FUTURE PRODUCER WORKSHOP @ arck | February 2008
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19.01.08
Robert Henke [ monolake ], master electronic musician / performer, a man totally obsessed with sound and one of the driving forces behind the development of ABLETON LIVE is here in Melbourne performing and touring some of his new work.
You can view his Australian and New Zealand 2008 Tour schedule here http://www.monolake.de/concerts/
Robert recently presented a workshop @ arck on keeping things simple. The title being : Too Many Choices - how to make music if everything is possible ?
The workshop was well received, and the topic very relevant in this moment due to Robert having to improvise with his presentation and Ableton LIVE demonstrations as his Apple MacBook died the day before. And as Murphy's Law would have it, it was the first time Robert didn't bring any backups on tour with him, so a totally improvised presentation . . . .....
Robert's experience with live performance, his knowledge of Ableton LIVE and his love of live interaction with both music and people guaranteed that the show would go on. And it did, along with lots of laughs, and much knowledge shared by all.
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We @ arck feel that this topic is one worthy of a further breakdown and discussion, never more relevant than today, in a world saturated with technology, choices and noise. We are going to invite other local and international artists and producers to contribute with future monthly [ maybe weekly ] workshops over 2008.
Here are some of the artist's and producer's we have penciled in for 2008. Exciting stuff !!
> Shapeshifter LIVE
> William 'Bunny Rugs' Clarke, Third World lead singer
> Eric Powell [ BUSH Records ]
> Digital Primate
> Mantrix
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01.02.08
For the beginning of February 2008 we have another special appearance by Robert, this time digging deeper into Analogue and Digital sound and Ableton LIVE. We would advise that this is an advanced presentation and very relevant to anyone skilled with Ableton LIVE. People are invited to bring their laptops along for note taking and Ableton patch / project / tip sharing.
This workshop is a one off special @ arck, your only chance to gain some insights on this level from Robert Henke in Australia in 2008 !
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We have limited places [ 30 seats total ] available, so be quick and email : school@arck.com.au to secure your place. Please provide your full name and a contact phone number and we will reply with confirmation ASAP.
Title : Robert Henke Workshop - Advanced Sound Creation, Mixing and Mastering in Ableton LIVE.
Time : 7pm Friday 1st of February 2008 > Duration: Approximately 2 Hours
Cost : $30 GST inc. Includes a couple of beers and a BBQ in the car park afterward [ Weather permitting ]
Place : arck - Warehouse 1 / 650A Nicholson Street North Fitzroy
Sound Quality. What is it and what does matter in which circumstances?
Keywords : Analog versus Digital, Sample Rate, Bit Depth, Summing Bus, Distortion, The Sound of Vinyl.
Mixing and Mastering. Some personal thoughts on the topic. Mastering in Ableton Live ???
Knowledge is power : More (ab)use of Live's instruments and effects.
Includes : Making drums with Operator. Rough timestrech with Simpler, Building complex effexts using feedback between sends.
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Outline of previous Robert Henke Workshop 22.01.08
Title : Too Many Choices - how to make music if everything is possible
Abstract : Music software has reached a state where its possibilities exceed the knowledge of most users. While it has become very easy to create sound, a lot of people are completely overwhelmed by what their tools offer and get confused and defocused.
The solution : Usage of only a few tools and trying to understand them well enough to master them. The aim of the presentation is to provide ideas of how to dive deeper into any kind of music software to make most out of it. Examples are presented using Ableton Live 7, Operator and Sampler.
Who should come : The presentation and talk is for all audiences which are interested in computer generated sound. Very basic knowledge of Ableton Live or any other music software or hardware needed.
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Visit Robert Henke @ http://www.myspace.com/roberthenke and here http://www.monolake.de/
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19.01.08
Robert Henke [ monolake ], master electronic musician / performer, a man totally obsessed with sound and one of the driving forces behind the development of ABLETON LIVE is here in Melbourne performing and touring some of his new work.
You can view his Australian and New Zealand 2008 Tour schedule here http://www.monolake.de/concerts/
Robert recently presented a workshop @ arck on keeping things simple. The title being : Too Many Choices - how to make music if everything is possible ?
