Real Time Performance & Interactive Systems Using Max 5
November 30 – December 5 2009
MACRO FUTURE (Ex Mattatoio) – SCUOLA POPOLARE DI MUSICA DI TESTACCIO - Concert Hall

Invited Professor David Zicarelli

The Masterclass will be taught - through a combination of lectures and practical work over six days - by computer music teachers and experts. During three days David Zicarelli, the first Max developer and Cycling 74 founder will teach to the class, also presenting for the first time in Italy Max for Live.

Course contents
The Masterclass is designed for students, educators, musicians, composers/sound artists, and performers wishing to utilise live electronics, also in interactive environments.
The focus will be on the creative compositional applications of Max. The subject matter is to provide key techniques and strategies that can be used to aid the design of musically creative patches.
Students should already be experienced with MaxMSP because the Masterclass will not cover the basics of programming. Emphasis is placed on the use of Max for control of complex interactive systems and on areas of active research and interest at CRM-Centro Ricerche Musicali, including:
•    Max 5: features, changes and advances
•    real-time performance with computer based instruments and gestural controllers
•    probabilistic approaches and data-management in interactive instruments
•    rapid prototyping of gesture based instruments and accompanying real-time software in MaxMSP
•    different approaches to treatment of control functions in a musical score
•    creating externals with Max Software Development Kit (SDK)
•    MaxMSP & Arduino
•    complexity management in Max/MSP
•    reliability and robustness of concert-ready patches
•    Max For Live

On the very first day of the Masterclass a new book for the MaxMSP student and expert will be presented: Musica Elettronica e Sound Design – Teoria e Pratica con MaxMSP (Electronic Music & Sound Design – Theory and Practice with MaxMSP) by Alessandro Cipriani e Maurizio Giri.

A variety of materials and resources will be provided to Masterclass participants, including copies of all the programming examples provided in the course, references to large sets of 3rd party externals, and references to a wide range of research topics in the field.
Course will bring their own laptop computers for use during the course.