Photo Report of SYNC.2010

Photo Report of

International Festival/Competition SYNC.2010

Yoichi Nagashima (SUAC/ASL)

This is a photo report of SYNC.2010 held at Yekaterinburg, Ural, Russia in December 2010. I was invited by the organizer/composer Tatiana Komarova, and had 3 lectures, performed 1 work and joined the Jury of the competition. This photo report is the special thanks to Tatiana, great composer Jon Appleton, Yury Spitsyn, researcher Denis Perevalov, and ALL other people attending this event. You can watch the bigger photo in other window with clicking . Please remain (do not close) this display window and click other , then the photo will change in the window.

Friday 03 December

I went to Showa College of Music to attend InterCollege Concert with my students. This report is here, but written in Japanese, sorry.

Satruday 04 December

from Machida city to Narita (Tokyo) airport
from Tokyo to Moscow
from Moscow to Ekatrinburg

Sunday 05 December

my Room, Breakfast
Walk around the city-center area
In the evening, Tatiana and Denis came to the hotel, and I met prof. Jon Appleton. We went to the theatre near the hotel. The performance was the ballet "Romeo and Juliette". Very good.

Monday 06 December

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL/COMPETITION > SYNC.2010
THE URAL STATE CONSERVATORY / THE YEKATERINBURG MUSIC HALL
SCHEDULE

10:00 - 12:00 - Y.Nagashima, professor (Japan, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Department of Art and Science, Faculty of Design,). Lecture: " Technology for Computer Music / Interactive Multi-Media Performance with New Interfaces."
12:00 - 14:00 - Y.Spitsyn (Russia/USA, University of Virginia, McIntire Department of Music,). Lectures: Meta-composition: the comparative analysis of traditional and algorithmic methods.
14:00 - 15:00 - dinner
15:30 - 17:30 - Listening of jury of competitive works of the I. Section - Electroacoustic Music.
17:30 - 18:00 - Coffee-break
18:00 - 19:00 - Discussion of works. Results of 1st section.

Breakfast

Walk to the URAL STATE CONSERVATORY
My Lecture (1), Yury's Lecture
Go to dinner
(Competition for Electroacoustic music, Jury Meeting) -> moved to the next day

Tuesday 07 December

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL/COMPETITION > SYNC.2010
THE URAL STATE CONSERVATORY / THE YEKATERINBURG MUSIC HALL
SCHEDULE

10:00 - 12:00 - Y.Nagashima, professor (Japan, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Department of Art and Science, Faculty of Design,). Lecture: " SUAC Installation - Case Studies as Physical Computing "
12:00 - 14:00 - E.Schimana / J. Grundler(Austria). "Presentation of IMA Institut of Media Archeology / Soundmachines and IMA fiction".
14:00 - 15:00 - dinner
15:30 - 17:30 - The Press-Internet conference with journalists with translation throu the Internet.
19:00 - For the first time in Russia. A premiere of multimedia projects of Dieter Kaufmann (Austria): "Picture of a woman in the mirror". "Le voyage au paradis".
The competitive program. Live Electronic.
Results of competition in 'Live Electronic' after concert.

Breakfast
Walk to the URAL STATE CONSERVATORY
My Lecture (2) - no photo
IMA Lecture
Go to dinner
Competition for Electroacoustic music, Jury Meeting
Concert, Competition fot Live Electronic
Jury Meeting - no photo
Return to hotel

Wednesday 08 December

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL/COMPETITION > SYNC.2010
THE URAL STATE CONSERVATORY / THE YEKATERINBURG MUSIC HALL
SCHEDULE

10:00 - 12:00 - Y.Nagashima, professor (Japan, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Department of Art and Science, Faculty of Design,). Lecture: " Interactive Art with Bio- Interfaces "
12:00 - 14:00 - E.Schimana (Austria). "The Feedback Loop of Body and Machines in my work".
14:00 - 15:00 - dinner
15:00 - 17:00 - D.Perevalov (Russia, Yekaterinburg, The Ural branch of the Academy of sciences of Russia). " Computer vision as the universal controller for interactive multimedia ".
17:30 - 18:00 - Coffee-break
19:00 - For the first time in Russia. A premiere of the multimedia scenic project of Dieter Kaufmann (Austria):"KLANG.RAUM.FRAU".
The competitive program. Multimedia
Results of competition in 'Multimedia' after concert.

Breakfast
Walk to the URAL STATE CONSERVATORY
My Lecture (3), DEMO performance

Next Lecture
Go to dinner
Concert, Competition fot Multimedia
Jury meeting - summary (no photo)
Return to hotel

Thursday 09 December

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL/COMPETITION > SYNC.2010
THE URAL STATE CONSERVATORY / THE YEKATERINBURG MUSIC HALL
SCHEDULE

10:00 - 12:00 - Jury session. Competition summarising.
12:00 - 14:00 - J. Appleton, professor (USA, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Hanover). A Creative Meeting.
14:00 - 15:00 - dinner
15:00 - 17:00 - A.Smirnov, Director of the Termen-Center (Russia, Moscow). Seminar on interactive technologies.
17:30 - 18:00 - Coffee-break
19:00 - Gala concert: Jon Appleton (USA), Yoichi Nagashima (Japan), Elisabeth Schimana (Austria), Josef Grundler(Austria), Yury Spitsyn (USA), Yang Xiting (China), Tatiana Komarova (Russia), Nadezhda Sumina (Russia) and others, / Awarded works

Breakfast
Walk to the URAL STATE CONSERVATORY
Jon Appleton - Creative Meeting

Go to dinner with Jon

Gala Concert - Rehearsal of my performance
Before Concert - Diploma sign as Jury
Gala Concert (1)
Gala Concert (2) - Premiere of "Ural Power"

Gala Concert (3)
After Concert - Tatiana's Office

Go to hotel Bar - Party !

Friday 10 December

Breakfast
Go to Denis's office - Meeting with researchers
Visit Instruments Studio

After Dinner, walk with Jon

Go to Concert - City Hall
Special Concert - very nice !
Return to hotel

Saturday 11 December

Breakfast
In my room - Gifts for my friends "Matryoshka"

This day was the sightseeing day. Great church
Military Museum
Frozen plain
Go to Church in the forest
Near city center
Walk to the URAL STATE CONSERVATORY, for last concert
Special Concert - very nice !

Return to hotel
Final Party at Jon's room

Sunday 12 December

from Ekatrinburg to Moscow

from Moscow to Tokyo (Narita)

Monday 13 December

to Tokyo (Narita)
Narita to Shinagawa
Shinagawa to Hamamatsu
Return to SUAC, my 1106 Lab.