when necessary.

2009 PosterDaytime Workshops - Learning to Use Max/MSP/Jitter (Beginner level)

Monday, June 22 - Friday, June 26, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (includes a 1-hour break for lunch)

Our Beginner/Intermediate workshops will be taught by Gregory Taylor from Cycling'74, Inc. The workshops will focus on learning to use Max 5, and will cover both the audio and visual aspects of Max/MSP/Jitter, focusing on what they have on common. The workshops will teach both audio and video at the same time, because talking about them together lets us focus on the most commonly used basic skills, such as learning about messages and data types and learning about problem solving.

The goal of the workshops is to teach the participants how to teach themselves, and teach them the techniques of Max, instead of just teaching individual Max objects. The workshops will provide the participants both with useful concepts AND actual patches (!) to take home and use all the time.

After covering the basics of Max, starting with a small collection of patches provided to the participants, which they will learn to modify, the workshops are broken down into units:

  • storing, routing and massaging data
  • generating and organizing variety
  • queueing/scrubbing/looping
  • mixing/compositing
  • creating interfaces [working with external data]
  • extracting data (transcoding)

Each of these basic units shows the same basic stuff done in audio and video. Participants interested in audio can focus on MSP-related projects, and those who are interested in video can focus on Jitter-related projects. Naturally, anyone interested in BOTH video and audio will learn the same techniques in both MSP and Jitter - virtually 2 workshops for the price of 1!!

Evening Workshops - Advanced Jitter Techniques

Monday, June 22 - Friday, June 26, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Intermediate/Advanced workshops are focused on using Jitter, a powerful set of tools for real-time video, data, and 3D graphics processing within Max/MSP. The workshops will be taught by Wesley Smith from Cycling '74 Inc., and will briefly cover some basic techniques to refresh everyone's memory, before moving on to more advanced Jitter topics.

This advanced workshop will focus on building a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts of Jitter, namely how to manipulate the Jitter matrix. Building on this foundation, we will explore how audio, video, and geometry can be represented in a matrix to build real-time processing networks. In addition, the workshop will cover how to build 3D worlds and GPU processing of video data for real-time processing of high-quality video.

  • matrix manipulation
  • using matrices for audio, video and geometry data
  • building 3-D worlds
  • GPU processing of video data

The idea of focusing on Jitter for the advanced workshops in the evenings is in direct response to the many people who have expressed an interest in learning to integrate video into their musical projects. Basic to intermediate knowledge of Max, and prior experience using Max/MSP/Jitter is required.

Workshop Location

Hanyang University Music Department, Building 2, First Floor, Computer Music Studio
17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea 133-791

Prices

Daytime Workshops: 260,000 KRW / 220,000 KRW if you bring your own notebook computer / 180,000 KRW for students
Evening Workshops: 200,000 KRW / 160,000 KRW if you bring your own notebook computer / 120,000 KRW for students

Registration and Information

To register online, you can visit: http://cafe.daum.net/commusiccenter (in Korean!!)

For questions and additional information you can call us at:
Tel. +82 (0)2 2220-1709
For English language information via e-mail, contact dudas [at] cycling74 [dot] com

Guest Lecturer Bios

Gregory TaylorGregory Taylor is just another one of those visual artists who discovered that the process of using the recording studio as a compositional tool was more personally rewarding than waiting for the paint to dry and opted for a life creating imaginary cultural artifacts of an audible nature. He has studied central Javanese gamelan and electroacoustic music in the U.S. (Cornell, UW-Madison, New England Conservatory) and the Netherlands (Instituut voor Sonologie), written for publications such as Wired, Recording, Array, and Option, and hosted a radio program of contemporary audio on WORT-FM since 1986 (http://www.rtqe.net/RTQE.html).
After a hiatus from his work in the cassette culture movement of the 1980s, he returned to regular recording and live performances as an improviser in both solo and group contexts in the late 1990s. His solo recordings are available on the c74, Palace of Lights, Flood, and Stasisfield labels and online (http://www.rtqe.net/downloads.html).
In addition to his solo performance career, he has remixed and collaborated with a diverse group of artists (Kim Cascone, BMB.com, Scott Fields, The Yearlings and K. Leimer), and performs as an active member of PGT (a dual-laptop and acoustic mandolin trio with Brad Garton and Terry Pender), The Desert Fathers (a duo with trumpeter Jeff Kaiser), and "the trio" (with percussionist Tom Hamer and visualist Mark Hendrickson).
He currently labors on behalf of the new media software company Cycling '74, where he is in demand as a workshop facilitator and educator.

Wesley SmithWesley Smith is an artist and developer of software for audiovisual composition and performance living in Santa Barbara, California. His work examines the interstices of informatics and spatiality with a focus on the nature of knowledge and meaning as they acquire spatial extension within a computational context. His current research seeks to develop algebraic systems of spatial composition as a means of generating dynamic spatial networks of information flows.

Wesley received a graduate degree from UC Santa Barbara's Media Arts and Technology Program. He also works as a developer of Max/MSP/Jitter at Cycling '74 in San Francisco, California.

 

 

Additional Information

Teaching of the workshops is assisted by Hanyang professors Jongwoo Yim and Richard Dudas.

Our Summer Workshops are organized by the Hanyang University Electro-Acoustic Music Institute.

We graciously acknowledge Cycling '74 Inc., for sponsoring the workshops' invited lecturers.