The Department of Music Studies, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, in collaboration with the Master in Sonic Arts of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, is pleased to announce a workshop on the use and application of the Max MSP software. The workshop will be conducted in English by New York-based composer Prof. Carlos Delgado (University of Rome Tor Vergata). This two-hour workshop will be held at the Music Studies Department, University of Malta, Room 124, on Thursday 28 November 2019 from 10:00 to 12:00.
Prof. Carlos Delgado will give an overview and demonstration of IRCAM-developed software tools for use within the Max programming environment. He was a featured speaker at the recent IRCAM Forum Conference at the Shanghai Conservatory, where he demonstrated his software for gestural control, synthesis and video. He will also discuss IRCAM’s team-based approach that situates the creative process in a collaborative setting that brings together composers, performers, and sound designers and engineers. Workshop topics will include: score following and computer-assisted orchestration, software for gestural control, synthesis and video, and IRCAM’s team-based approach to compositional work.
Prof. Carlos Delgado's music has been heard in concerts, festivals, and radio broadcasts in Argentina, Australia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Romania, Spain, and the United States. His works have been presented at venues such as Merkin Recital Hall in New York; the 11th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology: New Creativity at the Ammerman Center Auditorium, Connecticut; St. Giles Cripplegate/Barbican, in London, England; the Rencontre Internationale de Science & Cinema (RISC) in Marseille, France; the Strada Facendo Festival, in Pisa, Italy; the International Contemporary Music Week and the International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Days in Bucharest, Romania; and the BKA Theatre in Berlin, Germany. He has participated in the 2011, 2012, and 2013 editions of EMUFest at Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome; the 2013 and 2014 Festa Europea della Musica festivals in Rome; IRCAM’s ManiFeste 2015 Académie in Paris, and the 2018 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.
A winner of the 1996 Society of Composers CD Series Award, his works have been recorded by world-class artists such as Emil Sein, Corrado Canonici, Roger Heaton, and Beate-Gabriela Schmitt, and are available on the New World Records, Living Artist, Capstone Records, and Sonoton ProViva labels. He has appeared as a laptop performer at Symphony Space and the Abrons Art Center (New York); the Titu Maiorescu Romanian Cultural Institute in Berlin; the Musica Senza Frontiere Festival, in Perugia; and many others. www.carlosdelgadomusic.com.
