Max for Live Hack Night
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!
Agenda
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
Artists
Neal Riley
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) …
James Westfall
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 …
