Coinciding with Gaudeamus Festival 2024, the NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) conference, co-organized by us, will take place, in which instrument inventors and music technology developers will give presentations for a week. You are also welcome to attend various NIME concerts and keynotes with a Gaudeamus passe-partout or day ticket. In addition, installations by NIME makers can be seen during the day at various HKU locations, the Academy Gallery and Museum Speelklok. Admission is free, except for Museum Speelklok, where you get a 50% discount on presentation of a wristband or ticket for Gaudeamus or NIME.
Museum Speelklok Steenweg 6
Wed-Fri 10:00-17:00
‘Songs from my analogue utopia’ – Christian Faubel
This ‘next generation music machine’ consists of five tuned bells that are played by five robots. The robots are in contact with each other via a neural network inspired system and are synchronized to a pacemaker. Together they form a polyrhythmic composition.
HKU Oude Noord Oudenoord 700
Wed-Thu 08:00-21:30 / vr 08:00-19:00
‘Maria Choir’ – Iván Paz, Lina Bautista
This is an installation where material sung by visitors is harmonized in real time using a ‘voice timbre translation algorithm’. This creates a choir where the visitor sings together with a choir with the voice of Catalan singer Maria Arnal (1987). The composition is supplemented with fragments that are triggered based on what is sung.
‘Make your own Rain God’ – Yunyu Ong, Emma Smith, Ryuji Hamada, Maddie Duncan, Lee McIver
In this fascinating audio-visual installation, participants are invited to take on the role of Rain Gods, creating and controlling their own thunderstorms through two interactive modes, while subtly engaging with an underlying environmental theme.
‘Token Telephone’ – Hugo F Flores, Stephan Moore
Token Telephone is a modern variation of ‘Chinese Whispers’ or ‘phone call’ where a word/sentence is whispered and changes while whispering. In Token Telephone, it is not people but generative artificial intelligence models that do the whispering. The entire process can be followed because each artificial intelligence is represented by a speaker.
‘The listening Canvas’ – Luciana Perc
The Listening Canvas is an interactive sound installation that invites the audience to re-experience the sound of gramophone horns through tactile interactions with plant (grains, leaves, stems) and synthetic (plastic, cardboard, fabric) materials via an open canvas. Binary notions of nature and culture are challenged in favor of a new sound ecology.
‘[in.tangible]’ – Enrico Dorigatt (video presentation)
[in.tangibile] consists of a series of five interactive canvasses in a gallery setting, with which the public can interact through touch. The artworks are not static objects that are observed, but through the active haptic actions and the interpretation of the public, the visitors become co-creators of the artistic experience.
Academy Gallery Janskerkhof 4a
Wed-Thu 08:30-20:00 / Fri 08:30-17:00
‘Sonic Rophalia’ – Kenshiro Taira, Sogen Handa, Risako Shibata, Nimisha Anand, Len Matsuda, Victoria Maki, Ryotaro Hoshino, Kenta Tanaka, Ryoho Kobayashi, Yuta Uozumi, Shinya Fujii
In Sonic Rophalia we see a number of ‘moon jellyfish’ in aquariums. Through movement analysis of the ‘pulsation’ of the jellyfish a rhythm for a composition is created. Special musical events within this composition take place when the jellyfish pulse in sync with each other.
‘Yadorigi’ – Riki Saito, Fushi Sano, Rikuto Shinmi, Minna Hosaka, Haruru Muramatsu, Kenta Tanaka, Ryoho Kobayashi, Yuta Uozumi, Shinya Fujii
Yadorigi revolves around a so-called “Hokora”. This is a miniature shrine within the Shinto faith where it is customary in Japan to bow to this shrine or to stand still for a moment. In Yadorigi this ‘influenced’ movement of the people is given back to the shrine as feedback and thus influences the auditory and visual, through light and shadow, representation.
‘Ocean Pandæmonium -The Noisy Plasticscape‘ – Ayaka Sakakibara
Although data on plastic pollution in the oceans is overwhelming, it often means little when viewed from land. A virtual ocean made up of glass jars and the polluting influence of humans (the visitor) is made audible.