12월 10일에서 12일까지 3일동안 Sonology는 GRM을 초청하여 Acousmonium Festival을 펼쳤다. 개인적인 사정으로 마지막날밖에 참석하지 못하였으나, 역사적인 사운드 시스템과 음악들을 접할 수 있는 소중한 기회였다.

GRM은 1958년에 창시하여 올해로 50주년을 맞는다. 전자음악은 크게 프랑스 파리와 독인의 퀠른을 중심으로 두갈래로 뻗어나갔다고 볼수 있는데, GRM은 프랑스의 전자음악 전반에 큰 영향을 끼쳤다.

Acousmonium은 1974년 Francois Bayle가 창시하였고 총 80개의 서로 다른 스피커를 다른 거리/높이로 배치한 loudspeaker orchestra의 개념을 기반으로 한 시스템이다.  

오늘의 콘서트는 1부에서 Sonology학생들의 작품을, 2부는 역사적인 작품부터 최근에 Acousmonium을 위해 쓰여진 작품들로 이루어 졌다.

네덜란드는 그 지역적 위치로 보아 파리와 퀠른의 중심즈음에 위치하고있는데, 그 음악적 색채 또한 두 지역의 특성을 잘 받아들이고 있다고 보여진다.
2부에서 프랑스 작곡가들의 작품들은 확실히 소리에 아주 세세한 부분들이 세밀하게 처리되어있는데다가, 15분이 넘는 긴 작품들을 지루함 없이 이끌어 나가게 하는 narrative한 부분들이, 작품 전체의 스케일이 강하고 비교적 큰 Sonology학생들에게는 신선함으로 다가왔으리라 생각이 든다.

다소 몽환적이고, 강력한 에너지보다는 화사하고 세련된 소리들의 전개가 유치하지않게 잘 구성된 작품들이었다.

처음 연주된 Varése의 작품은 원래 Symphony중반부에 삽입이 된 곡이나, 그 당시에는 심히 파격적인 소리의 파괴로 인해 사람들의 야유를 받았으며, 다시는 프랑스에서 연주되지 않았다 하여 나의 호기심을 발동시켰다. 참으로 그 짧은 Fragmant속에는 Orchestra가 이룰수 없는 소리들의 파괴. 50년이 지난 지금 들어도 전혀 유치하지 않은, 강력하고 날카로운 소리의 찢김이 그 당시의 파격을 짐작하게끔 했다.

전자음악은 당연히 그 역사가 아직은 짧지만, 몇백년전 작곡된 클래식 작품보다, 역사적인 작품들을 듣는것이 쉽지 않다. 그런 이유로 오늘의 콘서트는 지금 현재의 전자음악의 길을 걷고있는 나와 또 다른 학생들에게는 귀중한 경험이었고, 한국에도 이런 기회가 더 많이 와서 학생들이 전자음악의 역사를 공부할 수 있는 기회들이 많이 있기를 바래본다.

Program
Edgard Varése : Déserts, interpolation 2 et 3 (1954)
Pierre Schaeffer : Étude aux allures (1958), Étude aux sons animés(1958)
Michel Redolfi : Micro Espaces 58-08 (2008)
François Donato : The Lights of B. (2004)
Daniel Teruggi : Spaces of Mind (2004)

13th, Dec, 2008 JYKang

HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER, NEW YORK

MAX/MSP/JITTER FULL WEEK INTENSIVE COURSE

Dafna Naphtali / Zachary Seldess / Hans Tammen
Mon – Fri, NOVEMBER 3 – 7, 10am – 6pm
$1200 + membership $75

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From its central SoHo location in New York City, Harvestworks brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts, and provides a vital context and catalyst for creativity in the field. For the last thirty years we have offered artists on-site recording studios, programming services, workshops, classes and one-on-one tutorials in emerging technologies supporting the pioneers of computer music with equipment and instruction. As a tool for artists, Max has been a central part of the Harvestworks program for almost 20 years. We offer regularly scheduled year-round classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics relating to Max/MSP and Jitter; as well as our Certificate Program, a flexible course of one-on-one instruction.

Now, Harvestworks is offering a full-week, 40hr crash course in the basics of Max/MSP and Jitter, run by veteran Max programmer Dafna Naphtali, Harvestworks engineer and teacher Zachary Seldess, and Harvestworks’ Deputy Director Hans Tammen. The course is designed for beginners who want to get a head start with this software package. The course may be especially appealing to artists living outside of New York City who don’t have the opportunity to learn Max in their own hometown and who would enjoy a week in New York City.

