NIME 2012 Program book

116 Pages·2012·36.71 MB·English

NIME 2012 Program book
12thInternationalConferenceon
NewInterfacesforMusicalExpression
21May-23May2011,AnnArbor,Michigan,USA

Organizers

Institutions
University of Michigan
Division of Computer Science & Engineering
College of Engineering
Department of Performance Art Technology
School of Music, Theater & Dance
Chairs
Conference chair: Steering Committee

Georg Essl
Chair:
Paper chair:
Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Brent Gillespie
Committee Members:
Music chair:
Nicolas d'Alessandro

Michael Gurevich
Georg Essl

Sidney Fels
Installations and Demonstration chair:
Andrew Johnston

Sile O’Modhrain
Michael Lyons

Sile O'Modhrain
Local Organizations chair:
Norbert Schnell

Gregory Wakefield

Local Committee
Visual and Art Direction: Student Volunteers

Alexander Müller-Rakow,
Graham Booth

Berlin University of the Arts
Leith Campbell

Marco Donnarumma
Poster Design:
Benjamin Einstein

Rose Anderson
Lukas Flory

Cavan Fyans
Performing Arts Sound Engineering:
Madeline Huberth

Roger Arnett
Javier Jaimovich

Adinda van't Klooster
Publicity:
Bennett Layman

Steve Crang
Ryan McGee

Thomas Mihalis
Administration:
Akshay Nagarajan

Karen Alexa
Anastasia Nikoulina

Michael Palumbo
Technical Administration:
Andrew Piepenbrink

Laura Fink
Diana Siwiak

Johnty Wang
Registration System:

Jim Getty
All names are in
alphabetical order.
Past NIMEs
NIME 2011: University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
NIME 2010: University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
NIME 2009: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
NIME 2008: Casa Paganini, Genoa, Italy
NIME 2007: New York University, New York, USA
NIME 2006: IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
NIME 2005: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
NIME 2004: Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Hamamatsu, Japan
NIME 2003: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
NIME 2002: Media Lab Europe, Dublin, Ireland
NIME 2001: CHI 2001, Seattle, USA
NIME reviewers Ajay Kapur Music
Haruhiro Katayose
Papers Benjamin Knapp Jesse Allison
Mariusz Kozak Newton Armstrong
Sarah Fdili Alaoui Sylvain Le Groux Stephen David Beck
Christopher Ariza Colby Leider Bruce Bennett
Newton Armstrong Michael Lyons Per Bloland
Federico Avanzini Esteban Maestre Jonas Braasch
Kirsty Beilharz Charlotte Magnusson Chris Burns
Ross Bencina Thor Magnusson Matthew Burtner
Peter Bennett Joseph Malloch Andres Cabrera
Edgar Berdahl Adnan Marquez-Borbon Alain Crevoisier
Frederic Bevilacqua Mark Marshall Luke Dahl
Tina Blaine Luis Gustavo Martins Palle Dahlstedt
Sinan Boekesoy Eduardo Miranda Tom Davis
Niels Boettcher Florian Floyd Mueller Scott Deal
Graham Booth Yoichi Nagashima Jason Dixon
Nicolas Bouillot Kia Ng Paul Doornbusch
Roberto Bresin Charles Nichols Luke Dubois
Nicholas Bryan Per Anders Nilsson Tom Erbe
Nick Bryan-Kinns Jieun Oh Jason Freeman
Gaspard Bucher Miguel Ortiz Perez Andrew Cavan Fyans
Ivica Bukvic Gascia Ouzounian Jason Geistweidt
Matthew Burtner Dan Overholt Tomas Henriques
Andres Cabrera Jyri Pakarinen Cyrille Henry
Antonio Camurri Joe Paradiso William Tsun-Yuk Hsu
Baptiste Caramiaux Bryan Pardo Andrew Johnston
Elaine Chew Philippe Pasquier Jaroslaw Kapuscinski
Hongchan Choi Jean-Marc Pelletier Mari Kimura
Parag Chordia Nils Peters Juraj Kojs
Michael Cohen Toiviainen Petri Johnathan F. Lee
Graham Coleman Cornelius Poepel Hans Leeuw
Perry Cook Alain Renaud Colby Leider
Enrico Costanza Davide Rocchesso Cort Lippe
Luke Dahl Martin Roth Eric Lyon
Roger Dannenberg Robert Rowe Roberto Morales
Tom Davis Joel Ryan Adam Scott Neal
Nicolas d’Alessandro Jan Schacher Charles Nichols
Arne Eigenfeldt Erwin Schoonderwaldt Miguel Ortiz Perez
Sidney Fels Diemo Schwarz Gascia Ouzounian
Rebecca Fiebrink Stefania Serafin Tae Hong Park
Federico Fontana Stephen Sinclair Alain Renaud
Alexandre Francois Stale Skogstad Butch Rovan
Adrian Freed Scott Smallwood Steve Rush
Anders Friberg Hugo Solis Bruno Ruviaro
Ichiro Fujinaga Paul Stapleton Jan Schacher
Andrew Cavan Fyans D. Andrew Stewart Meg Schedel
Chris Geiger Dan Stowell Andy Schloss
Steven Gelineck Bob Sturm Franziska Schroeder
David Gerhard Atau Tanaka Greg Shear
Nick Gillian George Tzanetakis Scott Smallwood
Aristotelis Hadjakos Bill Verplank Paul Stapleton
Rob Hamilton Gualtiero Volpe Hans Tammen
Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen Graham Wakefield Jeffrey Trevino
Perfecto Herrera Ge Wang Dan Trueman
Javier Jaimovich Nicholas Ward Henry Vega
Alexander Refsum Jensenius Lonce Wyse Simon Waters
Andrew Johnston Anna Xambo Justin Yang
Sergi Jorda Woon Seung Yeo Michael Zbyszynski
Wendy Ju Tomoko Yonezawa
Martin Kaltenbrunner Mark Zadel
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Contents
I Introduction 9
II Practical 13
III Program 33
IV Concerts 61
V Installations 81
VI Biographies 87
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8 CONTENTS
I
Introduction
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WelcometoNIME
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usedperenniallytopushtheenvelope selectiveconference.Of160submissions
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exchange. Yetparticipationiscentraltoavibrant
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standsforNewInterfacesforMusical NIME.Thebestnewinterfaces,
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musicperformancesfromaroundthe presentation.Weencourageposter
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UniversityofMichiganinAnnArbor presenterandthepresentedwork.Weare
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haveanoutstandingacademic, DuderstadtCenter,alsoknownas“the
intellectual,creative,expressive,and Dude”.Manyoftheinstallationshelp
musicalexperienceandexchange.But refreshtheongoingquestionofNIME,
ultimatelyitisnottheplacethatmakesa andthatis:“whatisthatexpressive
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depthofworkthatmakesuptheNIME concerts.Threeearlyeveningconcertsat
community.Wecountover300authors theMendelssohnTheatre,ahistorical
whohavetheirworkpublishedinthe concertvenueoncampus.Andtwolate
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