Max/MSP Day School (for beginners to intermediate users)
August 7-11, 11 AM -4 PM
(Lecture 11-12, lunch break 12-1, lab session with instructor support 1-4)
CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
Instructors: Michael Zbyszynski and other experienced Max/MSP teachers
Fee: $400
Requirements: Must bring your own laptop computer (Mac or PC) with Max/MSP installed and running.
For more info, visit: http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/Max_MSP2006.html

This intensive week of hands-on classes covers the basics of Max/MSP programming, including the following:
– Navigating the Max/MSP user interface
– Max/MSP work flow: organizing multi-file projects, the Max search path, where to save things
– Max’s data types: messages, bangs, integers, floats, and lists
– Structure and interpretation of Max programs: objects, timing, patchers and abstractions
– Signals and basic signal processing
– Basics of DSP: sampling, aliasing, amplitude, the frequency spectrum
– Avoiding unwanted clicks
– Sample playback, FM, additive, and granular synthesis
– Delay lines and looping
– Filtering
– Mixing event processing and signal processing
– Dealing with input from MIDI, the mouse and keyboard, USB devices, and Ethernet
– Managing multidimensional data with the coll object

This workshop will be held in the Main Room at CNMAT. Each day will include a brief lecture-style presentation introducing important concepts and a variety of hands-on programming projects based on these concepts. Each day’s basic afternoon lab assignment will solidify students’ understanding of the most important ideas; additional projects will also be available for faster or more advanced students. Experienced teaching assistants will be available to answer questions during the afternoon sessions.

After completing this course, a student will be able to write Max programs that synthesize and/or process sound in response to real-time control and/or simple algorithmic musical processes. Graduates of this course will also have the skills to read and understand larger Max/MSP programs and the foundation for exploring more advanced features of Max via tutorials, help patches, and online documentation.

NOTE: Participants are required to bring their own laptops with Max/MSP already installed and running. (Mac OSX or Windows XP) Also, participants are strongly advised to have gone through the Max and MSP tutorials before the workshop.

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Also offered this summer at CNMAT:
Jitter Night School, July 21-23, 7-10 PM
NEW! Sensor Workshop for Performers and Artists, July 24-28, 9 AM – 5 PM
Max/MSP Night School (for intermediate to advanced users), July 24-28, 7-10 PM
For more info, visit: http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/Max_MSP2006.html
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|| michael f. zbyszynski — molecular gastronimist
|| mzed@cnmat.berkeley.edu — +1.510.643.9990×314
|| http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/