Workshops and Lectures
Course material and information about past and current lectures on DSP, sound design and Pure Data lives here. For short one or two day workshops we go for a general overview with a practical session so that everyone goes away immediately able to begin using Puredata to produce sound. This is suitable for absolute beginners. As a longer course for more experienced students there's more synthesis/DSP theory, and a structured approach to design with emphasis on SFX and music development. The full course I teach is synthetic, procedural and behavioural sound design for games and interactive applications.
Here's a list of units and examples used as a base: Units List and requirements.
Next open workshop
Location
Poitiers FRANCE (venue TBA)
Dates
TBA
Description
Will be a 4 day course on interactive sound design for games
Fee and places
TBA
Current courses
Location
School of Audio Engineering, LONDON
Dates
June/July 2008 to September 2008
Description
Interactive Audio: 20 hours lectures, course unit for bachelors degree students in recording arts
Links for SAE students Course notes and exercises
Past workshops
St. Werbergs, Bristol
Location
St Werbergs Community, Venue: St Werburghs Community Centre, Horley Road, Bristol BS2 9TJ
Dates
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June, 9:30 - 16:00
Description
Two day introduction to Puredata with musical compositioin. Day one is a quick lead into Pd programming and we will build sequences, synths and music tracks on day two.
Fee and places
£80 / £40 concs, 9 places
Notes
More details http://firebox.nu/
Contacts
Course leader Jake Rayson
Mediamatic
Location
Mediamatic Institute, Post CS building 5th floor South Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam, NL t: +31 20 638 9901
Dates
Feb 3-5 2007 10am - 5pm Saturday, 10am - 5pm Sunday
Description
A two day introduction to Puredata and sound design. The first day will focus on beginner level Pd programming with an explanation of patching, control and message domain code. The second session will explore audio signal principles, basic synthesis and build up to some more advanced sound design techniques.
Fee and places
100 Euro, maximum 20 places
Notes
Slides and notes from the lectures with group and exercises and solutions can be found here.
Contacts
FAVE2006
Location
Limehouse Town Hall 646 Commercial Road, Limehouse, London E14 7HA, UK
Dates
Saturday the 25th of November 2006, Lunchtime till late
Description
A day of talks and demonstrations of Free/Open Source software tools for audio and multimedia. I will be giving a three hour afternoon lecture on intermediate synthetic sound design as part of the days events.
Fee and places
5 GBP voluntary donation. See Dan (contacts) about places.
Notes
Here are some photos of the days events.
Contacts
Netaudio London
Location
Candid Arts and Electrowerkz Candid Arts Centre, 3 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ and at Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ
Dates
15th and 16th September 2006, 10 am - Late, 10 am - Late with after event party
Description
This is a significant UK meeting for all those involved in network radio, audio streaming and experimental network music, particularly modern DJs, collaborative musicians and those running net labels. Rob Munroe and I will be taking a small workshop for 5-10 participants at Candid Arts. There will be a short introduction to audio and video processing and streaming using Pd with some demonstrations of network media applications.
Fee and places
15 GBP. See Matt Spendlove (contacts).
Contacts
SoundingOut3
Location
Sir Tom Cowie Campus, St. Peters, Sunderland.
Dates
September 2006
Description
An international conference on Film, TV, Radio and game/animation sound hosted at Sunderland University UK MC'd by Martin Shingler assisted by John Paul Green and Andy Cartwright this was a fascinating meeting of practicioners and academics involved in sound media. There were film screenings, talks, demonstrations and discussions. I gave a short paper on synthetic sound design for games looking at efficiency and level of detail culling in real-time.
Space Studios - Pure Data Summer School
Location
129 - 131 Mare St, Hackney, London, UK, E8 3RH.
Dates
June 2006
Description
Two whole weeks of puredata goodness! Sessions by Chun Lee, Frank Barknecht, Derek Holzer, Aymeric Mansoux, Andy Farnell and others. This was a great fortnight covering video, sound and physical computing with Pd.
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