NIME04 Schedule

Wednesday 2nd ( Registration only)

15:00-18:00 General Seminar Room Registration desk Open !! (No Coffee)
Internet Service (LAN-DHCP) available in this room !
(no firewall, directly connecting to Internet)

Thursday 3rd (day-1)

08:00-17:00 General Seminar Room Registration / Coffee Service
Internet Service (LAN-DHCP) available in this room !
(no firewall, directly connecting to Internet)
09:00-11:50 Auditorium (Hall) Opening (09:00-09:25)

Paper Session 1 (chair : Joe Paradiso)

09:25-09:55
1A-01
Evolving Tooka: from Experiment to Instrument
(Sidney Fels, Linda Kaastra, Sachiyo Takahashi, Graeme McCaig)

09:55-10:25
1A-02
The Electronic Sitar Controller
(Ajay Kapur, Ari J. Lazier, Philip Davidson, R. Scott Wilson, Perry R. Cook)

10:40-11:10
1A-03
Sound Feedback for Powerful Karate Training
(Masami Takahata, Kensuke Shiraki, Yutaka Sakane, Yoichi Takebayashi)

Report Session 1 (chair : Tine Blaine)

11:10-11:30
1B-01
Dynamic Patching for Live Musical Performance
(M. Kaltenbrunner, G. Geiger, S. Jorda)

11:30-11:50
1B-02
Aobachi: A New Interface for Japanese Drumming
(Diana Young, Ichiro Fujinaga)
11:50-13:00--- Lunch Break ---
13:00-15:00 Public Studio Poster Session 1
1C-01
Daisyphone: Support for Remote Music Collaboration
(N. Bryan-Kinns, P. G. T. Healey)

1C-02
Modeling an air percussion for composition and performance
(Christophe HAVEL, Myriam Desainte-Catherine)

1C-03
A Survey of Real-Time MIDI Performance
(Mark Nelson, Belinda Thom)

1C-04
Real-time Gesture Mapping in Pd Environment using Neural Networks
(Arshia Cont, Thierry Coduys, Cyrille Henry)

1C-05
The Decentralized Pianola: Evolving Mechanical Music Instruments Using a Genetic Algorithm
(Assaf K. Talmudi)

1C-06
Don't Just Play it, Grow it! : Breeding Sound Synthesis and Performance Mappings
(James Mandelis, Phil Husbands)
Theme Seminar Room
(Open Public) 		Demo Session (below)
    See 4A-01 to 4A-10 in the Proceedings
Music and Audiovisual Room
Open Public(MAF2004) 		RENCON
People listens to all the performances and then votes on them.
15:20-16:40 280 Lecture Room Report Session 2 (chair : Kia Ng)
15:20-15:40
1D-01
Tree Music : Composing with GAIA
(Judith Shatin, David Topper)

15:40-16:00
1D-02
Recycling Music, Answering Back: Toward an Oral Tradition of Electronic Music
(Gideon D'Arcangelo)

16:00-16:20
1D-03
Digital Instruments and Players: Part I - Efficiency and Apprenticeship
(Sergi Jorda)

16:20-16:40
1D-04
A New Mix of Forgotten Technology: Sound Generation, Sequencing and Performance Using an Optical Turntable
(Nikita Pashenkov)
18:00-20:00 Auditorium (Hall)
(Open Public, Admission Free, MAF2004) 		Welcome Performance
Yoichi Nagashima + Tamami Tono : "MOYA III"

Keynote
Toshio Iwai
"Images, music and interactivity - the trace of media art"

Keynote
Robert A. Moog
"How do performers interact with their instruments?"

Friday 4th (day-2)

09:00-17:00 General Seminar Room Registration / Coffee Service
Internet Service (LAN-DHCP) available in this room !
(no firewall, directly connecting to Internet)
10:00-20:00 Auditorium Lobby
(Open Public) 		Installation
  • Garth Paine : "MAP2"
09:20-11:50 Auditorium (Hall) Paper Session 2 (chair : Perry Cook)
09:25-09:55
2A-01
You're The Conductor: A Realistic Interactive Conducting System for Children
(Eric Lee, Teresa Marrin Nakra, Jan Borchers)

09:55-10:25
2A-02
PebbleBox and CrumbleBag: Tactile Interfaces for Granular Synthesis
(Sile O'Modhrain, Georg Essl)

