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A two hour workshop introducing 3D spatial audio setup technologies, spatialization techniques, and composition strategies. Crystal Cortez and Francisco Botello will provide hands-on instruction on how artists can create compositions for 4, 6, 8 or more speakers and strategies for moving sound between them to create immersive audio environments. This workshop will focus on the use of two digital audio technologies to achieve this, Ableton Live and Max/MSP.

Thurs, March 9, 6pm-8pm
Free with RSVP
15 NE Hancock St, Portland, OR 97212
https://pica.org/events/r2r

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Crystal Cortez is a sound & installation artist, and creative technologist based out of Portland, Oregon. Their work focuses on redirecting modern technology toward decolonial practices and sacred relationality. Under their performance moniker Crystal Quartez they transform field recordings, use synthesis, audio programming, data sonification, and 3D sound spatialization to produce windows into shared networks of reality, often separated by borders, time, and perception. Their practice has recently involved the development of interactive sculptural interfaces and wearable technology that monitor movement and other corporeal methods to allow the performer to extend with and beyond their interfaces.

Francisco Botello is a Mexican/American sound artist and educator born and raised in Chula Vista, California. Growing up a dual citizen on the dividing line between the United States and Mexico, their work reflects on the nature of place and belonging. Gathering and composing with field recordings, alongside electronics and computer music tools, they explore questions of identity, ancestry, geography, change, and loss. Recently, they have been experimenting with gestural control and working with immersive, multi-channel sound systems as ways to connect their art more intimately with their body and audience.

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Synth Library Portland programming is funded in part by the Regional Arts and Cultural Council (@regionalarts), the Fred W. Fields Fund of Oregon Community Foundation (@the_ocf), and CommuniCare students at Portland State University (@communicareor).