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Office of the Arts

Audio Design for Video Games and Other Real-time Media
Ben Houge MIT Visiting Artist, Gershon Dublon, Brian Mayton, Nicholas Joliat
Tue Jan 10, Wed Jan 11, Thu Jan 12, 10am-04:00pm, E14-525

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 06-Jan-2012
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Requirements: laptop and headphones Prerequisites: download

This course provides an overview of designing audio for video games, while exploring how game audio design techniques can be applied to other real-time digital experiences. Participants will become familiar with various approaches to organizing sound for this inherently indeterminate medium, trying out various scenarios in Max/MSP. We will review the Unity game engine and the Wwise audio engine, listen to precursors to game audio in the music of composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and discuss sonification strategies for networked sensor data, including an overview of the DoppelLab project under development by the Media Lab’s Responsive Environments group http://doppellab.media.mit.edu. Participants will have an opportunity to “live patch” with MIT Visiting Artist Ben Houge as he presents the cell-based music system he designed for Tom Clancy’s EndWar (Xbox 360/PS3). Finally, participants will build a project while working with instructors one-on-one in a workshop/hackathon environment. Students must bring a laptop, headphones, download Max/MSP http://cycling74.com/downloads/, do the first 11 "Basic" tutorials, plus "MSP" tutorials 1-7 and 13-17.
Web: http://arts.mit.edu/va/artist/houge
Contact: Meg Rotzel, E15-205, x3-2372, mrotzel@mit.edu

Getting a Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT
Susan Cohen, Sam Magee
Mon Jan 23, 01-02:00pm, E15-283

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event

An informal discussion of the process of applying for funding from the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Susan Cohen, Council Director, and Sam Magee, Coordinator of Student Arts Programs, will go through the entire application process, answer your questions, and offer advice on organizing arts events and exhibitions.

Current MIT students, faculty, and staff are eligible to apply for funding from the Council; award amounts range from fifty to ten thousand dollars.

We ask that all attendees read the Grants Guidelines prior to the session. See the url for more information.
Web: http://arts.mit.edu/about/council/camit-grants/
Contact: Susan Cohen, E15-205, 253-4005, cohen@media.mit.edu


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