A Research project on New Interfaces for Musical Expression at the Norwegian Academy of Music
What is Jamoma? Jamoma provides a clear structure and common features for building max patches. Reducing the amount of time needed to create new performance systems, and enhancing the interchange of patches amongst max users.
Workshop with Dan Overholt and Dan Trueman on Rapid Prototyping of Musical Instruments and Controllers (RapMIC). Organised by the fourMs group at UiO and the NIME project at NMH.
A summary of the workshop can be found on this wiki page.
Program: Oslo Laptop Orchestra (OLO) presents musical results from a two day workshop with Dan Trueman.
Time: torsdag 9. oktober kl 17.00 – 18.00
Location: Foajeen/ny kantine, Norges musikkhhøgskole
Performers: Mats Claesson, Ivar Frounberg, Ståle Skogstad, Kristian Nymoen, Dan Overholt, Dan Truman, Kjell Tore Innervik, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Mats Høvin and the robot ANNA
Pieces:
Time: Wednesday 8. October kl 10.00 – 12.00
Location: Auditoriet, Norges musikkhøgskole
Title: The laptop as instrument
Lecturer: Dan Trueman, Princeton University
Abstract: The laptop orchestra presents a number of fascinating technical and musical challenges. Among them: what kinds of sounds can we create? how can we physically “control” these sounds? how do we compose with these sounds? how do we organize a dozen or more players in this context? with a conductor? via a wireless network? In this lecture, I will discuss our experiences with these questions in the context of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). In particular, I will talk about speaker design, networking approaches, physicality and performance with laptops, and I will also share some of the music we have made over the past three years.
Bio: Dan Trueman is a composer and performer, based outside New York City. He is a student of traditional Hardanger fiddle music, and also composes new music for the instrument. His experiences with traditional instruments inform his work with digital performance technologies; he is co-founder and director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), the first such ensemble of its size and kind. He also composes for conventional ensembles and orchestra. Dan is an Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University.
Some pictures from the workshop on Hyperinstruments and GDIF last week:
Dan Overholt held a lecture about his research, here presenting the CREATE USB Interface.
Victoria Johnson talking about her work with electric violin performance.
Kjell Tore Innervik talking about his quarter tone marimba, and some challenges faced when trying to extend it with various types of electronics.
Alexander Refsum Jensenius presenting the Gesture Description Interchange Format (GDIF).
Alexander’s notes on how we can think of a GDIF mapping layer from sensor inputs to more semantically meaningful messages.
Alexander’s suggestion for a GDIF namespace, from raw to meta levels.
Dan Overholt’s overtone violin.
Victoria Johnson testing Dan’s overtone violin.
Hans Wilmers from NOTAM and Victoria Johnson with the new sensor bow.
Dan Overholt testing the new sensor bow. After a little bit of Max patching, we managed to receive values in Max.
Tirsdag 29. april, 10:00-12:00, Auditoriet, Norges Musikkhøgskole
Abstract: This talk presents one approach to the art and technology of performing music with digital computers – designing, implementing, evaluating, and iteratively developing new interfaces for the real-time expressive control of digital signal processing algorithms. The discussion will include presentations of my own musical instruments, the exploration of new performance techniques they bring about, and the musical and technological lessons learned during an evolutionary journey into a modern perspective on one of mankind’s oldest forms of art. For a preview of some of the instruments, please see www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/.
Bio:
Dan Overholt is an Associate Professor of Medialogy at Aalborg University, Denmark. He recently completed his Ph.D. in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program and the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC Santa Barbara. He studied electronics engineering and music (violin performance) at CSU, Chico, and has a Masters from the Media Laboratory at MIT, where his thesis focused on the development of a novel musical interface called the MATRIX. He has presented his work at many academic conferences, such as ICMC, NIME, AES, CHI, and SIGGRAPH, and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to STEIM in 2004, and a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship at UCSB. He composes and performs with new human-computer interfaces and musical signal processing algorithms, and gives workshops in interaction design for new performance interfaces and interactive installations at a variety of institutions with the CREATE USB Interface. He has also worked as a consultant in the industry for companies such as Eventide, E-mu, and Echo Audio.