Collaborative Live Coding & Spatial Audio Workshop w/ Carl Testa

Since 2022, I’ve been designing and building a Wave Field Synthesis speaker system and thanks to this grant I’ve been able to rehouse my current 32 channel system and expand it into a full 64 channel system. This system is built as individual 8 channel modules that can be combined to create a 64 channel system capable of placing sounds in specific locations in physical space. Think of it as the sound system for Star Trek’s holodeck 🙂 Participants in the workshop will learn how to live code sound using the Estuary Live Coding platform and how to send custom commands through Estuary to the Wave Field in order to control the spatial placement of the sounds. This workshop is free to register, but registration is required as there is limited space. If you do register, be sure to bring a laptop, and if you don’t have a laptop or other portable device with a browser/keyboard, one can be provided.

Other upcoming events in the Creative Sound Cooperative Summer Series include a Live Coding Visuals in Hydra Workshop with Rosalie Coleman and a Spoken Word Poetry and Spatial Audio Workshop with Tahj Gahlberth and Jason Dorsey.

Finally, in September I will be starting a Masters of Arts in Music Composition program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. I intend on continuing my work with Wave Field Synthesis, Live Coding, electroacoustic improvisation, and finding ways to synthesize all of those areas. I’m looking forward to returning to Wesleyan almost 20 years after I graduated from undergraduate there.