Max Meetup Los Angeles: Composing Visual Music

Tue Oct 04 2022 at 07:00 pm

Coaxial | Los Angeles

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Max Meetup Los Angeles: Composing Visual Music
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Join the LA Max community at Coaxial Arts Foundation on October 4, 2022 for Composing Visual Music with Thom Yorke-collaborator Tarik Barri and Lea Fabrikant.
October 4th
7:00pm
Free
This is a free event. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops and patch along. If you plan to attend this event, please RSVP.
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Mask wearing is highly recommended indoors. N/95, KN/95, surgical masks suggested and provided.
The power of visuals within the music world is in many ways remarkably unexplored. While we never totally understood why this is the case, as audiovisual artists we did spend much time focusing specifically on fusing these art forms into one. The biggest obstacle we encountered was the difference between the methods for creating image and sound.
Even though both could be created on the computer, there was a huge gap between the types of software used in their creation: the ways of thinking they required, the way they deal with time, the room they provide for spontaneous decisions, etc. Since some time however, computers have become so powerful that this gap has become unnecessary. Music- and visual software developers have been a bit slow to catch on to this fact though, leaving it up to programmer-artists to program their own solutions.
Having mostly technical artists enter this field however results in a specific kind of thinking and aesthetic, very focussed on technical achievements. It limits the diversity of people and artistic expressions we see around us: it gets quite boring. To help solve this problem, Tarik is one of the co-developers of Videosync, which allows people to use Ableton Live (a music program) to create realtime visuals and close the gap between image and sound, free from the technical barriers normally surrounding this field.
During this workshop we will introduce you to the Videosync software and dive deep into the many possibilities that this type of creation allows us to discover.
Presenters:
Tarik Barri
Tarik Barri is an audiovisual composer and software developer. Programming since childhood, making electronic music since his teens, and becoming fascinated with visuals since his early 20’s, he combined these elements into a single art form, exploring the similarities and differences between sound and visuals as well as the novel phenomena resulting from their synthesis. Barri regularly performs with artists such as Sote, Thom Yorke and Paul Jebanasam, and has previously toured with Robert Henke and Nicolas Jaar. He’s part of the team programming Videosync, a software that acts as a visual add-on to Ableton Live, and allows non-programmers to have intuitive, precise control over visuals that live on musical timeline and respond to midi inputs. This is ideal for creating and improvising audiovisual works, but also works as a method to create live visuals without any audio component.
Lea Fabrikant
Interdisciplinary artist. Creates, destroys, improvises and compiles expressions/errors in between sound, image and technology.
Using her voice, instruments and various materials, her analogue improvisations are mixed, distorted and focused through the lens of digital worlds.
As a result her works meld the familiar and the hyper-abstract as they exist side by side.
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Community members who have a project to present for a future workshop are welcome to do so. To submit a proposal please use the form at: https://forms.gle/XPQXnjGDArYbb5EM8
Supported by Cycling '74
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Coaxial, 1815 S Main St,Los Angeles,CA,United States

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