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This workshop will introduce students to the fundamentals of working with realtime audio and visual media in Max. Students will learn to create their own programs or patches, interactive environments in which they can control audio and visuals using game controllers.
Max is a patching style, high level programming environment with integrated user interface components that allows users to quickly get their ideas up and running. This course will lay a foundation upon which students can further explore additional sensor technology within the Max/MSP environment through programming gestural data into musical and visual expression.
Students will gain insight into essential audio programming including techniques in sound synthesis, sample creation and playback, filtering and live processing. The workshop will also cover things like looping, mixing and adding effects to digital video, creating and animating vector graphics objects, and designing user interfaces or automation components to control the sound and graphics.
This workshop will culminate to a final performance in which students will collaboratively compose a piece. The ensemble will perform using game controllers to manipulate sound and visual parameters that they have programmed onto these interfaces.
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.