Create, discover, and explore—and be part of the CCAM community! CCAM Wednesday Wisdom workshops explore dynamic intersections of the arts and technology and are designed and taught by our team, along with collaborators from on and off-campus.

In this workshop, Ross Wightman (CCAM Technical Manager and Lecturer, Yale College) and collaborator Konrad Kaczmarek (Associate Professor Adjunct, Yale Department of Music) invite you to explore Max/MSP—an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software. This software is frequently used in CCAM projects, enabling the connection of various creative inputs and outputs, such as sound, projections, and lighting.

This event will serve as a quick introduction to Max/MSP and will explore creative applications for software and hardware design through Max for Live and RNBO, a new patching environment built to export software with the sound of Max. With RNBO, you can create web experiences, hardware music devices, audio plugins, and new Max objects all from the same patch. And when that’s not enough, RNBO generates source code that you can use however you want.

This workshop is perfect for those who are interested in music production in digital audio workstations, creating their own interactive instruments/installations, and for anyone working at the intersections of computer science and art making.

There are more events in the CCAM Wednesday Wisdom series. Come to CCAM on select Wednesday evenings between September and May for creativity, conversation, and community. For more information, visit the Calendar page on the CCAM website.

Ross Wightman is a sound and media artist from New Jersey. Currently, he serves as a Technical Manager at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) and Curator of the CCAM Sound Art Series. At Yale and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he teaches a variety of media studies, computer music and composition courses, and leads electroacoustic improvisation ensembles. As a sound artist and composer, his work incorporates microtonality, electro-acoustic multimedia composition and instrument building. In his electroacoustic instruments building practice, Ross repurposes and deconstructs found instruments, combining 3D printing, robotics, and machine learning to investigate themes related to performance practice, virtuosity, timbre and resonance. He is a 2025 Artist In Residence at the Watermill Center. Learn more at rosswightman.net

Konrad Kaczmarek is a composer, musician, and instrument designer whose music incorporates live audio processing and improvisation, drawing on his musical and technical background. As a soloist, he has performed at the Sonorities Festival at Queens University in Belfast, The SoundBytes Festival in Halifax NS, Bargemusic, The Stone, Joyce SoHo, the 92nd Street Y, The Chelsea Art Museum, The Flea Theater, and at the Princeton Composers Ensemble.  His compositions have been performed by an eclectic group of performers and ensembles including Cygnus, Crash Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, Dither, Janus, Psappha, PLOrk, Sideband, and the NOW Ensemble. He has been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Banff Centre in Canada, and STEIM in The Netherlands. His freelance programming and performing have taken him to The River to River Festival in lower Manhattan (2013), Kunstnernes Hus in Olso, Norway (2009), The New Zealand International Arts Festival (2008), The 2008 Whitney Biennial Performance Series, the Next Wave festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2006), “Works and Process” at the Guggenheim (2006), and The Strings of Autumn Festival at the Estate Theater in Prague (2006). Konrad is on the faculty in the Department of Music at Yale University, where he teaches courses in composition, music technology, and instrument design.  He is Co-Director of Yale College New Music, Associate Director of the YalMusT Music Technology Labs, and has a joint appointment as Lecturer in Sound Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He holds degrees from Princeton University (Ph.D. in Music, 2015), University of London, Goldsmiths (M.Mus in Electroacoustic Composition, 2003), and Yale University (B.A. in Music, 2002).  Prior to teaching at Yale, he held teaching positions at The New School University, The College of New Jersey, and Harvestworks Studio in New York. http://konradkaczmarek.com