This workshop is reserved for high school teachers from the Aix-Marseille academy.
MotionKit is a software package dedicated to the practice of music and sound arts.
Resolutely oriented towards new digital practices, MotionKit integrates motion detection and allows the learning and discovery of musical gestures. It can be controlled or interact with most of the industry's interfaces.
MotionKit proposes to integrate gesture recognition into playful tools using simple webcams. These solutions make it possible to define new uses for artistic and musical expressions, and propose to develop innovative practices for various audiences.
Based on BrainModular's Hollyhock Factory software, MotionKit is a modular software giving immediate access to about twenty "instruments", and each instrument offers to play with sounds, to modulate parameters, to create musical sequences and to drive the whole thing through multiple input interfaces (joysticks, touch screens, MIDI interfaces, etc.).
MotionKit uses simple graphical representations so that the user can directly enter a musical game, without prior learning. Motion detection completes these inputs to propose innovative artistic and pedagogical approaches.
The software offers access to digital music creation and adapts to different users, from the neophyte to the experienced musician. The detection of movement in real time by a simple webcam participates in this desire of opening.
Based on machine learning technologies, MotionKit can now be controlled by hand movements.
Eventually, all the joints of the human body will be potential controllers. This leads to a new conception of instrumental gesture, choreography, scenography... for all.
Material to be provided by participants:
- laptop (with MotionKit 1.1.210612 software installed)
- headphones
> MotionKit download link: http: //brainmodular.com/motionkit/en
information by mail at : contact[at]sebastien-beranger.com
Conceived jointly by BrainModular and La Muse en Circuit, Centre national de création musicale
Training offered by the academy of Aix-Marseille
Sébastien Béranger
speaker
Born in Reims in 1977, Sébastien Béranger completed his musical studies at the CNR of Reims and Lille. He then entered the composition class at the Conservatoire NationalSupérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) and studied with Emmanuel Nunes, Michaël Levinas, Yann Geslin, Luis Naón and Michelle Réverdy. He obtained prizes in analysis and composition, as well as a course in new technologies applied to composition. At the same time, Sébastien Béranger obtained a DEA in aesthetics and art sciences at the University of Lille III on "Spectrum and acoustic reality as generators of curved scales in twentieth century music" and a doctorate in musicology at the University of Nice on "Parametric spaces in instrumental music since 1950".
First laureate of the Lili and Nadia Boulanger International Foundation for the year 2001-2002, he won the Opera Prima Europa competition (Italy) in 2001. He was a finalist in the Ton Bruynel Competition 2003 (Netherlands) and the II Concurso Internacional de Miniaturas Electroacústicas (Spain). Sébastien Béranger also won an honorary mention at the 4th Electro-acoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2003 (Portugal) and a 2nd prize at ZKM's International Competition for Electroacoustic Music 2006 (Germany). He participated in the Forum de la Jeune Création Musicale of the ISCM and in the 3rd International Forum of Young Composers of the Aleph Ensemble. As a composer and performer, Sébastien Béranger explores the musical domains between the writing of instrumental scores and improvisation in live electronics. His music develops through mathematics and generates its material by conceptualizing the sound through graphic representation. Sébastien Béranger synthesizes, confronts, and merges the idioms of spectral music, post-serialism, acousmatic techniques, and postmodal trends. Like a sculptor, he works on space as a metaphorical representation of different musical scales. Whether he improvises with Élise Dabrowski or writes more specifically for performers (Le Concert Impromptu, Erwan Keravec, Ensemble 2E2M, Accroche Note, AxoneSaxophone Quartet), Sébastien Béranger is a multifaceted composer multiplying approaches to music.
GMEM (Educational studio)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Sébastien Béranger
speaker