Supercollider Sounds, Interactive Visuals

evan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:57:34 +0000

For: Beginners, with some basic experience with programming recommended but not required.
Cost: £135 for 5 weeks
Dates: 5 Tuesdays in May: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Time: 7-9:30PM

Where: SPACE Studios, 121-129 Mare St., Hackney, London

This 5 week workshop will take you through the process of building an interactive game with generative sound. Working composer and games designer Simon Katan teaches you SuperCollider, a free and open source program for synthesizing all sorts of sounds, and then bending them to your will (or your games). Over 5 weeks, we introduce you to the SuperCollider program, techniques for generating sound, techniques for making sound interactive, and then we take you through the process of adding generative sounds to an open source video game that you will modify to your own ends.

Please email reserve@openlabworkshops.org to book a place!

Processing Course for Beginners

evan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:24:55 +0000

Processing for Visual Artists

Openlab Workshops presents a 5-week long introductory course in Processing and interactive art. From 28 January until mid-March, take two Thursdays each month and learn some generative visual art chops. Learn Processing from the ground up, exploring ActionScript and Arduino in the process. This will be a project-led course with a relaxed atmosphere and small class size. We will invite special guest lecturers, in addition to the regular staff, taking you through creating basic sketches up to creating videos, interactive art, and games. At the end of the course, you will have a working project (game, installation, video piece) of your own design, and some knowledge and inspiration for future projects! Compare with the V&A’s £240 Processing class for 6 weeks. Main instructor: Processing guru and lecturer Evan Raskob.

Cost and Reservations
Reservations are limited. The cost (before January 15th) will be £125 for 5, 2-hour-long sessions (£150 after Jan. 15th). Sessions will take place on two Thursdays each month, form 7:30-9:30PM at Space Studios, Hackney. (It’s easy to get to Space! Hackney Central is easily accessible from most stations, and various buses serve the area. The Bethnal Green Tube station is about a 10-minute walk. We will provide you with more information). Please email reserve@openlabworkshops.org to reserve a spot!

More Information
We will start from the beginning and cover the basics of Processing and interactive art – drawing to the screen, creating sketches for the web, some basic programming practices. Then, since the workshop is project-focused, we will work with participants on more specific topics, including some of the following: creating and analyzing sound; working with and saving to video; webcams; network communications using OSC (including communicating with SuperCollider).

If you have any questions at all, please email us and ask at info@openlabworkshops.org !!

Private sessions are also available – please email for details.

(By the way, the header image was generated in Processing)

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