Merry Maxmas! We’re patching up some seasonal cheer and tidings of extra hot laptops at the Overlap Salon finale for 02009. Come ring the synthesized bells with us at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

When – Tuesday, 15 December, 02009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where – Gray Area Foundation for the Arts @ 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

It is the season for giving, especially of toys! And the elves at Cycling and Ableton have some magical new toys just leaving the workbench. We have three sessions on Max that will instantly turn your sleigh-bells into self-composing, self-aware, music-making devices.

Vlad Spears
3 Things You Can Do With Max For Live

Musician, Max/MSP gangsta and Overlap Salon co-organizer Vlad Spears will present on working with Max For Live, the real-time programming environment from Cycling ‘74 and Ableton. Vlad developed and commercially released the Daevl.Plugs, a popular suite of Pluggo plug-ins he’s currently porting to Max For Live. Most of his workflow is on the move into this new world: a slew of custom Monome and Manta applications and many Max tools for algorithmic and chaotic composition. Vlad’s been waiting to press the edit button for a long, long time.

Adam Murray
A Processing Object for Max

Adam Murray is a musician and programmer who created the fantastic ajm.objects, a collection of Max/MSP externals and abstractions including ajm.ruby, a Ruby programming environment right in Max. Adam’s now finishing work on another bridge object for Cycling ‘74 that will merge two worlds, neither of which will ever be the same again. Processing, meet Max. Max, meet Processing. Adam will give us a sneak peak at the upcoming Processing object for Max, which provides tighter integration between Processing, Max/MSP/Jitter and yes, Max For Live.

Elise Baldwin
Using Max in Performance, Design and Installation

Elise Baldwin’s work revolves around themes of collective memory, as well as intersections between the natural world and the technological. She has performed recently at the New York Electronic Arts Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Edgetone Music Festival, E.S.P. Media Lounge, and the National Queer Arts Festival. She’ll be discussing her use of Max in performance, sound design and installations, focusing on her 4 December work with Kadet Kuhne at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Holding Patterns & Collective Memories.

We’ll have cookies shaped like decorated trees and many varieties of snow-white milk to go with.

Join us for 02009’s final night of modern sound and vision! Sign up on the Facebook event or RSVP to connect@overlap.org

About the Salon:
The Overlap Salon is a regular meetup devoted to sharing code, ideas and projects built with the media toolkit Max/MSP/Jitter from Cycling ‘74 and Ableton’s electronic music performance application, Live. Our salons are a mix of performances, presentations and ad-hoc discussion, dependent upon the ideas and issues brought to the table. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

For further information, or if you would like to join the storied ranks of Salon presenters, please connect@overlap.org

For this second collaborative Salon event in Overlap’s ongoing team-up with the Bay Area Computer Music Technology group, we’re returning to the San Francisco digs of host extraordinaire Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

When – 28 October, 02009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where – GAFFTA @ 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Admission – FREE, please RSVP to connect@overlap.org

It’s a performance oriented evening for a season of skeletons, ghosts and spooky sounds. We’ve lined up music and technology presentations by three edge-walking artists using modern controllers, Ableton Live and Max/MSP/Jitter from Cycling ‘74.

Jef Stott

Jef Stott is a producer/composer of tribal dub, ambient electronica and Eastern breaks on Six Degrees, Universal, EMI, Hearts of Space and others. With Mohammed Mohanna he’s developed the extensive and mesmerizing Subtle Body project, an interactive biofeedback musical system utilizing Max/MSP/Jitter and Live.

Edison

Edison is a backbone member of the Monome community. Widely recognized with his DIY Monome in a yellow lunchbox, Edison’s musical output combines elements of hip-hop, glitch and breakbeat to create a sound entirely his own. In addition to his Monome, Edison’s toolkit includes his custom Love Box, Nintendo DS, Where’s The Party At? 8-bit sampler kit, Max/MSP and Live.

Preshish Moments

Preshish Moments is a beatwrecker who developed his performance system from the ground up. Using a large, DIY wooden controller driving Shredder, the loop-mangling software he created and continuously refines in Max/MSP, Preshish Moments takes seemingly nice rhythms and turns them into something entirely otherwise. Hang on to your beats.

