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New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Monday afternoon, April 2nd
Experience Music Project, 325 5th Avenue North, Seattle, WA
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sound Lab Demos
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. JBL Theater Performances

We are pleased to invite you to join a playful gathering of inventors
and designers demonstrating and performing with their musical interfaces
at Experience Music Project on Monday, April 2nd from 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

This collection of demos and performances is brought to you by the
highly respected participants of the New Interfaces for Musical
Expression workshop at the CHI conference in Seattle. This is truly a
one-of-a-kind opportunity to see a variety of new instruments and
methods for musical control under development from all around the world,
all together under one roof!

Please join us to explore and interact with these new musical interface
technologies and discuss practical concerns involved in the design of
effective musical interfaces. We need your input and participation to
break new ground and create a dialog in order to address some of the
major issues involved in the interplay between technological change and
innovation in musical culture.


Demos in Sound Lab from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. include the following:

Einar Ask: Speaking Orbs (Einar.com, Seattle, WA)
Graeme McCaig & Sid Fels: 2 Hearts (University of British Columbia)
Joe Paradiso: Musical Trinkets (MIT Media Lab)
Marcelo Wanderley: jMax Digitizing Tablet (IRCAM, France)

Michael Cohen & Toshifumi Kanno: 3D Helical Keyboard (Aizu University,
Japan)
Michael Gurevich: Accordiatron (CCRMA, Stanford University)
Sergi Jorda: FMOL: Faust Music OnLine (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Michael Lyons: Mouthesizer (MIC ATR Lab, Japan)


Performances from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the JBL Theater:

Daniel Koppelman: "There's Just One Thing You Need to Know" by
Christopher Dobrian (Disklavier and synthesizer)
Perry Cook: 7 minutes from Tibet: (SqueezeVox Concertina Controller
demo/performance)
Andrew Schloss & Randy Jones: UNI (Radio Drum, Tactex Pad & OnaDime
Visualization Software) and Andrew Schloss Radio Drum/Disklavier solo
performance: Excerpts of Suite from The Seven Wonders by David A. Jaffe
and Andrew Schloss.
Camille Goudeseune - Eviolin motion and pitch-tracked electric violin
Sid Fels - Iamascope interactive, electronic kaleidoscope that combines
computer video, graphics and audio technology for participants to create
striking imagery and sound in an interactive performance w/audience
members.

Experience Music Project is located at 325 Fifth Avenue North,
Seattle, Washington on the Seattle Center campus. For more info call:
206-EMPLIVE, 1-877-EMPLIVE or visit emplive.com . For more information
and papers written by the people involved in this special event, please
see the CHI NIME website at:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/~poup/research/chi2000wshp/.
JBL Theater Performances Cost: $5.00 for EMP members, $5.00 for
non-members. Advance tickets are available at EMP or by calling
206.770.2702.

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Marcelo M. Wanderley
http://www.ircam.fr/wanderle

Working Group on Interactive Systems and Instrument Design in Music
http://www.notam.uio.no/icma/interactivesystems/wg.html

Gesture Research in Music Homepage
http://www.ircam.fr/gesture

Contact:
Ircam - Centre Pompidou
1, Pl. Igor Stravinsky - 75004 - Paris - France
Ph.  + 33 (0) 1 44 78 40 96 - Fax + 33 (0) 1 44 78 15 40