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Sound out of your body motion
Touchless control
Sensing airflow
Playing with water drops
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An intensive hands-on result-oriented
workshop for sound/media artists, composers and musicians
who have a particular interest in interactive systems, unknown
history and musical technology
=Instructor=
Andrey Smirnov - Director of the Theremin Center for Electroacoustic
music at Moscow State Conservatory, director of the Altermedium
Festival, member of the Electronic Music Foundation Advisory Council, NY
=Location=
Domagkstr.33; House 49/Roof gallery; Munich
=Date=
22=23=24.11.06
Evening 24.11.2006 - Results Presentation at A=V Experimental Audiovisual Festival=www.aa-vv.org
=Registration Deadline=
OCTOBER 31 2006
=Language=
English
=Fees=
5 Euro per day
=Introduction=
This intensive 3-day workshop offers a hands-on introduction to
interactive systems, based on the sensor technology, developed by Andrei
Smirnov to measuring and monitoring human motion, air and water flows,
variations in the vibrations of light beams, temperature, different
mechanical vibrations etc. The sensors are built on the same principle
as the well-known electronic musical instrument Theremin, created by
Russian inventor Leon Theremin in 1919. It was the first electronic
musical instrument, made with special antennas to control sound by the
free movement of hands in the space surrounding it. More recent digital
USB Theremin-sensors can be used in different kinds of motion capturing
systems, to measure and monitor variations of air flow, mechanical
vibrations, changes of electrical capacitance of any conductive medias
etc.
The analog and digital USB sensors for testing, experimenting and
performance will be provided by the instructor
=Participants will learn=
How to detect any sorts of motion and measure it
What information could we get and how to deal with it
Physical and technical details regarding the motion tracking-Basic principles of operation and construction of the theremin based
systems
Art and music applications of interactive motion tracking systems
Ways to integrate them in musical performance, dance, video, sound and
art installations
How to perform with them
Practical result oriented training
Historical overview of different approaches and applications
=Requirements=
=your own laptop computer with Pure Data, Supercollider, MAX/MSP, Isadora etc.
=Art-making materials to develop your project
=If you can bring a digital video camera, you will find it useful
=How to apply=
For those wishing to attend TS Workshop, please email to:
workshop@aa-vv.org
the following information:
=Your name, email, URL
=A list of computers, software you will use at the workshop
=Short bio
=For more details on workshop please visit:
http://www.aa-vv.org/?av300=WORKSHOP
=Context=
A=V = experimental audiovisual festival Munich
www.aa-vv.org
=??=
=>Natalia Borissova (Workshop Organizer at DoKU e.V. Munich)
workshop@aa-vv.org
