NIME @ EXIT ART

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Performances 8PM-11PM

Installations begin at 7PM

 

 

NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

NIME: creating new performance tools for digital music.

NIME: a graduate course at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

 

In the sixth annual NIME end-of-semester performance, students will perform on a series of newly designed electronic instruments that aim to keep the “live” in live performance of digital music. The NIME performances are presented by ITP instructors Jamie Allen and Gideon D’Arcangelo. ITP students from R. Luke DuBois’ “Algorithmic Composition” class will present installations and performances as part of the evening’s proceedings.

 

Computer music is usually played with a keyboard and mouse. Laptop musicians often sit at a desk and give performances that are little more than watching someone engage in “office gestures.” The idea behind NIME is to go beyond the mouse and keyboard, beyond even piano keyboards and drum pads, and develop performance tools that make the most out of the new opportunities that digital music offers. NIME students answer questions like:

- "What will the next generation of musical instruments look like?"

- "What will they be able to do that traditional instruments can’t already do?"

- "What aspects of traditional instruments will we want to retain in digital instruments?"

 

Over the course of this year’s 14-week course, students are developing projects such as an musical weaving loom, a instrument made of speakers that feed back and make glorious noise, an augmented rocking chair, a musical abacus and a host of others.

 

NIME at ITP

http://itp.nyu.edu/nime

Jamie Allen 347-563-5941, jamie@nyu.edu

Gideon D’Arcangelo 917-750-6950, gideon@nyu.edu

 

ITP

http://itp.nyu.edu

George Agudow 212-998-1891, george.agudow@nyu.edu

 

EXIT ART

475 Tenth Avenue (at 36th Street)

New York, NY 10018

(212) 966-7745

info@exitart.org

http://www.exitart.org