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Festival / Education

NIME Keynote: Binkbeats – Organic sounds in the synthesis of electronic music

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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.

Dutch producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer BINKBEATS – real name Frank Wienk – has a consummate knack for translating organic sounds to the synthesis of electronic music. Wienk’s singular talents amassed both global renown and a passionate following with his Beats Unraveled video-series. Over the course of the decade, he developed his mastery of sound into a rapidly expanding vocabulary, churning out compositions that transcend the realms of IDM, jazz, hip-hop, classical, ambient pop, minimalism, and techno. As an artist, he is working with new technologies and controllers together with more conventional acoustic and electronic musical instruments. He is keen to explore the physicality of sound and searching new ways to touch the sound.

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.

Photo © Jente van Brabant

Partners

NIME, HKU Music & Technology, Sounds Like Touch