Simultaneously with Gaudeamus Festival 2024, our co-organized conference NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) takes place, in which instrument inventors and music technology developers give presentations for a week. You are also welcome to attend several concerts and keynotes of NIME with a passe-partout or Gaudeamus day ticket.
In this first of six NIME concerts, we introduce the conference theme: “tactility in a hybrid world”. A concert with tactile interfaces and NIMEs tackling human neurological diversity.
Chi Wang – AEON
An immersive musical experience with touch and motion augmented tambourines. AEON incorporates functionalities such as light, motion, direction, and touch interaction. Through this, a complex network of performative actions can be orchestrated.
Vincenzo Madaghiele and Arife Dila Demir – Pain-creature
An interactive wearable instrument for improvisational movement and sound making. The instrument materializes the distinct qualities of the performer’s chronic Pain through visual-tactile-auditory aspects.
Giacomo Lepri and Nicola Privato – Stacco
A new NIME, embedding magnetic attractors that detect variations in the surrounding magnetic fields. It attracts and repels magnetic spheres displaced by the performer, allowing both fine musical control and the emergence of unpredictable interactions out of its interlaced magnetic forces.
Matthew Rogerson – Dromos/Autos: The Autistic Ontology as Performance
The author is a neurodivergent sound artist and performer. Dromos/Autos is a EEG/neurofeedback performance and informed by their own lived experience as a person diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Andi Otto – Fello
A performance by keynote speaker Andi Otto with his self-developed augmented cello bow.
NIME 2024 is organized by the three partners HKU Music & Technology, Sounds Like Touch and
Gaudeamus and (financially) supported by TivoliVredenburg, Creative Industries Fund NL, City of
Utrecht and Utrecht Marketing.