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NC623 Effects Workshop Series: ReverbCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Learn electronics in a hands-on workshop environment while building your own spring-reverb. We’ll cover the basics from reading simple circuit diagrams to good soldering technique. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Jason Sanford has been inventing sculptural musical instruments for the past fifteen years, and he performs internationally with them in his band, Neptune. He holds a BFA in sculpture from Umass Amherst and an MFA from MassArt’s SIM program. SEE MORE INFO
jasonsidneysanford.com | J Sanford | Sep 15-Sep 16 | Sa & Su | 12-6p | Tower-320 | 0 | 235 | |
NC624 Effects Workshop Series: DistortionCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Build a more advanced circuit, while learning some theory about signal transmission and wave forms. Pre-requisite: Soldering skills. Ability to read a circuit diagram. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Jason Sanford has been inventing sculptural musical instruments for the past fifteen years, and he performs internationally with them in his band, Neptune. He holds a BFA in sculpture from Umass Amherst and an MFA from MassArt’s SIM program. SEE MORE INFO
jasonsidneysanford.com | J Sanford | Sep 22-Sep 23 | Sa & Su | 12-6p | Tower-320 | 0 | 235 | |
NC625 Effects Workshop Series: Filter SystemCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Build an active filter system so you can control the frequency response in your signal chain. Turn up the bass! ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Jason Sanford has been inventing sculptural musical instruments for the past fifteen years, and he performs internationally with them in his band, Neptune. He holds a BFA in sculpture from Umass Amherst and an MFA from MassArt’s SIM program. SEE MORE INFO
jasonsidneysanford.com | J Sanford | Sep 29-Sep 30 | Sa & Su | 12-6p | Tower-320 | 0 | 235 | |
MPSM213 Effects Workshop SeriesCOURSE DESCRIPTION
In each weekend workshop we will create a different audio effect module. Students learn electronics in a hands on workshop setting, while building a series of sound effects modules including reverb, distortion and a filter system. Workshops can be taken individually for no course redit. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Jason Sanford has been inventing sculptural musical instruments for the past fifteen years, and he performs internationally with them in his band, Neptune. He holds a BFA in sculpture from Umass Amherst and an MFA from MassArt’s SIM program. SEE MORE INFO
jasonsidneysanford.com | J Sanford | Sep 15-Sep 30 | Sa & Su | 12-6p | Tower-729 | 1.5 | 555 | |
NC620 DJ Basics WorkshopCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Students are introduced to the basics of Djing; from scratching and mixing, to organizing their own music. We discuss ways that different artists have approached this medium, from the traditional analog vinyl styles of the early hip-hop pioneers, to the ways that newer artisis have utilized the digital technologies available today. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Anthony Flackett has 25 year’s experience as a time-based Media Artist, working in single channel video, video installation, performance art, and interactive multimedia. He holds an MFA from Massachusetts college of Art and Design and a BA from Bard College. He has taught a variety of courses covering issues of music production and techniques, sound production, non-linear video editing, interactive design, web publishing, analog video, installation and performance at Massart. He performs as DJflack. SEE MORE INFO
www.djflack.com | A Flackett | Oct 13-Oct 13 | Sa | 12-6p | Tower-729 | 0 | 110 | |
NC621 VJ Basics WorkshopCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Learn live video projection and mixing techniques in one day. Vjing is rich with historical precedent. It can be the visual conterpart to Djing audio, but it also draws on the history of the projected image dating back through video, film, and slides, all the way back to the magic lantern. Modern technologies make it a vastly more flexible art form, the full potential of which lies before us, still to be explored. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Walter Wright is a video artist, and is the Director of 119 Gallery. He holds an MFA from Goddard College, an MASc from the University of Waterloo (Ont.) and a BArch from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. One of the first video animators, he worked at Computer Image Corporation in the 1970’s animating letters and words for The Electric Company. Wright has developed his own performance video system, the Video Shredder, and uses it to mesmerize audiences throughout the east coast of the USA and Canada at art galleries and museums, schools and colleges, media centers, conferences and festivals. He’s getting quite good at it. Recently, he began experimenting with Max/MSP and softVNS. His mission is to create a new music of sound and image. SEE MORE INFO
opensound.org/opensoundbios/walterwright.html | S Wright | Oct 20-Oct 20 | Sa | 12-6p | Tower-729 | 0 | 110 | |
NC622 Mic Techniques WorkshopCOURSE DESCRIPTION
A crash course in microphone use. We look at how to select the correct microphone for the job and where to place it. From close-mic-ing of a kick-drum, to a concealed wireless lapel microphone, to monophonic choral recording in a cathedral, we cover how to approach particular recording tasks, and how to hear when things could sound better. This workshop offers essential hands-on training for anyone interested in working with sound. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Kenneth Linehan is an intermediate experimentalist living and working in Providence, Rhode Island. His recent creative projects include the production of high-resolution digital field recordings, filming snails with a 16mm Bolex camera, hand-printing short-run silkscreen images, creating analog electronic music and writing web code in exchange for currency. His installations, printed works, sound experiments and other creative projects have been exhibited in galleries, live music venues and cinematic spaces in New York, Boston and Providence, RI. Ken holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of fine Arts , (Boston), a BA in fine Arts, from Roger Williams University, (Providence), and an AE in Architectural engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology. He teaches audio Recording and Sound Design for Film at MassArt. | K Linehan | Oct 27-Oct 27 | Sa | 12-6p | Tower-729 | 0 | 110 | |
MPSM214 Introduction to Kinetic ArtCOURSE DESCRIPTION
Interested in learning about kinetic art and practical techniques for making art that incorporates motion? This course covers hands on, simple, step-by-step, processes to make art that moves through the integration of motors. Students are introduced to the basics of mechanisms: circular motion through direct connections to motors, as well as levers, cams, and pulleys. Projects include how to correctly power a motor, how to add a power switch, how to switch the direction of a motor, and how to change the speed of a motor. Orientation sessions will familiarize students with the fundamentals of wood and metal fabrication techniques. Discussions on kinetic art history as well as a discourse on how it fits into the modern context will be held to inform your artistic pursuits. The goal of the course is to not only provide a basic technical framework, but also a conceptual grounding for students to create artwork that is supported by a contemporary critical structure. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Bob Kephart began creating sculpture using motors and electronics during his undergraduate studies at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, AB Canada. His artwork during this period was rough, loud, and cynical - much like the sculpture of Jean Tinguely. He later received a MFA in the Art and Technology Department from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While in Chicago, his sculpture matured and grew in complexity while adhering to the formal and conceptual qualities of his earlier works. Bob moved to Massachusetts in 2003 and currently lives in Cambridge where he has a studio. He works at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as a Staff Assistant for the Technology Department. SEE MORE INFO
automeditate.com | B Kephart | Sep 13-Dec 13 | Th | 6:30-10:30p | Tower-320 | 3 | 1110 | |
