Yoichi Nagashima

Yoichi Nagashima, composer/researcher/PE, was born in 1958 in Japan. He learned and played some instruments: violin, recorder, guitar, keyboards, electric bass, drums, and vocal/choral music for 43 years. He was the conductor of Kyoto University Choir and composed over 100 choral music, and studied nuclear physics there. As the engineer of Kawai Musical Instruments, he developed some sound generator LSIs, and designed some electronic musical instruments, and produced musical softwares. From 1991, He has been the director of "Art & Science Laboratory" in Japan Hamamatsu, produces many interactive tools of realtime music performance with sensor/MIDI, cooperates some researchers and composers, and composes experimentally pieces. He is also the key-member of Japanese computer music community. From 2000, he has been also the associate professor of SUAC(Shizuoka University of Art and Culture), Faculty of Design, Department of Art and Science, and teaches multimedia, computer music and media art. As a composer of computer music, he collaborates many musicians in his composition: Piano, Organ, Percussion, Vocal, Flute, Sho, Koto, Shakuhachi, Dance, Percussion, etc. He organized and was the General Chair of NIME04. He became a professor on April 2007. He organized a tutorial “Parallel Processing Platform for Interactive Systems Design” at ICEC2009 (Paris).

Lecture/Workshop of Yoichi Nagashima (in English)

1. Lecture "Technology for Computer Music", Seoul, Korea, 1997
2. Workshop "Sensors for Interactive Music Performance", ICMC2000, Berlin, Germany, 2000
3. Workshop "Sensors for Interactive Music Performance", Studio CCMIX, Paris, France, 2001
4. Lecture "Composition of [Visional Legend]", International Workshop on "Human Supervision and Control in Engineering and Music", Kassel, Germany, 2001
5. Lecture "Interactive Media Art with Biological Interfaces", STEIM Open Lecture Concert Series, Amsterdam, Holland, 2004
6. Lecture "Interfaces for Interactive Media Art", IRCAM Open Lecture, Paris, France, 2004
7. Lecture "Interactive Art with Bio-Interfaces", La Kitchen Open Lecture, Paris, France, 2004
8. Lecture "Interactive Multi-Media Performance with New Interfaces", International Workshop on Interactive Media Art, Kai-Nan Univ., Taiwan, 2007
9. Lecture "Interactive Multi-Media Art with New Technology", Tsukuba Univ., Japan, 2007
10. Tutorial "Parallel Processing Platform for Interactive Systems Design”, International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, 2009
11. Lecture "Technology for Computer Music / Interactive Multi-Media Performance with New Interfaces", International Festival/Competition SYNC. 2010 Tutorial(1), The Ural State Conservatory, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2010
12. Lecture "SUAC Installation - Case Studies as "Physical Computing", International Festival/Competition SYNC.2010 Tutorial(2), The Ural State Conservatory, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2010
13. Lecture "Interactive Art with Bio-Interfaces", International Festival/Competition SYNC.2010 Tutorial(3), The Ural State Conservatory, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2010
14. Lecture "Biofeedback Instruments and Improvisation”, 4th tempora International Meeting, Bordeaux, France, 2016
15. Lecture "Interactive Media Arts - New Ideas and New Technologies", General Lecture for Ekaterinburg's Contemporary Art Academy, Gorky library, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2016
16. Lecture "Interactive Media Arts - New Ideas and New Technologies", General Lecture - open public, Ural branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2016
17. Workshop "Introduction of Programming - Creating Art Objects", Practical Workshop for Art Academy's Designer Students, Center of Culture “Ordzhonikidzevsky”, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2016
18. Workshop "Interactive System Design - Creating Media Arts", Practical Workshop for Art Academy's Programmers Students, Center of Culture “Ordzhonikidzevsky”, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2016
19. Lecture "Human-Computer Interaction and Media Arts (part1/2)”, Lecture Workshop at MARS Gallery, MARS Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2016
20. Tutorial "Bio-Sensing Platforms for [Wellness Entertainment] System Design", International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Poznan University of Technology, 2018