Program | Workshops

In the past years Digitópia Casa da Música have developed an extremely rich pedagogic work in the art-applied technologies domain, bringing specialized knowledge to a large amount of people. For its 2013 edition Festival Semibreve 2013 and Digitópia Casa da Música have joined ventures to bring you specific workshops focusing on electronic music and digital arts.

 

Lectures

Max - From the Introduction to the Stage

Max is a software for exploration and innovation that provide tools to create your own music, sound, video, applications and interactive installations. By covering the fundamental principles but also some more advanced topics, this workshop will illustrate that the methodology underlying the creation of the most diverse content in Max

 

Keywords: Max, MSP, Interaction, Jitter, Performance, Max4Live

 

Guided by: João Menezes

 

João Menezes is a sound and media artist, working at the intersection of sound, interaction and media. Having digital means as the core of his artistic process, João's work ranges from live music/theatre performances, Installations; to the development of unique audio software and sonic interaction devices. He is a regular collaborator on art-technology environments, such as Max MSP and the Jamoma platform, having developed several objects and modules which provide functions towards the data sonification, automatic music generation, computational geometry and physical computing fields.

João has been giving workshops and presentations in festivals, universities and conferences, such as: Code Control Festival, Get Set Art Festival, Faculty of Engineering as well as the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, Leicester College, Artech - International Conference on Digital Arts, among others.
In 2010, concluded is BA in Electronic Music and Musical Production. In 2012, concluded is MSc in Interactive Music and Sound Design with high distinction from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Since 2010, he is an educator and software developer at Digitópia Collective, Casa da Música, Oporto. Nowadays, he balances his time between personal work, Digitópia Collective, collaborations and commissioned projects.

http://cargocollective.com/joaomenezes/

 

Date: Friday 15th and Saturday 16th from 10h30 to 18h00

 

Registration: https://maxsemibreve.eventbrite.com

 

Processing: Building Live Visuals for Musical Performances

This workshop will cover the fundamentals of the computer generated image composition through the programming language Processsing, with the goal of building original software for visual tracking of musical performances. 

 

Keywords: Processing, VJing, Live Visuals.

 

Guided by: Diogo Tudela

 

Born in 1987, Porto, Portugal.

His work approaches computation as a theoretical framework, rather than as a problem solving methodology; producing objects and systems that deal and explore concepts of matrix, genesis, production and reproduction at different levels. From this point, medium restrictions make no sense, and that's why his work assumes different forms and relies on distinct techniques. In 2009, concluded his BA in Sound and in 2001, his MA in Digital Arts with the dissertation entitled "Proposals for Addressing Typography in the Scope of Digital Arts". Followed an internship at CITAR — Research Center for Science and Technology in Art, Porto, Portugal; and the Erasmus IP "The Art of Sound/ The Sound of Art", Conservatorio di Musica di Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy.

At the moment, he's a guest lecturer at the School of Arts' Post Graduation in Digital Design, UCP.

www.diogotudela.com

 

Date: Friday 15th and Saturday 16th from 10h30 to 18h00

 

Registration: https://processingsemibreve.eventbrite.com