VIPRE

The Thinking Head Project

FYI – applications close Oct 30

Thinking Head Postgraduate Research Award
Performance Scholarship

I have the pleasure of being an invited participant in Yoko Ono’s
Secret Piece

Thursday, October 8, 8pm
Judson Church
55 Washington Square South

CIRMMT lab at McGill University, Montréal will be running a workshop on Taxonomies for Digital Musical Instruments and Interfaces – October 23rd from 6-8pm, with Dr. Garth Paine. This project is an ARC funded Linkage project directed by Dr. Paine, who is currently in Canada/USA working with partner investigators, Prof. Joel Chadabe from EMF, Prof. Marcelo Wanderley (CIRMMT, McGill) and Dr. Axel Mulder (Infusion Systems)

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop on taxonomies for digital musical instruments and interfaces, organized by CIRMMT Research Axis 2 (Musical gestures, devices and motion capture).

This workshop is free and open to all.

DATE: Friday, October 23, 2009
LOCATION: Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall, C-209, Strathcona Music
Building, 555 Sherbrooke Street West
TIME: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

SEATING IS LIMITED (35-40 seats).

REGISTRATION is required. Please fill out the online registration form .
The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss approaches to cataloging, comparing and categorizing interfaces for performing music, in particular the Taxonomy of Realtime Interfaces for
Electronic Music Performance (TIEM) project: (http://vipre.uws.edu.au/tiem/).

Presentation on the TIEM project by Garth Paine (University of Western Sydney).

Workshop guests include Joel Chadabe (Electronic Music
Foundation), Axel Mulder (Infusion Systems Ltd.), and Garth Paine
(University of Western Sydney).

Sara Gomez
Research Administrator
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
(CIRMMT)
Schulich School of Music of McGill University
555 Sherbrooke West
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 1E3
Tel: (514) 398-2464
Fax: (514) 398-7414
Email: sgomez@cirmmt.mcgill.ca
http://www.cirmmt.mcgill.ca

Over the last 2 years, I have been working with dancer Helln Sky to develop an interactive dance work that uses bio-sensors on her body to drive realtime sonification/synthesis of sound and generation of images. Hellen has placed some video on YouTube, which includes elements of the first performance season in 2008 in Melbourne Australia, and a few video clips from a recent development period at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, in August 2009. Here is one of the clips from this year – all the sound is generated from Hellen’s voice (she is wearing a radio mic), and manipulated using the bio-sensors in realtime – the images are also controlled by bio-sensing