FORWARD Festival Announces Workshops and Digital Installations

FORWARD Festival is pleased to announce it’s Workshop schedule and Digital Art Installations. If you are interested in attending a workshop, please e-mail: David@eightyeightdc.com as space is limited.

Maschine Camp With Mike Huckaby
Time: 11 - 2pm
Cost; $25 , free with festival pass

Maschine Camp is the brainstorm of Mike Huckaby. It is an intensive workshop for users that are using Maschine for Music production.Participants will learn in-depth production secrets, and a deeper understanding about Maschine’s feature’s as a whole. Each participate is advised to bring his or her maschine set up with a laptop. Headphones are also optional. Maschine Camps have been held in Germany, Detroit, and Toronto. The momentum is growing, and there is a multi city tour planned for later this year. To learn more about Mike visit: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mike+Huckaby

Ableton - Advanced with Noah Pred
Time: 2:30 - 5:30
Cost: $35 , Free with festival pass

In this 3-hour advanced workshop from Canada’s first-ever Certified Ableton Instructor, DJ, producer and remixer Noah Pred will display an array of Ableton techniques for sound design, live performance, studio mixing and arrangement. To learn more about Noah, visit: www.noahpred.com

‘Logic Studio Time’
Time: 11am - 6pm
Free

District Sound Lab will set up it’s studio and set aside a 5 hour window for anyone to come and ask questions about Logic Pro. Artists can book 30-45 minute windows to load up their own projects or explore anything related to Logic Pro and work with professional audio engineer Calin Enache who can help them with their project/piece. To register for a time slot, contact Calin@districtsoundlab.com at to learn more about District Sound Lab visit: www.districtsoundlab.com

Quartz Composer with John Tyson
Time: 11 - 1pm
$10, Free with festival pass

The Quartz Composer workshop will give attendees a crash course in Quartz Composer, focusing mainly on its uses for interactive installations, live visuals, and computer graphics. We will also briefly touch on expandability: using Quartz patches in other software (such as popular VJ apps), writing your own modules, and integrating Quartz Patches into applications using Interface Builder. If interested, participants can bring their own laptops to follow along during the workshop. To learn more about John visit: http://john.capseat.com/

Max/MSP/JItter with Loudon Stearns
Time: 1:30 - 3:30pm
$10, Free with festival pass

Join Berklee College of Music and Berkleemusic.com faculty member Loudon Stearns in a discussion about the instillation “Portrait of Buchla” which features Abelton Live, Max for Live, Max/MSP audio, Jitter visuals, and a custom control surface. The discussion will trace the development of the instillation including: how custom Max for live patches were used to sample a Buchla synthesizer and trigger a camera simultaneously, fabricating a custom control surface and interfacing it with Max, building sampled instruments in Ableton Live’s Sampler, programming 3D scenes with Jitter’s OpenGL capabilities, and the integration of audio and video with Max. Questions are encouraged and attendees will be given a download link for the Max patch and Live set used in the instillation. To learn more about Loudon visit: http://loudonstearns.com/

Installations at Lost and Found include:

“LUZIDEN: In dem Träumenden Gehirn” / John Tyson
An interactive video triptych that plunges the viewer into the surreal world of lucid dreams.

“Tabula Rasa v2.0” / John Tyson
A “blank slate” which allows viewers to create their own digital images by intuitively moving objects on a glowing table.

“Portrait of Buchla” / Loudon Stearns
Viewers interact with a clear dome of buttons, switches, and joysticks, controlling a Buchla synth and camera which generate intense sound and visuals.

“Flying A (WEST #1)” / Kathryn Ramey
A found object rephotographed and hand-processed 16mm film loop where horses run backwards, guns swallow their bullets and a man un-dies.

“Three Screens Talking” / Drew Tobia
Three cathode ray tube monitors interact with one another through pre-arranged manipulated static patterns.

“Color” / D’Blend
An interactive installation that creates expressive colors and visuals.

At The Warehouse:

“Cloud” / SpaceandFlow
A contained obscurity. Enter it, get lost.