Ableton Live 8 Immersion

February 27 - 28th, Saturday & Sunday
Learn Live from electronic musician, audio engineer, DJ, teacher, and Ableton Certified Live expert Brian Jackson. This workshop is designed to push your Live skills to the next level in just 2 days.   

How much?: $345 
When: Saturday & Sunday, February 27th & 28th from 1pm - 9pm each day.
Size: 7 max
Level: beginner to intermediate 
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Digital audio and computer fundamentals

Description:
Learn Live from electronic musician, audio engineer, DJ, teacher, and Ableton Certified Live expert Brian Jackson. This workshop is designed to push your Live skills to the next level in just 2 days. Through a combination of A/V demonstrations, lecture, Q & A, and guided hands-on practice, each participant will have a chance to learn in a way that best suits their style. The goal is for beginners to complete the workshop at an intermediate level, and intermediate users to find themselves pushing into advanced territory. You can choose to sign up for either day, or both. 

Brian recently completed the Ableton Live 8 Course Clips Master DVD for Cengage Learning. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to buy the disk from Brian for $30, and all will receive numerous Live Sets used in the creation of the disk for their personal use. 

You can sign up for single days, or the whole workshop. 

 

Topics Covered:

Day 1 – Fundamentals

• Introductions & Orientation
• Preferences & Setup
• Arrangement & Session View
• Clips – Audio & MIDI
• Tracks and Scenes
• Adding, selecting, and moving Clips
• Key & MIDI Mapping
• Live Browsers
• Overview of Library & Live Packs
• Clip View & Transport
• Live Mixer Basics
• Impulse Drum Sampler
• Warp Modes
• Warp Markers
• Warping tricks

Day 2 – Digging Deeper

• Preferences (con’t)
• Live Mixer signal flow
• Recording Audio & MIDI Clips
• Overview of Live’s Built-in Effects & Instruments
• Simpler
• Intro to Instrument & Drum Racks
• Integrating Audio Clips & Sample Instruments
• Grooves
• Rex Files & Slicing to MIDI
• Freezing Tracks
• Follow Actions
• Clip Envelopes (Modulation)
• Track Envelopes (Automation)
• Editing In Arrangement View
• Exporting Options

Bio:
Brian Jackson is an internationally released electronic musician with 14 years of music production and sound design experience. He has more than 16 years of teaching experience, and is an audio engineering and music production instructor at SAE and Touro College in NYC. His current focus as an engineer is audio mastering, and he works out of his Williamsburg, Brooklyn studio.

Specializing in Mac-based digital audio, Brian started using Pro Tools in 1996 and Logic in 2000. Not limiting his expertise to one or two DAWs, Brian is one of the very first Ableton Certified Trainers on the planet -  he is the author of 3 tutorial DVDs on Ableton Live, and technical editor for the Live 7 & Live 8 Power! books (among others) for Cengage Learning. Brian also regularly works as a creative-technical consultant for companies (e.g., Ableton and Access) and individuals (including multiple Grammy nominees/winners). In 1999 Brian received an MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Prior to relocating from SF to NYC in 2002, he also worked for Harmony-Central.com and Rocket Network (now DigiDelivery).   

Registration is closed for this workshop. 

CMOS Music - 1-bit Modular Digital Synthesis

Sunday March 28th from 2-6pm

Learn how to make 1-bit chiptunes music without the hassle of computer programming.  This is a musical introduction to basic electronic concepts through the use of CMOS digital logic chips. 

How much?: $25 materials   $75 admission
When: Sunday March 28th from 2-6 pm
Size:  minimum 5 - maximum 12
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Prerequisite: None, though knowledge of basic electronics concepts and terms will enhance the learning experience

Description:
From a hand full of components you will create the world's simplest oscillator and 8 note musical rhythm sequencer.  No soldering necessary, you'll take your project home on your very own solder-less breadboard!

CMOS 4000 series digital logic chips make it easy for anyone to design and build their own simple analog/digital hybrid modular synthesizer. Some chips can be turned into oscillators, other can be used to divide frequencies, with just a handful of resistors, capacitors, diodes, and transistors, these chips can be configured into custom musical instruments and effects units.

We will look at how to create and oscillator, frequency divider, and sequencer from 3 different chips.  In the process we'll cover basic electronics concepts and skills, explaining each component as it is introduced.  When we're done, you'll have an intricate rhythmic sequencer that produces 1-bit chiptunes music.

Topics Covered:

Electricity
Electronic Components
Modular Synthesis
Analog vs Digital Circuits
Digital Logic
4000 series CMOS Logic ICs
Breadboard Prototyping
Signal Flow
Systems Design
Schematic Reading

 

Bio:
Phillip Stearns (AKA Pixel Form) is a practitioner of sonic and visual arts; music composer and performer; electronics sculptor and installation artist.  He views technology as a site for exploring the global society-environment system and how changes in the relationship between society and environment manifest in our technology.  Through the medium of networked systems, his work explores the horizons of information, politics, noise, control, proximity, subversion, corruption, interconnectedness and interrelatedness.  Central to his practice as a visual artist and a performer are the use of custom electronics, hand-craft, hardware hacking, media technologies, and iterative processes marked by a judicial use of materials, restraint, simplicity, a careful balance between conceptual depth and playfulness.  He graduated from the Cal Arts masters degree program in music composition in 2007 and has presented, performed, lectured, exhibited, led workshops, and screened works at various festivals, conferences, residencies, museums and institutions around the US, Latin America and Northern Europe including FILE (2009), NIME (2009), FONLAD(2009), Transitio(2009), Torrance Art Museum (2008), Optica(2008), Filmer La Musique (2008), Spark(2008), Soundwalk (2006,2007,2008), GLAMFA, Machine Project, STEIM, Experimental Television Center, Solar1, Chaos Communications Camp (2007), and Darmstadt (2006).

Click here for Phillips YouTube channel and see more of his work.

Registration & Details:

Sunday March 28th from 2-6pm