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“Wrapping up @ BEK”

10/20/2003

This afternoon I finished my series of lectures and workshops at BEK, here in beautiful Bergen, Norway. If you ever have a chance to get to Norway, go straight to Bergen - it is an incredible and enchanting place. The trip from Oslo to Bergen is fantastic and the fjords are breath-taking.

This afternoon’s event was focused on Jade. I presented some of my music that has used Jade, and we looked at how Jade is doing things in the context of those pieces. We also took a look into some of the features in the upcoming Jade 1.5 - such as the tools to make building custom modules a relatively easy task.

Last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, was a Jitter workshop, also at BEK. On day one we got up to speed in Max and developed our own algorithms for filling Matrices one pixel at a time. Thursday we started working with feedback and additional matrix processing. Friday focused more on Tap.Tools and linking audio and video in Max/MSP/Jitter patches.

While that was fun, the real fun was on the weekend when I was blessed with the opportunity to have dinner @ the house of Trond Lossius. We had a fantastic meal of shrimp and I very much enjoyed chatting with he and his wife at their gorgeous property west of Bergen (including a view of the north sea)!

One of the highlights was seeing documentation of his installation Ekkofisk and having a walk through of the Max patches. The level of detail in the synthesis algorithms was great, and made for very rich sounds and envelopes and phrases. Also the use of Markov chains and the Max prob object seems promising and I need to study them much more.

Also we talked of a commission for a violin piece for a great performer here in Norway, and perhaps a collaboration. It would be wonderful if these could happen!

Tomorrow evening I will be headed back to Oslo and then on toward home… Sounds like a little time to actually get some development done!

-Tim

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