Chambers Music at SFMax

Tristan Chambers is an electronics engineer and a computer hacker who interests himself in the use of technology both in art and science. Taking ideas from his experience designing and building scientific research instruments like digital beam forming scatterometeres and atmospheric research laser control systems, he integrates found objects and home brewed software to express the signals and phenomena of nature and mathematics in audible fluctuations and schematical works of art.

I took apart a big old laser printer yesterday and found some nice electromagnets.
Here’s what I did with them, and an old autoharp I found at a tag sale this summer.–Tristan Chambers

Tristan will talk about Pure Data, Miller Puckette’s open source graphical programming language, similar to his original Max program and expanded by David Zicarelli’s MSP extensions. He will talk discuss a number of patches created for Pure Data that are much like the primitives found in the Native Instruments product, Reaktor, and present some of his works including an acoustic modeled feedback simulator, a multichannel sound looper and destroyer, a laptop violin, a laptop environment regurgitator, and a couple of electroacoustic hardware devices.

Coming up on APRIL 17th: J. A. Deane (Dino)

About SFMAX: SFMax meets certain Fridays at the Santa Fe Complex to discuss methods and software used to create interactive audio and video. What began as a MAX/Msp users group has been expanded to include any software that allows for MIDI control, audio processing, video processing, or interactivity (sensors and device control). Each meeting features a presentation by an invited guest followed by Q&A and open discussion. People at all levels, from all disciplines are welcome and encouraged to attend.