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Learning Path: 

Audio-Visual Artist

building audio-visual performances

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Learning Path: 

Audio-Visual Artist

building audio-visual performances

Target Audience:

- Musicians seeking to expand into visual performance
- Media artists exploring real-time audio-visual creation
- Visual artists collaborating with musicians
- Installation artists working with audio-visual elements
- VJ performers and live visual artists
- Performing artists interested in multimedia integration

Prerequisites:

- Interest in audio-visual arts
- Basic understanding of digital audio/video concepts
- (Optional) Basic music theory knowledge
- (Optional) Experience with DAWs

Learning Path Aims:

- Solid understanding of the TouchDesigner node-based workflow and procedural 3D
- Master real-time audio-reactive visuals and hardware/software integration including Ableton Live, Bitwig and Modular synths
- Understand modular synthesis principles and create instruments for controlling music and visuals
- Implement robust performance setups and content management workflows

Get 200$ discount for TouchDesigner Commercial License

Once you enroll in the AV learning path, you have the opportunity to purchase a commercial TouchDesigner license at a $200 discount (for a total of $400)

Duration

26 weeks

Your skill level

Beginner, Intermediate

Software

Bitwig, TouchDesigner

Video Duration

1,5-2 hours per week

Format

Self-study

Who needs this

Motion Designers Media Artists 3D Artists VR / XR Producers NFT Artists Interactive Developers Musicians VJs AI/ML Enthusiasts Designers Video Engineers

Career Opportunities

After completing this path, you'll be equipped to:

1. Perform as an audio-visual artist
2. Extend your music performance with synchronized visual performance
3. Design audio-visual installations for galleries and museums
4. Collaborate with performing artists

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- TouchDesigner interface and workflow fundamentals
- Audio analysis basics
- Real-time compositing and color correction
- Basic 3D visualization

- Geometry fundamentals and advanced concepts
- Instancing and optimization techniques
- Dynamic simulations and particle system
- Direct modeling and rendering methodologies
- UI and Kinect basics

- Hardware/software synchronization
- Modular synthesis basics
- MIDI and CV control systems, TD Ableton
- Professional performance setup
- Custom UI development

- Bitwig Studio Basics
- Advanced audio processing
- Professional show control
- Content management systems

STANISLAV GLAZOV

MEDIA ARTIST, EDUCATOR, COURSE AUTHOR

3D AND AUDIOVISUAL ARTIST WITH OVER 22 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND 20 YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE

For more than 20 years, he has worked in light and visual art, seeking innovative opportunities where art and technology intersect. His installations and AV performances explore themes such as inner and social freedom, consciousness, identity, and loneliness in the modern world, using high-tech techniques.

Driven by his desire to create unforgettable experiences that inspire, he takes an individualized approach to each work, creating unique algorithms and synchronizing sound with visuals and digital shapes. He is also known for producing music with modular synthesizers and analog devices, influenced by industrial music, which combines noise, disharmony, and shamanism to take listeners on an intense emotional journey.

In 2013, he created his own generative design studio Licht.Pfad.

Creation of AV Performances in partnership with Dasha Rush, Robert Lippok

Performances at all the iconic festivals of the planet: Berlin Atonal, Mutek Montreal, Ars Electronica Linz, Unsound Festival in Krakow, Raster-Noton night in Berghain, Barbican London, Resonance Festival in Tokyo, Mira Festival Barcelona, L.E.V. Festival, Light Festival Lyon

Since 2016 - working on theater projects with Maxim Didenko, including the creation of media servers for various performances

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Basic knowledge of music production in a digital audio workstation (DAW).
Familiarity with visual programming concepts is beneficial but not required.
Prerequisites are flexible: the more you know, the more you get.

You'll need at least an NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6GB) with an Intel i5/AMD Ryzen 5 processor and 16GB RAM on Windows 10/11. For best results, we recommend an NVIDIA RTX 2070, Intel i7/Ryzen 7, and 32GB RAM with SSD storage.

The course won't work on integrated graphics laptops. AMD GPUs may work but aren't fully tested with TouchDesigner. Your monitor should be at least 1920x1080 resolution.

TouchDesigner System Requirements
Bitwig System Requirements

All practical topics have corresponding tasks to complete as homeworks. Most of them require to repeat the actions from the lectures on your own supply. We recommend to execute them even if everything is clear in theory - to ensure that you won’t face unexpected issues in your future work.

During final week you will have to develop and complete your own project> (with our assistance) as a kind of exam of the obtained knowledge.

3-6 hours per week should be sufficient to master necessary concepts and skills. You may want to invest more time for more exhaustve explorations though. Remember, the course program is somewhat open-ended: nearly all topics are not limited in scope, and have lots of options for extra developments.

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