There will be a variety of milks and a plethora of cookies, as is now tradition at these collaborative events.

Join us for a night of modern sound and vision! Sign up on the Facebook event, BArCMuT’s Meetup page, or RSVP to connect@overlap.org

About the Salon:
The Overlap Salon is a regular meetup devoted to sharing code, ideas and projects built with the media toolkit Max/MSP/Jitter from Cycling ‘74 and Ableton’s electronic music performance application, Live. Our salons are a mix of performances, presentations and ad-hoc discussion, dependent upon what kinds of ideas and issues are brought to the table. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.

For further information, or if you would like to join the storied ranks of Salon presenters, please connect@overlap.org

Hello all,

swissnex San Francisco with the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and various key partners, chief among which the good folks at VOLUME, are proud to present a very rare West Coast appearance by the Zurich-based label and electronic sound arts platform domizil, along with their research partners at the ICST Zurich (the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technologies, part of the Zurich University for the Arts).

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swissnex and VOLUME have put together three densely packed evenings of performances, taking place at the San Francisco Art Institute for two nights in a row this coming weekend, and an L.A. date next week at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions).

In addition to presenting domizil performers Marcus Maeder, Bernd Schurer, Thomas Peter and Jasch, and the tape works of the ICST’s German Toro-Perez, Daniel Bisig, Philippe Kocher and Martin Neukom, these three evening also bring a great roaster of West Coast performers together, including Steve Roden, Mem1, Kadet Kuhne, Loren Chasse, Sutekh, and Overlap’s own Christopher Willits. Best of all: these shows are all FOR FREE

Our full program (check back for updates!) is available here:

http://swissnexsanfrancisco.org/activities/events/domizilandICSTZurichTour

Read more about the events at:

SFAI website

LACE website

VOLUME website

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swissnex is also planning a series of academic presentations and workshops around the work done at the ICST, in which domizil fully participates (in fact, the label also releases quite a bit of recorded research items from ICST – all available on CD or for free downloads under a Creative Commons license on the domizil website):

- one such session will take place at SFAI next Monday, September 28, at 8pm, and is open to sound students and researchers at SFAI and at all other institutes in the Bay Area. It’s free as well, please join if you can!

- swissnex is then organizing one sessions in its own space at 730 Montgomery Street in downtown SF, on Tuesday, September 29. This session (1pm to 5pm) is a great opportunity to get together and to discuss research and tools by the ICST, in domains such as ambisonics (Ambisonics externals for Max MSP and others) and Interactive Swarm Spaces while also broaching on historic perspectives about electronic music in Switzerland and beyond.

TO SIGN UP FOR THIS ONE, PLEASE SIMPLY EMAIL SWISSNEX (luc.meier@swissnexsanfrancisco.org) TO SAVE YOUR SEAT. We aim at getting a good, focused crowd with a minimum of knowledge in the topics at hand for this one, and participants will also get free entrance to the domizil “vecherinka” party event we will be holding the night of that day (regular admission price is $7.00). Hope to see you here!!

I think this new ongoing Overlap Salon that we are putting on through Overlap.org is going to be nice and fun. If you are into cutting edge music, audio performance, and the technologies related with these, I urge you to come out to this new regular event. Christopher posted more on Overlap.org about this:

This first Overlap Salon event brings together users of Cycling 74′s legendary “build-it-yourself” software universe Max/MSP/Jitter. Cool Max/MSP/Jitter nerds will be able to meet, exchange knowledge, advice, and software patches. Max/MSP/Jitter patches covered in the Salon will also be shared on Overlap.org following the event. All participants are required to bring your their own laptop, beer (if u want) and thinking cap. WIFI provided.

I will bring beer. I wonder if we have any more free beer at Creative Commons actually Anyone interested in coming to this and/or presenting? Let us/me know! If I talk about anything, it will be the anti-max/msp/jitter called PD which I used to hack on back in the UCSD-aze. Also, if you show up, maybe I will talk more about why Lil Wayne is so brilliant and use my Eeepc as an awesome DJ’ing platform.

Originally from Audio Junkies: Overlap Salon 01 Max/MSP/Jitter Wednesday May 21 2008 – San Francisco