Workshop on Monitoring Technology for Music Performance
On June 19th, 2009, FPMs hosted a TRANSDIGITAL workshop on “Monitoring Technologies for Music Performance”, coorganized by NUMEDIART and IPEM (UGent).
The workshop gatered about 40 participants, included presentation and demos of the activities of each group, and was followed by roundtable discussions on possible scientific points of convergence. Issued like breath control of music, multimodal recording tools, and music programming emerged as possible joint-projects.
NIME 09
From June 4 to 6, 2009 the 9th NIME (New Interface for Musical Expression - http://www.nime2009.org) took place at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (PA, USA). This conference is in the field of Computer Music, but more focused on interfaces and controllers.
The different paper sessions were as following: Evaluation and Modeling, Robotics and New Interfaces, Electroacoustics, Computer Systems, Haptic and Extended Instruments, Design and Graphics, Sensing and Conducting, Control Strategies and Installations and Mobile Music.
Two Numediart researchers participated in order to show their works :
Public presentation of HUM, by François Zajéga
HUM, an interactive sonic and visual installation created by the François Zajéga in collaboration with Numediart during project 5.2 “Behavioral Installations: Emergent audiovisual installations influenced by visitors’ behaviors”, will be presented from May 13th to 24th at BRASS cultural center (Forest, Belgium).
Quarterly Progress Scientific Report #4
The numediart board has just published the Quarterly Progress Scientific Report (QPRS) for the fourth session of projects, from October 2008 to December 2008. This report covers the following projects: #04.1: Audio Cycle, #04.2: Dancing Viola, #04.3: Augmented Virtual Studio. Please visit the project pages for more details, results and videos.
“Imbrications” wins the prize of the Rencontre professionnelles VIA09
The prize of the jury at the Rencontres Professionnelles Via09 (Mons, Belgium) has been attributed to Imbrications (provisional title), by Jacques André / Cie les Hommes penchés (Artistic direction Christophe Huysman), whose creation is scheduled for the 2010-2011 season. This prize rewards the best artistic proposal integrating digital arts technologies. NUMEDIART took part to its development through projects #4.3 (Augmented Virtual Studio) and #5.1 (Matrix).
Numediart at VIA 2009 (Mons, BE)
From Thursday the 19th to Friday the 20th, the professional meetings of VIA took place in Mons.
Two artistic projects on which Numediart will bring his contribution in the next months were scheduled. Bud Blumenthal’s project Dancers was presented with a short intervention of Stephane Dupont concerning the use of Media Cycle. Fanny Derrier’s project was presented during the young creation’s morning with the participation of Loïc Reboursière.
Call for Participation #6
The numediart board now calls for participation to three short projects (#06.1: Laughter Cycle, #06.2: MorFace and #06.3: Bodily Benchmark), to be held (remotely) from Apr, 6th 2009 to Jun, 30th 2009. This session will involve a one-week workshop in Mons. If you want to contribute, please send email to contact(at)numediart.org mentioning which project you want to contribute to, and what kind of expertise you could bring, before Apr, 6th 2009. The number of members is limited to 8 people per project. Participation to the workshop is mandatory. No funding is provided, but no fee is asked for either.
NUMEDIART at the MIC, Mons
NUMEDIART took part to the launch of the Microsoft Innovation Center in Mons, this Wed March 4th, with a demo of the Augmented Virtual Studio project , specially adapted to gesture-based browsing of medical data (medical reports, medical images and videos).
Numediart attended the VIDA conference (Simulation Technologique Matérialisation Scientifique)
On the 8th and 9th of January 2009, the conference Simulation Technologique Matérialisation Scientifique took place at Bétonsalon. The goal of this conference was to link scientific and artistic research and to start reflexions on the subject of simulation.
The different axes were: Simulation: virtuality, materiality / Physics / Simulation in the physical world / Art and Simulation / Simulation as a work of art / Interface / Simulation and Representation / Performance and Simulation / Simulation and Materialization
Numediart attended a demo of the Meta-Instrument by Serge de Laubier/PuceMuse
On the 7th of january 2009, Christian Frisson (UCL/TELE) and Loïc Reboursière (FPMs/TCTS) visited Serge de Laubier.
He made a demo of his Méta-Instrument developed by PuceMuse in colaboration with different labs. This meeting was used to enhance the knowledge in ways and periphericals to control real-time sounds, as part of their research on the 6th session project : Expert Gesture Analysis by Dual Remote/Wearable Analysis.
Besides the Meta-Instrument, they have developed the Meta-Malette (joystick and collection of Max/MSP patches) and look for composers working on these tools.
Numediart thanks Serge de Laubier for taking time to present the Meta-Instrument and all the work done around it.
