MakeAXE 2015 - WSU Summer Camp

http://tinyurl.com/WsuMusicTech

Final Project: some sort of something

Criteria

Do *something*, anything which

• Incorporates live elements
• Incorporates live or recorded video, audio
• Uses Pure Data, Makey Makey, webcam
• 3ish to 5ish minutesish longish

Ideas to consider

• Performance?
• What form does it have?
• Are you demoing an idea or technique?
• Is it an environmental sort of thing
• Does it have a unique element?

Day 1

Morning (8:30 - 12:00)

8:30 - 9:00: Introductions

Introductions: me, counselors

What is this camp?

• Making instruments
• DJ, VJ
• Realtime audio/video synthesis Pure Data
• Examples: Maize video
• Final Project
• Final project demo

How the camp is structured

• An open-source structure: follow along at http://tinyurl.com/WsuMusicTech

9:00 - 9:30: The Name Game

• Groups of 4 and 5, then 9:
• Name
• Music thing or Geek thing or anything!
• Contest between the 9

9:30 - 10: Pure Data intro

lecture schmecture 1

Pd: The Philosophy

• Pd is a dataflow language and uses the metaphor of connecting objects to each other.
  • modular synthesizer
  • another modular synthesizer
• Pd also uses the metaphor of an instrument
  • Combining the instrument maker and instrument player
    • Edit and performance mode

Pd: The Language

• Pd vs. Pd-extended
• Runs on anything, even Android and iOS
• Free as in speech

Down and Dirty with Pd

• objects, messages, comments
• inlets and outlets, connecting objects and messages to each other
• [pix_video], [pix_texture], [rectangle]
• Show quickly [rotateXYZ], [sphere]
• Interactive help with objects

10:00 - 10:30 Workshop 1: Baby's First Pd Video Patch

• Work in pairs. Review what we did with this video
• Add one cool thing: rotation, sphere...something else?
• Can you add a filter? Project onto a teapot?

10:30 - 11:00 Lecture Schmecture 2

• Combining messages
• Adding filter
• Slider, number box, dragging and shift-dragging
• [cube], [rotateXYZ]
• [line]
• [bang(

11:00 - 11:30 Workshop 2: Learning to crawl

• Work in pairs. Review what we did with this video
• Then review how [bang( works with this video

11:30 - 12:00 fudge time

We'll probably be running late....

Afternoon (1:00 - 4:30)

• hack up a cool Gem project

• Surf the 'net for cool Pd stuff
  • Groups of 2 (semi finals)
  • Then groups of 4 (finals)
  • Draw on service learning class or not?
  • Presentations

1:00: Intro to Pd

• build 2 patches that look identical but don't do the

same thing

• do something original with messages, random, print,

delay

• poetry or haiku
• mad libs

Day 2

Morning

• Zoom, Shwartz...
• Pd audio

Afternoon

• Intro Makey Makey
• Video recorder/player
• recording video from phone etc.

Day 3

Morning

• Color tracking

Afternoon

• Work session

Day 4

Morning

• Work session

Afternoon

• Presentations