1 Credit, Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Instructor: Michael Zbyszynski
Tuesday and Thursday (13, 15, 20, and 22 March 2007)
4pm to 7pm
DWINELLE 127
This year's "Introduction to CNMAT Technologies" will cover practical issues of long-running, and possibly interactive, sound installations with computer generated sound.
Assignment: See and hear the Bruce Nauman exhibit, A Rose Has No Teeth, at the Berkeley Art Museum. It will be up until 15 April 2007.
What is a Sound Installation, and how is it different from a concert piece? What does it mean to be site-specific?
LISTEN EDGEMAR: The setup. An overview of the (ongoing) process of installing and maintaining an installation in a landmark building.
Programming and Hardware solutions for reliability: – prevent crashes as much as possible – recover after crashes – log events (why did it crash?) – enable remote updates and debugging
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Sound installations are inherently "sculptural". Special attention placed on spatialization and sound diffusion is very important. Furthermore, the noise and acoustics outdoor and/or public environtments offer new challenges to designers used to working in a concert hall.
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This includes Max/MSP/Jitter, Flash, Processing, SuperCollider, and Matlab on the application side, and the Make Controller Kit, the CUI board, Windows and Macintosh Multimedia computers on the device side (possibly also DMX and lighting).
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20 March 2007, Michael Zbyszynski