Expo '74 2019: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

Welcome

Why we're here, what we're doing, who can help.

Speakers

David Zicarelli

CEO, Cycling ‘74

David Zicarelli is a computer programmer and improvising musician who designs interactive software to support creative expression. He has been working on Max and Max-related projects since the late 1980s. Prior to his Max life he created one of the first graphical voice editors for... Read More →

Luke DuBois

Todd Reynolds

Todd Reynolds Music / White Ivy

Todd Reynolds, violinist, composer, conductor, producer, has been a member of Bang on a Can and the Steve Reich Ensemble for 28 years. A “daredevil musician”, and as New Sounds’ John Schaefer notes, “the hardest working violinist in New York.", his compositional and performance... Read More →

Friday April 26, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Club B10

Presentation

9:30am EDT

Problems That May Not Yet Need Solving

In a lecture demo of seemingly basic software and hardware systems, Seth will discuss his approach to exploring non-linear relationships between historical practice and contemporary tools that generate creative work and inform his work as an educator and researcher.

Speakers

Seth Cluett

Artist/Composer, Acting Director of the Computer Music Center, Computer Music Center, Columbia University

Seth Cluett is a composer and visual artist who creates work that explores everyday actions at extreme magnification, examines minutae by amplifying impossible tasks, and tries to understand the working of memory in forms that rethink the role of the senses in an increasingly technologized... Read More →

Friday April 26, 2019 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Club B10

Presentation

2:30pm EDT

Swimming in Time: Embodied Interface and Human Operated Machines

As a storyteller, Toni Dove builds human-operated machines that tell stories using multi-media in installation or performance. The impact of technological change on consumer culture and how that impacts how we see ourselves has been the subject of her work over many years.

Using slides and video clips, Dove will discuss a body of work that has explored interactive and responsive narrative with proprietary Max programs as the central engine. She has explored a variety of narrative strategies utilizing embodied interface to somatically connect the human body to narrative time.

Speakers

Toni Dove

Artist, Bustlelamp Productions, Inc.

I work with interactive cinema, robotic screen systems and speculative design.

Friday April 26, 2019 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Club B10

Presentation

3:30pm EDT

Electronic Music Without Loudspeakers

It's axiomatic that a computer is able to create any sound that a loudspeaker can make. But what about making computer music with acoustic sound sources? What is the relationship between an algorithm and a sound-producing object, theoretically, aesthetically, and culturally? Ostrowski explores these questions in the context of some of his recent work, which use arrays of quotidian objects in generative composition/installations.

Special note: Be sure to visit Matthew Ostrowski's "Summerland" installation. His installation is located in Building 8 - room B8.1 - which is accessible through the courtyard and next to The Chalet. (If you can't find it, ask us!)

Speakers

Matthew Ostrowski

Composer, Performer, Installation Artist

A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski has worked as a composer, performer and installation artist, exploring work with music, multimedia, video and theater. Using digital tools and formalist techniques to engage with quotidian materials -- sonic, physical, and cultural – Ostrowski's... Read More →

Friday April 26, 2019 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT
Club B10

Presentation

4:30pm EDT

Hacking Choreography: Algorithmic Dance Composition Through Live Coding

Technology is often used within dance as a way of extending or enhancing a performance, many times ending up as decoration. But what happens when technology is used to interrupt movement or used within the inner workings of a choreographic process? This talk explores the field of algorithmic choreography and how to use creative coding as a way to make dances. It will also demo Terpsicode, a new programming language for live coding choreography.

Speakers

Kate Sicchio

Assistant Professor of Dance and Media Technologies, Virginia Commonwealth University

Kate Sicchio works at the interface of technology and performance. By opening a dialogue between how people move and how this may change by engaging with the digital, she aims to create choreography, performative scores, video, programming languages and hacking methodologies. Her... Read More →

Friday April 26, 2019 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Club B10

Presentation

9:30am EDT

Performance for amplified large balloons, interactive synthesis and interactive projections

Judy Dunaway will discuss how Max has helped her exploit the idiosyncrasies of latex balloons for her sculptural sonic performances. This will be followed by two works featuring interactive sound and light customized for the balloon sound vocabulary and its 3-dimensional surface.

Speakers

Judy Dunaway

Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Judy Dunaway is primarily known for her numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including sculptural sonic performances, sound installations, interactive pieces and acousmatic works.Her work has been presented internationally at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Audio Art... Read More →

Saturday April 27, 2019 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
Club B10

Presentation

11:30am EDT

Interactive Music Learning on the Web

Ableton’s Learning Team makes interactive environments that run in any modern web browser, and are designed to help anyone learn and play with music and music production concepts without the complexity (and cost) of typical desktop software.

In this talk, we’ll discuss the musical and pedagogical motivations behind our work, and take a look at some of the technology that powers it. We’ll also explore the ways in which Max plays a growing role.

Speakers

Chris Peck

Learning, Ableton

Chris Peck is a composer and software developer. In addition to his work with the Ableton Learning Team, he composes experimental music for dance and theater, including ongoing collaborations with choreographers including Eleanor Bauer and Milka Djordjevich.He holds an MA from the... Read More →

Dennis DeSantis

Ableton

Dennis DeSantis is a composer, educator, sound designer, author, and percussionist. In addition to his work on Ableton’s learning team, he teaches a number of courses for Berklee Online.He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music and... Read More →

Jack Schaedler

Ableton

Jack is a software developer at Ableton. He has worked on Ableton Live, and most recently, Ableton's microsite for learning music fundamentals. His personal work explores the use of interactive media to explain difficult concepts like Fourier analysis, handwriting recognition, and... Read More →

Saturday April 27, 2019 11:30am - 12:15pm EDT
Club B10

Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Two Ways To Get Bitstreams From Human Performers

Max Mathews used to observe that the fastest bit rates that could be controllably emitted by humans come from two places: the fingers, and the vocal articulators. In this talk Miller Puckette will consider some examples of what you can get out of hands and mouths, taken out of context and considered purely as information streams.

Speakers

Miller Puckette

Professor, University of California San Diego

Miller Puckette is known as the creator of Max and Pure Data. As an MIT undergraduate he won the Putnam mathematics competition in 1979, but finished his PhD at Harvard in 1986. He was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab from its inception until 1986, then at IRCAM, and is now professor... Read More →

Saturday April 27, 2019 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Club B10

Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Microtonality and Real-Time Spectral Music

This talk will explore the ideas and workflow in realizing realtime microtonal music based upon the analysis of acoustic sounds. Deru (Benjamin Wynn) will demonstrate a series of Max/MSP patches that he developed to aid him in this process of writing and performing his last album, Torn In Two.

Speakers

Benjamin Wynn (Deru)

Composer, Music Producer, Sound Designer

Benjamin Wynn earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the California Institute of the Arts, and has released five albums under the name “Deru”. In addition Wynn has written for ballet and earned Emmy Awards for his television and film scores.In addition to his scoring work... Read More →

Saturday April 27, 2019 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Club B10

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