TIMARA was represented this year at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA from June 3-6. NIME is an international conference featuring research, demos, musicians, and performers specializing in cutting edge and forward-looking musical interface design from all over the world.
This year, third-year student Rachel Gibson presented a poster-demo of her research on The Textural Theremin Expander (TTE), which explores textures the theremin can produce when its sound is processed and manipulated through a Max/MSP patch and controlled via a MIDI pedalboard. Gibson worked with TIMARA Technical Director Abby Aresty on this project. Her work was met with great enthusiasm from conference participants.
NIME 2018 also included performances by Oberlin alums Hunter Brown (Percussion Performance/TIMARA, minor ’17), Alex Christie (TIMARA/Composition ’09), and Eli Stine (Computer Science/TIMARA ’14). TIMARA faculty Aurie Hsu performed a collaborative piece with Rutgers professor, Steven Kemper, Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin? for sensor-equipped belly dancer, robotic percussion, sound exciters, and live sound processing. Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin? was commissione by the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology for the 2018 Biennial Symposium. – AH
