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.
A diverse NIME concert, with performances that include dance in variety of traditional and cultural contexts and perceptions through movement and senses in relation to NIME performance.
Yunyu Ong, Emma Smith, Ryuji Hamada, Maddie Duncan and Lee McIver – When The Rain God Sings Storm Lions Are Born
Storytelling performance by Australian drum ensemble Taikoz. Performed with e-taiko drums, this piece transcends traditional techniques through interactive music structures inspired by game audio.
Sandy Ma and Yichen Wang – Unspoken
Two performers will engage in a 10-minute improvisational dialogue equipped with augmented reality (AR) headsets within this hybrid environment, whilst sitting away from each other to restrict visual communication. Mediated through a collaborative AR interface.
Filippo Angeloni, Matteo Tomasetti and Domenico Stefani – Esteso
Interactive AI music duet based on player-idiosyncratic extended double bass techniques. In Esteso, the musician and an AI counterpart take turns in an improvisational duet.
Ka Hei Cheng, Irina Kruchinina and Matin Esmaeili – Phantom of Utopia
Chinese Calligraphic Dance (CCD) is introduced in this paper as an innovative artistic discipline synthesizing traditional calligraphy, dance, and interactive technology. The elements utilized in the performance derive exclusively from traditional Chinese characters, grounded in the clerical script that originated during the Han Dynasty around 200 BCE.
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.