Huseac Studio Users Group

Huseac, the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, is one of the great resources the Harvard Department of Music offers. I like most the history section of the web site!

The Studio Users Group is an informal forum for all the Huseac studio users to meet, share, and learn from each others. Last week, Robin Hodson of Avid/Digidesign/Sibelius was here to demonstrate features of the integration between Pro Tools DAW and Sibelius notation software.

The next meetings

This Wednesday, April 14th, 2009, from 2 to 4pm, I'm sharing my most recent Max/MSP/Jitter patch. I'll explain not only the patch "under-the-hood", but also the process I followed to get from the idea ("intelligent" or "transient-aware" granulation) to the working patch.


That's the idea. Together, we'll see how to get to the Max patch...

Next Wednesday, April 21st, Ean White, technical director of the studio, will explain & demonstrate the use of the new SoundField Surround microphone system.

April 28th may be a Max/MSP/Jitter patches mixer. Composer and Teaching Fellow Bert Van Herck will show how he used Max/MSP to model a real-world micro-tonal organ he will be composing for, and all participants are encouraged to bring patches of their own.

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