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Max for Live Hack Night at GAFFTA

Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 7:00 PM - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

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Date: Thursday, August 25th
Times: 7pm - 11pm
Cost: $5 - $20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Location: GAFFTA, 998 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Overview

Max For Live allows you to create your own tools for music and multimedia production, and the Max for Live Hack Night brings this amazing tool's users together in one place. With the intention of developing a community around sharing and creating new custom-made devices and ideas, The Max for Live Hack Night is for anyone interested in building their own instruments, interfaces, or performance systems.


The evening begins with preeminent Max designers giving short presentations of their work, and sharing their patches to learn from. After and short break with music, impromptu performance demos, and drinks, the night shifts into "hack mode" where attendees will be grouped into teams to collaborate and share ideas. At the end of the evening, each team will share their devices providing everyone with new tools and ideas to take home and use. Both new and experienced users are encouraged to come, and make sure to bring your laptop!


7:00pm - 8:00pm : Presentations/Performances
8:00pm - 8:30pm : Patching Teams are formed / Projects are decided
8:30pm - 10:15pm : Hack Time!
10:15pm - 11:00pm : Sharing Patches / Show-and-Tell


Neal Riley's background in Electonic Music started in college, where he studied contemporary Electronic Music during Karlheinz Stockhausen’s residency at the Univeristy of Alabama. During this time he composed using Csound, PureData, and Max/Msp. As theMetakids, Neal has worked with EDM artists such as Beautiful Bells (Moodgadget) and recently Hudson Mohawke, Paul Van Dyke and Just Blaze. These events highlight an integration between the visual and audio experience, transcending what either the visual or audible could accomplish alone.

James Westfall is a musician, software designer, and controllerist residing in Northern California. His work is focused on generative systems and looping modules. He has created a multitude of performance-based tools for iPad, Ohm64, Monome, and LaunchPad in Max/MSP and Max for Live. He recently has developed the software for Livid Instruments' OHM64 RGB.

Sponsored by Ableton, Overlap, and GAFFTA

When & Where



GAFFTA
998 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 7:00 PM - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM (PT)


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Gray Area Foundation for the Arts



Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) brings together the best creative coders, data artists, designers, and makers to create experiments that build social consciousness through digital culture.

We fund programs aimed at the production, research, and dissemination of digital culture where art, science, technology, and society intersect.

We bring diverse communities together to incubate ideas, and we support and showcase the projects they create. We host classes, workshops, seminars, and symposia taught and attended by the very people that are transforming today’s digital age.