10:40-11:10
2A-03
Gesture and Musical Interaction: Interactive Engagement Through Dynamic Morphology
(Garth Paine)

Report Session 3 (chair : Sid Fels)

11:10-11:30
2B-01
On the Choice of Mappings Based On Geometric Properties
(Doug Van Nort, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Philippe Depalle)

11:30-11:50
2B-02
The Squiggle: A Digital Musical Instrument
(Brian Sheehan)
11:50-13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00-15:00 Public Studio Poster Session 2
2C-01
Exploration of the correspondence between visual and acoustic parameter spaces
(David Gerhard, Daryl Hepting, Matthew McKague)

2C-02
The Architecture of Auracle: a Real-Time, Distributed, Collaborative Instrument
(Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Jason Freeman, Kristjan Varnik, David Birchfield, Phil Burk, Max Neuhaus)

2C-03
Thermoscore: A New-type Musical Score with Temperature Sensation
(Homei MIYASHITA, Kazushi NISHIMOTO)

2C-04
Toward a generalized friction controller: from the bowed string to unusual musical instruments
(Stefania Serafin, Diana Young)

2C-05
ThumbTec: A New Handheld Input Device
(Philippe Stanislas Zaborowski)

2C-06
Techniques for Multi-Channel Real-Time Spatial Distribution Using Frequency-Domain Processing
(Ryan H. Torchia, Cort Lippe)
Theme Seminar Room
(Open Public) 		Demo Session (below)
    See 4A-01 to 4A-10 in the Proceedings
Music and Audiovisual Room
Open Public(MAF2004) 		RENCON
People listens to all the performances and then votes on them.
15:20-16:20 176 Lecture Room RENCON Session (chair : Rumi Hiraga )
15:20-15:40
2D-01
Rencon 2004: Turing Test for Musical Expression
(Rumi Hiraga, Roberto Bresin, Keiji Hirata, Haruhiro Katayose)

15:40-16:00
2D-02
Using an Expressive Performance Template in a Music Conducting Interface
(Haruhiro Katayose, Keita Okudaira)

16:00-16:20
2D-03
Acappella synthesis demonstrations using RWC music database
(Hideki Kawahara, Hideki Banno, Masanori Morise)
17:00-18:30 Student Dining Hall Reception
19:00-21:00 Auditorium (Hall)
(Open Public, Ticket=1000Yen, Student=500Yen) 		Concert 1
  1. Tokyo Lick
    Composer / Performer: Jeffrey Stolet
  2. Stupid Thing' Improvisation
    Composer / Performer: Clay Chaplin
  3. Saraswati's Electo-Magic
    Performers: Ajay Kapur (ESitar) & Phil Davidson (audio visualizations)
    Composers: Ajay Kapur, Phil Davidson, Ari Lazier

  4. particle
    Composer/Performer: Kanta Horio
  5. GuitarBotana
    Composer/Performer: Mari Kimura

Saturday 5th (day-3)

09:00-17:00 General Seminar Room Registration / Coffee Service
Internet Service (LAN-DHCP) available in this room !
(no firewall, directly connecting to Internet)
10:00-19:00 Auditorium Lobby
(Open Public) 		Installation
  • Garth Paine : "MAP2"
09:20-11:50 176 Lecture Room Paper Session 3 (chair : Sergi Jorda )
09:25-09:55
3A-01
Aura II: Making Real-Time Systems Safe for Music
(Roger B. Dannenberg)

09:55-10:25
3A-02
"On-the-fly Programming: Using Code as an Expressive Musical Instrument"
(Ge Wang, Perry R. Cook)

10:40-11:10
3A-03
Live Cinema: Designing an Instrument for Cinema Editing as a Live Performance
(Michael Lew)

Report Session 4 (chair : Keiji Hirata )

11:10-11:30
3B-01
Synthesized Strings for String Players
(Cornelius Poepel)

11:30-11:50
3B-02
Mobile Music Making
(Atau Tanaka)
11:50-13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00-15:00 Public Studio Poster Session 3
3C-01
Versatile sensor acquisition system utilizing Network Technology
(Emmanuel Flety)

3C-02
In Duet with Everyday Urban Settings: A User Study of Sonic City
(Lalya Gaye, Lars Erik Holmquist)

3C-03
Issues for Designing a flexible expressive audiovisual system for real-time performance & composition
(Enrique Franco, Niall J L Griffith, Mikael Fernstr)