The workshop was well received, and the topic very relevant in this moment due to Robert having to improvise with his presentation and Ableton LIVE demonstrations as his Apple MacBook died the day before. And as Murphy's Law would have it, it was the first time Robert didn't bring any backups on tour with him, so a totally improvised presentation . . . .....
Robert's experience with live performance, his knowledge of Ableton LIVE and his love of live interaction with both music and people guaranteed that the show would go on. And it did, along with lots of laughs, and much knowledge shared by all.
........................................................................................................................
We @ arck feel that this topic is one worthy of a further breakdown and discussion, never more relevant than today, in a world saturated with technology, choices and noise. We are going to invite other local and international artists and producers to contribute with future monthly [ maybe weekly ] workshops over 2008.
Here are some of the artist's and producer's we have penciled in for 2008. Exciting stuff !!
> Shapeshifter LIVE
> William 'Bunny Rugs' Clarke, Third World lead singer
> Eric Powell [ BUSH Records ]
> Digital Primate
> Mantrix
........................................................................................................................
01.02.08
For the beginning of February 2008 we have another special appearance by Robert, this time digging deeper into Analogue and Digital sound and Ableton LIVE. We would advise that this is an advanced presentation and very relevant to anyone skilled with Ableton LIVE. People are invited to bring their laptops along for note taking and Ableton patch / project / tip sharing.
This workshop is a one off special @ arck, your only chance to gain some insights on this level from Robert Henke in Australia in 2008 !
........................................................................................................................
We have limited places [ 30 seats total ] available, so be quick and email : school@arck.com.au to secure your place. Please provide your full name and a contact phone number and we will reply with confirmation ASAP.
Title : Robert Henke Workshop - Advanced Sound Creation, Mixing and Mastering in Ableton LIVE.
Time : 7pm Friday 1st of February 2008 > Duration: Approximately 2 Hours
Cost : $30 GST inc. Includes a couple of beers and a BBQ in the car park afterward [ Weather permitting ]
Place : arck - Warehouse 1 / 650A Nicholson Street North Fitzroy
Sound Quality. What is it and what does matter in which circumstances?
Keywords : Analog versus Digital, Sample Rate, Bit Depth, Summing Bus, Distortion, The Sound of Vinyl.
Mixing and Mastering. Some personal thoughts on the topic. Mastering in Ableton Live ???
Knowledge is power : More (ab)use of Live's instruments and effects.
Includes : Making drums with Operator. Rough timestrech with Simpler, Building complex effexts using feedback between sends.
........................................................................................................................
Outline of previous Robert Henke Workshop 22.01.08
Title : Too Many Choices - how to make music if everything is possible
Abstract : Music software has reached a state where its possibilities exceed the knowledge of most users. While it has become very easy to create sound, a lot of people are completely overwhelmed by what their tools offer and get confused and defocused.
The solution : Usage of only a few tools and trying to understand them well enough to master them. The aim of the presentation is to provide ideas of how to dive deeper into any kind of music software to make most out of it. Examples are presented using Ableton Live 7, Operator and Sampler.
Who should come : The presentation and talk is for all audiences which are interested in computer generated sound. Very basic knowledge of Ableton Live or any other music software or hardware needed.
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Visit Robert Henke @ http://www.myspace.com/roberthenke and here http://www.monolake.de/
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Robert Henkes 2008 Australian Tour is proudly supported by the Goethe Institute Australia
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Lookout for more seminars just like this coming soon to arck . . . . ....
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MULTIPLE CORES ARE CALLING FOR A NEW KIND CODE
Software benefits from multicore architectures where code can be executed in parallel. Under most common operating systems this requires code to execute in separate threads or processes. Each application running on a system runs in its own process so multiple applications will benefit from multicore architectures. Each application may also have multiple threads but, in most cases, it must be specifically written to utilize multiple threads. Operating system ftware also tends to run many threads as a part of its normal operation. Running virtual machines will benefit from adoption of multiple core architectures since each virtual machine runs independently of others and can be executed in parallel.