The cost of the course is $1200, plus $75 for the annual Harvestworks membership that is required to take the course. The course is NOVEMBER 3 – 7, Monday through Friday 10am to 6pm. Working in our computer lab after 6pm can also be arranged. Lecture demonstrations will alternate with practice time, and some of our Max-savvy interns can be available to assist during practice time. Workstations with Max/MSP/Jitter will be available, but it is also recommended that you bring your own laptop. The course will provide lots of practice and sample patches. Students enrolled in Max/MSP/Jitter related classes at Harvestworks are eligible for Cycling 74’s educational discount when purchasing the software. The course is limited to 10 students.

We will not provide meals or snacks for the course, but can point to lots of cheap dining places in the neighborhood. We also cannot provide accommodations, but can help with posting requests or bringing you in contact with other artists who might be able to help.

To sign up for the course, or if you have further questions, please call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130 ext 13, or go to our webstore at
http://www.harvestworks.org/cms/index.php/Classes/Classes-new.html


MAX CRASH COURSE OUTLINE:

Day 1 – The Basics: Objects vs. messages vs. comments; ordering of operations; math in Max; scaling and mapping ranges of numbers; playing sound files.
Day 2 – Basics of modular programming; live audio input; recording sound files; simple data storage.
Day 3 – Controlled chaos; useful GUI objects; more data storage; basics of synthesis.
Day 4: Interfacing with the outside world. Overview of MIDI, the HI object (game controllers), Wii controller, the Harvestworks Sensor Station, using a Wacom tablet. Wireless Miditron. Data storage.
Day 5: Introduction to Jitter: Jitter matrix; basic matrix processing; playing and basic manipulation of QuickTime movies; basics of Open GL.


INSTRUCTOR BIOS:

DAFNA NAPHTALI has been a Max teacher and programmer at Harvestworks since 1995. She earned a degree in Music Technology at NYU. She was Chief Engineer of the NYU Music Technology Studios until 1998, and has taught Max there as an adjunct instructor since 1996. Naphtali is also an academic advisor for both undergraduate and graduate students in NYU’s Music Technology program. She was a programmer for two years for many artists and her own projects at multi-channel sound gallery Engine 27. As a composer, writing custom Max/MSP programs since 1992 has enabled her to perform and compose using her laptop-based noise/audio processing “instrument” to alter the sound of her singing, vocalisms, personalized recordings as well as the sound of any musician playing with her. She has received commissions and awards from New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, Experimental TV Center, American Composers Forum, Brecht Forum, and has held residencies at STEIM (Holland), Music OMI and iEAR at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. http://www.dafna.info

ZACHARY SELDESS currently works at Harvestworks as a resident Programmer/Teacher, and at Brooklyn College CUNY as adjunct faculty. He also works at The CUNY Graduate Center’s New media Lab creating interactive virtual sound environments in 3D Game Space using the Torque Game Engine and Max/MSP. He is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at The Graduate Center CUNY where his primary teachers are Amnon Wolman and Morton Subotnick. Previously he worked as a performer, composer, private teacher and adjunct professor at Wilbur Wright College and Harold Washington College in Chicago. As a composer, Zachary has collaborated with artists in many mediums including theater, dance, film, and poetry. He spends much of his time these days creating interactive media artwork, particularly within the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment. Programming projects include work with Jane Rigler on Manhattan New Music Project’s “Music Cre8tor”, a sensor/software music-creating interface for developmentally challenged children. http://www.zacharyseldess.com/

HANS TAMMEN is currently Deputy Director at Harvestworks, and is responsible for the oversight of all projects related to Max/MSP/Jitter and Physical Computing, as well as managing the education program and the studios. In this position he encounters the projects of approx. 250 clients, students and Artist In Residence per year. After an initial degree in Adult Education in 1988 he taught as an adjunct at Kassel University, and as part of his works as a union technology consultant from 1992 to 2000 he held about 120 one to five-day seminars using modern seminar techniques like metaplan, role-plays, and others. As a composer/guitarist he is best known for his “Endangered Guitar” works, interfacing his guitar with Max/MSP. Signal To Noise called his works “…a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.” http://www.tammen.org. In his interview on Cycling74’s website, Hans Tammen gives also a few insights into Max teaching at Harvestworks: http://www.cycling74.com/story/2008/9/15/113650/347

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Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowmentfor the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund, mediaThe foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Jerome Foundation, the Argosy Foundation and the New York State Music Fund.