workshop: habitus
Sat., May 24, 2025 at 12pm
Sun., May 25, 2025 at 10am
Indexical
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Suggested Sliding Scale $100–$500
habitus is a two-day investigation of new music technologies, creative coding, and field recording, rooted in careful and carefree investigation of gesture and the practice of de/composition. It is a collective gathering to explore new habits of programming and musical practice through experimentation, research, collaborative learning, and the exercise of daydreams.
With an eye toward the monome ecosystem (specifically the norns sound computer), habitus is led by a group of teaching artists with wide-spanning experience and backgrounds. This workshop aims to compel artists toward asking new questions of a wide range of tools including those which run on general-purpose computers, as well as staples from monome like grid, arc, and norns.
The workshop was designed for people with all varieties of background and any amount of musical and programming experience. Pedagogically speaking, habitus is designed to include a very small amount of lecture-style teaching, encouraging the participants to learn from one another and through their natural impulses of curiosity and artistic investigation.
Registration
Register via the sign-up form. You'll receive a confirmation and payment link upon submission.
Prerequisites
- 2-3 minutes of audio captured from your day-to-day life
- having recently reviewed the norns studies
- monome norns
- network connectivity interface (either WIFI nub, built-in Pi antenna, or ethernet adapter)
- a personal laptop
- a phone or field recorder
- audio cable(s) to send signals to your norns from your your computer, phone, or field recorder
- audio cable(s) to send signals from your norns to a mixer (1/8" or 1/4" cables)
- one or more midi controllers or HID devices (optional)
Schedule
May 24th:
- 12 noon: habitus participants gather
- 2pm: 30 minute snack break
- 5pm: break for the day
May 25th:
- 10am: habitus participants gather and resume explorations
- 1pm: 45 minute meal break
- 5pm: wrap up
Bios
jonathan snyder is an electronic sound artist and educator based in portland, oregon. for the past five years he has explored the intersections of code, music making, and learning. a cobbler of musical tools, he crafts experiences that operate around and within a space of joyful experimentation and play.
ben 'leshy' krasner is an interdisciplinary sound artist and educator. propelled by a desire to stretch the senses, their practice involves objects, ceramics, and electroacoustic systems, often recontextualized through intermedia collaboration. they research and utilize de/compositional processes as means of exploring intra-active and perceptual phenomena. they live in the Santa Cruz mountains, teaching and working in various capacities in the arts, including a/v tech and production at Indexical and facilitating accessible arts and education events through SCUM.
dani derks is part of the day-to-day operations at monome in upstate NY and a member of the extended universe of whimsical raps -- dani assembles instruments and creates documentation for ways to engage with them. Their personal projects are centered on coding through improvisation, creating their own environments for playful and exploratory music performance gestures.
Zack Scholl is a Seattle-based tinkerer and artist with a passion for exploring a diverse array of creative projects. He has a particular interest in designing chaotic musical systems, painting, and has recently taken up juggling and ceramics. Zack has made significant contributions within open-source software development, having developed hundreds of projects that are widely used by people across the world and has developed many music objects for SuperCollider and the norns system. You can find Zack's work on his Github (@schollz) or on his website (schollz.com), where he also documents his attempts to get his cartoons published in magazines.
workshop: habitus
Sat., May 24, 2025 at 12pm
Sun., May 25, 2025 at 10am
Indexical
Add to Calendar
Suggested Sliding Scale $100–$500