Gelijktijdig met Gaudeamus Festival 2024 vindt de mede door ons georganiseerde conferentie NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) plaats, waarin instrumentenuitvinders en muziektechnologie-ontwikkelaars een week lang presentaties geven. Bij verschillende concerten en keynotes van NIME ben je ook welkom met een passe-partout of dagkaart van Gaudeamus.
40 years ago, Michel Waisvisz played his first concert with The Hands. The instrument failed spectacularly, and was nearly abandoned, but after a chance encounter at IRCAM in Paris, it was rescued back out of the cardboard box and developed into one of the first sensor-driven musical instruments with a digital environment. The Hands made use of the then brand-new MIDI protocol and paved the path to the development of the STEIM SensorLab, which in turn inspired many early NIME projects.
In this talk, Andi Otto and Kristina Andersen will tell the story of The Hands and the significant traces it has left in the history of new musical interfaces. They will address the complexities of unarchiving a lifetime of musical live practice, which put documentation almost totally in the blind spot. Through this, they will loop back to the original STEIM stance of looking at the instrument as an expression of the desire to make new music and by extension the need for new instruments with which to imagine new music.
NIME 2024 wordt georganiseerd door de drie partners HKU Muziek & Technologie, Sounds Like Touch
en Gaudeamus en (financieel) ondersteund door TivoliVredenburg, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve
Industrie, Gemeente Utrecht en Utrecht Marketing.