Most application software is not written to use multiple concurrent threads intensively because of the challenge of doing so. A frequent pattern in multithreaded application design is where a single thread does the intensive work while other threads do much less. For example a virus scan application may create a new thread for the scan process, while the GUI thread waits for commands from the user (e.g. cancel the scan). In such cases, multicore architecture is of little benefit for the application itself due to the single thread doing all heavy lifting and the inability to balance the work evenly across multiple cores. Programming truly multithreaded code often requires complex co-ordination of threads and can easily introduce subtle and difficult to find bugs due to the interleaving of processing on data shared between threads (thread-safety). Debugging such code when it breaks is also much more difficult than single-threaded code. Also there has been a perceived lack of motivation for writing consumer-level threaded applications because of the relative rarity of consumer-level multiprocessor hardware. Although threaded applications incur little additional performance penalty on single-processor machines, the extra overhead of development was difficult to justify due to the preponderance of single-processor machines.
As of September 2006, with the typical mix of mass-market applications the main benefit to an ordinary user from a multi-core CPU will be improved multitasking performance, which may apply more often than expected. Ordinary users are already running many threads; operating systems utilize multiple threads, as well as antivirus programs and other 'background processes' including audio and video controls. The largest boost in performance will likely be noticed in improved response time while running CPU-intensive processes, like antivirus scans, defragmenting, ripping/burning media (requiring file conversion), or searching for folders. Example: if the automatic virus scan initiates while a movie is being watched, the movie is far less likely to lag, as the antivirus program will be assigned to a different processor than the processor running the movie playback.
Given the increasing emphasis on multicore chip design, stemming from the grave thermal and power consumption problems posed by any further significant increase in processor clock speeds, the extent to which software can be multithreaded to take advantage of these new chips is likely to be the single greatest constraint on computer performance in the future. If developers are unable to design software to fully exploit the resources provided by multiple cores, then they will ultimately reach an insurmountable performance ceiling.
Word to the WIKI > http://en.wikipedia.org
Most application software is not written to use multiple concurrent threads intensively because of the challenge of doing so. A frequent pattern in multithreaded application design is where a single thread does the intensive work while other threads do much less. For example a virus scan application may create a new thread for the scan process, while the GUI thread waits for commands from the user (e.g. cancel the scan). In such cases, multicore architecture is of little benefit for the application itself due to the single thread doing all heavy lifting and the inability to balance the work evenly across multiple cores. Programming truly multithreaded code often requires complex co-ordination of threads and can easily introduce subtle and difficult to find bugs due to the interleaving of processing on data shared between threads (thread-safety). Debugging such code when it breaks is also much more difficult than single-threaded code. Also there has been a perceived lack of motivation for writing consumer-level threaded applications because of the relative rarity of consumer-level multiprocessor hardware. Although threaded applications incur little additional performance penalty on single-processor machines, the extra overhead of development was difficult to justify due to the preponderance of single-processor machines.
As of September 2006, with the typical mix of mass-market applications the main benefit to an ordinary user from a multi-core CPU will be improved multitasking performance, which may apply more often than expected. Ordinary users are already running many threads; operating systems utilize multiple threads, as well as antivirus programs and other 'background processes' including audio and video controls. The largest boost in performance will likely be noticed in improved response time while running CPU-intensive processes, like antivirus scans, defragmenting, ripping/burning media (requiring file conversion), or searching for folders. Example: if the automatic virus scan initiates while a movie is being watched, the movie is far less likely to lag, as the antivirus program will be assigned to a different processor than the processor running the movie playback.
Given the increasing emphasis on multicore chip design, stemming from the grave thermal and power consumption problems posed by any further significant increase in processor clock speeds, the extent to which software can be multithreaded to take advantage of these new chips is likely to be the single greatest constraint on computer performance in the future. If developers are unable to design software to fully exploit the resources provided by multiple cores, then they will ultimately reach an insurmountable performance ceiling.
Word to the WIKI > http://en.wikipedia.org