3C-04
A Novel Face-tracking Mouth Controller and its Application to Interacting with Bioacoustic Models
(Gamhewage C. de Silva, Tamara Smyth, Michael J. Lyons)

3C-05
Measurement of Latency in Interactive Multimedia Art
(Yoichi Nagashima)

3C-06
ism: Improvisation Supporting System based on Melody Correction
(Katsuhisa Ishida, Tetsuro Kitahara, Masayuki Takeda)
Theme Seminar Room
(Open Public) 		Demo Session (below)
    See 4A-01 to 4A-10 in the Proceedings
Music and Audiovisual Room
Open Public(MAF2004) 		RENCON
People listens to all the performances and then votes on them.
15:20-16:40 176 Lecture Room Report Session 5 (chair : Gideon D'Arcangelo )
15:20-15:40
3D-01
LEMUR's Musical Robots
(Eric Singer, Jeff Feddersen, Chad Redmon, Bil Bowen)

15:40-16:00
3D-02
EyeMusic: Making Music with the Eyes
(Anthony Hornof, Linda Sato)

16:00-16:20
3D-03
The Slidepipe: A Timeline-Based Controller for Real-Time Sample Manipulation
(Mark Argo)

16:20-16:40
3D-04
A Theory of Modulated Objects for New Shamanic Controller Design
(Matthew Burtner)
Short general meeting about NIME05 (16:40-17:20)
18:00-20:00 Auditorium (Hall)
(Open Public, Ticket=1000Yen, Student=500Yen) 		Concert 2
  1. ice9
    Composer: Peter Dowling
    System Designer: Frieder Weiss
    Choreographer: Robert Wechsler
    Dancer: Robert Wechsler, Helena Zwiauer, Emily Fernandez
  2. You and Me
    Composer/Performer: Sachiyo Takahashi and Linda Kaastra
  3. Chase
    Composer: Vola (Ryoho Kobayashi, Naoaki Kojima, Yuta Uozumi, Takuya Yamauchi, Tadashi Kinukawa)
    Performer: Tadashi Kinukawa

  4. Orga[ni]sm ~ formula for orgasm between human and technology, presented with HairDNA, Sonic Skin, Samsara ~
    Composer/Performer: Urico Fujii
  5. The first sailing with Limber-Row
    Composer/Performer: Hisashi OKAMOTO
21:00-23:00 STUDIO 1981
(NIME04=free, Ticket=2000Yen) 		NIME04 Club Concert
  • Ruins A39
    Composer: Sinan Bokesoy
    Performer: Stefan Tiedje
  • Dr. Dentist and the Oral Satisfactors
    Composer/Performer: jordan wynnychuk
  • On-the-fly Counterpoint
    Composers/performers: Ge Wang and Perry Cook
23:00-25:00 Farewell NIME04 DJ/VJ Party
  • vokoi kazunovski
  • Mutsutoshi Muraoka + Shin-Show
  • yu-go
  • VM Machine

Demo Session

On 13:00-15:00 in 3 days, all Demo will be performed.

MAF2004 (Media Art Festival) Schedule

SUAC
(Hall/Rooms)		 SUAC
(Gallery/etc)		 Hamamatsu
(NIME04)
Tuesday June 1st MAF2004

Installation

CG Gallery

Movie Theatre
Wednesday June 2nd Bus Tour
(YAMAHA Toyooka)
(KAWAI Ryuyo)
Thursday June 3rd NIME04
Friday June 4th
Saturday June 5th NIME04
Club Concert
DJ/VJ Party
(STUDIO 1981)
Sunday June 6th MAF2004

Open Lecture

Concert
Monday June 7th Bus Tour
(ROLAND R&D)
(YAMAHA HeadOffice)

NIME04 Pre/Off/Post events. etc

  • Media Art Festival (MAF2004) : Installation Gallery, CG/Photo Gallery, Movie theatre in SUAC

  • Open Lecture Concert (MAF2004) : Guest : Mari Kimura, Tamami Tono, Suguru Goto

  • Corp Tour : Bus tour of the research institute and factory of musical instrument makers (YAMAHA, ROLAND, KAWAI)

  • DJ/VJ Live : Club Concert/Party at STUDIO 1981 in Hamamatsu (NIME04 Farewell Party)